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Shinny Hockey is Canada's ultimate childhood favorite—raw pond hockey rooted in Mi'kmaq lore from 1600s Nova Scotia.
Their Tu'aqn ritual involved hurled balls and curved sticks on icy lakes, channeling ancestral spirits to guide the puck.
From sacred play to backyard legend.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Irish wake games were intended to remind the deceased they were a treasured part of society, to send them away happy, and hopefully prevent them from returning... #FolkloreThursday

🎨Nathanial Grogan
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The medieval board game of Jeu de Dames is one of strategy (in Eng k/as checkers or draughts). The goal is to win by capturing the pieces or tokens played. In renaissance art, the game was depicted as a love motif as women and men play against each other.

#FolkloreThursday🎨 Max Silbert (1930)
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
2/2 They hid inside their blow guns, but when one peeked out to see if the sun had risen, Camazotz pulled off his head. His head was hung in the ballcourt to be used in the next game by the gods.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
La Giorgia dons an especially gruesome disguise (hint: she buys it from a grave digger) & the palace geese let the prince know she’s more lively than she appears. #AnotherCinderella #fairytales #catskin #folkloreandfairytales #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Pierre-Charles Comte
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In Popeljuha Zavaljuha the king promised his dying wife he'll only remarry a woman who fits her ring. The unlucky winner is her daughter (who escapes & claims her chosen mate by giving him…half a ring). #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #folklore
🎨August Bourotte
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
To avoid marrying her father, this heroine takes her dead mother’s advice & asks him for an impossible, celestial gown. But with the Devil’s aid, he pulls it from a nutshell. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess
🎨Arthur Rackham
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
According to a Flemish folktale, a man returned as a black dog after his death and haunted the mill where he had worked. He danced eerily on the nearby river and was said to climb the mill wheel and prevent it from working. The ghost dog was eventually walled in.

🎨Dillon Samuelson
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October 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Too much spirit traffic? Keeping newspapers by doors or windows discourages ghosts; wallpapering entire rooms with newspapers is even more effective, for ghosts are compelled to count or read every word before they can continue their intended hauntings.

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🎨 Abigail Larson
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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.’
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October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Legend says the sun turns trolls into stone, so they roam the forests and fjords by the light of moon 🌕

🎨 by Theodor Kittelsen

#FolkloreThursday #trolls #trollthursday #trollseason #trollsarecoming #folklore #moonlight
September 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Some origin stories paint Selkies as angels who fell to earth because they refused to take a side during the war in heaven. These tales intersect images of the human, the animal, and the divine.

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#FolkloreThursday #fairytale #folklore #selkies
September 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In 19th-century Acadian folklore, a fair-haired woman named La Mariecomo was admired and feared as a powerful witch in southeastern New Brunswick. She was believed to have obtained her powers by marrying a Mi’kmaq ‘sorcerer.’
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🎨Maria Kakhiani, ‘Old Witch in the Forest’
March 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In Norse folklore, black clouds were actually returning ravens rushing to whisper their news to Odin... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Hurzlmeier
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Merrows, Irish mermaids known for their red caps, have much in common with selkies; they have webbed fingers and when their cap is stolen, they can’t return to the sea 🧜🏻‍♀️🦭🌊

🎨 by Seamus Mc Ardle

#FolkloreThursday #folklore #merrows #mermaids #selkies #SelkieMoon #ireland #celticmythology
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In many areas of the South West of England, sailors were generally wary of cats, and if one met a black cat on the way to his ship, would turn around and go home, seeing it as a bad omen. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Beauty and the Beast fairy tales (ATU 425) and Selkie legends share some interesting characteristics including animal-human hybridity and themes of mingled love and loss ❤️

🎨 by Imelda Green

#FolkloreThursday #fairytale #folklore #selkies #beautyandthebeast
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Snowfall on a graveyard means the dead are resting well. But if the ground is bare while the town is blanketed, don’t walk too close. Something is waiting. And if you hear footsteps crunching through the snow behind you when no one else is there, keep walking. #FolkloreThursday

🎨Midnight Rose
February 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Thanks @crystalponti.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social [email protected] here for another hour of fabulous travel, journeys and holiday themed #FolkloreThursday! 🎨The Travelling Companions, Augustus Egg
July 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The human children of selkies are often born with strange conditions like pale, dry skin and syndactyly (a webbing between the fingers and toes) 🦭

🎨 by Jackie Morris

#FolkloreThursday #folklore #selkies #SelkieMoon #summeroftheselkie #selkiesummer #selkiebride
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Prose Edda, a 13th century collection of Norse mythology, is one of the first texts to use the term “troll,” a word that overlaps with “jotnar” or “giant.”

🎨 by John Bauer

#FolkloreThursday #trolls #JohnBauer #Giants
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM