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The Godyssey PodcastDepictions of fairies vary over time and who is doing the telling. Some appear as gorgeous humans, of full height or taller than humans, while others are depicted as grotesque or extremely tiny. Many folklorist tie the latter to Anglicization. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼️: J. Duncan

The Godyssey PodcastThe modern leprechaun is the stuff of marketing, not folklore, as these solitary creatures were once known to wear red, be constantly running everywhere, and carry less than a purseful of shillings, not a pot of gold, if that. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼️: Humon

Megalithic Portal (Andy B)The Weyland legend probably dates back to the time before Norse and Anglo Saxon became separate languages. His notoriety preceded him - here he is again strapped into his ‘flying contrivance’. Stone found during rebuilding work in Leeds Minster, now in the the City Museum. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 5/8

The Godyssey PodcastWant good luck? Keep geese! According to the inhabitants of the Kenyan village of Kakamega, geese can sense a witch and thus will begin to honk, indicating families should be on their guard, thus preventing witches from souring the luck of the family. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastTo walk widdershins, or counterclockwise, in the Anglophone is to walk opposite of the sun, and thus against the natural order: it removes what good luck you have and replaces it with bad luck, and to walk widdershins around a church is to summon misfortune. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> there is a <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yokai</a> called nodeppo that resembles a flying squirrel. They swoop down from trees at night and latch onto people's faces in order to drink their blood. Nodeppo can also shoot swarms of bats out of their mouths, which will then fly towards... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 1/3

curious ordinaryThis gruesome tale from <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> is definitely for the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23horror" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> lovers. It's about a cannibalistic hag who lived alone on the Adachi Plain. A Buddhist monk arrived at her lonely cottage late at night and asked if he could shelter there. At first she said no but he... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 1/4

The Godyssey PodcastMyth does not say why Odin and Loki are blood brothers, merely that they are. The oath sworn by Odin is that at any table he sits, so shall Loki. This promise he regrets in Lokasenna, when drunken Loki reveals his hand in Baldr's death. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼: Hellanim

The Godyssey PodcastAt the Salem trial of Sarah Goode, she was asked to confess by Rev. Nicholas Noyes. Her reply: "I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink." Legend says 25 years later he died, choking on blood. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> jubokko are <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yokai</a> trees often found on the sites of old battlefields. It is believed that because they absorbed the blood of slaughtered bodies through their roots, they developed supernatural powers, including a vampiric taste for blood. Considering... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 1/3

The Godyssey PodcastIceland's Katla volcano began life as Katla the witch, who threw herself into a glacial ravine fearing she would have been caught after killing a young shepherd who used her magic speedster pants. When her anger rises, this volcano blows its top. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastMadame Soufriere is fiery and capricious, and one does not want to get on her bad side. So say the people of Montserrat, who speak of the local volcano as the famed Madame. In 1995 she blew her top and a whole town off the map, and is still active today. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastA mere thief in his lifetime executed by boiling, Goemon Ishikawa has had an amazing afterlife, becoming an anti-authoritarian ninja who stole from the rich to give to the poor. A powerful stock character in Japanese media, the legend outdoes the man. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastA born god of thieves, Hermes left the cave that protected him from Hera's wrath and stole cattle that belonged to Apollo. Brought to Olympus for judgment, Zeus laughed, saying he should return the cattle. He did so, inventing the lyre to make up with Apollo. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼️: J. Rocco

The Godyssey PodcastTsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼: M. Meyer

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> when people vanished without a trace the disappearances were often blamed on evil <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yokai</a>. Sometimes victims were never seen again but in some cases missing people returned to the world days, months or years later, sometimes with no memory of their time... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 1/3

The Godyssey PodcastOdin has two ravens but loves only one: Hugin is Thought, and Odin loves his thoughts and plan and cunning. But Munin is Memory, and Odin regrets, fears what was, and what he knows already. Thought flies ahead; Memory, behind. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastIn Daoist myth, Xuánwǔ originally was a human god who conquered a rampaging serpent and tortoise in battle, subjugating them and making them his generals. In later iconography, the Tortoise-Snake *becomes* Xuánwǔ, the Black Tortoise representing the north. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastIn the Legend of White Snake, the Beauty is the Beast: a white snake in a lake, a practitioner of Dao, eats a pill that gives her 500 years worth of training, and uses it to transform herself into Madame White Snake, seeking out Xu Xian, her beloved. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a>🖼️ W. Ye

curious ordinaryIn <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> there is a tale about a mysterious lake in Tottori Prefecture surrounded by sand dunes. In the centre of the lake were two small islands covered in trees. Nearby was a wealthy man's house where a maid named Otane worked. She was very kind and would... <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> 1/5

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