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Wow! The #FolkloreThursday hashtag day FAQs were first posted on the website TEN YEARS (and two weeks) ago!

How time flies!

We've just updated them: folklorethursday.com/faq/

@helenerwin.bsky.social Hi, Helen! Thank you so much for the talk today, it was amazing! Näcken's story reminded me of a Brazilian folklore creature called Boto-cor-de-rosa (pink river dolphin).

This looks great, Elizabeth!

1 week until Massaged to Death by Mermaids online with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Here’s Anna Hopkinson’s artwork of The Ice Queen & the Mer-King, my definining Asexual Fairy Tale. It’s in the talk!! 🧜🏿
#folklore #asexuality #LGBTQIA #mermaids

Thank you so much to all of the fantastic #FolkloreThursday hosts for a brilliant day yesterday, and to @helenerwin.bsky.social and @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the amazing live event too! 💜

Thank you, Shanon -- sad to miss the final session last night!

Painting of a mermaid and a man embracing. She is coming up from the water and he has one leg in the water and one leg kneeling on a rock. The mermaid has long greenish hair decorated with shells and beads, and her silvery tail is partially visible beneath the water.

'... I call to the dwellers along the shore
With a voice of gramarye evermore.

And if one for love of me
Gives to my call an ear,
I will woo him and hold him dear,
And teach him the way of the sea...'
~From 'The Sea Spirit' by L.M. Montgomery

🎨 Howard Pyle
#BookologyThursday
#FolkloreThursday

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Hi @crystalponti.bsky.social, lovely to see you!

Art of the weird elongate monster with eyes all over its body, bunched up to look like a cow's entrails. Inset is an outline showing the scale next to a person (it is much bigger) and a map of Europe showing where the lake is in Switzerland.

#FolkloreThursday Lüschersee is a small Swiss Alpine lake which is said to be bottomless. In its depths lives the Butatsch Cun Ilgs, a monster described as looking like an enormous cow's stomach covered with hundreds of hypnotic eyes, which can also shoot fire.

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I had an amazing afternoon, and I learned so much! Can't wait until your next talk! 💜

Guardians of the Forest: Spirits, Deities and Creatures of the Woods Join us online for a talk from Helen Lundström Erwin exploring Rå, a captivating creature from Scandinavian forest folklore.

Do join us for the next Event in April!
www.eventbrite.com/e/guardians-...

The Foremothers Café - Helen Lundström Erwin Women's History Museum and Cultural Center in Virtual Reality, Set in Lund, Sweden in 1918.

And you can find out more about The Foremothers Cafe on the website:
theforemotherscafe.com

DeeDeeChainey's Cultural Futures Hub | Spatial Cultural community hub and gallery space. Join us on Facebook for upcoming events info: culturalfutureshub. #legends #culture #community #community-center #community-event #folklore #mythology

You can visit the Näcken exhibition online anytime at The Cultural Futures Hub by clicking here:
www.spatial.io/s/DeeDeeChai...

Helen sitting on stage in front of a large screen showing a water folklore poster, surrounded by people sitting in a digital lecture hall.

A group of digital avatars in front of a historic image of Nacken.

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the #FolkloreThursday x @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social x @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social LIVE online event today!

And huge thank you to @helenerwin.bsky.social for such a fascinating deep-dive into historical accounts of Näcken!

The Angry Queen of the Southern Sea Beware, attractive young men: an enchantress awaits you on the southern coastline of Java. She may appear as a mermaid, or she may appear as a beautiful Goddess, but regardless of her form, she har…

An enchantress awaits on the coastline of Java. She may appear as a mermaid, or she may appear as a beautiful Goddess, but regardless of her form, she harbors a grudge against men, and has been known to lure the unsuspecting to a watery grave…

#FolkloreThursday

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A New Charm for an Ancient Tradition — Botanica Fabula A New Charm for an Ancient Tradition

Every year the stones given by StFillan to the Old Mill at Killin are washed in the falls on the river Dochart and rebedded in river wrack, shaped like body parts they are said to have the power to heal, you can find out more on my website www.botanicafabula.co.uk/heritage-arc... #folklorethursday

The St. John's Day Sacrifice

Every year, the spirit of a lake near Dornberg demanded a sacrifice on St. John's Day.

#FolkloreThursday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_St._John%27s_Day_Sacrifice

""Undine Discovering Herself To The Knight Huldbrand." - By F. Wyburd." The Illustrated London News 15.10.1859.
#FolkloreThursday #Undine #Art #1850s

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Hello! 😊🌊

Hello #FolkloreThursday and thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last hour of watery folklore- this is @mythcrafts.bsky.social here for the next hour fishing for your tasty folklore tidbits!
Img: Siren statuette from The Met

A large bloated toad like creature with huge baleful eyes, shells are stuck to its skin. It is partly submerged within a grim pool.

Scottish water-sprite Shellycoat is covered in shells that clatter as it moves. Often more mischievous than deadly, it once fooled two travellers into thinking it was drowning; as they followed the river to help, they heard the Shellycoat laugh and burst into applause...! #FolkloreThursday 🎨Alan Lee

Drawing of a kappa sitting by the water

Kappa are reptilian yokai from Japanese folklore that dwell in rivers and lakes. While they can sometimes be friendly (especially if given an offering of cucumber, their favorite food), there are also tales of them drowning and even eating humans who enter their aquatic homes. #FolkloreThursday

Scary indeed. And somewhat similar to how Näcken turns into a horse that takes riders and then never stops running.

The Scottish kelpie appears as a beautiful horse near rivers, luring riders before plunging into dark water. Trust is always tested near the shore. #FolkloreThursday

Art: Catherine Herold

Willow Winsham – Talk: Unfamiliar Familiars – The Unusual Companions of the Witch | Derby QUAD View our latest event: Willow Winsham – Talk: Unfamiliar Familiars – The Unusual Companions of the Witch. See what the available times are for this event.

For Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire #FolkloreThursday -ers! I'm thrilled to be giving my talk ‘Unfamiliar Familiars – The Unusual Companions of the Witch’ at the UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby next Friday. It would be great to see some "familiar" faces!
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/unfam...

One for the #FolkloreThursday crowd!

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Hello there! 😃

A small stream flows between two green grassy banks, with raised sides and trees on the top.

The Irish alp-luachra - Joint Eater - preys on weary travellers sleeping beside streams or rivers. This newt-like fairy spirit slips down the throat and settles in the stomach, eating any food that enters while the unsuspecting host slowly wastes away. #FolkloreThursday (Image: John Horner)

Who Mourns the Sirens? Sirens are often mistakenly thought of as a monstrous counterpart to the mermaid; evil temptresses lurking in the sea foam waiting to lure innocent sailors to their death with their songs. This was…

Sirens did not start out as sexy fish ladies.

#FolkloreThursday

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Hello! Long time no speak! 😀👋