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Host of #LegendaryWednesday every #Wednesday. #Folklore enthusiast & Anthropologist, reposting all of your #Legend, #fairytale, #Folklore, #mythology, #traditions, #archeology #quotes, #poetry & #art. (Mt. time)
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💫This week's theme is birds! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your fowl legends, your songbird tales, poultry traditions, bird watching rituals, & feathered deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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💫This week's theme is #holiday desserts! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your baking legends, your kitchen dessert traditions, candied rituals, & sweet deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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💫This week's theme is grief! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your mourning legends, your lamentation traditions, bereavement rituals, tales of sorrowful woe, & deities of misery. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Inconsolable Grief (1884) by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi.
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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💫Join us #Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! As the veil thins the theme is #Halloween! Give us your Hallows' Eve legends, Samhain traditions, Day of the Dead festivals, #halloweenart, & All Saints' deities. Give us your #Legend #quote #folklore #fairytale #mythology & #art💫
James Gillray (1757-1815) - A Phantasmagoria, Conjuring-up an Armed Skeleton.
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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💫As spooky season continues it's my favorite theme, witches! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your good/bad witch legends, sorceress tales, coven rituals, wizard festivals & witchy deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
The Three Witches of Macbeth. Watercolor. Provenance: Collection John Crocker, Cambridge. 1824.
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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💫As spooky season continues the theme is vampires vs werewolves! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your blood-drunk legends, lycan tales, turnskin rituals, vamp festivals & wolf/bat deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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💫Spooky season continues & the theme is #Dolls! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your haunted doll legends, your paper dolls, marionettes, dolly rituals, puppet festivals, & deity dolls. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
From the September 1952 issue of Mccall's Magazine featuring the character Betsy Mccall, the paper doll.
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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💫It's officially spooky season & the theme is #ghosts! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your apparition legends, your wraith traditions, spirit rituals, haunted festivals & phantom deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
The ghost of Marshal Ney, Caricature by Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1834
September 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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💫This week's theme is Fall Equinox Holidays. Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your autumnal legends, your Rosh Hashanah traditions, Mabon rituals, Shubun no Hi festivals, & harvest deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Astrologer observing the Equinox, by Domenicus van Wijnen. 1680.
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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💫This week's theme is breakups! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your romantic anguish legends, your lost lover tales, divorce traditions, grief rituals, heartbreaks, & sorrowful deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology
Oil painting: Disappointed Love. By Francis Danby. 1821.
September 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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💫This week's theme is fall leaves! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your frondescence legends, your autumn foliage tales, abscission traditions, fall color rituals & transformation deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Autumn Leaves, by John Milne Donald (1819–1866)
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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💫This week's theme is parade! Join us Wednesday with your pageantry legends, cortège traditions, magical processions, celebration lines, paraded fairs, unusual floats & yatra deities.💫 Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology #LegendaryWednesday
One of the United States' first Labor Day parades. 1904.
August 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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💫This week's theme is forbidden text! Join us Wednesday with your banned book legends, outlawed literature, book burnings, dangerous text, restricted circulation, & censored deities.💫 Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology #LegendaryWednesday
British soldiers burning books during the 1814 Burning of Washington, D.C.- The Kean Collection/Getty Images
August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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💫This week's theme is teeth! Join us Wednesday with your #dental legends, oral prep traditions, unknown choppers, magical tusks, horror fanged tales, dentist tools, & teethly deities.💫 Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology #LegendaryWednesday
Lucas van Leyden - The Dentist
August 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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💫This week's theme is boats! Join us Wednesday with your ferry legends, canoe traditions, fishing boat tales, pirate ships, ghost vessels, lifeboats, crafts, rafts, & sailing deities.💫 Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology #LegendaryWednesday
Boating by Édouard Manet, 1874.
July 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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💫This week's theme is weddings! Join us Wednesday with your matrimony legends, flower arrangements, cake traditions, dress tales, magical ceremonies, big day disasters & united deities.💫
Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology
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Auguste Toulmouche, The Reluctant Bride, 1866
July 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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💫This week's theme is Agricultural! Join us Wednesday with your farming legends, agronomy tools, ranching traditions, livestock tales, horticulture, husbandry events, & crop deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Paul Gauguin (#050). A painting of a group of people working in a field.
July 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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💫This week's theme is Cosmology! Join us Wednesday with your astrology legends, star gazing tools, sun/moon traditions, astronomy tales, & celestial events & cosmic deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888). Where the medieval caption read— “A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch.”
July 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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💫This week's theme is Land Wars! Join us #Wednesday with your ground-battle legends, territorial wars, battlezone traditions, land liberation tales, kingdom warfare & war deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917. From the War Art of Paul Nash.
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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💫This week's theme is giants! Join us Wednesday with your ogre legends, giant wars, behemoth traditions, titan tales, towering cyclops, & gigantic deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Cían Finds Balor's Daughter, drawing by H. R. Millar, c. 1905.
June 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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💫This week's theme is instruments! Join us Wednesday with your piano legends, your guitar tales, magical horns, flute-playing traditions, drum dancing, & instrumental deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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A fantastical musical machine as imagined by Athanasius Kircher in his Musurgia Universalis (1650)
June 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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💫This week's theme is Martial Arts! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! With your fighting-system legends, your boxing tales, grappling traditions, art of 8 limbs, MMA rituals, & ninja deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Japanese ninja, art credit: rawpixel
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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💫This week's theme is summertime! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! With your poolside legends, your sunny day picnic tales, summertide traditions, summer solstice rituals, & summertime deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) - Summertime. Where a woman and a young girl watch a duck float by from a rowboat. Beautiful strokes of color!
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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💫This week's theme is winged! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! With your aviation legends, your aerial messengers, flying creatures, bird-watching traditions, feather rituals, & winged deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
W. W. Denslow's illustration of "The Flying Monkeys" from the Wonderland World of Oz (1900).
May 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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💫This week's theme is birthdays. Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! With your zodiac legends, your date of birth traditions, birth/anniversary rituals, & natal day deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
Vintage birthday postcard
May 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM