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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In Appalachian lore, July was when “the haints started pokin’ ‘round early.” The old folks said if you baked gingerbread in July, it summoned spirits looking for lost Yule offerings. They’d leave you a small gift… or take one. #FairyTaleTuesday Art: Muddy Colors

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

See? Not so difficult to figure out a Mother's Day present! *repeatedly looks out the window, impatiently waiting for the cabin to appear* #FolkloreSunday #MothersDay

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

There's no doubt real cunning and wise folk have been a force of resistance against snake-oil salesmen for centuries but it can be hard to tell who is who sometimes, and charlatan fairy doctors -often known today as health gurus- still exist. Beware. #educateyourself #NonViolentResistance #resist ✊

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

"...knowledge passed down by whispers and weeds." 💚

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Before pills and prescriptions, there were bone setters, blood stoppers, and cunning folk. They used spider webs to clot wounds, onion poultices for coughs, and prayers to mend hearts and limbs. Not doctors, not witches—just folk. #FolkyFriday

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Dandelions weren’t always weeds. In old folk belief, blowing the seeds could carry wishes or reveal the name of a future lover. Root for tea, leaf for blood, flower for joy—the dandelion is a whole apothecary in disguise. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Krysten Tapwell

A dreamy painting of a dandelion puff against a swirling turquoise and blue background. One delicate seed floats away on the breeze, drifting toward the upper right corner. The scene evokes a sense of movement, calm, and quiet possibility, with soft brushstrokes creating a gentle, airy atmosphere.

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

About the theme "tyrants" for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday, I was struck by parts about refusal to study bitter history for "breeding useless regret", and how Gandalf spent years researching to understand about the Ring. I've seen those contrasting attitudes many times regarding history.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Little bunny reminds us of an important thing: to take the time to educate ourselves about the many kinds of carrots and the many kinds of sticks. Forewarned is forearmed. ✊ #NonViolentResistance #resist

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Abby @aspenceart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

the hart of the forest #art

A green stag stands atop a hill, his antlers fill the top of the page and are filled with plants and birds. In the hill he stands on, a doe leaps over her fawn. Below them two foxes chase a rabbit who waits at the opening of a warren.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I did not have "Easter Bunny gets a makeover" on my bingo card for 2025. One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!) #FolkloreSunday #Easter

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Scott Keenan Illustration @scottkeenanillo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Call for art! Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends Deadline 1st May 2025 £10 SUBMISSION FEE PER ARTWORK Exhibition dates 7th - 28th June 2025 Queen Street Gallery Neath www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai... #art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Love this vairant of the Bluebeard/ Mr. Fox #FairyTale! We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊ #resist #NonViolentResistance #FolkyFriday

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were unwilling to work on a #GoodFriday - most would not even light their forges - and none would hammer in a nail, out of remembrance and respect. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy-Tales, by Béla Balázs. Parasols that create their own skies, men who are buried alive under mountains, and sages who travel back in time to relive the first years of their lives are only some of the marvels found in this utterly unique book.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

More egg-cracking for Easter! Now imagine all those fairy tales & rhymes with eggs cracked to reveal all sorts of treasures/possibilities/answers & consider the cracking as the key event that began a new era/universe... (I should point out it's never specified Humpty was an egg.) #FolkloreSunday ✊

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s the fool who thinks folklore is merely tales for children. The fool as well who thinks most lore is only pale misremembering of history. For folklore is a living conversation between yesterday and tomorrow, between people and place. It is an ark of shared wisdom. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Up for breaking some shells? I certainly am. Let's reveal the hidden things and activate some shared, community magic: 'tis the season to "Spring" into action! ✊ #resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

German folklore once held that children who were good would be visited by the Osterhase, a magical egg-laying hare. Mischievous ones received nothing. He was judge, trickster, and spring sprite rolled into one long-eared shadow. #FolkloreSunday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"In the absence of war, they are less likely to form." Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences. #resist #NonViolentResistance #FolkloreSunday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It's SO important to honor & care for our #veterans! This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why. It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse. Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families. #FolkloreSunday PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"... the Ifrit... wants your choices..." Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being of Jewish folklore, crafted from clay or mud. The most famous legend, "The Golem of Prague," claims a rabbi used mystical powers—based on divine knowledge of how God created Adam—to create a golem. #LegendaryWednesday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wouldn't it be interesting if this is why adults tried to make children laugh? To help them keep their humanness? Maybe there's something to that. A child's right to play should be protected! ✊ #resist #FolkloreSunday (It should be noted: torturing changelings never brought the "humanness" back.)

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Appalachian folk medicine blended Native traditions, European herbalism, and Bible verse. A poultice might be laid with a prayer, and cures often depended as much on faith and family as on plants. #MythologyMonday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

So much eating in #FairyTales: of houses, people... Early H&G texts had "a house made a bread with a roof of cake & windows of sugar". A transformation to "candy house" says something about society & history. Question: Anyone changed "candy house" to "McBurger house" yet? #resist #FolkloreSunday

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Adds "The most dangerous invitations often came with the finest feasts" to my "How to survive a fairy tale" notebook. Thinks for a moment. Also adds it to my "How to survive extreme capitalism" notebook. #FolkloreSunday #Resist

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

*Adds "more onions" to shopping list. (I shall leave you to speculate as to why.) #FolkloreSunday

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 06/04/2025

Mead was born of the blood of Kvasir, and it makes all a poet. The Mead of Poetry was stolen from the giants by the god but spilled out into the world: so when you find inspiration, know it comes from on high... but so does bad poetry. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: F. Stassen

Dwarfs make the Mead of Poetry from the blood coming from Kvasir's slit throat, in a piece by Frans Stassen

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nursesarah18.bsky.social @nursesarah18.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

See some of y’all tomorrow. #HandsOff

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Gretchen Kent @gretchenkentpdx.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Got my sign ready for the April 5th #handsoff protest.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

OMG♥️ When looking for #NonViolentResistance, #Art is often mentioned but easy to dismiss. This article is a piece of art itself, showing how the writer moved from being against something to being FOR something and how powerful that shift is. You will see why art truly is resistance.✊ #resist

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This idea, though still imperfect, is more in line w/successful democracies, and would retain US' unique identity. We need to understand the current system began as an idea. Once we realize this, we can also begin to see it can be replaced with a different - better - idea. #resist #CivicImagination

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Time for a new hashtag and a new anti-regime rallying slogan: #RedeemTheDream!

Sen, Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks on the Senate floor, during his record-breaking, 25hr 5min+ filibuster - pic from Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025.
Booker is wearing a black suit/jacket and tie with a white shirt and a US flag pin. He is gesticulating emphatically with both hands over a podium with his open notebook in front of him.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 01/04/2025

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sen. Booker is still speaking right now at 24:38:07 but this is not just an astonishing feat of physicality but the passion & love for America he has shown -CONSISTENTLY- thru the entire full day-plus, & still, is profoundly moving & inspiring example of #nonviolentresistance.✊ #resist #goodtrouble

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There are so many ways to engage in #NonViolentResistance. Here is a soul-inspiring one. 💚 Read stories in which people (& hobbits) hope, then create some of those elements in the real world. It helps the hope & the spirit of resistance infuse your heart & day. Be a hobbit. Hope. #Resist✊ #booksky

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groove time radio @groovetimeradio.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My old tutor Herve told me about an apple tree in France that has over eighty varieties grafted onto it and it's one of the most magical fairytale things I've ever heard. All the branches blooming in hues of pink and white, the varied shapes and colours of the fruits as they grow and ripen

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"Eye-gougingly boring art" means all design/visuals, movies, books, music, theater, fashion, 1/2-time shows. It makes for homogenized AI visuals, censored writing, humor, exhibits, uniforms/decor, single/ruling culture expression... How about we use #art for #NonViolentResistance instead? #resist ✊

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Art as Resistance: Exploring the Power of Creative Defiance - Total Military Insight

Explore the profound relationship between war and creativity in "Art as Resistance." Discover how artists defy conflict through powerful expressions across diverse mediums.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Not much bandwidth for movies at present but beautiful cultural representation in these Thai posters - #Marvel 's Brave New World - is worth seeing. Diff. takes on #resist ing power. #folklore #art The link discusses themes of US movies as seen thru other cultures: umatechnology.org/incredible-t...

Thai movie poster for Captain America: Brave new World. "Beside him is a figure of Garuda, a highly-revered mythical creature from the country. "New Captain is ready to protect Thailand from any danger!" the caption reads, adding that Mackie is "posing as Garuda soaring through the air.""

One poster uploaded on Marvel Thailand's official Instagram account features Mackie with his blue and red wings while holding Captain America's shield in one hand. Beside him is a figure of Garuda, a highly-revered mythical creature from the country. "New Captain is ready to protect Thailand from any danger!" the caption reads, adding that Mackie is "posing as Garuda soaring through the air." Garuda is a significant figure in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. The character is rooted in Hinduism and according to the legend, Garuda, a bird-like creature, is a vehicle of Lord Vishnu (Narayana). Garuda is considered a protective deity and is a well-known figure in the nation, with its statues found all over the temples, royal palaces, and sacred sites across the country. Garuda is also considered a national symbol since it appears on the emblem of the Thai monarchy, associating it with the king's authority to rule. Garuda also appears in royal warrants. Businesses and organizations that receive the king's royal warrant of appointment can display the Garuda emblem to signify trust and prestige.

"Another poster features Harrison Ford's Red Hulk. Just like Mackie's poster, the artwork includes a mythical creature from Thai literature — Yaksa. "Get ready to meet the Red Hulk, ready to rage all over Thailand soon!" the caption reads."

The two artworks were both impressive, and it was apparent how the artist carefully crafted them to reflect Thai culture and literary tapestry. It is very detailed and both characters – Red Hulk and Captain America – seemingly blend in with their mythical companions. The colors are vibrant and smartly chosen to reflect the two characters featured in each poster and the intricate details evoke certain emotions. For instance, Captain America's poster with Garuda, featuring the blue shade, gives that peaceful vibe, seemingly assuring one they are protected. Meanwhile, Red Hulk and Yaksa's poster appears as intimidating as the two figures and gives the impression of rage and power. Both posters only heighten the expectations and hype for the upcoming movie.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Morning. Buryat women curtsied and said a prayer to the first swan they saw in Spring. Something we should all be doing. 🦢 🖼 The Swan Maidens, Walter Crane, 1894.

Painting of swan maidens bathing in a pool by willow and lily pads.

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G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Folkloric stamps! (And they include selkies and, one of my faves, Blodeuwedd!) "Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore." (Designed by London-based artist Adam Simpson) #FolkloreThursday #folklore #folkloresky

Royal Mail design for Blodeuwedd, showing a woman in a night forest, who appears to be transforming into flowers, with a magical swirl of petals and flowers leading to a flying owl.

Royal mail colorful, illustrated folklore character stamp packs - two rows of four. First row: Beowulf and Grendel, Blodeuwedd, Loch Ness Monster, Cornish Piskies. Second row: Fionn mac Cumhaill, Black Shuck, Grindylow, Selkie

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I am delighted to reveal the cover of my new book Household Lore! It's publishing on 11 November 2025 with @watkinswisdom.bsky.social and you can pre-order your copy here! watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore #FolkloreThursday #BookologyThursday #AdoorableThursday #Bookchatweekly #Bloomscrolling

The cover of my new book! Household Lore by Liza Frank - the cover is a big purple house with each window lit displaying some sort of folklore with in it. The front garden has a rowan and an elder tree and there's a crooked path leading to the front door.

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DeeDeeChainey @deedeechainey.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Exciting news: I’m thrilled to share a project I’ve loved working on – Royal Mail’s brand-new Myths and Legends Special Stamps, released this week! Keep an eye out for the stamps – let me know which legendary figure is your favourite! #FolkloreThursday www.culturalfuturesfoundry.com/royal-mail-m...

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wrote this poem over a year ago. Seems like now is a good time to post it again.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

From: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse

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