A hosted hashtag folklore day with a different theme every Sunday! Retweets after 10:30 am by @frome_maude.
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Thank you all for your wonderful posts today.
Next Sunday’s theme, as we move ever-closer, is:
HALLOWEEN PART 2:
MAGIC & MAYHEM
Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST.
See you then! Maude xx
Image: Jenny Miriam
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According to old books of magic, Scandinavian witches were able to create supernatural cats, so-called troll cats.
The troll cat was made in an intricate ritual involving hair, blood, metal scraped off church bells and nails cut on a Sunday, among other things.
According to folklore, the troll cat would steal milk by drinking it and bring it back to the witch.
If the troll cat was hurt, the witch would also be hurt. And if the troll cat was killed, which was only possible with a silver bullet, the witch that created it would also die immediately.
🎨 Paul M. Woodruff
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It is said that a black cat wearing a “locket”, a small white patch on its chest, was lucky, having been “touched by God” or “kissed by an angel”. Yet in Scottish lore, the Cat Sìth, a black fairy cat with a white patch, was feared by some as a witch in disguise. #FolkloreSunday
ALT A fluffy black cat with golden eyes and a small white patch on its chest sits in a large wicker basket. A pair of pale gloves lies on the ground in front of the basket. The image is from a vintage postcard in the “Catland, Series IV” collection, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, c.1918.
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WITCHY CAT NAMES PYEWACKET is the name of a witch's familiar found by witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins, 1644. GRIMALKIN another witchy name derives from 'grim' grey, 'malkin', a hare or spinster; Graymalkin is the witches' familiar in Shakespeare's Macbeth #FolkloreSunday #31daysofHalloween
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Púca, a goblin-like being and bringer of both good and bad fortune. A shapeshifter able to take the form of a goat, hare or cat
from my: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
folklorepress.co.uk
#folkloresunday #booklover
art: Stephen G. Rae
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#FolkloreSunday A Black Shuck haunts woodland on the outskirts of Ayr. These demon dogs are often seen as an omen of death. In this tale however, Shuck was attempting to save a child from a wolf
more in my "Folklore of Scotland"
folkloreofscotland.com
art: Barry Moser
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#Hecate, Queen of Witches, Goddess of the Crossroads, is closely associated with her sacred dogs which herald her arrival at the crossroads by barking or howling.
They are depicted as black, and belonging to the Ancient Greek #Molossus breed.
The dogs are symbols of loyalty and protecters for those traveling at night or those seeking guidance in liminal spaces.
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#FolkloreSunday In ancient Egypt, black cats were revered & considered sacred. Associated with Bastet, these felines were believed to bring blessings & divine protection. Killing a cat, especially a black one, was a serious crime. artsandculture.google.com/st…
📷The Gayer-Anderson Cat
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#FolkloreSunday Big Ears was a large black demonic cat invoked during a macabre ceremony that saw cats roasted over a fire until this demon appeared, granting wishes
more in: "Folklore of Scotland" by Stephen G. Rae
folkloreofscotland.com
art: Jorge Mascarenhas
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"And a dreadful thing from the cliff did spring.
Its wild bark thrill'd around:
And a fiendish glow flash'd forth I trow,
From the eyes of the Specral Hound"
from my: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklor…
art: P.E. Travers #FolkloreSunday
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In England Cyclamen are called sowbread or swinebread, said to be eaten by pigs, in #Latin panis porcinus. Pliny the Elder called the plant tuber terrae "earth truffle" & amuletum "amulet" thought evil #spells had no effect where #flowers grew #FolkloreSunday
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“I went in, in the likeness of a kea (jackdaw), the said Elspeth Chisholm was in the shape of a cat.” Isobel Gowdie’s 1662 witchcraft confession. Picture taken at Haddo Country Park. #FolkloreSunday
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Can I suggest my trio of folklore books for a quiet evening read as we drift into autumnal loveliness
more: bardofcumberland.com/folklor…
#FolkloreSunday #booklovers
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"Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.."
Macbeth 4.1 #Nationalblackcatday #shakespeare
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"Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack"
~ in English lore, a single women living in a household with a black cat would never be short of suitors
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The Demon Cat of Connemara was a large black cat that haunted the house of a fisherman.
It stole the family's fish and viciously mutilated a neighbour.
But when the mistress threw holy water on the cat it erupted into thick, choking black smoke and disappeared. #FolkloreSunday
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Some years ago my friend Laura was on a walk from Sheringham along Beeston Bump and was worried by a large black dog. She instinctively slipped her backpack off to swing at the hound and in that split second it was gone.
She swears to this day it was Black Shuck #FolkloreSunday
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Bake-danuki are a kind of yōkai supernatural beings found in the folklore and legends of Japan, commonly associated with the Japanese raccoon dog.
They can shapeshift into other forms and can possess human beings.
They are said to have a comically large scrotums #FolkloreSunday
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‘Do cats eat bats?' ‘Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
Bats and black cats, especially at Halloween, are regarded as harbingers of bad luck.
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"Could they to servitude incline their pride,
Dreaming, they take on noble postures
Great sphinxes stretched out in the depths of emptiness,
Seeming to fall asleep into an endless dream."
Charles Baudelaire #FolkloreSunday
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Thank you all for your wonderful posts today.
Next Sunday’s theme, as we move ever-closer, is:
HALLOWEEN PART 2:
MAGIC & MAYHEM
Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST.
See you then! Maude xx
Image: Jenny Miriam