Mastodawn

🌿🪦🌿An old Welsh superstition warned against uprooting Periwinkle flowers growing on a grave - the desecrater risked being haunted by the spirit of the buried person, or plagued by terrifying dreams every night. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

P J Richards Mar 13

🍀⛅️🍀Though Fridays and the number 13 have historically been considered ominous, there's no record before the 19th century of #Friday13th being especially unlucky - it seems to be a relatively modern conjunction without a backstory, so don't worry! #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Mar 7

Across The Great Divide; Kate Wolf #FolkyFriday #NightMusic #ForestFriday open.spotify.com/track/1m3li7...

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Across the Great Divide

Kate Wolf · Close To You · Song · 1982

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P J Richards Mar 6

🍀🕷️🍀"If you wish to live and thrive, let the Spider run alive." - A traditional English saying born from the belief that spiders bring good fortune. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Mar 6

#FolkyFriday so let's hear them... open.spotify.com/track/2xchn6...

The Boxer - 2002 Remaster

Emmylou Harris · Roses in the Snow (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1980

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Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Feb 20

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? --- 🐈 --- 🐶--- Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna, 1912 (1868 - 1920) #FelineFriday #FolkyFriday #FidoFriday link.deezer.com/s/32vgrW9G1m...

Give Me One Reason

Give Me One Reason

Tracy Chapman - song - 1995

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Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Feb 6

I'm With Her YT video performance #FolkyFriday youtu.be/O8XFUoPQu6Y?...

"The Obvious Child" - I'm With...

"The Obvious Child" - I'm With Her (LIVE on The Late Show)

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P J Richards Jan 30

🤍🌱🤍Snowdrops symbolise hope and the promise of Spring. In Herefordshire, bunches would be brought indoors at Candlemas to purify and protect the household - but bringing in a single bloom was said to be unlucky, or even a portent of death. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday #Imbolc

Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️Jan 18

Yesterday's #wassailing.
Led by the #Eynsham #Morris, villagers processed through the orchard banging pots and pans to scare evil spirits, and singing to wake the apple trees and encourage them to produce a good harvest.

Spicy cider was readily available to everyone present, warmed on a roaring fire. And toast was hung in the trees - a gift for the good spirits. The birds will be pleased. 😀

Long may this ancient #folktradition continue!

#FolkCustoms #FolkloreSunday #folkyfriday #wassail

The Ghost Monk Dec 31

Time's a-chasing and a new year is almost upon us, so here's an early call for #PhantomsFriday since you'll all probably be too bleary-eyed to even glance at a computer screen tomorrow. As always, all #ghost posts welcome, so I shall cheekily tag #WyrdWednesday and the sadly lost #FolkyFriday too!