In parts of the United Kingdom, seeing a single magpie is considered a bad omen. However, saluting the magpie by tipping your hat and giving it a friendly greeting as a sign of respect can ward off any bad luck that could result from the encounter. #FolkloreSunday
The "Three Maidens" motif shows up in German folklore in many forms. They can be ghosts, cursed princesses, saints, even goddesses - and household spirits.
#Writing and other creative tags are useful once you filter out those who are only using Mastodon for promotion and never engage with other people. I have no trouble muting words and people to make my feed interesting and inspiring.
#FolkloreThursday: „The Celts were not dualistic in their view of the world, preferring to speak of balance rather than conflict between winter and summer, male and female, night and day.“
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#LegendaryWednesday: During a war to support the king of the province, Suibhne, a king of a small region of Ulster, went mad.
Thinking himself a bird, he climbed a yew tree. Each time he was found by his supporters, he fled again, always finding another tree in which to make his home.
During his mad days, Suibhne spoke in sensuous poetry. Finally, while in the process of dictating his adventures to a scribe, he was stabbed with a spear.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/ElvaBJohnston/status/945955162274791425
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday: According to the British historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, Myrdinn Wyllt “Wild Merlin” was a #Welsh king/hero who went mad and fled to the woods, where he lived in a bird costume (or perhaps actually transformed himself into a bird). The name derives from a Welsh legendary figure who became famous as the magician Merlin.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
RT @GodysseyPodcast
Foundational to the creation of Merlin is Myrddin Wyllt, or Myrddin the Wild, a bard who in Welsh poetry went mad after a battle and fled to the Caledonian Forest far to the north as a wildman, contemplating his former life but gifted with prophecy. #FolkloreThursday
🖼: A. Lee
#LegendaryWednesday: During a war to support the king of the province, Suibhne, a king of a small region of Ulster, went mad.
Thinking himself a bird, he climbed a yew tree. Each time he was found by his supporters, he fled again, always finding another tree in which to make his home.
During his mad days, Suibhne spoke in sensuous poetry. Finally, while in the process of dictating his adventures to a scribe, he was stabbed with a spear.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/ElvaBJohnston/status/945955162274791425
Looking forward to next week's #FolkloreSociety online talk on 'Reinventing National History through Conspiracy Theories' by Dr Afrodite-Lidia Nounanaki of the University of the Aegean.