#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Michael O’Guggin from Cahir Cam was gravely ill. He had been swept from himself by a charm of the people from under the hill, and he had flown on an autumn wind across the land to their court next to Tráigh an Phéarla, Pearl Beach in English. For nigh on a full year he had been held captive amid those festive shadowy halls, before he had been brought back by famous Máire Ní Mhurchú`s cure.`
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#LegendaryWednesday: `The #Cailleach was preeminently the goddess of harvest, whose name was given to the last sheaf cut in each field; dressed in women’s clothes and honored during the harvest festivities, the Cailleach sheaf was kept safe until the next year’s harvest.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#LegendaryWednesday: `A roughly human-shaped figure constructed from straw at harvest time, the Corn Dolly/Maiden was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. In #Scottish and #Irish folklore the Dolly is associated with two figures of arguable antiquity: the #Cailleach or hag and #Brigit or the Bride, who may have been the hag’s maiden form. Often the Corn Dolly was stored in a house or barn from fall until spring, when it played a role in sowing or other rituals associated with new life.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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Higan is a seven-day Japanese Buddhist festival, a celebration of the equinoxes. The fall version is called shūbun, when farmers assess their harvest and families have ceremonies at ancestral graves. The red spider lilly, a symbol of death, marks the holiday. #LegendaryWednesday

The perfect autumn #yokai for #LegendaryWednesday.

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Mid-Autumn is Mehregān in the faith of Zoroastrianism, praising Mithra and celebrating friendship, sharing, and all types of love. It marks the harvest and collection of taxes in Old Persia, and so the Shah would repay his people in a grand celebration. #LegendaryWednesday

The ancient Cahokia Mound near Collinsville, IL, has a ring of poles that, when hit by the fall equinox's sun, illuminates the entire ring. After its rediscovery, festivals were held there yearly but in recent years in respect, these have been discontinued. #LegendaryWednesday

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