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Animals as embodiments of the soul, or as death omens, have sprung rules of treatment when it comes to encountering the animal.
Most often this involves the execution of the poor creature, but sometimes it is to salute and give offerings in order to gain a favourable outlook with the omen.
Animals as embodiments of the soul, or as death omens, have sprung rules of treatment when it comes to encountering the animal.
Most often this involves the execution of the poor creature, but sometimes it is to salute and give offerings in order to gain a favourable outlook with the omen.
Whether or not this works? Well, it seems it's up to the spirits.
Who would have thought that a cute cow could be an ill omen? An omen of doom and death!
In this Fast Folklore from 'The Folklore of Being' we discover the dark udder-belly of our bovine friends.
A fearsome farmyard defender of both both the physical and the non-physical. Th cockerel.
What's really stewing and brewing in a witch's cauldron? Is it really gross body parts? Or is a secret formula designed to keep the ignorant at bay?
In this podcast, we introduce you to the art and mysteries of magical herbs.
All images used are in the public domain and taken from these sites:
https://wellcomecollection.org/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://pixabay.com/
Sources:
The Folklore of Plants - T . F . Thiselton-Dyer
The Complete Herbal - Nicholas Culpeper
Plat Lore and Legend - Richard Folkard
Thank you for watching!
Do you think you may have a ghost that likes to clean? Maybe you've named it Mabel and it's now a nice old lady that used to live there in the past. You know it's a little old lady because you sometimes hear the patter of her feet...
She raids the fridge too, at night....
Well, I have some some news! You may just have a house fairy! A spirit of the home, a friend and guardian of the smooth running of your domestic bliss. There's just one small courtesy.
Superstitions and traditions abound around the sick, dying and newly dead.
These customs and beliefs are tied not only to a love of the person; but also from fears that the dearly departing will haunt the home or become a malevolent force.
One way in which a household or community would be able to prepare for such matters was through the divination of omens.
Omens are a phenomena that will occur as a forewarning to an event such as sickness, death or misfortune.
Paying heed to these omens would give the witness a chance to prepare rituals or formulas to ease or mitigate the impending death.
In this Fast Folklore we explore birds as omens of death.
SOURCES:
Chole Rhodes - Black Cats & Evil Eyes
Dee Dee Chaney - A Treasury of British Folklores
John & Caitlin Matthews - The Element Encyclopaedia of Magical Creatures
Reader's Digest - British Folklore, Myths & Legends
Thank you for watching. :)
Humans have had a long companionship with dogs. Domesticated from wolves, these furry friends have helped to hunt, to guard, and guide. But sometimes...perhaps we would prefer for them not to hunt, or to guard, or to guide...
From The Hounds of Hell, to small effigies - this podcast explores dogs in supernatural and mystical form.
Learn about the Wild Hunt, demon dogs, and dogs as everlasting guardians in part one of our series on animal lore.
*Art and Images in order of their appearance:*
Galaxy Dog - By rubisfirenos
DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/rubisfirenos/art/Galaxy-Wolf-644497181
Church Grim - By Irenehorrors
Deviant Art https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Church-Grim-796502827
Underworld - By pigliamosche
DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/pigliamosche/art/Underworld-838397946
Hecate - By Irenehorrors - Deviant art
https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Hecate-848171076
Hail Hecate - By Irenehorrors
DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Hail-Hecate-866188360
Yama - By kibbitzer - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/kibbitzer/art/Yama-451817489
Hel The Moon - By ravietta - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/ravietta/art/Hel-The-Moon-672067348
Stranger - By remarin - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/remarin/art/Stranger-632070165
Odin the Allfather - By adehughesart - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/adehughesart/art/Inktober2020-Day-1-Odin-The-Allfather-856803960
Gytrash - By sean loco odonnell - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/sean-loco-odonnell/art/Gytrash-1-70571225
Black white - By Armamidori - DevianArt
https://www.deviantart.com/amamidori/art/Black-White-869065025
Ghost Dog - By TheAzimuth - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/theazimuth/art/ghost-dog-594631785
A floor mosaic from Pompeii depicting a guard dog. (1st century CE)
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2704/dog-mosaic/
The Wild Hunt - Ny Irenehorrors
DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Wild-Hunt-721053316
The Huntress - By Irenehorrors
DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Drawlloween-Huntress-815822280
Herne the HUnter - By onehandywitch
https://www.deviantart.com/onehandywitch2/art/HERNE-THE-HUNTER-840067229
Crossroads - By vijamoga
Deviant Art https://www.deviantart.com/vijamoga/art/Crossroads-394120772
Black ShuckBy sarahrichford
https://www.deviantart.com/sarahrichford/art/Inktober-Day-26-Black-Shuck-712527234
Gytrash - By windigor - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/windigor/art/Gytrash-288575089
Clay Dogs from Nineveh - By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4930/model-clay-dogs-from-nineveh/
Reclining Colima dog
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13682/reclining-colima-dog/
Zoroaster - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Twelve Hittie Gods of the Underworld
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Mesoamerican red dog effigy
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13676/mesoamerican-red-dog-effigy/
Quetzalcoatl https
//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Aztec Dog effigy
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13675/aztec-dog-effigy/
Snarling Colima dog
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13681/snarling-colima-dog/
Colima dog with maize
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13677/colima-dog-with-maize/
Anubis
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5399/anubis-egyptian-sarcophagus/
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12664/anubis-tending-to-a-mummy/
Ainu of Japan Museum
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Chulchulliann
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13371/cu-chulainn-in-his-chariot/
Heaven Beside You - By alexcherrypicks - DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/alexcherrypicks/art/Heaven-Beside-You-118813794
Folklore is a culture's customs, rituals, stories, traditions and practices surrounding everyday life and death.
Though we share some common mythologies in our traditions, folklore can be very much a local affair. What kills in one place, cures in another. What brings luck to one rural village, dispels it in a fishing one. Even one village over can have its differences.
Folklore is the domain of ghost stories and fables. It is where the lore of flora and fauna are. It is our burial and death rituals, it is the practice of magic, the knowledge of spirits and the root of medicine.
It is fascinating, intricate, thought provoking and quite often, gross.
The Folklore of Being explores and focuses on those elements of folklore that weave man, the Earth, and the 'otherworld' together. It also aims to show how we have never lost the the habits of folklore, it has just become a little diminished and; changed by our time in history.