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Day 12 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration is when the stuffed felt depiction of a Marsh Ape is hung on one of the lower branches. As we place it on the tree we marvel at the small details, the icicles forming on its wet fur, that slight green taint, its feral stare.
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Day 12 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration is when the stuffed felt depiction of a Marsh Ape is hung on one of the lower branches. As we place it on the tree we marvel at the small details, the icicles forming on its wet fur, that slight green taint, its feral stare.
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Even i am not religious but I believe that a light in the dark winter months are welcome for everyone ✨️ That is why my Christmas star is burning day and night and the theme from @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social is perfect for those days 🌙 #PalacesAndGardens #FestiveLights #EastCoastKin
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Even i am not religious but I believe that a light in the dark winter months are welcome for everyone ✨️ That is why my Christmas star is burning day and night and the theme from @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social is perfect for those days 🌙 #PalacesAndGardens #FestiveLights #EastCoastKin
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The North Curry Mummers for a Christmas related #FolkloreThursday in the only year we performed in the snow, a good twenty years ago or so now. This year will mark our 35th performance in our 36 year existence (we had to miss a year because of Covid).
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The North Curry Mummers for a Christmas related #FolkloreThursday in the only year we performed in the snow, a good twenty years ago or so now. This year will mark our 35th performance in our 36 year existence (we had to miss a year because of Covid).
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Many Alpine villages believed the wind at year’s end carried whispers from the dead. Doors were cracked open just a moment so loved ones could slip inside and warm themselves. #FolkloreThursday
Art: Art Rave
Art: Art Rave
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Many Alpine villages believed the wind at year’s end carried whispers from the dead. Doors were cracked open just a moment so loved ones could slip inside and warm themselves. #FolkloreThursday
Art: Art Rave
Art: Art Rave
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"Christmas Mummers. -Drawn By A. Hunt."
The Illustrated London News 21.12.1861.
#FolkloreThursday #Mummers #Christmas #Folklore #Art #History #1860s
The Illustrated London News 21.12.1861.
#FolkloreThursday #Mummers #Christmas #Folklore #Art #History #1860s
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"Christmas Mummers. -Drawn By A. Hunt."
The Illustrated London News 21.12.1861.
#FolkloreThursday #Mummers #Christmas #Folklore #Art #History #1860s
The Illustrated London News 21.12.1861.
#FolkloreThursday #Mummers #Christmas #Folklore #Art #History #1860s
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Sankta Lucia is this coming Saturday, I love that it celebrates light…and a fearsome witch who leads a procession of supernatural beings~we were also overjoyed to have been able to take in the full magic of Edinburgh Luciakör at Hexham Abbey this week…SO beautiful ✨ #folklorethursday ✨
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Sankta Lucia is this coming Saturday, I love that it celebrates light…and a fearsome witch who leads a procession of supernatural beings~we were also overjoyed to have been able to take in the full magic of Edinburgh Luciakör at Hexham Abbey this week…SO beautiful ✨ #folklorethursday ✨
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Hello #FolkloreThursday! Thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last hour. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social for some festive cheer!
Img from Wikipedia: Sinterklaas, the evolutionary link between St Nick and Santa
Img from Wikipedia: Sinterklaas, the evolutionary link between St Nick and Santa
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Hello #FolkloreThursday! Thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last hour. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social for some festive cheer!
Img from Wikipedia: Sinterklaas, the evolutionary link between St Nick and Santa
Img from Wikipedia: Sinterklaas, the evolutionary link between St Nick and Santa
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Naughty children on the Isle of Islay were threatened with a visit from Crom Dubh na Nollaig (Crooked Dark One of Christmas). His arrival was heralded by screaming sounds coming from the chimney... #LegendaryWednesday
🎨Atkinson Grimshaw
🎨Atkinson Grimshaw
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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In Japanese folklore, Hatsuyume, the first dream one has in the new year, is said to be especially significant, and it is believed to be good luck to dream of Mount Fuji, a hawk...and an eggplant🤷♀️ #FolkloreThursday art by Isoda Koryusai
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In Japanese folklore, Hatsuyume, the first dream one has in the new year, is said to be especially significant, and it is believed to be good luck to dream of Mount Fuji, a hawk...and an eggplant🤷♀️ #FolkloreThursday art by Isoda Koryusai
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A legend tells of the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral who gave sugar sticks to young singers to keep them quiet during long Christmas services. As a seasonal touch, he bent the sweets into shepherds’ crooks and candy canes were created... #FolkloreThursday
December 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A legend tells of the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral who gave sugar sticks to young singers to keep them quiet during long Christmas services. As a seasonal touch, he bent the sweets into shepherds’ crooks and candy canes were created... #FolkloreThursday
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#folklorethursday 12 December is the Day of the Mountain God revered by people working in the mountain. From the Legends of Tono by Yanagita Kunio, the Mountain God would count their trees on that day. If you enters into the mountain and are counted as one of the trees, you'll never return.
📸 by me
📸 by me
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#folklorethursday 12 December is the Day of the Mountain God revered by people working in the mountain. From the Legends of Tono by Yanagita Kunio, the Mountain God would count their trees on that day. If you enters into the mountain and are counted as one of the trees, you'll never return.
📸 by me
📸 by me
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Krampus’ name is probably from the German kramp/krampen, which means claw (though another possible etymology comes from the Bavarian word krampn, which means dead or rotten)
#folklorethursday
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Greeting from Krampus!
For every Yin, there is a Yang. Every time the Beatles sang that they ‘want(ed) to hold your hand’, there was a Mick Jagger swaggering on a different stage, snickering just exactly wher…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Krampus’ name is probably from the German kramp/krampen, which means claw (though another possible etymology comes from the Bavarian word krampn, which means dead or rotten)
#folklorethursday
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Fjøsnissen are small house spirits from Norwegian folklore who live in barns and do work around the farm. It's traditional for farmers to leave their fjøsnissen a bowl of rice porridge on Christmas Eve, and not doing so may result in him carrying out mischievous or malicious acts. #FolkloreThursday
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fjøsnissen are small house spirits from Norwegian folklore who live in barns and do work around the farm. It's traditional for farmers to leave their fjøsnissen a bowl of rice porridge on Christmas Eve, and not doing so may result in him carrying out mischievous or malicious acts. #FolkloreThursday
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Most accounts of Perchta concur on the major themes: she was associated with spinning, she traveled with a litany of others, and she loved slitting open the bellies of naughty children and stuffing them with straw or garbage.
#folklorethursday
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The Rounder the Belly, the Harder it is to Slit! Beware Frau Perchta
Frau Perchta is a folkloric figure from the Alpine region, one that rewards the good and punishes the bad around Winter festival time. Like most folkloric figures, every locality has a slightly dif…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Most accounts of Perchta concur on the major themes: she was associated with spinning, she traveled with a litany of others, and she loved slitting open the bellies of naughty children and stuffing them with straw or garbage.
#folklorethursday
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💫 Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the holiday theme is presents! With your holiday gift legends, your secret santa traditions, swapping rituals, religious offerings, & gifting deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
💫 Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the holiday theme is presents! With your holiday gift legends, your secret santa traditions, swapping rituals, religious offerings, & gifting deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
You will be visited by three spirits... (so hold on for one for one more day).
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
You will be visited by three spirits... (so hold on for one for one more day).
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If I’m going to be visited by spirits, make them doubles please.
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
If I’m going to be visited by spirits, make them doubles please.
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An image a day for December 2025 no 9. Holly berries!
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
An image a day for December 2025 no 9. Holly berries!
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
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This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
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Happy Krampusnacht!!!!
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Happy Krampusnacht!!!!
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
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ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
argh! why can't we have these elfish red squirrels??
He just kept on munching while I just stood there in sheer delight. #RedSquirrel #mammals
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
argh! why can't we have these elfish red squirrels??
Cloud people... what is going on here? Flying into Zurich.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Cloud people... what is going on here? Flying into Zurich.
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Nisse, Tomte and Tonttu, Scandinavian gnome-like beings that help on farms; that in lore, are particularly active around Christmas
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
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art: Theodor Kittelsen
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Nisse, Tomte and Tonttu, Scandinavian gnome-like beings that help on farms; that in lore, are particularly active around Christmas
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
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Chione is the North wind Boreas's daughter and goddess of snow. She lives in the mountain tops and will turn people to ice sculptures when angered.
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
Heart of Snow - Edward Robert Hughes by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
"Heart of Snow" is taken from a poem by Baudelaire. Lord Alfred Douglas’ (1870-1945 English translation of 1909 reads: In the blue air, strange sphinx, I brood supreme With heart of snow whiter than...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Chione is the North wind Boreas's daughter and goddess of snow. She lives in the mountain tops and will turn people to ice sculptures when angered.
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore