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How Lord of the Rings Influenced The Green Knight denofgeek.com/movies/lord-of…

#Dragons: #Myth or Half-Truth? Tom the Tale Teller explores... #FolkloreThursday bit.ly/39g8z3A

A late (early?) contribution for Folklore Thursday: the folklore of magpies.👇 tinyurl.com/vsy67b9b #magpies #birdlore #folklore #folklorethursday #rhymes 🖼️: © Bwiselizzy and © CaoChunhai via iStock

#Women on a Quest: The Hawaiian Saga of #Pele the #Volcano #Goddess and Hiiaka by MultoGhost bit.ly/2JT00mx

#British Legends: The #Mabinogion – The Dream of Macsen Wledig by zteve t evans bit.ly/3ijBXKb

Old Folktales: The King of the #Cats by Melanie Warren bit.ly/2YsPQMR

Putting Their #Faith in the #Fairies: BBC #NorthernIreland’s Fascination with the ‘Wee Folk' by Portia Ellis-Woods bit.ly/2My4Lmg

This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is pirates and the deep seas! (Image: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, via wikimedia commons)

Historical accounts of mermaid sightings include one by Christopher Columbus, who was sailing near the Dominican Republic in 1493 when he saw three rising out of the water. Folklore Thursday The Folklore Centre, Todmorden The Folklore Files Folk Horror Revival ⨘ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#KingHerla and the #WildHunt in Twelfth-Century #England and #Wales by Mark Truesdale #twitterstorians bit.ly/316RTba

Newly restored #Roman gymnasium area opens for public viewing at #Bath's Roman baths. chewvalleygazette.co.uk/article.cfm?id… #RomanBritain #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Somerset

Getting Even in #RomanBritain: The #Curse Tablets from #Bath (Aquae Sulis) by Carly Silver bit.ly/356rkV4

A cursed woman, a roving castle, a mysterious wizard "I wanted to convey the message that life is worth living, and I don't think that's changed" - Miyazaki #WyrdWednesday #animation #fantasy #film Howl's Moving Castle 2004 dir. Hayao Miyazaki

In a Flemish fairy tale a servant discovers a grimoire. He can transform himself into any animal he wants and leaves the castle. His father sells him in the shape of an ox, a horse and others. When he becomes a fox, he decides to remain a fox.🦊🧡 🎨Liljefors #WyrdWednesday

Publishing in 2022! Mermaids by Axel Müller, Christopher Halls & BJWilliamson "offers a compelling overview of the emergence of the #mermaid #myth in western culture" ~ Harriet Ritvo 🧜‍♀️ Discover more about this title: bit.ly/UEPMermaids #FolkloreThursday #folklore #legend

The Boggart by Simon Young will be published this February! The #book offers an eye-opening, entertaining account of a mysterious #supernatural being in British #folklore. 📖 Full details here: bit.ly/TheBoggart #FolkloreThursday #boggart #harrypotter #history #legend

In Welsh folklore, a child born on the first day the cuckoo sang would be lucky for all their life... 🎨Jan Brueghel the Elder #FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

Interpreting the Lady and the Unicorn buff.ly/3bXa9GU zteve t evans

‘this must be done with haste’—as there’s only a few tickets left for Dr Francis Young’s online talk The Folklore Society on the origins of British fairies. Tues 24 Oct, 6pm BST. Tickets £6 from eventbrite.co.uk/e/whereve-all-…

I'm pleased to learn that 'Twilight of the Godlings' is one of the standout bestsellers of Cambridge University Press's AIM (Academic Impact) programme, for 'books of such stature and significance that they make a lasting, even defining, impression on their fields' cambridge.org/news-and-insig…