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#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @mythcrafts.bsky.social @botanicafabula.bsky.social @crystalponti.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social Thanks so much to everyone who took part, and we’ll see you again next month!

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That's the end of an amazing #FolkloreThursday 🌞 Today's theme was the Folklore of Plants, Flowers, and Herbs. This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off, your very last host for the day, wishing you a happy May 🌻 11th Century Tacuinum Sanitatis

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Ghost Plant is also known as Ghost Pipe, Corpse Plant, Fairy Pipe and Indian Pipe. The parasitic flower is associated with wolves in Coast Salish culture. Europeans with the ghost world. A folk remedy claims it can heal a broken heart after the death of a loved one #FolkloreThursday A photo I took

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In Bosnia, guests at wakes hid hawthorn twigs in their clothes, dropping them when they left. If the dead had become a vampire, they would collect the twigs and be too distracted to follow the living home... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Rackham

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Recently rediscovered a song/flash fic I wrote years ago inspired by folklore of the Willow tree and why maybe the willow weeps - in Scottish folklore, you can knock on a willow trunk and tell it your secret to protect it! And as #FolkloreThursday theme is plants...here's the wee song 🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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In Vampire lore, rose petals burn vampires like acid! Placing a rose on a grave helps trap a vampire underground... #FolkloreThursday 🖌️Gorey

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In the Manx tale "The Mermaid of Gob-Ny-Ooyl," a fisherman provides apples to a mermaid, who in turn grants him & his family good luck. This task is passed onto the fisherman's son, who plants an apple tree on a cliff over the sea to secure his family's luck. #FolkloreThursday

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Haoma is a medicinal plant used in Zoroastrian rituals, harvested from the sacred Gaokerena Tree, which was brought to earth by divine birds. The prophet Zoroaster was concieved after his parents drank haoma extract, so he was born with the plant's divine spirit. #FolkloreThursday

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According to Turkish legend, when Satan fled the Garden of Eden, garlic sprang from the footprints of his right foot, & onions sprang from the footprints of his left. Ancient societies worldwide revered both vegetables as food, medicine, & even currency. #FolkloreThursday

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#FolkloreThursday The herb Dill was believed to be effective in countering the harmful spells of witches, a skill that came in handy when Belladonna decided to cause mischief in the classic TV see series The Herb Garden #Herbidaceous #folklore Watch the episode here: youtu.be/qcRh8jMhGLI

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Marigolds were known as "flowers of the dead" in Aztec tradition, believed to guide souls home on Día de los Muertos. In other tales, they bloomed from the spilled blood of heartbreak or sacrifice. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Ramon Hernandez

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In Germanic lore, Corn-spirits haunted and protected the fields and could take the form of wolves. When the wind blew the waving corn, folk would say 'The Corn-wolf is abroad'... #FolkloreThursday 🎨🖌️Robin Isely

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Craterellus cornucopioides were referred to as "The Trumpet of the Dead," as it was believed the dead buried beneath played them doot doot #FolkloreThursday

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Snapdragons, with their dragon-mouth blooms, were thought to offer protection from deception. In medieval times, women tucked them into their bodices to keep away false lovers and slander. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Anna Barnhart

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Extract from the #OldEnglish #Sacred #Herb #Charm Weybread (plantain), you mighty plant, You are the most revered among the earth, You are wrapped in power, You withstand the poison, Bend over with tiny drops of water, When a man blows upon you in the snow #FolkloreThursday #Folklore

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The squill (Urginea maritima) is a mediterranean plant with medicinal uses as a cardiac stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant. In ancient Arcadia, after a failed hunt, hunters would ritually beat an image of Pan with squills. #FolkloreThursday 📷l: squill; r: Pan as hunter (c. 362 BCE)

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Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🌻 A special thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your uninterrupted host for the next one hour! Today's witchy spring theme is the Folklore of Plants, Flowers, and Herbs. 1921 Arthur Rackham

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Before "wellness" was a brand, it was a warm hand on a fevered brow, a jar of horehound syrup, and a sachet of lavender tucked under a pillow. Folk healing wasn’t alternative—it was all there was. And sometimes, it worked wonders. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Diana Pigni

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I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, closing out this session. Thanks for sharing your favorite leafy lore during this hour of #FolkloreThursday! The wonderful @shanonsinn.bsky.social takes over at 6:30 BST. So stay tuned — there’s more to explore. See you all soon! :) Image: Danendra Hardyatama

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In Somerset the Ox-eye Daisy was called Dun-daisy, short for Thunder-daisy and in Middlesex it was called Devil's Daisy... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Hacker

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"Flower fairies and verse." Bexhill Observer 28.1.1967. Watch out for Nightshade! #FolkloreThursday

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#FolkloreThursday If they wad drink nettles in March And eat muggins in May Sae many braw maidens Wadna go to clay. [Supposedly recited by a mermaid as a young woman's funeral procession passed.]

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The Japanese hell flower is a poisonous plant. Not just the bulbs, the petals or the stems… Every part induces a violent physical response in humans. These flowers also bloom in the underworld, guiding souls to their next births. #FolkloreThursday mythcrafts.com/2020/01/23/l...

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In Ireland ragwort is the fairies' horse; at midnight, off they gallop through the air on the back of its stems... #FolkloreThursday

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Dandelions weren’t always weeds. In old folk belief, blowing the seeds could carry wishes or reveal the name of a future lover. Root for tea, leaf for blood, flower for joy—the dandelion is a whole apothecary in disguise. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Krysten Tapwell

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In Irish folklore, the souls of dead children scatter daisies all over the earth... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Hugh Cameron

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"Making Rush-Garlands, Ambleside." "Garland Day, Castleton." Customs of the World, Great Britain & Ireland. 1900, by D. H Moutray Read. #FolkloreThursday

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Nor irises in her glorious rainbow clothed, So fulgent as the cheerful gardens shine. ~Lucius Columella (1st century) The brilliant iris may have been named for the iridescent-winged goddess of rainbows from Greek mythology. #folklorethursday

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Hello! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, and I’ll be hosting this fabulous hour of #FolkloreThursday. Huge thanks to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting before the break! Our theme: plants, flowers, and herbs in folklore. Let’s dig into what's growing wild all around us! Image: Flower of Fairies

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Brilliant session at today's #FolkloreVRSocial, the new #FolkloreThursday x @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social mashup! Thanks to everyone who came along and shared their lore of plants, flowers and herbs! Follow on Eventbrite for details of next month's session: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dee-dee-ch...

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Some metamorphosis for #folklorethursday (🧵) Myrrha was cursed by Aphrodite (or the furies) to desire her own father, so she tricked him into laying with her in complete darkness. One night, he grew curious and when he discovered his own daughter, he went to slay her. 🎨Franceschini

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Thank you all so much for a fabulous hour of herb and plant lore #folklorethursday friends this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social off to find a dandelion and check the time in fairyland, but the bloomingly lovely @crystalponti.bsky.social will be back at 3.30 BST human time to share more flower lore💚🍀

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The May is in full flower here in rural Scotland~one of my favourite blossoms~Hawthorn is said to mend a broken heart~lore proven in a way by herbalists+science~I explore this in my book The Time Traveller’s Herbal #folklorethursday friends may enjoy😉

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The dead don’t rest if you cut #hawthorn at midnight - stick of the dead. Saw a man do it once on the Downs; next morn, all they found were thorns in his bed and boots pointing toward the graveyard. Hawthorn don’t forget, and neither do the dead. - Old George the Rogue #FolkloreThursday #Folklore

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