#SpookySunday A bit of an eco-eerie theme in this illustration from 'Life' magazine (1908) the phantoms of lovers who carved their initials on the old tree in silent but emotive protest of it being felled. 👻

Houdini said if it is real after all, I'll come back to you. And so Bess kept a candle burning by his picture. Each Halloween she took that candle to a seance, for 10 years. But nothing. And so finally up on a Hollywood roof, she blew out the candle "This is the end, Harry, goodnight.” #SpookySunday

We drive between high walls of tangle and sun-bullied flowers. Drive narrow roads wearing green grass mohicans. The pursuit of a pub on the edge of the moor means a navigation through a territory Hoarse Hags, phantoms with no fear of sunlight or Mark III Ford Cortinas. – #MattAdams

'Pixies dancing in a Ring by the Firelight' by William Bell Scott The setting for this painting was described by the artist as ‘a Haunted House on Midsummer’s Eve.’ #PhantomsFriday

That's the end of a special #FolkloreThursday 🧞 Today's theme was "Favourite Folklore” for our 11-year anniversary! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social l signing off. Until next time ✨ 1493 Nuremberg Woodcut

Banshees used waxwings as torches to guide them through their haunting nights... #FolkloreThursday 🖌️Banshee Appears - unattributed

This bit of favorite folklore feels like it's been a constant in my life. #FolkloreThursday

If a young man sees a red envelope on the ground in Taiwan he shouldn't pick it up. It could be dowry to marry someone’s deceased daughter! The subsequent ceremony prevents an unmarried woman from haunting her relatives and gives her status in the afterlife 💀 #FolkloreThursday 1952 Richard Roussos

I love the dark & scary lore! #FolkloreThursday In Scotland & NI yellowhammers were alleged to drink a drop of devil's blood every day in May... 📷Simun Ascic

VAMPIRE GRAVES show signs of disturbance that suggests a #Vampire is lying within. According to folklore, Vampire hunters must look for deep holes around the headstones, sunken graves, crooked crosses & leaning tombstones St Martin's Churchyard, Cwmyoy; St Albans Abbey, UK. #FolkloreThursday

A #FolkloreThursday visit to the dentist seems like the perfect time to share the terrifying concept of 'tooth worms'. Believed to be responsible for toothache and decay, dating back to Babylonian times. These 18th century carvings are the thing of nightmares. 😱😱

I was so happy when #FolkloreThursday asked me to write about Midsummer folklore back in 2020! Thank you FT, I felt as though I had stepped through the mirror... folklorethursday.com/folklife/dar...

Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🐉 A huge thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for resharing your posts before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your last host today -- for the next one hour. Today's theme is "Favourite Folklore” 🤩 1912 Warwick Goble

I'm @crystalponti.bsky.social l and it's been a pleasure hosting today's #FolkloreThursday. Thank you all for sharing your favourite folklore. But we're not done celebrating yet! Join @shanonsinn.bsky.social for our final birthday celebration hour at 6:30 BST. Until next time! 🎉 Art: Arthur Rackham

In Danish folk belief, the moon was a cheese churned from curds that dropped out of the Milky Way... #FolkloreThursday I have always loved folklore of the Moon!

In Irish folklore, blackbirds held the souls of those in purgatory until judgement day. When the birds' voices were shrill, it was those souls, burning and parched, calling for rain. Rain always came... 🎨Böcklin #FolkloreThursday One of my favourite pieces of folklore!

#FolkloreThursday is 11 years old on 18th June! Celebrate with us by sharing your favourite folklore to the hashtag between 9am-4.30pm and 6.30-7.30pm BST and join us for the final @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social 5.30-6.30pm BST. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur... (Image:James Petts)

Some Chinese folklore for #PhantomsFriday

XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore@xingwu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Chinese folklore, the tides are not moved by moonlight alone. They are pushed by the drowned. Known as Tide Ghosts or Tidal Workers, 潮鬼 / 潮工, these spirits were once people who died in the water. After death, river gods record their names and bind them to the waves. 1/2

That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's theme was "Folklore of the Animal Kingdom!” This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today. Thank you for sharing your lore about animals! It was a wild ride hehe ✨ 19th CE Wett-Turnen

If a cat jumped over a corpse in its coffin, it was said the soul of the dead belonged to the devil or that they would return as one of the walking undead... #FolkloreThursday

There have been countless stories of sea serpents in the waters around Vancouver Island, since time immemorial. In the last century, nonIndigenous communities have given some of them names. Victoria’s Cadborosaurus or "Caddy" being the best known 🐉 E.D. Moyer and Thos H Guptil #FolkloreThursday

Forget St. Pat, the 17th March belongs to St Gertrude of Nivelles - patron saint of cats, invoked by the souls of purgatory and those troubled by mice... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Carolee Clark

The monster cat, Cath Palug, has been associated with King Arthur since the 11th century. Some even say that the legendary king met his end after a fierce fight with the creature. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Joanna Lisoweic, from Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines by Willow Winsham

In Swedish folklore, a fungus known as witch's butter was made from the vomit of a witch's cat...! #FolkloreThursday 📷Daniel Greenwood

Hello #FolkloreThursday 🐉 That was @willowwinsham.bsky.social reposting your lore before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social our last host today -- for the next one hour 🙈 🙉 🙊 Today's theme is "Folklore of the Animal Kingdom” 1912 Arthur Rackham

Welcome back to today's animal kingdom themed #FolkloreThursday! @willowwinsham.bsky.social here for the next hour of of fabulous folklore! 🎨Joanna Lisoweic, from Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines by Willow Winsham

Wyraj – according to Slavic beliefs a fabulous land where birds fly away for winter and from which spring comes, and also (in folklore) from which storks arrive carrying children. Departing to Wyraj and the birds returning from it in spring were identified #FolkloreThursday 🧵

Aconitum spp. (Wolfsbane, Monkshood, Aconite) is said to be born from the toxic drooling of Cerberus, the guard dog of the Underworld in Hellenism. #FolkloreThursday

In Ukrainian folk belief orange cats bring good luck and abundance to the household (my family had a parade of beloved oranges over the years). Though orange cats are famously good natured and loving, the poor soul in this painting has reached the end of his tether #ArtHistory #Art #FolkloreThursday

“In former times people said if a crow hovered or circled above a person’s head, it was a sign of decapitation.” (Elias Owen “Welsh Folk-Lore”, 1887) 🎨 Catherine Hyde #folklorethursday