#local folklore

[chaoticdesertdweller]

#local folklore #the black sisters #appalachian folklore #Virginia #old cemetery #old graves #southern gothic #american gothic #sunset cemetery

[ofbloodandfaith]

I have literally been obsessed with Hypnos the god of sleep in Greek mythology for years, to the point I did an art project based on sleep in art school.

 I have also been obsessed with the relationship he has with his twin brother Thanatos (death) his wife, one of the Charities Pasithea, and his son Morpheus.

The fact that the god of sleep and the goddess of hallucination and relaxation bore the god of dreams is amazing.

The fact that sleep is the twin of death, that they are very similar but very different. That death is a permanent sleep and a permanent step into dreams, which actually links more to the Welsh myth of the afterlife Annwn which is the land of gold and plenty

#welsh cultus #tylwyth teg #iolo morganwg was a liar #local folklore #the welsh gods #hud #cymraeg polytheism #welsh polytheism #welsh witchcraft #you shouldn't have removed your fathers head from the white hill Arthur! #hellenic polytheism #Hail King Zeus and Queen Hera of the Gods and Olympia #Hail King Poseidon and Amphritite of the Seas #Hail King Hades and Queen Persephone of the Underworld #for love of Apollo and Hermes #for the wisdom of Athena

[balladblood-aesthetics]

Tri Thiws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain | Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain Series: 1/13  - Dyrnwyn, the Sword of Rhydderch Hael

The Dyrnwyn ("White-Hilt") is said to be a powerful sword belonging to Rhydderch Hael,[3] one of the Three Generous Men of Britain mentioned in the Welsh Triads. When drawn by a worthy or well-born man, the entire blade would blaze with fire. Rhydderch was never reluctant to hand the weapon to anyone, hence his nickname Hael meaning "the Generous", but the recipients, as soon as they had learned of its peculiar properties, always rejected the sword.

#we learn our history so we don't repeat it #this is the time to awaken Arthur #Arthur is welsh #merlin is Myrddin and lives in camarthen #independence is crawling ever near #welsh cultus #tylwyth teg #iolo morganwg was a liar #local folklore #the welsh gods #hud #cymraeg polytheism #welsh polytheism #welsh witchcraft #you shouldn't have removed your fathers head from the white hill Arthur!

[cecillias-garden]

In Jersey we leave the fae offerings of water ice so they'll keep the mosquitos at bay in the summer.

#Jersey #local Folklore #witchposting #source: i made it up #faeries #fair folk

[blackthornwren]

Like Irish folk customs (and likely brought over from Europe), my home has death customs and superstitions. Bodies were stayed with (meaning someone sat up with them through the night), washed to preserve the freshness of appearance, and also strapped down to prevent them from rising again. Heavy coins were placed on the eyes to keep the eyelids closed and mirrors were covered - it was believed that if the coffin was reflected in any looking glass, there would be another death in that house before the end of the month.

#traditional witchcraft #ancestors #local folklore #wren rambles

[sheydgarden]

Pocket Golems, 2019 - present

each golem is a one-of-a-kind, hand-sculpted figurine based on the Jewish legend of the golem (גולם), a mythic monster made of clay or stone and given life in order to act as a protector. ranging in size from approximately 1-2" tall, these golems (the Hebrew plural is "glamim") are made of polymer clay mixed with wood ash to replicate stone. they were created to be portable, personal guardians: a reminder of our connections to the mystical side of Judaism and to the stories of our past, or a symbol of Jewish resilience and resistance in a difficult present. each golem holds a blank scroll that can be customized by the owner with any of the following: the name of something or someone you want to protect, a quotation from scripture, an intention for your future, a secret, or a wish.

Etsy 

#golem #jumblr #jewish art #jewish folklore #jewish artists #pocket golems #sculpture #will be selling these again at an upcoming local market #whatever doesn't sell will go up in the etsy shop! #i did them by waitlist only for about a year & that was a little much to keep doing #now they're just a special once in a while thing

[inkyami]

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#slavic #folklore #sirin bird #alkonost #artists on tumblr #russian architecture #birch #local bird fauna in its natural habitat

[hobgobknowsbest]

#mythology #folklore #goblincore #goblin culture #goblin vibes #goblin things #goblin community #cryptidcore #local cryptid

[corrodedcoughin]

just thinking out loud but the Steve going to college because believe it or not he’s finally found a very specific course that catches his interest and it happens to be in Fort Wayne so he can still check in on the kids. It gets even better when Robin and Nancy decide they want to stay local too so they all pack together and get excited (and nervous) about moving.

The time comes and they leave Hawkins and suddenly it’s the first proper day of classes. The three of them are spread over the campus so Steve treks alone to his first class, the reason he chose the college in the first place: Introduction to Folklore.

He’s so ready to learn about something he’s finally interested in. Doesn’t pay attention to the usual seating conventions and social status, just wants to know where they’ll be starting, cliques and popularity contests a long gone part of his life.

The professor is in her stride, painting a picture with her stories of creatures from folklore and the origins, Steve can’t believe it but he’s genuinely excited to learn for once. The pinpoint accuracy focus on the professor is shattered when a voice erupts next to him

‘That’s great and everything but shouldn’t there have been a moth man lover sighting by now? Where is the justice for this noble creature I ask you? I know there’s monster fuckers out there professor.’

The professor slowly engages the guy in conversation but Steve is seething. Who does this guy think he is? Does he think this is a private class just for him? That Steve isn’t paying good money to be here? So pen clenched in a white knuckled hand Steve lets his bitchy temperament get the better of him ‘I thought this was a folklore class? Not a self insert romance lit course’ he clearly says it too loud because the boy next to him. The one who started all this turns to Steve and raises an eyebrow, a smug smile on his face and lets out a ‘huh interesting’ and what’s Steve supposed to do with that? And more importantly what’s Steve supposed to do with the fact that the guy is stupid hot with this long hair, tattoo combo and that the smug look on his face definitely made Steve’s heartbeat thunder in his ears? Out of rage on behalf of his fellow students, of course.

Turns out it doesn’t matter, the class is over and Steve is running out the door, determined not to get caught by those eyes again.

It starts off a Thing between them. Every week the guy, Eddie, will challenge the lecturer with some inane point that Steve refuses to accept he actually believes to the point of Steve firing back an argument at him. Eventually they are full on debates in the middle of the class that the professor has to mediate after eddie decided that standing on the table would be appropriate (of course, not to be outdone, steve followed).

They absolutely do not have a thing for each other and the rest of the class absolutely do have a sweepstakes on when they’ll get together

#listen this could be a huge meandering story about them arguing in class #being teamed up by the lecturer for a project #researching a local folklore story #AND HELLO ITS DEMOGORGANS DEMOBATS UPSIDE DOWN BREAKING FOLKLORE THSTS BEEN SECRET FIR SO LONG #the kids join in Nancy and Robin and jargyle join in #interviewing jopper for more info #Wayne moved AWAY from hawkins when he got Eddie but he knows the stories #it could be such a big fun story #alas I cannot write more than ten words before I lose the plot #nice in theory though #stranger things #eddie munson #steddie #steve harrington #enemies (not really) to lovers #Eddie dresses up as mothman because I SAID SO #Steve catches him as mothman with Gareth and Jeff one night shining torches on him to attract moths #’yes this is science /Steve/‘ #’GUYS TORCHES BACK ON ME COME ON’ #’oh so /this/ is the famous Steve. what do you think Gareth?’ #’im just shocked he’s real. maybe monster fucker munson has changed his ways’ #’SHUT THE FUCK UP I SWEAR TO CHRIST’ #Steve:😲 #(sorry I’ll go back in my cave now)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

For those of you who are interested in becoming horror movie protagonists, your local library's parapsychology/occultism section can be found under Dewey Decimal classification 130.0 - 130.9

If you're looking for folklore, that would be in the early 398s (if you hit "jokes and jests," 398.7, you've gone too far)

#dewey decimal system #library #support your local library #horror movies #paranormal #parapsychology #occultism #folklore

[ofbloodandfaith]

Historically, a sword identified as Excalibur (Caliburn) was supposedly discovered during the purported exhumation of Arthur's grave at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191.[26] On 6 March 1191, after the Treaty of Messina, either this or another claimed Excalibur was given as a gift of goodwill by the English king Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) to his ally Tancred, King of Sicily.[27] It was one of a series of Medieval English symbolic Arthurian acts, such as associating the crown won from the slain Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd with the crown of King Arthur

Excalibur - Wikipedia

such as associating the crown won from the slain Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd with the crown of King Arthur

#we learn our history so we don't repeat it #this is the time to awaken Arthur #Arthur is welsh #merlin is Myrddin and lives in camarthen #independence is crawling ever near #welsh cultus #tylwyth teg #iolo morganwg was a liar #local folklore #the welsh gods #hud #cymraeg polytheism #welsh polytheism #welsh witchcraft #you shouldn't have removed your fathers head from the white hill Arthur!

[giurochedadomani]

“I used to be a marine”, he says, before he can think better of it. And when he does think better of it, well. He’s already said it. 

Next to him, he can feel Shanks tensing up. He leaves him ample time to cut him off, half relieved when the redhead stays silent. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees him idly tracing the neck of the bottle they’ve emptied. 

“I didn’t join out of some misplaced faith or sense of justice”, he feels the need to point out, his father’s stern face at the back of his mind. “I joined because my brother did”. 

To have an excuse to get out of home, too. With Calugurul about to be shipped off, he hadn’t been too eager to find out if he could withstand the full scope of their father’s attention alone. 

“We were… close, my brother and I”, he continues. And then, because it feels cheap to encompass their relationship with just that: “He taught me to fight. Gave me my first sword”. 

Back when Yoru doubled him in height and he couldn’t fathom how his brother managed to wield it when he himself had trouble raising a simple steel sword.

“He did have faith in the cause”, he says after a moment. Under the night sky, Yoru stays black and void. Even the reflection of the small bonfire they’ve built evades it. “Quickly gained the trust of peers… and superiors”. 

The back of his throat tastes bitter. Why is he doing this? He doesn’t owe Shanks a single thing. Why is he wasting his time trying to appease the redhead’s stupid insecurity about him not joining his crew? 

He sighs. 

“My skills in combat kept me by his side through all of it. That is, until Gyorgy Thurzo became our captain”.  

#mishanks #akagami no shanks #dracule mihawk #one piece #one piece live action #opla #thought about the idea of mihawk having a 'similar' story to zoro #and the idea of mihawk coming from a well off family but ending up for some reason alone abandoned and in poverty before becoming a pirate #and also about how much I'd like to make the castle of kuraigana actually important for his backstory #then I started giving all the characters vampire inspired names because of course #and thought about elizabeth bathory #and something something I think Mihawk can be a nickname. Maybe I have a better surname for him #so yeah lemme tell you about the terrifying fall of mihawk's family #and about how exactly mihawk wins the marine hunter nickname #and also about how he ends up becoming part of the local folklore 'monster that will hunt bad children' type of thing #because word spreads fast after he avenges his brother's death and his murders get WILDLY decorated

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ok but how funny would it be if i put a lil Shenanigan in the Lights Out au where a couple of teenagers break into the ~spooky abandoned studio~ and throw Eddie in the water. like. they just find him and toss his little 4ft body in the Lake™️for shits and gigs

#wally & home watching in the bg: 👁️👁️ #LISTEN SINCE I GOT THAT ASK REMINDING ME OF THE LAKE JOKE #IT HASNT LEFT MY BRAIN #every few hours im just like hee hee eddie is in the Water <3 #technically the situation is very distressing and scary for the puppets #but also. Lmao. #wh lights out au #it would also be funny if wally went Hey Maybe They Can Help! #and then unintentionally scares the teens half to death and gets the studio branded as Deeply Haunted among local folklore #the playfellow ex-employees reading about it in the news: *sips tea* #or fuck sorry we're american. it should be *sips coffee* my b #< that was a joke btw! haha! hilarious! because us americans drink coffee like water haha! #kidding again. i dont drink coffee! i do not like it! now if yall will excuse me im gonna munch on chocolate covered espresso beans.

[zeldaelmo]

1000 followers celebration!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

As some of you voted for, we're doing a community thing!

Rules: Create a zelink piece that meets the prompt "Just after midnight". All creative works are welcome, starting but not ending with art, stories, poems, mood boards, photos... It has to be zelink (all incarnations including hildavio, sheik/link, etc). No AI.

Please tag your work accordingly, especially if it's not rated for everyone. Use the mature feature or the cut if necessary.

I'm happy about every entry, so don't talk yourself out of it because we've never interacted or you are doubting your skills! It's for fun!

Share your work here on Tumblr and tag me so that I can see and reblog it. 💕

The banner is free to use if you want it for fic posting/mood board etc.

If you have questions, send an ask! I'm excited!

#zelink #zeldaelmo writes #legend of zelda #1000 followers #Just after midnight #Might do TP #Or a story about a love letter tree I found on my vacation #Love local folklore #It has a post adress and all #maybe maybe maybe

[life-of-architecture]

Czarny Potok foto z 1 sierpnia 2018

Drzewo przy kościele jest najstarszą (co najmniej 510 do 650 lat) i najgrubszą (ok. osiem i  pół metra obwodu), choć nie najwyższą (ok. 20 m) lipą szerokolistną (Tillia platyphyllos) w Polsce. Powszechnie wierzono, że jego kora jest cudownym środkiem przeciw chorobom zębów, więc ciągnący licznie do kościelnego sanktuarium pielgrzymi odłamywali ją, a niekiedy obgryzali bezpośrednio z pnia. Figura Marii z Dzieciątkiem w kapliczce jest kopią rzeźby z XVII w, umieszczoną na pniu w 2014 r., po przeniesieniu oryginalnej do wnętrza kościoła. Korony dodano postaciom w 1899 r. Ówczesny proboszcz, Zygmunt Miętus, zanotował wtedy w kronice parafii: ...po Mszy świętej poszliśmy z procesją ku figurze Matki Boskiej w lipie obok kościoła i tam założyłem na głowy Pana Jezusa i Matki Boskiej nowe wyzłacane korony sprowadzone od Jana Heindla z Wiednia za 21 złr., do czego przyczyniłem się datkiem 5 złr.

Akwarela Józefa Pieniążka z 1933 r.

Pochodzący z Czarnego Potoka historyk literatury Bolesław Faron wspomina: Fascynowała nas ona od dzieciństwa. Jej wnętrze w naszych najmłodszych latach stanowiło znakomitą kryjówkę, zwłaszcza podczas, nielicznych zresztą, ucieczek z lekcji. Bywało, że mieściło się w nim 12-15 uczniów. Do szczególnych atrakcji należało wspinanie się w środku lipy, gawędzenie w ukryciu, a czasem nawet gra w karty czy inne młodzieżowe gry hazardowe. Specyficzną rolę pełniło to drzewo podczas Świąt Wielkanocnych, a zwłaszcza w drugim dniu, w śmigus dyngus. Otóż, przed wejściem do kościoła dziewczęta z całej okolicy miały zwyczaj klękać przed figurką Matki Boskiej i mówić pacierz. Z pokolenia na pokolenie przekazywano sobie bowiem przekonanie, że taka modlitwa może wpłynąć na sfinalizowanie małżeństwa, w ogóle, że młodym kobietom przynosi szczęście. Jeden z naszych szkolnych kolegów wpadł zatem na znakomity - jak mu się wydawało - pomysł. Schowamy się we wnętrzu lipy i kiedy modląca się panna wzniesie do Madonny oczy, ze specjalnej „sikawki”, zrobionej z drewna, puścimy jej prosto w twarz strumień wody. Eksperyment się udał. Kolejne nieszczęśnice zrywały się z klęczek, ocierając twarz chusteczką i chroniły się we wnętrzu świątyni...

Lipa wraz z kościołem zagrały w serialu Polskie drogi (1976-1977). Karol Strasburger i Kazimierz Kaczor w rolach partyzantów ukrywają broń w pustym wnętrzu pnia.

Kolejne części: druga, trzecia, czwarta.

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Czarny Potok, Poland taken on 1 August 2018

The tree by the local church is the oldest (at least 510 to 650 years) and thickest (circa eight and half meters in circumference) though not the tallest (circa 20 m) largeleaf linden (Tillia platyphyllos) in Poland. There was a common folk belief that this particular specimen's bark is a miraculous remedy curing toothache, hence a constant stream of pilgrims who used to break off splinters or even bite them directly off the trunk. The figure of Mary with the Child in the shrine is a copy of a 17th c. sculpture; it replaced the original in 2014, after moving the latter to the church. The crowns were added in 1899. The parish priest at that time, Zygmunt Miętus, noted down then: ...after the Holy Mass we went in a procession to the figure of Mother of God in the linden tree next to the church and there I put on heads of Jesus and Mary new gilded crowns from Johann Heindl's workshop in Vienna for 21 guldens, of which I donated 5 guldens.

[watercolor painting by Józef Pieniążek in 1933]

Bolesław Faron, a literature historian born in Czarny Potok, wrote: [The linden] fascinated us since we were children. In our youngest years, its interior made an excellent hide, especially when we ditched school, which was not very often anyway. It could fit up to 12 or 15 pupils. Some of particularly attractive pastimes were climbing inside the linden, chatting in hiding and sometimes even playing cards or other youth hazard games. The tree had a specific role in the time of Easter, particularly on its second day, that is Śmigus Dyngus. Namely, local girls had a custom of kneeling in front of the Holy Mary figure and praying, before entering the church. There was a belief, passed over generations, that such prayer could help in marrying and brought luck to young women in general. One of our school colleagues came up with a great - as he thought - idea. We would hide inside the linden and when the praying girl would raise her eyes to Madonna, we'd spray her right in the face with a special wooden toy. The experiment was successful. One after another, poor girls jumped up, wiping their faces with a handkerchief and took cover in the church...

The linden together with the church made locations in a Polish TV series Polskie drogi (1976-1977), a historical drama set in the World War II. [partisans played by Karol Strasburger and Kazimierz Kaczor hide weapon inside the hollow trunk]

The next parts: 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

#wayside shrines #holy trees #old trees #local history #Slavic culture #photographers on Tumblr #original photography #Central Europe #Polska #Poland #Czarny Potok #linden #places of worship #cultural landscape #countryside #christianity #folklore #traditions #trees in culture #off the beaten path

[whimsipunk]

I'd love to start doing divination as a job but only if it means I get to be an ominous creature living under a bridge handing out strange fortunes to passersby. Throw a handful of fries into the darkness and await your answers. I don't do online reviews if you want to thank me spread ominous rumors about me at the local pub.

#fester.txt #witchcraft #divination #born to be local folklore forced to live in the digital age #guess that's why i'm on tumblr