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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

A group of dead farmers regularly meet at a crossroads near Mettmann in order to continue their bowling games as they did in life. And since they lack proper bowling gear, they use their own bones instead. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Bow…

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

#MythologyMonday: The man, who turned out to be Manannan, said: “The pig is one of seven, and with them I could feed the whole world. When one is eaten, I place its bones in the sty, and next day it is alive again.” Source: Mythology of All Races, vol.3 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Necklace made of bone beads with bear tooth from Býčí skála Cave, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

For many years, a bone that was given as a participation trophy by the Wild Huntsman was kept in the St. Johannis Church in Magdeburg. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wil…

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The Wild Huntsman (Magdeburg)

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

When the ferryman of Wipfeld could not name a price for his services, the Wild Hunt left him a bone. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wil…

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The Wild Hunt at Wipfeld in Lower Franconia

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

#MythologyMonday: `In E. O’Curry’s version (Atlantis, iv. 159 (1863)) of the events, Miach made a new arm for Nuada with a swineherd’s arm-bone.` Source: Mythology of All Races, vol.3 #Celtic Mythology by John A. MacCulloch Here’s the backstory: hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/1141113944…

Replica of the Tandragee Man in the National Museum of Ireland - Archeology, thought to represent Nuada, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

#MythologyMonday: `Two gifts given to Conn by a princess who was with the god Lug were a boar’s rib and that of an ox, twenty-four feet long, forming an arch eight feet high; but nothing further is told of the animals which owned these huge bones.` Source […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Stick dice, bone, MAMUZ Mistelbach, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

During witches' festivals, glamours are placed on bones and skulls to make them appear as fantastic objects. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wit…

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The Witches' Ball of Osenau

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

The Night Folk of Vorarlberg know how to regrow the meat of a cow for their feasts - but not their bones. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fea…

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The Feast of the Cow

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Glasan came to a large house. He looked in and saw the floor full of dead bodies, and he thought to himself: "There must be some great wonder here. And if I lie down on the floor and put some of the bodies over me," he said, "I will […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Hag cropped from Arthur Rackham‘s Hags in the enchanted Caves of Kesh Corran, creator QS-P170,Q314938, Irishfairytales01step 0271, public domain

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

The Wildg'fahr is an alpine monster which makes a rustling noise like dried furs when it moves. This is because its skin rasps across its bones — it does not have any flesh. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wil…

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The Wildg'fahr

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/02/2026

In Maori tales Maui faced death by teeth.... vaginal teeth. Seeking the secrets to immortality, he entered the goddess of the Underworld without permission by turning into a worm; she clenched, crushing him with her toothy embrace. #MythologyMonday

A Maori carving depicting Maui entering Hine-nui-te-pō via her vulva, in the moments before Maui's death; photo taken by Charles A. Lloyd, courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/02/2026

One of the most common ways to curse someone is to use their teeth: take a tooth and you have a direct connection to their bones, so medieval European thought went, and thus witches sought teeth. Folklorists suggest this may be the origins of the tooth fairy. #MythologyMonday

Art made with teeth; on the first, a serpent enwraps a man with a strange face looking on; on the second, two figures throw bodies onto a fire

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/02/2026

A Kenyan story tells of a pregnant woman whose husband rubbed a magic ointment on her teeth to make them rich, turning them into elephant ivory. The pain was such that when he tried again she refused and fled, and their son became the first elephant. #MythologyMonday 🖼️ E Kato

A painting by Ema Kato showing an elephant made up of colorful largely red-orange paper mache in the shape of a happy elephant letting out a toot.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/02/2026

Modern dentistry may be based in science, but the art has not always been scientifically sound. From the Sumerians to the 1700s, tooth decay and tooth aches were believed to be the product of tooth worms, which tore through your teeth! #MythologyMonday

A 1465 depiction of Turkish dentistry, a bearded man sticking some kind of instrument into a man's mouth, everyone looking somber

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Dun walked on through the night till he saw a fire that was shining from a large house, and when he went in he saw a crowd of men, and they fighting. And a very old man that was in a high place above the rest called out: "Stop […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Excavators in 1943 found these decorated bone chips in Cairn H of Loughcrew. The designs show that they are from the Celtic La Téne period and must have been inserted into the romb nearly 2,000 years after it was built; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

When you find giant bones buried beneath a castle during your treasure hunt, it is unwise to mess with them. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Gia…

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The Giant of Greifenstein Castle

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🪶🤍🪶"He wore a metal and bone charm, the first talisman he had found and still his favourite. It was a tiny, lodestone-filled skull of a swallow, the fine beak gilded, two polished silver orbs shining from its eye sockets." 📖Deeper Older Darker. #MythologyMonday #BookChatWeekly #BookSky💙📚💙

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

A whale skeleton was kept at Wernigerode Castle in memory of the day when the creature had threatened to swallow the fortress. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wha…

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The Whale Skeleton at the Castle

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MythCrafts @mythcrafts.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Gashadokuro are angry spirits that appear as giant skeletons, several times larger than your typical human. These monsters are assembled out of the bones of those who have died unnatural deaths. #MythologyMonday mythcrafts.com/2021/07/22/w...

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Waterfall Demon Princess: Raising the Bones of the Dead

Imagine this: your father was a powerful Samurai, who led an unsuccessful revolt against the emperor. And so, in the (Western) year 939 C.E., the Emperor had him beheaded (this part of our tale is …

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MythCrafts @mythcrafts.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The myth that women have teeth “down there” has been found in global myths all over the world. Bite me is the first collection of these myths, providing understanding of the psychological, social and political motivations that has kept them alive and thriving. #mythologymonday

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

The Venetians of old once harvested gold and silver from Blocksberg Mountain with the aid of a skeleton of an unknown creature. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Venetia…

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Venetians on Blocksberg Mountain

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Mythology Monday ✨ @mythologymonday.thefolklore.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: BONES AND TEETH. Which myths feature a bone or a tooth? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you tomorrow! 🦴 If joining from #BlueSky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

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Mythology Monday ✨ @mythologymonday.thefolklore.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

That wraps up our theme of bugs and insects. What a vast variety of tales we had this time! This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off. Join us next #MythologyMonday for a new theme ✨ 📸 Jon Bodsworth www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/hidden_…

A winged solar scarab pendant from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The scarab beetle is dark blue, with a red gem for a sun at its head. Its wings are made out of tiny gemstones in reds, blues, and greens with gold elements.

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Be-mannair, daughter of Ainceol, was the woman-messenger of the Tuatha de Danaan. She changed herself into all shapes, she even took the shape of a fly.` Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!, Long-legged Fly (Family Dolichopodidae) (6819913629), CC BY-SA 2.0

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The myrmecoleon was a mythical ant-lion hybrid referenced in the "Physiologus," a 2nd-century didactic Christian bestiary from Greece. Its lion mouth could only chew meat but its ant stomach could only digest grain, and so the poor creature starved. #MythologyMonday

An image of the poor myrmecoleon or "ant-lion."

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Fuamnach heared of the love and honour the Mac Óc bestowed on Etain, and, pretending that she wished to make peace between her husband and his fosterson, she induced Midir to summon the Mac Óc to him. Meanwhile, she went secretly to […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Etain by Gwillieth Damhyrg, is licenced under CC BY-NC-ND

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Miodac, the son of the King of Lochlann, made a verse about a great army that he saw riding over the plains to victory, and robbing all before it, and the riders of it having no horses but plants and branches. "I understand that," […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Fionn mac Cumhaill, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Fuamnach came again to Midir and with powerful spells from Bresal she wafted Etain, who she had transformed into a purple fly, away in a magic wind so that for seven years she was unable to settle anywhere save on the rocks and waves […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🐝🌳🐝In Norse mythology, bees are said to live within the branches of the world tree Yggdrasil, collecting nectar to make a honey that bestows mystical inspiration and healing. #MythologyMonday

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Etain, a Tuatha woman, was transformed by Midir`s other wife Fuamnach into a purple fly as big as a man's head. The sound of her voice and the hum of her wings gave forth sweet music. Her fragrance and bloom banished hunger and […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/02/2026

Not all old ladies are harmless; across the Caribbean she has many names. Soucouyant on French islands, the Hag or Blood-Sucking Hag on English ones, among many others. She leads men astray in the night, often as an insect before sucking blood. #MythologyMonday 🖼: gemgfx

gemgfx's depiction of Soucouyant, an old woman in a red cloak, hunched and bent over on a cane, and from her cloak emerges a flaming femme figure drenched in fire, her face with massive fangs, her fingers like knives

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/02/2026

"The Princess who Loved Insects" (虫めづる姫君) tells of an eccentric noblewoman who so loved her insect friends, she named her attendants after them and neglected her appearance. The tale inspired Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. #MythologyMonday 🖼: J. Lau

Lau's depiction of the Princess Who Loved Insects, showing massive insects as she watches two beetles fighting while a massive catepillar beside drinks water and a massive moth flies nearby. A preying mantis sits on a tiny island in a pool.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/02/2026

Bees are sacred to Apollo, and honey has been offered to the gods for three thousand years, since the days of Mycenae. The Oracle at Delphi was offered honey and said to be a Bee, bringing prophecy down from Apollo; apiaries were connected to the god as well. #MythologyMonday

Bees on an ancient seal, looking strangely like pharaohs from the torso up with angelic wings.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Once, a knight discovered an unknown type of beetle, and took it as a divine omen. #MythologyMonday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Str…

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The Strange Beetle

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