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FinnFolklorist, 6 months ago to random

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (/dɪˈmiːtər/; Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr [dɛːmɛ́ːtɛːr]; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although she is mostly known as a grain goddess, she also appeared as a goddess of health, birth, and marriage, and had connections to the Underworld.
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FinnFolklorist, 6 months ago to random

In Welsh mythology, Amaethon (Welsh: Amaethon fab Dôn (Welsh pronunciation: [aˈmɛɨ̞θɔn ˈvaːb ˈdoːn]), meaning "Amaethon son of Dôn") was the god of agriculture, and the son of the goddess Dôn.His name means "labourer" or "ploughman", and he is cited as being responsible for the Cad Goddeu, or "Battle of Trees", between the lord of the otherworld, Arawn, and the Children of Dôn (the Welsh version of the Tuatha Dé Danann).
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FinnFolklorist, 6 months ago to random

Peko (Finnish spelling Pekko, Pekka, Pellon Pekko) is an ancient Estonian and Finnish god of crops, especially barley and brewing. In the area of Setumaa, between Estonia and Russia, inhabited by the Seto language-speaking Setos, the cult of Peko was alive until the 20th century. Today, the Seto people (an ethnic group of Estonians in the south-east of the country) also revere Peko as their national hero and king, the name and figure are widely used as a national symbol.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Judas Iscariot was often depicted with red hair in Renaissance art and the Spanish Inquisition even suspected that redheads had been marked by the fires of Hell itself.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Red hair was said to be a sign of witchcraft in Christian Europe, and was often enough for a witch finder to pronounce guilt on someone. The Malleus Maleficarum identifies witches as having red hair and green eyes.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Neoptolemus, in Greek legend, the son of Achilles, the hero of the Greek army at Troy, and of Deïdamia, daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros; he was sometimes called Pyrrhus, meaning “Red-haired.”
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

The city of Pindaya in Burma takes its name from a local legend.The story goes that seven princesses bathing in the lake below were captured by a giant spider living in the caves. It was down to brave Prince Kummabhaya and his trusty longbow to rescue the fair maidens who were trapped in an enormous spider’s web within the cave.

As the prince slew the spider he yelled “Pinku Ya-Pyi!”meaning “I’ve got the spider!” Over the centuries this would eventually evolve to become Pinday.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

For King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, the spider is depicted as an inspirational symbol, according to an early 14th-century legend.The legend tells of Robert the Bruce's encounter with a spider during the time of a series of military failures against the English. One version tells that while taking refuge in a cave on Rathlin Island,he witnesses a spider continuously failing to climb its silken thread to its web. 🧵
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In African mythology, the spider is personified as a trickster character in African traditional folklore. The most popular version of the West African spider trickster is Kwaku Ananse of the Ashanti, anglicized as Aunt Nancy (or Sister Nancy) in the West Indies and some other parts of the Americas, to name a few of many incarnations.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In Polish folklore and literature, Pan Twardowski - a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil - is depicted as having escaped from the Devil who was taking him to Hell, and ending up living on the Moon, his only companion being a spider; from time to time Twardowski lets the spider descend to Earth on a thread and bring him news and gossip from the world below.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

The 10th-century Saint Conrad of Constance is sometimes represented as a bishop holding a chalice with a spider. According to this story, while he was celebrating Easter Mass, a spider fell into the chalice. Ignoring the commonly held belief of the time that all or most spiders were poisonous, as a token of faith, Conrad nevertheless drank the wine with the spider in it.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Japanese mythological spider figure the Jorōgumo ("prostitute spider") which is portrayed as being able to transform into a seductive woman. In some instances, the Jorōgumo attempts to seduce and perhaps marry passing samurai. In other instances she is venerated as a goddess dwelling in the Jōren Falls who saves people from drowning. Her name also refers to a golden orb-spider species Trichonephila clavata (Jorō-gumo, which translates to "binding bride" or "whore spider").
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

A notable ancient legend from the Western canon that explains the origin of the spider comes from the Greek story of the weaving competition between Athena the goddess, and Arachne, sometimes described as a princess. This story may have originated in Lydian mythology; but the myth, briefly mentioned by Virgil in 29 BC, is known from the later Greek mythos after Ovid wrote the poem Metamorphoses between the years AD 2 and 8. 🧵#MythologyMonday

FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Vampire pumpkins and watermelons are a folk legend from the Balkans, in southeastern Europe, described by ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović. The story is associated with the Romani people of the region, from whom much of traditional vampire folklore originated.

The belief in vampire fruit is similar to the belief that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a full moon will become a vampire. 🧵
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

To the Iroquois people, corn, beans, and squash are the Three Sisters, the physical and spiritual sustainers of life. These life-supporting plants were given to the people when all three miraculously sprouted from the body of Sky Woman's daughter, granting the gift of agriculture to the Iroquois nations.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In Japan, the gourd is associated with divinities and features in the earliest genealogical semi-mythical chronicles, the Kojiki. The gourd is found in the names of deities in section “The Birth of the Deities” after the creation of the Japanese islands by the primordial pair Izanagi and Izanami, they were born from the deities who governed the river and sea domains.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In Bantu folklore, gourds and pumpkins have the potential to grow into huge, devouring creatures. Such plants are said to grow where evil sorcerers or Ogres were slain.

The full story can be found from here:
https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/09/30/devouring-gourd/

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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

The original folklore version of Jack-o-Lanterns, named for Stingy Jack of the Irish myth, were actually quite terrifying. They were carved from turnips or beets rather than festive orange pumpkins and were intended to ward off unwanted visitors.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In the Talmud Baba Bathra 75 it is told that the Leviathan will be slain and its flesh served as a feast to the righteous in [the] Time to Come and its skin used to cover the tent where the banquet will take place.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Valhalla is a mythical location in Norse mythology where Viking warriors killed in battle go into the afterlife. In other words, a warrior's heaven. Valhalla is located in a celestial realm called Asgard, where the Norse gods live. It is a place of near-perpetual food, drink, pleasure, and battle.

Art by: Emil Doepler

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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

Limos (/ˈliːˌmɒs/; Ancient Greek: Λιμός, romanized: Limos meaning 'starvation'), Roman Fames /ˈfɑːˌmeɪz/, is the deity and personification of starvation, hunger and famine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
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FinnFolklorist, 7 months ago to random

In Irish mythology, the fear gorta (Irish: Man of hunger / Man of famine; also known as the fear gortach) is a phantom of hunger resembling an emaciated human.
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FinnFolklorist, 1 year ago to random

The story of the Children of Lir is one of the best known tales of Ireland. This story tells of Lir and his wife Aobh and their four children called Aodh, Fionnghuala, Fiachra and Conn. Lir's wife died and he married again. At first she loved them dearly but after a time she grew jealous of their father's affection for them.

One day she bore them away and put them under a spell. They were turned into four white swans at Lake Derravarragh in County Westmeath
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