G. Thornton
@inkgypsy.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Researcher
Folklore As Resistance
Listed in 'Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales', 'Fairy Tales 101' & other fairy tale study recs
Magic Beans for breakfast -Believes in 398.2 -Ⓥ -She/her
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #IStandWithCanada #IStandWithAltGov
Folklore As Resistance
Listed in 'Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales', 'Fairy Tales 101' & other fairy tale study recs
Magic Beans for breakfast -Believes in 398.2 -Ⓥ -She/her
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #IStandWithCanada #IStandWithAltGov
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In Appalachian lore, July was when “the haints started pokin’ ‘round early.” The old folks said if you baked gingerbread in July, it summoned spirits looking for lost Yule offerings. They’d leave you a small gift… or take one. #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: Muddy Colors
Art: Muddy Colors
July 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In Appalachian lore, July was when “the haints started pokin’ ‘round early.” The old folks said if you baked gingerbread in July, it summoned spirits looking for lost Yule offerings. They’d leave you a small gift… or take one. #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: Muddy Colors
Art: Muddy Colors
See? Not so difficult to figure out a Mother's Day present! *repeatedly looks out the window, impatiently waiting for the cabin to appear*
#FolkloreSunday #MothersDay
#FolkloreSunday #MothersDay
This Mother's Day, get her what she's always wanted; a cloak of protection from mischievous fairies, a little cabin that roams through the wildlands on giant chicken legs, and an enchanted dagger to call her own.
May 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
See? Not so difficult to figure out a Mother's Day present! *repeatedly looks out the window, impatiently waiting for the cabin to appear*
#FolkloreSunday #MothersDay
#FolkloreSunday #MothersDay
There's no doubt real cunning and wise folk have been a force of resistance against snake-oil salesmen for centuries but it can be hard to tell who is who sometimes, and charlatan fairy doctors -often known today as health gurus- still exist.
Beware.
#educateyourself
#NonViolentResistance #resist ✊
Beware.
#educateyourself
#NonViolentResistance #resist ✊
A fairy doctor was a wise woman or cunning man in Ireland who was taught benign magic by fairies. They were called "fairy doctors" because they used their magic to protect people from bad fairies and sorcerers just like a regular doctor protects people from diseases.
#FolkyFriday #FairyFriday
#FolkyFriday #FairyFriday
May 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There's no doubt real cunning and wise folk have been a force of resistance against snake-oil salesmen for centuries but it can be hard to tell who is who sometimes, and charlatan fairy doctors -often known today as health gurus- still exist.
Beware.
#educateyourself
#NonViolentResistance #resist ✊
Beware.
#educateyourself
#NonViolentResistance #resist ✊
"...knowledge passed down by whispers and weeds." 💚
In Appalachian hollers, the granny woman delivered babies, made poultices from poke root, whispered over burns, and never charged a dime. She was midwife, healer, herbalist, and keeper of knowledge passed down by whispers and weeds.
via Historium Unearthia
#FolkyFriday #HERstory
via Historium Unearthia
#FolkyFriday #HERstory
May 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"...knowledge passed down by whispers and weeds." 💚
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Before pills and prescriptions, there were bone setters, blood stoppers, and cunning folk. They used spider webs to clot wounds, onion poultices for coughs, and prayers to mend hearts and limbs. Not doctors, not witches—just folk. #FolkyFriday
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Before pills and prescriptions, there were bone setters, blood stoppers, and cunning folk. They used spider webs to clot wounds, onion poultices for coughs, and prayers to mend hearts and limbs. Not doctors, not witches—just folk. #FolkyFriday
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A new mineral was discovered and named after the sky-ladder tree from Chinese mythology: umaine.edu/earthclimate... #mythology #chinesemythology #jianmuite #folklore
Edward Grew with international team reports discovery of the new mineral “jianmuite,” named for the sky-ladder tree of Chinese mythology - School of Earth and Climate Sciences - University of Maine
Research Professor Edward Grew in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences is now in his 41st year at the University of Maine-Orono. During his career, Ed has participated in the discovery and charac...
umaine.edu
May 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A new mineral was discovered and named after the sky-ladder tree from Chinese mythology: umaine.edu/earthclimate... #mythology #chinesemythology #jianmuite #folklore
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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
🎨Krysten Tapwell
May 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
🎨Krysten Tapwell
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About the theme "tyrants" for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday, I was struck by parts about refusal to study bitter history for "breeding useless regret", and how Gandalf spent years researching to understand about the Ring. I've seen those contrasting attitudes many times regarding history.
April 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
About the theme "tyrants" for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday, I was struck by parts about refusal to study bitter history for "breeding useless regret", and how Gandalf spent years researching to understand about the Ring. I've seen those contrasting attitudes many times regarding history.
Little bunny reminds us of an important thing: to take the time to educate ourselves about the many kinds of carrots and the many kinds of sticks.
Forewarned is forearmed. ✊
#NonViolentResistance #resist
Forewarned is forearmed. ✊
#NonViolentResistance #resist
April 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Little bunny reminds us of an important thing: to take the time to educate ourselves about the many kinds of carrots and the many kinds of sticks.
Forewarned is forearmed. ✊
#NonViolentResistance #resist
Forewarned is forearmed. ✊
#NonViolentResistance #resist
I did not have "Easter Bunny gets a makeover" on my bingo card for 2025.
One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!)
#FolkloreSunday #Easter
One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!)
#FolkloreSunday #Easter
Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, the Easter bunny who came to break all the eggs
Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, the Easter bunny who came to break all the eggs
Free trade is smashed to pieces, while just a couple of chicks he fancies are spared
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I did not have "Easter Bunny gets a makeover" on my bingo card for 2025.
One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!)
#FolkloreSunday #Easter
One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!)
#FolkloreSunday #Easter
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Call for art!
Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends
Deadline
1st May 2025
£10 SUBMISSION FEE
PER ARTWORK
Exhibition dates
7th - 28th June 2025
Queen Street Gallery Neath
www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai...
#art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition
Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends
Deadline
1st May 2025
£10 SUBMISSION FEE
PER ARTWORK
Exhibition dates
7th - 28th June 2025
Queen Street Gallery Neath
www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai...
#art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition
April 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Call for art!
Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends
Deadline
1st May 2025
£10 SUBMISSION FEE
PER ARTWORK
Exhibition dates
7th - 28th June 2025
Queen Street Gallery Neath
www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai...
#art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition
Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends
Deadline
1st May 2025
£10 SUBMISSION FEE
PER ARTWORK
Exhibition dates
7th - 28th June 2025
Queen Street Gallery Neath
www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai...
#art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition
Love this vairant of the Bluebeard/ Mr. Fox #FairyTale!
We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkyFriday
We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkyFriday
The Palestinian tale "Zerendac & Abu Freywar" is about a flesh-eating ghoul, Abu Freywar, who convinces a woodcutter to give him two daughters in marriage, then holds them hostage in his cave. The third sister, Zerendac, finds her sisters & frees them. #FolkloreThursday
April 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Love this vairant of the Bluebeard/ Mr. Fox #FairyTale!
We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkyFriday
We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkyFriday
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🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were unwilling to work on a #GoodFriday - most would not even light their forges - and none would hammer in a nail, out of remembrance and respect.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
April 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were unwilling to work on a #GoodFriday - most would not even light their forges - and none would hammer in a nail, out of remembrance and respect.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
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The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy-Tales, by Béla Balázs. Parasols that create their own skies, men who are buried alive under mountains, and sages who travel back in time to relive the first years of their lives are only some of the marvels found in this utterly unique book.
April 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy-Tales, by Béla Balázs. Parasols that create their own skies, men who are buried alive under mountains, and sages who travel back in time to relive the first years of their lives are only some of the marvels found in this utterly unique book.
More egg-cracking for Easter! Now imagine all those fairy tales & rhymes with eggs cracked to reveal all sorts of treasures/possibilities/answers & consider the cracking as the key event that began a new era/universe... (I should point out it's never specified Humpty was an egg.) #FolkloreSunday ✊
The egg is a symbol of cosmic birth across cultures, from the Egyptian egg laid by the sun god Ra to the Hindu story of the universe hatching from a golden egg. Cracking eggs at Easter echoes a primal memory of creation itself. #FolkloreSunday
🎨Enchanted Art
🎨Enchanted Art
April 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
More egg-cracking for Easter! Now imagine all those fairy tales & rhymes with eggs cracked to reveal all sorts of treasures/possibilities/answers & consider the cracking as the key event that began a new era/universe... (I should point out it's never specified Humpty was an egg.) #FolkloreSunday ✊
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It’s the fool who thinks folklore is merely tales for children. The fool as well who thinks most lore is only pale misremembering of history. For folklore is a living conversation between yesterday and tomorrow, between people and place. It is an ark of shared wisdom. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday
April 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s the fool who thinks folklore is merely tales for children. The fool as well who thinks most lore is only pale misremembering of history. For folklore is a living conversation between yesterday and tomorrow, between people and place. It is an ark of shared wisdom. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday
Up for breaking some shells? I certainly am. Let's reveal the hidden things and activate some shared, community magic: 'tis the season to "Spring" into action! ✊
#resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance
PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫
#resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance
PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫
In fairy tales, the humble egg often hides treasures—golden yolks, birds that sing prophecy, even small kingdoms. Breaking the shell reveals hidden worlds. In Easter customs, this magic becomes edible and shared. #FolkloreSunday
April 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Up for breaking some shells? I certainly am. Let's reveal the hidden things and activate some shared, community magic: 'tis the season to "Spring" into action! ✊
#resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance
PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫
#resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance
PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫
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German folklore once held that children who were good would be visited by the Osterhase, a magical egg-laying hare. Mischievous ones received nothing. He was judge, trickster, and spring sprite rolled into one long-eared shadow. #FolkloreSunday
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
German folklore once held that children who were good would be visited by the Osterhase, a magical egg-laying hare. Mischievous ones received nothing. He was judge, trickster, and spring sprite rolled into one long-eared shadow. #FolkloreSunday
"In the absence of war, they are less likely to form."
Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences.
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkloreSunday
Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences.
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkloreSunday
...Shinto charms are able to ward off gashadokuro. In the absence of war, they are less likely to form. They are alternatively known as odokuro, which means ‘giant skull.’
🎨1. Shigeru Mizuki
2. Katy Troll
3. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
4. Utagawa Kuniyoshi
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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🎨1. Shigeru Mizuki
2. Katy Troll
3. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
4. Utagawa Kuniyoshi
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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April 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"In the absence of war, they are less likely to form."
Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences.
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkloreSunday
Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences.
#resist
#NonViolentResistance
#FolkloreSunday
It's SO important to honor & care for our #veterans!
This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why.
It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse.
Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families.
#FolkloreSunday
PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊
This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why.
It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse.
Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families.
#FolkloreSunday
PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊
In #JapaneseFolklore gashadokuro is a #yokai who takes the form of a skeletal giant. The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of their rattling bones and teeth. This yokai is created from a conglomeration of many vengeful spirits of soldiers who have died in battle and remained...
#FolkyFriday
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#FolkyFriday
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April 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's SO important to honor & care for our #veterans!
This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why.
It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse.
Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families.
#FolkloreSunday
PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊
This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why.
It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse.
Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families.
#FolkloreSunday
PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊
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strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
April 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
"... the Ifrit... wants your choices..."
Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday
Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday
The desert is full of deals. A drop of water for your shadow. A safe path in exchange for a name. In Bedouin folklore, the Ifrit doesn’t want your soul—he wants your choices. And once taken, you’ll wander, unsure who you ever were. #FolkyFriday
April 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"... the Ifrit... wants your choices..."
Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday
Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being of Jewish folklore, crafted from clay or mud. The most famous legend, "The Golem of Prague," claims a rabbi used mystical powers—based on divine knowledge of how God created Adam—to create a golem. #LegendaryWednesday
April 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being of Jewish folklore, crafted from clay or mud. The most famous legend, "The Golem of Prague," claims a rabbi used mystical powers—based on divine knowledge of how God created Adam—to create a golem. #LegendaryWednesday