During Easter in Finland, children (especially girls) will dress up as Easter witches, and go door to door, carrying willow twigs decorated with colourful feathers and crepe paper. In return for treats, these "witches" will give a twig to each house as a blessing to drive away evil spirits.
🎨 Sasha Silvala
#FolkloreThursday #Mythology #Folklore #Superstition #Finland #Holiday #Easter #Witch
Finally! A good family tree of our Gods!
https://www.thecollector.com/greek-mythology-lineage-of-the-gods/
#superstition : extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance
- French: superstition, croyance
- German: der Aberglaube
- Italian: superstizione
- Portuguese: superstição
- Spanish: superstición
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I find people who think "The Market" is rational rather funny.
Economics is the Astrology of the 20th and 21st Century.
Though it's Friday the 13th today,
Please don't buy its "unlucky" cliché:
It's an unfounded notion
That rates no devotion...
Oh My God! A black cat's in my way!
#FridayTheThirteenth #FridayThe13th #Limerick #Limericks #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #Superstition
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2026/03/13/happy-friday-the-13th-limerick/