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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham

Autumn leaves are orange, a crowd of faces with hair flying is blowing the trees and the leaves.

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Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday Art: Robert Bateman

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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.` Source: emeraldisle.ie/an-ca...

Cailleach, Slieve Gullion Forrest Park, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me too! Especially as I don't usually hold on to any wheat sheafs. But there is a traditional Indigenous practice that was recorded here from the Fraser River area. To find a body a person followed their ghost 😳

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday

Ukiyo triptych of three women in kimono looking at the moon, with a table full of round rice dumplings. according to https://ichiban-japan.com/tsukimi-japon/ by Utagawa Kuniteru

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Hi Crystal! Love the colours in this painting 🤩

Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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The Harvest Moon isn't named because it's orange or enormous. It's the full moon nearest the autumn equinox. Around this time, successive moonrises occur unusually close together, historically giving farmers extra evening light during harvest. #FolkloreThursday Art: Samuel Palmer

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi Olivia! Thanks for sharing ... this is certainly dark but it's interesting. I've never heard this method before 🐉

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Ireland, the last harvest sheaf could be used to find the drowned. A candle was set by the sheaf which was then placed in the water where the person had fallen in. It was allowed to drift until it came to a rest and that was where the body would be found... #FolkloreThursday 📷Sir Benjamin Stone

A life-size figure of a person made with a white dress and a sheaf of corn for a head, set amid the leaves.

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Hi Willow! Nice to see you too! I hope Autumn is treating you well so far 😊

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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#FolkloreThursday The Polevik is a Slavic spirit of grain fields, described as a dwarf dressed in white with dark earthy skin & grass for hair. If they chance upon someone drunk or asleep in the fields they strangle them to death, and are most active at noon and dusk. 🎨 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social

Line drawing of a corn field with a bearded face woven amongst the stalks.

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Picking Apples in the Orchard 1881 Thomas Crane

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Shanon Sinn @shanonsinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Momiji was a witch in the mountains of Nagano. Disguised as a princess, she invited some samurai to a leaf-viewing party. That night in a dream, the god Hachiman warned one of them and gave him a sword. He awoke with the sword in his hand and used it to slay her #folklorethursday art @yokai.com

art of a woman with demon horns in traditional Japanese clothing, against a background of fall maple leaves

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In Western culture, the Grim Reaper is the personification of death. Wielding a scythe, he or she has been associated with Autumn as a harvester of souls since the Black Death of the 14th Century. The Grim Reaper's name emerged in the 1800s. #FolkloreThursday 1911 Petit Journal, 1915 M. Fingesten

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday: `St. Michael’s feast day on September 29, called Michaelmas, is close enough to the autumnal Equinox that harvest festivals have collected around that day; in the Scottish islands a special harvest-bread called struan or struan Michael ( […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🐉 That was Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your guide for the next one hour ✨ Celebrating teh change of seasons, today's theme is "Autumn Folklore” 🍄 🍂 🐿️ Late 19th century Carl Offterdinger

Illustration of Puss in Boots waking up from a nap. He is surrounded by onlooking rabbits and an Autumn scene is behind him with long wheat blowing in the wind and a scarecrow wearing his hat. A red-breasted bird is perched in the scarecrow’s arm and is looking at the red feather in the hat.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍁 The autumn winds are calling me away! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social sending a huge thank you for making my #FolkloreThursday hour positively spellbinding. ✨ The storybook opens again at 6:30 BST, when @shanonsinn.bsky.social takes the lantern to host our final hour. 🍂🕯️ Art: UK Art Studio

A warm, atmospheric autumn painting of a country path glowing in shades of amber, gold, and rust. A weathered wooden fence curves alongside the path beneath a magnificent old tree ablaze with golden-orange leaves. Dark evergreens and shadowy woods frame the scene, while soft light filters through the branches, making the fallen leaves shimmer and giving the landscape an almost enchanted quality.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The divine embodiment of the autumn season 🎨Iren Horrors #FolkloreThursday

A horned red-haired maiden who embodies the autumn season, and is accompanied by a flock of sprites with fiery wings. Illustration by Iren Horrors.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Red is still used widely by farmers. It must be effective! :)

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🌾🎃 In the 1800s, Pennsylvania farmers tied red scarves onto mannequins to frighten crows from their fields. They called these eerie guardians “Bogeymen.” #Scarecrows #Bogeyman ~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd #Scarecrow #Boogeyman

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Non resident woodcock usually arrived in Ireland on the first full moon in November and it was believed they had spent their summers on the moon... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Beneath a vast blue sky studded with symmetrical stars, a woman with a crown stands atop a crescent moon on its back. stormy black and red cloud

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Michaelmas daisies earned their name because they bloom around the feast of St. Michael on September 29. Their late purple flowers became a traditional sign of the changing season. Before calendars were everywhere, the landscape itself announced autumn's progress. #FolkloreThursday Image: Unknown

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's creepy! Gives the whole jack-o-latern tradition a new vibe!

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday

old Japanese print of a walking vine carrying a pumpkin as its head

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#FolkloreThursday 🎃🇨🇦 Halloween mischief, Nova Scotia style! In Acadian communities, young people once slipped out on Halloween night to steal vegetables from their neighbours’ gardens. Forget guarding the candy. Lock up your cabbages and turnips! 😂🥬🥕 🎨 Halloween Lucky Thirteen by Bonnie White

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh wow! It must be so much work. I've never seen anything like this with mums.

FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have lots of acorns on the ground right now. I'll be sure to put one in my jacket pocket today. :)

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Garden magic suggests carrying an acorn in your pocket for protection against storms, evil intent and losing your way... #FolkloreThursday

A poster which reads Autumn in Welwyn and shows a large red squirrel and a small brown mouse sharing an acorn feast. Smaller print beneath the image reads Houses to let.

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I must have one of these brooms! And noted. :)

Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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#FolkloreThursday 🧹🍂 In European #Broomlore, sweeping after sunset could sweep in misfortune. Suspect a hex? 👁️ Spit on your broom to break it! 🌙 During #Mabon, a new broom swept away old energy. 🧹✨ Make a wish while sweeping and it might come true. 💫 🧹 Georgia Marfels on Etsy

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar supposedly predicts winter by the width of its rusty middle band: wider means mild, narrower means severe. It isn't a reliable meteorologist, but every autumn this tiny caterpillar gets dragged back into forecasting anyway. #FolkloreThursday Art: Hillary Farmer

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Folklore is a wonderfully healing power. :) I hope your migraine subsides.

Jelske Anna @jelleanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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“In still, dark weather, which happens at the time of the autumn equinox, roosters will often crow all day and all night.” Yup, that’s what’s happening rn. It’s definitely not helping my migraine. But I found some good folklore that made me tolerate the incessant beast #FolkloreThursday

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello, my friend! I do love cherry blossoms, but I currently have two mums on my porch. I really wish they would cascade like these! :)

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Kieu Anh @k13uanh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everyone talks about the cherry blossoms, but the autumn blooming chrysanthemum is also a traditional symbol of Japan, depicted in the Imperial crest and on passports. A remarkable traditional way of growing them prunes and trains a single plant into a large cascade of flowers #FolkloreThursday

a yellow chrysanthemum plant, just starting to bloom, trained into a cascade of flowers trailing out of the pot

cover of Japanese passport from Wikipedia. Red with a stylized gold chysanthemum

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flesh shifting to fur hungering lycanthrope leers forms caped in crimson moon discs bleeding from within it laps the pooling craters #vss365 #hunger #vsshorror #FolkloreThursday #tanka

Two moons depicted in a cloudy darkened sky - white full moon overlayed with a blood moon among

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The one and only! I hope you've been well and it's great to see you here today. :)