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!
We also run the old Twitter hashtag #FolkyFriday - new themes each week, so do join in!
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Friends, thank you for another frostbitten yet frisky #FolkyFriday! 🖤
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
On this week's episode of Local Legends we have a real treat for you: Martin's good long chat with the truly brilliant @mharastarling.bsky.social - The Welsh Witch! 🖤
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On this week's episode of Local Legends we have a real treat for you: Martin's good long chat with the truly brilliant @mharastarling.bsky.social - The Welsh Witch! 🖤
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Count your ammunition and watch your sight-lines as the moon is full, werewolves are abroad, and for this month's Film Club episode we're talking all about Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers - OUT NOW! 🖤
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Count your ammunition and watch your sight-lines as the moon is full, werewolves are abroad, and for this month's Film Club episode we're talking all about Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers - OUT NOW! 🖤
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
Friends, thank you for another frostbitten yet frisky #FolkyFriday! 🖤
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
a black and white drawing of a doll holding a gift box
ALT: a black and white drawing of a doll holding a gift box
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November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Friends, thank you for another frostbitten yet frisky #FolkyFriday! 🖤
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
We will return next week on 5th December with the theme of "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore" in advance of St Nicholas' Day!
Post related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then from 10am-6pm UK time!
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Ice queens in folklore are never merely villains. They are endurance, distance, memory, and the terrible beauty of what does not bend. #FolkyFriday
Art: Jeffrey Hummel
Art: Jeffrey Hummel
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ice queens in folklore are never merely villains. They are endurance, distance, memory, and the terrible beauty of what does not bend. #FolkyFriday
Art: Jeffrey Hummel
Art: Jeffrey Hummel
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#FolkyFriday
Holda (Frau Holle & Perchta) is an ancient Germanic goddess of winter, snow, and spinning. She shakes her featherbed to bring snow and rewards diligent girls with gold. During Rauhnächte, she appears as grim Perchta—punishing unfinished spinning or dirty houses with a belly slit & straw
Holda (Frau Holle & Perchta) is an ancient Germanic goddess of winter, snow, and spinning. She shakes her featherbed to bring snow and rewards diligent girls with gold. During Rauhnächte, she appears as grim Perchta—punishing unfinished spinning or dirty houses with a belly slit & straw
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#FolkyFriday
Holda (Frau Holle & Perchta) is an ancient Germanic goddess of winter, snow, and spinning. She shakes her featherbed to bring snow and rewards diligent girls with gold. During Rauhnächte, she appears as grim Perchta—punishing unfinished spinning or dirty houses with a belly slit & straw
Holda (Frau Holle & Perchta) is an ancient Germanic goddess of winter, snow, and spinning. She shakes her featherbed to bring snow and rewards diligent girls with gold. During Rauhnächte, she appears as grim Perchta—punishing unfinished spinning or dirty houses with a belly slit & straw
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“I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen…”
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#FolkyFriday
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#FolkyFriday
![I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen in this my first winter in the glen; and the Diary is to be a record of my life here during the weeks ('tis said it may be months) in which the glen is 'locked,' meaning it may be so happit in snow that no one who is in can get out of it, and no one who is out can get in. Then, according to the stories that crawl like mists among our hills, where the English must have picked them up, come forms called the 'Strangers.' You 'go queer' yourself without knowing it and walk and talk with these doolies, thinking they are of your world till maybe they have mischieved you.
It is all, of course, superstitious havers, bred of folk who are used to the travail of out of doors, and take ill with having to squat by the saut-bucket; but I have promised with a smile to keep my eyes and ears intent for tergiversations among my flock, and to record them for the benefit of the English when they come back next August.
My name is the Rev. Adam Yestreen; and to be candid I care not for the Adam with its unfortunate associations. I am twenty-six years of age and, though long in the legs, look maybe younger than is seemly in my sacred calling, being clean-shaven without any need to use an implement; indeed I may say I have desisted for two years back.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen…”
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#FolkyFriday
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#FolkyFriday
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Autumn blooming violets and winter flowering primroses are two of the plants that folklore claims are omens of death or misfortune if they show up out of season, during the cold months of the year 🥶💀 #FolkyFriday 🌱
A very frozen looking #FlowersOnFriday this week! We’ve not had snow yet but it’s been very cold the last few days ❄️ 🌱
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Autumn blooming violets and winter flowering primroses are two of the plants that folklore claims are omens of death or misfortune if they show up out of season, during the cold months of the year 🥶💀 #FolkyFriday 🌱
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In Norse myths, the mountain giantess Skaði married the sea god Njörðr, as he had the nicest legs. But Skaði found she hated the sea because she couldn't ski there and gulls squawked all day, while Njörðr hated the snowy mountains because they were so cold and wolves howled all night.
#FolkyFriday
#FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In Norse myths, the mountain giantess Skaði married the sea god Njörðr, as he had the nicest legs. But Skaði found she hated the sea because she couldn't ski there and gulls squawked all day, while Njörðr hated the snowy mountains because they were so cold and wolves howled all night.
#FolkyFriday
#FolkyFriday
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Andersen’s Snow Queen does not rage. She reasons. She steals a boy’s heart with logic and frost, teaching the oldest truth about cold power. It does not need to shout. #FolkyFriday
Art: Elena Ringo
Art: Elena Ringo
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Andersen’s Snow Queen does not rage. She reasons. She steals a boy’s heart with logic and frost, teaching the oldest truth about cold power. It does not need to shout. #FolkyFriday
Art: Elena Ringo
Art: Elena Ringo
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Skadi, the Norse winter goddess associated with skiing and bowhunting, lives in the coldest mountain regions where the snow never melts. Her brief marriage to the sea god Njord ends in divorce, as he wishes to remain near the sea and she refuses to leave the snowy mountains. #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Skadi, the Norse winter goddess associated with skiing and bowhunting, lives in the coldest mountain regions where the snow never melts. Her brief marriage to the sea god Njord ends in divorce, as he wishes to remain near the sea and she refuses to leave the snowy mountains. #FolkyFriday
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Tsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. #FolkyFriday
🖼: M. Meyer
🖼: M. Meyer
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. #FolkyFriday
🖼: M. Meyer
🖼: M. Meyer
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Scottish goddess Beira, Queen of Winter, appears as a blue-skinned crone carrying a magical staff that freezes the ground and a hammer for shaping hills and valleys. Her seasonal reign begins at Samhain and ends at Beltane, when she drinks from the Well of Youth to become young again. #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Scottish goddess Beira, Queen of Winter, appears as a blue-skinned crone carrying a magical staff that freezes the ground and a hammer for shaping hills and valleys. Her seasonal reign begins at Samhain and ends at Beltane, when she drinks from the Well of Youth to become young again. #FolkyFriday
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🎨Snow Fairy - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #winter #fairies #illustration #art #fairytale #folklore #gifts #homedecor #Christmas #greetingcards #giftideas
The Snow Fairy - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Snow Fairy - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Please see my shop for more Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🎨Snow Fairy - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #winter #fairies #illustration #art #fairytale #folklore #gifts #homedecor #Christmas #greetingcards #giftideas
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In Japanese folklore, Yuki-Onna (meaning "snow woman") are the inhumanly beautiful spirits of women who froze to death in winter. They create blizzards and lead winter travelers astray to their deaths. Sometimes they seduce men and kill them with kisses that freeze them solid. #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In Japanese folklore, Yuki-Onna (meaning "snow woman") are the inhumanly beautiful spirits of women who froze to death in winter. They create blizzards and lead winter travelers astray to their deaths. Sometimes they seduce men and kill them with kisses that freeze them solid. #FolkyFriday
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#FolkyFriday
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#FolkyFriday
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
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2/5 Little Jack Frost ran down the hill
Late in the night when the winds were still
Late in the fall when the leaves fell down
Red and yellow and faded brown.
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees;
"Ah," sighed the flowers, "we freeze, we freeze!"
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Late in the night when the winds were still
Late in the fall when the leaves fell down
Red and yellow and faded brown.
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees;
"Ah," sighed the flowers, "we freeze, we freeze!"
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3342... #FolkyFriday
Jack Frost - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Illustration of Jack Frost by Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham
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November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
2/5 Little Jack Frost ran down the hill
Late in the night when the winds were still
Late in the fall when the leaves fell down
Red and yellow and faded brown.
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees;
"Ah," sighed the flowers, "we freeze, we freeze!"
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3342... #FolkyFriday
Late in the night when the winds were still
Late in the fall when the leaves fell down
Red and yellow and faded brown.
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees;
"Ah," sighed the flowers, "we freeze, we freeze!"
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3342... #FolkyFriday
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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
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Once, in the deep winter, woodcutters found strange footsteps in the snow on Untersberg mountain - like those of children, but in great numbers.
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg
The Wild Hunt of the Untersberg
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November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Once, in the deep winter, woodcutters found strange footsteps in the snow on Untersberg mountain - like those of children, but in great numbers.
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg
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Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful Japanese samurai leader and the head of the Taira clan. He is the central character in Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike), an epic account that chronicles the rise and fall of the Taira clan in 12th century Kyoto. He is portrayed as...
#BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday
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November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The Ice Maiden wanders the ice at night searching for broken hearts. She carries them back to her castle & warms them in a circle of fire.
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
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"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
The Ice Maiden - Edmund Dulac by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Ice Maiden - Edmund Dulac
This lovely lady apparently walks the ice looking for broken hearts. She then takes them home to her fire to keep them warm. This illustration was done for "The Dreamer o...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Ice Maiden wanders the ice at night searching for broken hearts. She carries them back to her castle & warms them in a circle of fire.
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
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1/10 The Snow Queen is a long and popular #fairytale told in seven stories and published in 1844.
🎨Kay Nielsen ❄️❄️https://redbubble.com/shop/ap/35277219?asc=u #FolkyFriday #vintage #art #illustration #homedecor #wintersolstice #gifts #blackfridaysale #giftideas #fairytale #Christmas #literature
🎨Kay Nielsen ❄️❄️https://redbubble.com/shop/ap/35277219?asc=u #FolkyFriday #vintage #art #illustration #homedecor #wintersolstice #gifts #blackfridaysale #giftideas #fairytale #Christmas #literature
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
1/10 The Snow Queen is a long and popular #fairytale told in seven stories and published in 1844.
🎨Kay Nielsen ❄️❄️https://redbubble.com/shop/ap/35277219?asc=u #FolkyFriday #vintage #art #illustration #homedecor #wintersolstice #gifts #blackfridaysale #giftideas #fairytale #Christmas #literature
🎨Kay Nielsen ❄️❄️https://redbubble.com/shop/ap/35277219?asc=u #FolkyFriday #vintage #art #illustration #homedecor #wintersolstice #gifts #blackfridaysale #giftideas #fairytale #Christmas #literature
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The Russian Snow Maiden, Snegurochka, is born of frost and longing. She shines in winter light but melts at the first touch of true love. Some crowns are made to vanish. #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Russian Snow Maiden, Snegurochka, is born of frost and longing. She shines in winter light but melts at the first touch of true love. Some crowns are made to vanish. #FolkyFriday
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Skadi, the Norse goddess of winter and the hunt, chose her husband by his feet alone and claimed the mountains as her kingdom. Ice queens in myth rarely need permission. They take the cold and make it sovereign. #FolkyFriday
Art: Studio Yasja
Art: Studio Yasja
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Skadi, the Norse goddess of winter and the hunt, chose her husband by his feet alone and claimed the mountains as her kingdom. Ice queens in myth rarely need permission. They take the cold and make it sovereign. #FolkyFriday
Art: Studio Yasja
Art: Studio Yasja
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The Cauld Lad of Hilton (Co Durham) is as much household #fairy as he is #ghost. A tale of a murdered boy's body being hidden in a pond had him moaning 'Cauld, aye cauld, forever more!' But, in fairy-like fashion, when clothes were laid out for him, he quit the castle.
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Cauld Lad of Hilton (Co Durham) is as much household #fairy as he is #ghost. A tale of a murdered boy's body being hidden in a pond had him moaning 'Cauld, aye cauld, forever more!' But, in fairy-like fashion, when clothes were laid out for him, he quit the castle.
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
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In the dead of winter, ghosts inhabit the high alps.
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Dance_of_the_Dead
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Dance_of_the_Dead
The Dance of the Dead
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November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In the dead of winter, ghosts inhabit the high alps.
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Dance_of_the_Dead
#folkyfriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Dance_of_the_Dead