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Three Ravens Podcast
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A history, mythology and folklore podcast. Gather round the campfire and listen in! https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast We also run the old Twitter hashtag #FolkyFriday - new themes each week, so do join in!
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you very much everyone for your #FolkyFriday posts! 🖤

We will return next week with the theme, "Folk Heroes and Legendary Monarchs" in advance of St Crispin's Day on the 25th.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for sharing then, from 10am-6pm UK time!
a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one .
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 3h
Today's #WyrdWednesday theme is Witches! 🖤

As regular listeners will know, we love a witch story, and have told loads of them.

But do you know the truth behind England's most famous witch, Mother Shipton?

If not, we have an episode all about her - and her story is pretty flippin' odd...
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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 19h
Wyrdlings!
We have a special announcement today. Our dear friend @signemaene.com has collaborated with Wyrd Mother
@prairiebones.bsky.social and launched a Kickstarter campaign for their newest book of short stories! Link posted below⬇️

Our topic for tomorrow's #WyrdWednesday will be:
🖤WITCHES🖤
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 21h
If you don't like hip hop you're missing out on some amazing music. Check out Yugen Blakrok, for example. What an incredible artist! 🖤
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 1d
Today's #FairyTaleTuesday theme is Vampire and Shape Changer Lore, Superstitions & Trivia! 🖤

We warmly suggest listening to our Three Ravens Bestiary Bonus Series, especially #12: #Vampires!

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New episode on #Zombies and Revenants this Thursday!
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In this Bonus Series, Martin discusses the history behind and evidence for mythical creatures and curious cryptids...
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 2d
Three Ravens Haunting Season continues today with the second of our four 'Trilogies of Terror' across the month of October! 🖤

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, and speak to you on Thursday on our Bonus Episode about the history and folklore of Zombies and Revenants!
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks Paddy! 🖤
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 2d
Our Three Ravens Live Shows recorded at Gloucester History Festival are OUT NOW!!! 🖤

As we chat about on the episode, we met lovely people such as @davidolusoga.bsky.social and performed two sets - one spooky one full of witchy folk songs, one a live telling of our story "The Torbarrow Guardian."
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 4d
For our Local Legends interview this week, the first of Haunting Season 2025, we've spoken to the celebrated author of 'The Ghost: A Cultural History' Susan Owens! 🖤👻🖤

Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you very much everyone for your #FolkyFriday posts! 🖤

We will return next week with the theme, "Folk Heroes and Legendary Monarchs" in advance of St Crispin's Day on the 25th.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for sharing then, from 10am-6pm UK time!
a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one .
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 4d
Old market songs carried the rhythm of hooves and haggling. Ballads like “Strawberry Fair” and “The Sheep-Shearing Feast” kept the spirit of autumn gatherings alive long after the carts were gone. #FolkyFriday
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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 4d
Common across British and Irish folklore are cows of plenty, many attached to local fairs. Sometimes called faery cows, they offer vast amounts of milk until some local ne'er-do-well takes advantage of their generosity: then the cow vanishes, leaving them dry. #FolkyFriday
A highland cow on Sky in grayscale, its shaggy wool and shadows prevent its eyes from being seen; its horns are relatively small.
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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d
#FolkyFriday 🎃🔥
Dive into ancient Celtic magic at Samhuinn Fire Festival! On Oct 31, Calton Hill, Edinburgh ignites with epic battles of Summer vs Winter—drumming, acrobats, fire rituals & mythical revelry to hail the dark half of the year.
#Samhuinn #FireFestival
Samhuinn fire festival in Edinburgh Scotland image in public domain.
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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 4d
Loy Krathong is the Thai lantern festival, taking place at the end of their lunar calendar and often in November. Lanterns are lit in biodegradable (often bread or flowers) boats and sent to see, meant to represent the Buddhist concept of letting go. #FolkyFriday
A woman in pink-purple-red Thai garb with a crown of flowers in her hair sending out boats of flowers to the water while wooden candles float around her in a relatively shallow area; the wooden candles do not appear to move, and are likely just for illumination. Hanging modern lights can be seen in the trees behind her.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 4d
Autumn markets once rang with the bleats of sheep, the bellow of cattle, and the hum of barter. Fair day was more than commerce. It was also reunion, gossip, courtship, and the year’s last great dance. #FolkyFriday

Art: Sebastian Vrancx
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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d
#FolkyFriday 🎃🗡️
"Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival," roars Oct 18-19!

Epic carves on Atlantic Giants, a 200+ ft pumpkin drop, & a sea of orange light up fall.

Join the folklore-fueled frenzy—will Jack’s spirit haunt the glow?
#PittsburghPumpkins
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Photo in Public Domain of the Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkin Festival
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neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social · 4d
Was Samhain the "Celtic New Year" ??

Compare this Japanese idea: "We thought in terms of evening to morning, not morning to evening....The boundary being set by the sinking sun."

#FolkyFriday #pagansky
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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d
#FolkyFriday 🎃🕯️
"Light up your fall at PumpkInferno! 9,000+ carved pumpkins blaze a haunting trail at Upper Canada Village, ON, thru Nov 1. Folklore whispers: Jack’s spirit guards the glow! ##PumpkInferno #Ontario #Canada 🍁
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PumpkInferno at Upper Canada Village
Award-winning Pumpkinferno is returning this fall. Take a tour through this spectacular outdoor art exhibit of over 7,000 hand-carved pumpkins all lit at night.
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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d
The Mid-Autumn, or Moon Festival, is a harvest festival held late September to early October using the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival celebrates Chang'e, the moon goddess, with moon cakes and lanterns of all sizes.
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#FolkyFriday #art #illustration #mythology
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The Lantern Bearers - Maxfield Parrish Please look in my shop for more work by Parrish and his contemporaries.
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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 4d
Hello, lovely friends! Did you hear our Bonus Episode from yesterday, all about Voodoo? 🖤

Papa Legba certainly seems excited about it...

Hope you're enjoying our Haunting Season generally, and speak to you tomorrow on Local Legends, for which we have interviewed Susan Owens!

#PhantomsFriday
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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 4d
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night,

#FolkyFriday 🧵
People dressed in traditional attire release glowing lanterns onto a tranquil lake under the full moon during the Mooncake Festival. This Mid-Autumn celebration, rooted in Chinese culture, honors family unity, gratitude for the harvest, and the beauty of the bright moon that symbolizes togetherness and renewal.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 4d
An autumn #yokai tale for #FolkyFriday. 🍂🍁
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Sep 10
In #JapaneseFolklore there is a tale about a powerful kijo (demon woman) called Momiji. The name Momiji is connected to maple leaves and the story takes place during autumn, when the leaves begin to fall. The tale begins with the samurai Koremochi who was given the task of...
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A group of people gather under maple trees.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 4d
In Irish tradition, Puck Fair crowned a wild goat king. The captured animal presided over days of revelry before being released to the hills. A festival both pagan and pastoral, half sacred, half satire. #FolkyFriday
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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 4d
@threeravenspod.bsky.social The Fiestas del Pilar celebrated each October in Zaragoza, Aragon, in honour of the Virgen del Pilar include candlelight parades and the offering of fruits. pics: Turol Jones & Kosturika #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 4d
""Court Baron" At Bexhill.
Quaint Survival Of Norman Times.
...often coupled with a "Court Leet"...at which the people...met to choose their jurymen...These occasions, like the old English fairs, were made the opportunity for much merry-making and jollity."
#Bexhill Observer 5.12.1914. #FolkyFriday
Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 5.12.1914 reporting on a Court Baron at Bexhill.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 4d
#FolkyFriday #yokai
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Nov 1
In #JapaneseFolklore there are #yokai known as bake icho no sei which are said to be the spirits of ginkgo trees. They appear near the trees wearing tattered robes and hitting a mallet. They have bright yellow skin the same colour as ginkgo leaves in autumn. Other than scaring...
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Yokai illustration by Matthew Meyer depicting a yellow humanoid creature before a bright yellow ginkgo tree.
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