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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 10h

Think of any fairy tale illustration of elves or goblins sitting on or under a toadstool, and most likely the cap of such a fungus will be bright red with white spots treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-for...

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A wonderful fey start to October 🕸️🎃🍂✨

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Because winter and scarcity approached, the beginning of October was a time to finish final harvest tasks, bring warmth indoors, and set out small protective charms or burning rowan branches to keep households safe.#Folklore

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Old Michaelmas Day-also called “Devil Spits Day”the last day blackberries can be picked.This is the day that Devil fell to earth from sky,straight onto a blackberry bush,so he cursed the fruit, scorched by his fiery breath,stamped and spat on them making them unfit to eat!

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Derived from the Latin word limen (meaning threshold), autumn represents an Embrace the In Between phase where nature shifts from an ending to a preparation for the next beginning. a symbolic thinning of the veil between past and future, or this world and the unseen #Folklore

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If the Gaoth Sidhe (fairy wind) blew on one side of the road when sun was highest, there would be a death in the family on that side of the road before midnight. Some would make the sign of the cross to avert bad luck! #Folklore

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A white hare once roamed around Brailes Hill which no one would ever try to kill as it was held to be sacred. #FolkloreSunday

Round enamel brooch featuring a white hare leaping over a snowy landscape

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🍀🐇🍀An old English superstition says that to see a Hare is a sign of good luck, and a wish can be made as soon as it passes by. #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As we've just had the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, known in Hookland as the Corn Maiden Moon, it seems appropriate share some of the folklore of the Heading the Corn. #FolkloreSunday

Full moon closest to the autumn equinox – Heading the Corn Part of the cultus in St. Urith in the county, but clearly also part of much older harvest festival traditions, the heading of the corn is the name for the ritual of the first sheath of corn cut being bound and taken to the nearest church so that the spirit of the saint could live in it to the next harvest. The sheath is traditionally taken on a cart, crowded with reapers, often wearing masks made of sack, shouting: ‘Hooky! Hooky! while the cart is led by an extravagantly dressed couple referred to as the Lord and Lady of the Harvest. Before the procession gets to the church to deliver the sheath, they will be met at a crossroad by a figure personifying death who will let them pass only after the shedding of blood (usually done by the nicking of the hands of the Lord and Lady of the Harvest). When the sheath has been delivered and a thanksgiving mass given, a usually somewhat riotous harvest supper is then held.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The glorious and ancient Old Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury was demolished not long after this painting was made by Paul Sandby. But the county town of #Shropshire still boasts many beautiful old buildings - 600 of them listed - and is home to much ghostlore. [More #SpookySunday

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

FAIRY TRANSPORT Fairies & elves are said to cast an enchantment over woodland animals. They are shown delighting in their mode of transport in the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge #FolkloreSunday

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gaoth Sidhe means “the fairy wind,” Wether working in field or out travelling from place to place, if a strange wind whips up out of nowhere, whirling around you meant they were there. To be feared more after the sun had set #Folklore 🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Speckled Wood was once called the “Wood Argus”, its eye-spots recalling Argus, the many-eyed giant guardian of Greek myth. Its scientific name, “Pararge aegeria”, also has a woodland link: Egeria was a Roman nymph associated with springs and sacred groves. #FolkloreSunday

A Speckled Wood butterfly resting with its wings spread against a soft green woodland background. Its brown wings are patterned with cream and golden markings and several prominent dark eye-spots ringed with yellow.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reynard the Fox was a prominent figure in medieval European folktales, a trickster and everyman. He would bedevil other anthropomorphic animals, frequently mocking the nobility, clergy, and other authority figures. However, Reynard's main enemy was his uncle, the wolf Isengrim. #FolkloreSunday

Reynard the Fox proudly brandishes his banner in front of a group of admiring animals. Illustration by Ernest Henri Griset.

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The Dark Almanac @darkalmanac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The bargain for a night under Tinkinswood's forty-ton capstone, Glamorgan: die, go mad, or wake a poet. The first record is Marie Trevelyan's 1909 collection. St Lythans, a mile off, has the same terms. cadw.gov.wales 📷 John Lord/Geograph, CC BY-SA

Tinkinswood burial chamber, nr St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan

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

#FolkloreThursday 🐺 Sept 24 in the old Romanian shepherd villages: Teclele (Teclele Berbecilor). Don’t sweep the house, don’t spin wool, don’t work skins, don’t lend fire. 🔥 The day wears St Thecla’s feast, but the taboos are older fire-and-wolf spirits. Break them and the pack takes your rams 🐏

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Chinese #folklore, to part beneath a willow was to leave with more than farewell. A host might break off a slender twig and give it to the traveler, as a token of memory, resilience, and the wish for return. Because willows can root from a single branch, they became 1/2

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

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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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In some European folklore, autumn meant placating household spirits like the kikimora by leaving saucers of milk or rubbing garlic on hinges to keep disruptions at bay. #Folklore

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fancy a folklore writing workshop at Waterstones in Worthing on Wednesday 14 October at 6pm? I might even drop a few divinatory techniques to help solve writers block too... To book tickets go to: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... #WritingCommunity #Worthing #Folklore #CreativeWriting #AmWriting

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tis time of leaves.Colours change and blur,textures thin as liminal spaces collide.Up to down,falling lightly and turning side on side as decisions are made.Leaves showing how to leave. Uncovering hidden branches of our forms.Strong,still,bare.leaf or leave behind?…🍂#Equinox

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Autumnal Sundays,collecting nuts on the Sabbath risked running into Old Nick himself, who might disguise himself as a friendly gentleman helping pick the highest clusters #folklore

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Devil's Nightcap:A #folklore tale says a hill near Alcester called Devil's Nightcap was formed when Devil was collecting hazelnuts on September 21st and unexpectedly bumped into the Virgin Mary,startling him that he dropped his entire bag of nuts,which turned into the hill.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mabon is a modern Pagan festival marking the autumn equinox, when day and night are nearly equal. A celebration of harvest, gratitude and nature’s slow turn towards winter, its modern name was taken from Mabon ap Modron, a figure in medieval Welsh legend. #FolkloreSunday

A nine-image collage celebrating the autumn harvest, with ripe purple plums and sloes, red and green apples, a pear, golden fields of wheat and a pile of orange pumpkins.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have no idea what's been going on here but it looks great. It's an illustration from an 1898 story called 'The Destined Maid' by George Griffith. Griffith is best known as a sci-fi story pioneer but this is presumably supernatural - and highly dramatic - and I want to read it! #SpookySunday

On a beach a man, watched by others, shoots a man dead - but he is not a man, he is a skeleton, although dressed in everyday clothes (and dropping a pistol). The caption reads: 'The next moment, where a living man had stood, a skeleton swayed for a second.'

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the 19th C, in Brailes at the end of harvest a rooster was brought into the field, tied to a post and all the reapers would shoot at it. One year the fowl escaped but was eventually shot by a man whose gun was loaded with a silver sixpence 🧵 #FolkloreSunday

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🍀🌾🍀An old English superstition said that to meet a loaded hay-cart on the road was a good omen, and a wish made on seeing it would come true - but only if the cart was coming towards the viewer. #FolkloreSunday #AutumnEquinox

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Folklore says rowan twigs must be gathered in silence and total secrecy,without speaking to anyone.Lay one twig across other to make equal-armed cross shape.Bind with red thread.Wrap thread tightly around middle.People hung above doors,windows to block bad luck and witchcraft.

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Placing closed pine cones near entryways or windows is believed to create a protective barrier against negative energies. Pine energy wards off negative spirits.Place pinecones around the home or burn pine elements to purify a space. #Folklore

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Discover the true, dark, spellbinding story of witchcraft in the county with Suffolk Archive’s landmark autumn exhibition – including world-class collections from across the UK never seen here before. #Folklore www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-...

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Witches: Suffolk’s Dark Legacy will feature infamous texts such as The Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), King James I’s Daemonologie, and notorious Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins’ own A Discovery of Witches - all on loan from the British Library.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

La Mulata de Córdoba was a legendary woman accused of witchcraft in colonial Veracruz. One famous tale says she drew a ship on her prison wall, stepped aboard, and vanished. When the authorities returned, only the drawing remained. #WyrdWednesday

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) is also called Barber’s Brush, Fairy’s Broom and Prickly Beehive. Romans called it “lavacrum Veneris”, or “basin of Venus”, as droplets of water that gather at the leaf joints were said to have medicinal and beautifying qualities. #FolkloreThursday

Collage of teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) growing in the wild, showing its prickly flower heads at different stages: ringed with tiny purple flowers, green and developing, and dried golden-brown. Below, numerous dried teasel heads stand against a blue, cloudy sky.

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#NationalFoxDay 🦊 in Cumbrian dialects 'tod' is fox, 'thimble-flower' is foxglove, 'bummel' is bee in one tale, faeries gave a fox, foxglove petals to put on it's toes - the fox's gloves - to raid the hen house without being heard #folklorethursday #foxoftheday 📷 Alan McFadyen

A young fox watches a bee while the bee heads towards a foxglove

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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#NationalFoxDay In my native Ayrshire dialect, 'tod' is fox Fox is a spirit guide and trickster. In common with the otter, the fox is said to carry a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it. #folklorethursday #Scotland art: Fox Spirits by Stephanie Bayles

Three spirit foxes, an adult atop a tree stump, two youngsters underneath

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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `#GraceO'Malley found her way into the history books as 'the most notorious woman on the entire #Irish coast' and 'the mother of all rebellions', but to survive in the tumultuous times of the 16th century, she had to change the rules and fight for her clan and family 1/2

Grace O'Malley's Towerhouse, Caisleán Ghráinne, Kildavnet Tower, detail of an infoboard on site, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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