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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.
🎨'This Time For Sure,' Painting by Richard De Wolfe
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social
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
A large gathering in a timbered barn depicting an Irish Wake from a couple of centuries ago. In one corner is a storyteller holding forth to their audience. In another a group of young girls are sitting close to the large open fire. In the foreground youths are playing a game.
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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)
By Max_Silbert - name of the work: Damespiel (1930) Indoors scene of four women in traditional dress (poss Netherlands or German) - wearing bonnets with flicked up sides. Three are seated around a table by a sunlite window, focusing on a game of Jeu de Dames. Their expressions are ones of concentrated amusement. The fourth woman is entering the room, carrying refreshments.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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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Tricky Fairies - Peter Pan of Kensington Gardens - Arthur Rackham "These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night" Please look in my shop for more work by Arthur Rackham and mor...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Join us for our folklore of Games and Pastimes themed #FolkloreThursday this Thursday!
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(🎨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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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
A man in chain mail kneels and kisses the hand of a richly dressed, crowned woman on a throne. She is clearly dead.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
lissasloan.bsky.social
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
A young woman stands before a seated old man with a long white beard. Her back is to the viewer and she's anxiously twisting her fingers behind her back.
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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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
A young woman with long, fair hair gets dressed in her poor, shabby bedroom. She is fastening a beautiful silver gown covered all over with stars.
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
#FolkloreThursday
Artwork of a black dog with glowing eyes sitting on a graveyard.
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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.

#FolkloreThursday
🎨 Abigail Larson
An illustration of a woman in an old fashioned Victorian dress leaning over a desk filled with books and newspapers in a library, while behind her there is a sinister looking man with red eyes and strange shadows on the wall.
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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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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Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 60min):
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💨x1* - ukraine 🔓
💨x111 - 1﹐566
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💨x59 - synagogue
💨x48 - mikeno
💨x42 - 2025-10-02
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[PREVIOUSLY USED] ⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating" ⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above) ⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane] 💬# | 10min Post Count 🆎# | 10min Word Count 🙂# | 10min Emoji Count
October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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
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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.’
#FolkloreThursday

🎨Maria Kakhiani, ‘Old Witch in the Forest’
March 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social
In Norse folklore, black clouds were actually returning ravens rushing to whisper their news to Odin... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Hurzlmeier
Crow wearing boots strides purposefully across a barren field. grey cloud bare tree.
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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
forgottenbeauty.bsky.social
If spiders are plentiful and spinning webs, a dry spell is coming.
🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3544... #FolkloreThursday #art #illustration #homedecor #interiordesign #vintage #folklore #wallart
The Big Spider's Diamonds - Edmund Dulac by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The web and the diamonds and the Big Spider himself all fell to the ground" The Big Spider's Diamonds Please look in my shop for more work by Edmund Dulac
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February 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
willowwinsham.bsky.social
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
Painting showing three black cats sitting on an ornately carved golden table, with a red and gold curtain or fabric behind them. Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler.
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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
forgottenbeauty.bsky.social
"A cloud with a round top and flat base carries rainfall on its face."
🎨Arthur Rackham
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Undine Talks to the Clouds - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Undine Talks to the Clouds - Arthur Rackham When the storm threatened to burst on their heads, she uttered a laughing reproof to the clouds. "Come, come," saith she, "look to it that you wet us not" ...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
crystalponti.bsky.social
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
A haunting winter cemetery stretches beneath a dark sky, its tombstones covered in a thick layer of snow. Ornate Celtic crosses stand tall among the graves, their intricate carvings dusted with frost. In the distance, a towering gothic castle looms, its spires piercing the stormy clouds, illuminated by an eerie glow from the setting or rising sun. The frozen ground glistens where the ice has begun to crack, revealing dark earth beneath. Snow-laden trees frame the scene, their skeletal branches reaching toward the heavens. The atmosphere is otherworldly, as if the spirits of the dead still linger, watching.
February 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
folklorethursday.bsky.social
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
Painting, The Travelling Companions, Augustus Egg, depicting two women wearing light grey dresses sitting opposite each other in a carriage. One is reading and one is sleeping, both have a black hat with a red feather on their laps.
July 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
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