#folklorethursday
🌕🐇✨A tiny Moon Rabbit, heading for Bristol in December...
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
November 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
A ghost story for #FolkloreThursday
The Bear in the Chimney-pot Hat.

It was a gloomy, overcast day, lifted by the constant fall of dun-brown and golden and scarlet leaves and the flitting of little birds in the garden and along the lane - clouds of goldcrests and firecrests with feathers as bright as the turning trees.
October 29, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Last call on #FolkloreThursday
There's four weeks and about 100 in-person tickets left for The Haunted Landscape on 21 November 2026 @conwayhall.bsky.social

We present witches, ghosts, fairies, folklore and the Great God Pan.

In-person and online tickets:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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October 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
That should be #FolkloreThursday
#FolkoreThursday It is said that former lighthouse keeper John 'Jack' Jones haunts South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey by banging on the door and tapping on the windows in search of refuge from the dreadful storm that killed him on 25th Oct 1859.

🎨 'South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead' by Thomas Creswick
October 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I just posted this one last month, but we gotta have the pumpkin yokai for Halloween
#FolkloreThursday
Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
"Poems By Robert Buchanan : "Halloween.""
The Illustrated London News 21.12.1867.
#FolkloreThursday #Halloween #Art #History #1860s
October 29, 2026 at 9:02 AM
""November Night" In Ireland."
The Illustrated London News 4.11.1871.
#FolkloreThursday #Halloween #Art #History #1870s
October 29, 2026 at 3:33 PM
ghosts in the sea foam

#folklorethursday
October 29, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Hello #Folklorethursday and thank you @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social ready for some spine chilling lore.

Img: these turnip jack-o-lanterns always give me the willies! via The Museum of Country Life, Ireland.
October 29, 2026 at 12:03 PM
🌕🐇✨A little Moon Hare, patiently waiting to be on display in Bristol this December...
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
October 28, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Welcome to today’s #FolkloreThursday this is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social looking forward to all your haunting and terrifying #folklore for #Halloween / #Samhain
Let’s start with an important issue…😉
Are you Team Pumpkin or Team Swede?! Which is most scary? 😱
October 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
They talk of Corpse Cows - slaughtered beasts returned to life with stomachs stuffed with woe and cursed nettles. Skeletal and white-eyed, they walk the commons as famine omens. They have been seen in Long Sutton and many are now afraid of a hungry winter. - Dr. Bron, 1644
October 29, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The Secret Commonwealth: A treatise displaying the chief curiosities among the people of Scotland by Robert Kirk #FolkloreThursday core text
October 29, 2026 at 11:25 AM
In Scottish witch-trial records, Isobel Gowdie described transforming into a hare and attending supernatural gatherings. Her 1662 confessions include elaborate charms, though their circumstances make them unreliable evidence of actual witchcraft. #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Happy #InternationalRobinHoodDay from www.boldoutlaw.com The legend of #RobinHood has delighted audiences for centuries. May the spirit of the legend brighten your day. #RobinHoodDay #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Students Susan and Jane's RSVP to Miss Patience Peacey's (Principal of Colwall Court School of Domestic Economy, Bexhill) invitation to a Halloween Party, c.1955.
#FolkloreThursday #Halloween #Bexhill #Sussex #School #History #1950s
October 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM
"They appear in churches at night or in the dawn, and perform services, wedding, burial... the sight betokens an approaching death. Dietmar... gives several such stories with the remark: "as the day belongs to the living, so is the night conceded to the dead"

(Grimm)

🎨 Bernard

#FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 9:12 AM
In Iceland's Grettis saga, the undead Glámr terrorizes a farm, killing animals and attacking people. Grettir finally defeats him, but the corpse curses him with lifelong fear of the dark. Some monsters remain dangerous even after their second death. #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Thanks @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social for that fabulous start! @willowwinsham.bsky.social here now for the next 60 mins of your most terrifying folklore! #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Should you dare to walk 12 times anti-clockwise around St Michael's church in Chirbury, Shropshire at midnight on Halloween, you will hear a chilling roll-call of parishioners who will be dead within the year ☠️💀
#FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
According to Irish folklore, the sign of dark, ominous clouds approaching a cemetery signal that a funeral will soon follow.
#FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The medieval chronicler William of Newburgh recorded stories of corpses rising from their graves in 12th-century England. These revenants supposedly walked, attacked relatives, and spread terror. Medieval ghosts weren't always transparent. Sometimes they still had bodies. #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Scary foods for Halloween? This is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social handing over to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for today’s #FolkloreThursday with the theme of haunting and terrifying #folklore for #Halloween / #Samhain.
Even though my youngest is a teen, we still have to have skeleton potatoes!
October 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Happy haunted #FolkloreThursday!

I've always loved the Nuckelavee from Orkney. It looks, at first, like a horse and rider but... the horse is skinless, has one eye, and the rider is a human torso growing directly from its back. It's breath withers crops.
October 29, 2026 at 10:59 AM
In Irish folklore, the fetch is a supernatural double of a living person. Seeing someone's fetch could foretell their death, particularly if the apparition appeared at night. The most frightening stranger you could encounter might look exactly like someone you love. #FolkloreThursday
October 29, 2026 at 9:33 AM