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mythologyandhistory

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Omnia mea mecum porto.

#Mythology #History #Philosophy

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jeffowski, to random
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The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing their sacks (containing flour and grain) to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.

dbellingradt, to history
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This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.

The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory #histodons #history #bible

fkamiah17, to folklore
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Anyway, here's a postage stamp with a 17th century woodcut of a witch on it. Cool huh?
h/t Folk Horror Consortium on the dark side

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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If you play cards in church during mass, the Devil might fetch you right then and there and drag you to Hell!

I am not sure if the same applies to playing on your smart phone, but personally I would not risk it.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil #ghost @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-punishes-39505609

mythologyandhistory, to Bread
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Did you know that #Germans have a LOT of #superstitions about #bread?

In the olden days, when bread was baked at home, bad luck would seep into the bread when one cursed while baking.

And if the loaf would be placed over the table's edge, sickness would soon enter the house.

A loaf placed upside down would sway, because the poor souls would try to turn it, & if the head of the house cut the bread crookedly, then he had just lied...

#mythology #tradition #Germany

fkamiah17,
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@mythologyandhistory My nan used to have a different version of the first one - singing while baking bread, having the opposite effect to cursing, obvs!

helenclayton, to random
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This huge plane tree is apparently one of the oldest architecturally planted trees in the world. Planted as a sapling in 1793 in a lovely little courtyard adjacent to Bath Abbey.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

beach, to random
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Well worth checking out the #PortfolioDay hashtag if you want a little more art in your feed.

pixiecata, to random
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More Philippine gothic (aka my mom's stories):

My mother's eldest half sister Antonia was one of six children by my grandfather Vicente's first wife Paula. Antonia was born in 1914 and became a nurse. She was a brave, no-nonsense, determined woman, different from her two younger sisters who were pampered small town beauty queens. She served in Bataan in WW2, where she met her husband, an Army captain. Just after the war she continued serving in the hospital in Camp Macabulos in Tarlac City. /1

mythologyandhistory, (edited ) to Germany
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Every year, Germans watch a senile woman force her to drink to excess on New Year's Eve.

"Dinner for One" is a skit from 1963 that has become the most played television program in .

"The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?" ---
"The same procedure as every year, James."

Despite living in the future here in , I have not forgotten my roots :NekoApprove:

Happy New Year!

https://youtu.be/Nysm_ErwdFE?si=l8DhAqTW8cMkxY8B

JonEmbury,

@mythologyandhistory @Flies4no1 Same procedure as every year. Happy New Year!

oligneisti, to languagelearning

Many Icelanders tend to think that is the only which has its own version of . They also think of these names as translations. They usually aren't.

For instance is Kænugarður. The name comes from the Viking Age when some Norse (often Swedes) went east while the more famous ones went west.

Another example is the . The Icelandic Árósar retains the original meaning of "the river mouth" while the modern Danish name is a bit like "river house".
🧵

Sheril, to science
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‘Tis the season to remember that all of Santa’s reindeer are female.

You see, males drop their antlers after the Autumn mating season, so since the world’s most celebrated reindeer are always depicted with spectacular antlers, we must assume that Ol’ Saint Nick’s entire intrepid team - including Rudolph - are female. #science #Christmas

kangaroo5383, to random
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Happy (early) holidays

dbellingradt, to history German
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Mit anderen Worten: Wir haben uns im Juni 1987 in der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek (Berlin, Ost) schrecklich gelangweilt, dann den historischen Einband entsorgt und eine knatschlangweilige Hülle um dieses Buch gepackt. Take this, Großer Kurfürst. #bookhistory #histodons

CatsOfYore, to Cat
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Seaman with two esteemed shipmates, ca. 1910. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage https://collections.sea.museum/objects/133382/seaman-with-a-cat-and-kitten?ctx=7f798de3-d542-4e62-b3c7-831f1f33affe&idx=66

VeryBadLlama, to random
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I wonder if my medieval ancestors would be surprised to learn that, hundreds of years later, the main activities in my life are still "try not to die in the Great Plague" and "watch people argue about the legitimacy of the current Pope"

TarkabarkaHolgy, to folklore Hungarian
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I had a St. Martin's Day gig this week. My favorite part of St. Martin's legend is the episode where a man comes to Tours, spreading the news that the barbarians are about to attack. Panic breaks out. Bishop Martin summons the man, and discovers that he is possessed by 16 demons. The demons are intentionally spreading lies about a barbarian invasion to create panic and discord in the city...

🤔

#folklore #legends #saints #StMartinsDay #storytelling

yorick, to animals

It's a cat's life #catsofmastodon #caturday

bevanthomas, to 13thFloor

The ceffyl dŵr is a Welsh fairy horse that inhabits mountain pools and waterfalls. In south Wales, it's often benign, but in north Wales, it's not. The ceffyl dŵr likes to get travelers to ride it, fly into the air, and then become mist, so the riders fall to their deaths.
🎨 DhaeUr
#FolkloreSunday #mythology #folklore #Celtic #Wales #fairy #monster

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
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Antoninus Liberalis also mentions that on Crete people worshiped Leto the Grafter, a goddess who changed a woman into a man by "grafting organs on him". Just saying.

#mythology #pagan #queer #LGBTQ #folklore #Classics

obtener, to random
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This cannot be posted too many times.

ninawillburger, to Halloween German
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Happy #Halloween! This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology

carinealders, (edited ) to calligraphy Dutch

Update: Problem solved! It reads: Es freut mich, daß Sie bis heute schon so große Erfolge erringen konnten. So wünsche ich Ihnen auch für Ferneres recht große weitere Erfolge. Nachdem die jüdische Musik doch bald ganz eingedämmt ist, wird für unsere deutschen Künstler wieder eine bessere Zeit kommen.

Dear German colleagues of #histodon ! Can any one of you transcribe this passage from a letter of 1933?
#German #musichistory #transcription #handwriting "#sütterlin @historikerinnen @histodons

bevanthomas, to 13thFloor

"Meanwhile, Morgan le Fay had guessed King Arthur had been killed [by her lover Accolon]. She called to one of her maidens, and said, 'Go fetch me my lord’s sword, for I saw never better time to slay [my husband] than now.'"

  • Thomas Malory, "Le Morte d'Arthur"

🎨 Iren Horrors
#FairyTaleTuesday #mythology #folklore #literature #ThomasMalory #KingArthur #Arthuriana #MorganleFay

Sheril, to history
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Born in 1896, Ida Noddack was the first scientist to suggest the principle behind nuclear fission. But Otto Hahn demonstrated this (with Lise Meitner! & Fritz Strassmann) & he won the Nobel prize.

Noddack also discovered rhenium (atomic #75) & predicted #43, but couldn’t confirm it experimentally, so Segrè & Perrier were later credited.

She tried to speak up that the ideas for fission & #43 began with her, but it lost her credibility. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2014.0009 #HistoryRemix #history #science

_keith_smith_, to auspol

Australia has voted ‘no’…

Australia, I thought you were better than this. Apparently, I was wrong. 😞

#auspol

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