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Join us for our folklore of Games and Pastimes themed #FolkloreThursday this Thursday!
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
Painting showing two men seated at a table, each holding five playing cards in their hands and wearing a wide hat with a feather on it. On the table there is the remaining deck of cards and a discard pile.
folklorethursday.bsky.social
Join us for our folklore of Games and Pastimes themed #FolkloreThursday this Thursday!
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
Painting showing two men seated at a table, each holding five playing cards in their hands and wearing a wide hat with a feather on it. On the table there is the remaining deck of cards and a discard pile.
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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And you can read more about such tales in the 'Treasury of Folklore: Stars & Skies' by @willowwinsham.bsky.social, part of the lovely @folklorethursday.bsky.social community.
Although, not necessarily the one about the chap from Wigan 😊
#Folklore
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🔥🎃🌙

Today's theme was folklore of Ghosts, Monsters, and All Things Spooky! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you the best Spooktober ever 🍁

1883 Bernard Gillam - Gambling with death
A detail from a colour magazine or newspaper illustration. A man in a top hat is smoking a cigar while seated at a table. A skeletal ghost-like figure in white robes is rolling dice from a cup and standing over the man while pointing to the table, which is shaped like a coffin.
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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lisagrimm.com
Only just realised that this week’s entry is also #FolkloreThursday relevant!

(It’s been a long work week). 👻
lisagrimm.com Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com · Oct 2
Another Dublin pub round-up....we stay seasonal with this one. 100% serious about doing the ghostlore PhD, btw...just need a big cash windfall first.

#SpeirGorm

www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
Ghostly decor at The Brazen Head Spooky carving at The Bull & Castle
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Some spooky locations from my neck of the woods: The Dolphin Inn, Jorrocks, and The Old Bell Hotel, Derby, all said to be haunted by a variety of spooks and spectres.(Images: Doyle of London, Victuallers and Aidancox18) #FolkloreThursday
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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yokaiparade.bsky.social
the ghost Hanako of the Toilet haunts the 3rd stall of the 3rd floor girls bathroom of Japanese schools. Knock on the stall door and say “Hanako-san, are you there?” -- or maybe don't do that, because if she's there she'll pull you into the toilet and kill you! #folklorethursday art @yokai.com
looking into a bathroom staff with the door partly open. a traditional Japanese squat toilet (terrifying on its own :D ) is seen, and a young girl with a scary look on her face is peering around the door out of the shadows
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A well-known American legend claims blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil on the crossroads at midnight -- for musical genius and fame.

Remembered as the godfather of rock music, Johnson died at 27 years old #FolkloreThursday

Digital painting for an art class two yrs ago.
A digital painting recreating a black and white photograph of blues musician Robert Johnson in browns and blues. He is seated wearing a suit, tie, and hat while holding a guitar and smiling.
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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In folklore, candles flickering oddly were said to mean a ghost was nearby. If the flame guttered without draft, it was a spirit answering unspoken questions. #folklorethursday

Art: Ben Young
October 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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yokaiparade.bsky.social
Ushirogami is a one-eyed ghost that sneaks up behind you and pulls your hair or makes your umbrella blow away or breathes on the back of your neck...then disappears when you turn around. #FolkloreThursday
a surprised-looking woman walking down a Japanese side street with her hair being pulled by a one-eyed ghost art by Maeoka Tetsuya
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Sorry to miss #FolkloreThursday today so be sure to follow the hashtag and get yourself in the festive spooky spirit!
a cartoon ghost with a surprised look on his face is standing in front of a rock wall .
ALT: a cartoon ghost with a surprised look on his face is standing in front of a rock wall .
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October 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A banshee is a female spirit that heralds the death of a family member in Irish #folklore. Her scream is also known as caoine, or keening, & they are often attached to families. The name banshee means 'woman of the fairy mound'. redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #decor #FolkloreThursday #Halloween
The Old Hall, Fairies by Moonlight - John Anster Fitzgerald by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
I've always loved this one, although it is one of his simpler works. It would also fit right in with your Halloween decor
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October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#FolkloreThursday 🧙‍♀️✨
Witch Bottles from the 16th century were charms filled with nails, tissue, and urine to send curses back to witches and protect homes across Europe and America! 🚪🧪 Born during the Reformation, they were taken seriously and used for magic and protection. 🌿🔮
#BookologyThursday 📚
📸 Malcolm Lidbury
October 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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If a bat flies into your house on #Halloween it's a sign that the house is haunted, because the ghosts let it in. 👻
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3337... #FolkloreThursday #art #October #homedecor #folklore #spookymonth #Spooktober #Halloween #superstition
Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat - John Anster Fitzgerald by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Gorgeous painting by John Anster Fitzgerald
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October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Periwinkles are linked to witchcraft, ghosts & supernatural. In Wales if you pluck the flower you will be haunted. However, the plant can also protect you against the dead.
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#art #illustration #vintage #FolkloreThursday #folklore #Spooktober #spookymonth #Halloween
Vintage Halloween - A Thrilling Halloween with pumpkin ghosts and black cats by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Vintage Halloween greeting card- A Thrilling Halloween with pumpkin ghosts and black cats
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October 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Greetings #FolkloreThursday 🎃

Huge thanks to Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social for being our host before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your crypt keeper for the next one hour.

Today's theme is "Ghosts, Monsters, & All Things Spooky!" 👀

1898 Josef Mandl 🌙
A 19th Century painting showing a graveyard scene at night. There are several gravestones and disorganized plots and trees. A partly open grave is in the foreground with a shovel laying across it. A luminescent-cloaked apparition is standing behind it and looking down into the ground. Though it is bright, the details of the person are not apparent.
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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That’s all from me, @crystalponti.bsky.social. Thanks for conjuring up such spine-tingling #FolkloreThursday posts! After a short break, @shanonsinn.bsky.social will rise from the folklore crypt to keep the chills alive. Don’t ghost us… the best scares are still to come! 🦇

Art: Rackham
An old-fashioned illustration depicts a coven of witches gathered under leafless trees at night. The witches wear pointed hats and tattered cloaks, some flying on broomsticks, while others creep across the ground with crooked postures. Black cats climb the branches and stalk the ground, adding to the eerie scene. A thin crescent moon hangs faintly in the sky above, casting a pale glow over the gathering.
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#folklorethursday #celtic: `A certain Ulsterman named mac Datho owned the incredible Ailbhe that could outrun every other hound. “Both Queen Medb of Connaught and King Conchobar of Ulster offered a high price of six hundred cows for this hound, and also a […]

[Original post on hear-me.social]
Irish wolfhound, Champion Patrick of Ifold, Ulster Museum, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The wailing figure of a woman known as a banshee or bean sidhe heralds grave misfortune. Whether her cries are the harbinger of a family death or an impending loss, sightings of her are never a good omen.

#FolkloreThursday
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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yokaiparade.bsky.social
Dorotabo is the ghost of a farmer who worked hard all his life and is angry that his land is neglected by his heirs after his death. He rises out of the mud and roams the fields calling "Give me back my rice fields!" #FolkloreThursday
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A sticker of a man made of mud, photographed in the mud
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"Bedd i Farch, bedd i Wythur,
bedd i Wgon Gleddyfrudd.
Anoeth byd, bedd i Arthur."
"A grave for March, a grave for Gwythur,
a grave for Gwgon Red-sword.
Hard to find in the world – a grave for Arthur."
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October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#FolkloreThursday In 1864, a ghostly Woman in Black, veiled like a widow, appeared near Carbondale, Pennsylvania. She presaged a "black fever" epidemic, which killed 400 people and a deadly mine cave-in, which killed 14. When she reappeared in 1892, she was thought the omen of a cholera outbreak.
Black dress and mourning veil on a mannequin Cover of The Ghost Wore Black with skeletal face under a sheer veil
October 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The most enigmatic Welsh monsters are the gwyllion (the "twilight wanderers"). Some say that they're fairy hags who lead travelers astray, others say that they're ghosts or wandering lunatics. Merlin learned prophecy from gwyllion he met as he wandered insane in the forest.
#FolkloreThursday
"The Fairy Dance" by Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. A painting depicting ghostly fairies dancing in the woods.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Child ballad 79 for #FolkloreThursday A wealthy woman sends her sons overseas only to lose them all. She summons them home but they appear only briefly, as ghosts: ‘The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin’ worm doth chide; Gin we be miss’d out o’ our place, A sair pain we maun bide.’
In keeping with the folklore of ghosts, the sons are unable to eat or drink any earthly food and must be away before sunrise. 🎨Henry Matthew Brock's lithograph in 'A Book of Old Ballads' Ed. Beverley Nichols (1934) The image bears the title of the ballad 'The Wife of Usher's Well' which forms part of the Child collection, 305 traditional ballads anthologised by F.J. Child and published in 1860. An elderly woman looks up imploring at three spectral images who are turning to leave. The viewer can see the night sky through the window and a candle burns as precious time passes. The ghosts must leave by cockcrow or will face terrible punishment; the grave worms are already scolding ('channerin') them to hurry back to their burial place.
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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crystalponti.bsky.social
Superstition says mirrors can trap spirits. Covering them after death prevents the soul from being caught inside. Folklore treats reflections as doorways, thin as glass but deep as eternity. #FolkloreThursday
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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yokaiparade.bsky.social
Ubume is the ghost of a woman who died in childbirth. She asks passerby to carry her infant and when someone agrees, the child grows heavier with every step till the good samaritan is crushed beneath its weight. #FolkloreThursday
illustration of Ubume by Toriyama Sekien
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM