A hosted hashtag folklore day with a different theme every Sunday! Retweets after 10:30 am by @frome_maude.
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Thank you all for your wonderful posts on Halloween today!
Next week’s theme, as the weather turns colder, is:
HOME COMFORTS
Bring your posts of what makes you feel warm & cosy
to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am GMT. See you then, Maude xx
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Thank you all for your wonderful posts on Halloween today!
Next week’s theme, as the weather turns colder, is:
HOME COMFORTS
Bring your posts of what makes you feel warm & cosy
to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am GMT. See you then, Maude xx
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#FullMoon #HuntersMoon, sometimes known as Sanguine Moon, rises in Taurus early on 26 Oct.
#NationalBlackCatDay - 27 Oct
#FolkloreSunday #FairyTaleTuesday #Caturday
#Art: Mooncat by Denise Warren
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Wildflowers found for #WildflowerHour between the storms: wild carrot, oxeye daisy, red campion, white dead-nettle, musk mallow, yarrow visited by a hoverfly, spear thistle, hedge mustard, chickweed, and viper’s bugloss.
ALT A collage of ten close-up photographs of British wildflowers, arranged in a mosaic with narrow white borders. Delicate white umbels of wild carrot; an oxeye daisy viewed from behind; pink red campion; white dead-nettle with serrated leaves; pink musk mallow; clusters of white yarrow flowers visited by a hoverfly; a purple spear thistle with spiny green bracts; yellow hedge mustard; tiny white chickweed flowers; and blue-purple viper’s bugloss. All photographed against softly blurred green backgrounds.
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In old folk magic, caraway seeds were used as charms of retention. Objects containing them could never be stolen, and any thief who tried would be held fast in the house. Caraway was also believed to keep lovers faithful and pigeons from deserting their dovecotes. #FolkloreSunday
ALT Botanical illustration of caraway (Carum carvi), with delicate, finely divided green leaves, branching stems and umbels of tiny white flowers and developing fruits. Enlarged details show a single flower, the ribbed brown fruits and a cross-section. Plate 261 from “Bilder ur Nordens Flora” by Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856–1928), 1917–1926 edition.
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European folklore says that if a bat flies into your house on Halloween, it is a sign that your house is haunted.
It was believed that the ghosts would invite the bat into the house.
🎨 Tom Shropshire
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At Samhain past, present, and future are one, and beings of The Otherworld walk amongst the living. It is a time of faerie folk, demons and spirits of the ancestors. Saturday is Halloween and the oncoming Winter is the 'season of the ghosts'
art: Alan Lee #FolkloreSunday
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VINTAGE HALLOWEEN FAIRIES reminding us that fairies and goblins were once as likely to be found on #Halloween cards as vampires and witches!! At a time when the veil between our world & the shadow world is extremely thin there are likely to be encounters between humans & fairies #FolkloreSunday
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Dracula never speaks these lines in the 1897 novel but there is throwaway moment
In the book where he says 'I too can love'. Until this film we had never seen Dracula as a love beyond the grave story but its #loveneverdies theme has endured.
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#FolkloreSunday The Halloween holiday has its roots in Samhain, a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor saints.blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandhe…
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On a Dark, Stormy Night the great gates of the Old Castle creaked open to allow us mortals to enter. Spooky tales and perhaps watching ghosts awaited us. Pure Halloween Magic
Last night at @RabyCastle
#FolkloreSunday – at Picktree, England
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#Halloween falls on October 31st, a festival with roots in ancient #Celtic lore such as Samhain. #October sees in #autumn with changes in the pigment of leaves & foliage. #Trees stop making chlorophyll to reveal orange, yellow & red colours. #FolkloreSunday
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"She'd always loved Halloween. A magic might. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air."
~ Cynthia Eden
art: K. L. Ricks #FolkloreSunday
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☁️👻☁️"For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards."
🌙A Midsummer Night's Dream.
#BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday #Samhain #Halloween
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In some rural areas of the UK Hallows Eve is known as Nut Crack Night. Girls would toss 3 nuts into the fire to divine their romantic fate
If the nuts burned quietly a happy marriage was foretold.
If they exploded and flew from the flames... the portents were bad. #FolkloreSunday
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On the Isle of Man the Halloween is called Hop-tu-Naa, and children carve lanterns from turnips known locally as ‘moots’ rather than pumpkins.
Children sing traditional songs, including one about Jinny the Witch,Joney Lowney who was tried for witchcraft in 1715 #FolkloreSunday
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This giant Halloween pumpkin has broken the UK record,weighing in at 1,295.8kg.
Grower Ian Paton’s 2026 Guinness World Record UK pumpkin, named 'Bagheera' surpassed the weight of his previous 2025 winner 'Muggle’, by 17kg. #FolkloreSunday
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Fiambre is a traditional Guatemalan salad that is prepared to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
It's a dish that can contain over 50 ingredients.
And every single ingredient has a story and a purpose.
It’s a dish that brings families together in remembrance .#FolkloreSunday
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As a child, folklore collector FW Bennett heard a witch predict that his grandfather would die in 5 days. When asked how she knew, she said that her dog told her by its howls. Bennett’s grandfather died at 9am on the 5th day.
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RUNES
..associated with norse magic (seior) and skaldic poetry. The poem Havamel, describes how Odin discovered them, when he hung himself from the tree Yggdrasil, in order to learn wisdom..