#Folklorethursday

#Otd 2000: An Post @Postvox officially launched a set of 4 30p postage #stamps in honour of poet & playwright #OscarWilde (1854-1900). Became one of London's most popular playwrights in
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Starting a new series on amazing #Irish #trees! This is the sitting tree, #Glendalough, Co #Wicklow! @theirelandguide @Irishwildlife @katieholten @IRISHGIFTTREES @NativeWoodTrust @PeterDowdall @TheIrishGardens #Ireland #tree #Irishtrees Amazing #Iris
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THREAD #FolkloreThursdayJust finished a dissertation about how the history of folklore & folk music is linked to nationalism, fascism and racism and when I logged on to twitter again one
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A few weeks ago, I submitted Serat Ngalamating Kucing as an entry for #FolkloreThursday: a Javanese manuscript that consists of verses depicting different types of #cats. There are still no
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Thread: History of cows in Ireland! In most of Ulster townlands were known as "ballyboes" from baile bó "cow land/"land of a cow"! Since yearly rent of a cow (@placenamesni)?
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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is oracles and prophecies so I'm talking about seers in #GreekMythology today.The Greek god of prophecy was #Apollon and all seers were said to gain their
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New Thread! 'Wolves In Ireland: A Natural & Cultural History'! I will be using my new book of the same name by Kieran Hickey as my main reference point! If
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#PrehistoryOfPenwith: A ThreadThe end of #Cornwall where I live, #Penwith, is incredibly rich in prehistory.I know very little about our standing stones/circles and fogous so this thread's here for me
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#FolkloreThursday Thread: Looongish, but hopefully interesting...In it I will talk about ferns, feathers, thunder gods and thunder god names...Ferns are a very ancient family of plants: early fern fossils predate
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