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From medieval monsters to modern memes, Lexicons Unbound traces the folklore in your feed. Pull up a chair and press play. www.podpage.com/lexicons-unbound
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Lexicons Unbound @lexicons-unbound.bsky.social · 20d
In this mini-episode, Melanie reflects on the legacy of women healers often labeled “Granny Witches,” weaving her own family history into the folklore of faith, care, and community.

Listen to the latest episode of Lexicons Unbound wherever you get your podcasts

#FolklorePodcast #WomenHealers
An elderly woman with silver hair pulled back sits beside a glowing lamp that casts a warm amber light across her lined face and rustic clothing. The scene feels quiet and intimate, evoking wisdom and calm presence.
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It would be beautiful to revive winter storytelling gatherings, where elders speak, children listen, and the world feels held together by shared a bit of magic, firelight, and memory. #ThrowbackThursday

November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The slippery genius of the Cinderella story.
🪄 #fairytales #folklore
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The slippery genius of the Cinderella story
Cinderella has endured for hundreds of years. That’s because it gives us a way to talk about families.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Folklorist Vance Randolph noted that Ozark storytellers treated the Howler’s fiery eyes as a sign, a spark from the underworld or the forge of creation itself. Either way, fire meant power, and only the foolish ignored its warning.

#WyrdWednesday #Folklore #Cryptid
Illustration of a massive black panther-like creature crouched beneath a tree. Its fur is dark and dense, blending into the shadows, while its eyes blaze with bright red fire. The scene has a misty, eerie atmosphere, evoking a sense of ancient wilderness and myth.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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😁😉
#funny #tuesdayvibes
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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OooOOO almost forgot that tonight/tomorrow night the full moon is a supermoon! (It's at approx 8:19AM tomorrow) but I think I'll celebrate tonight.

Nooooow I might have to change some things in the agenda!
a painting of a cat laying on its back holding a full moon
Alt: a painting of a cat laying on its back holding a full moon
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The mists of Caddo Lake hold stories much older than Texas, told for generations by the Caddo Nation, whose ancestral lands include this region.

Fog, memory, and spirit intertwine on the bayou.

#MythologyMonday #Folklore #CaddoLake
📷 Photo by Shiva Shenoy (CC BY 2.0)
Golden morning mist rising around a cypress tree on Caddo Lake in East Texas, warm light diffused through fog over still water. Photo by Shiva Shenoy.
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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🎧 Streaming now on Spotify!

Step into the world where stories, symbols, and digital culture collide.

✨ Lexicons Unbound: where #Folklore meets your algorithm!

Listen today and discover how old tales shape new conversations. Link in bio.

#FolklorePodcast #Storytelling #DigitalCulture
Square promotional graphic for the podcast Lexicons Unbound: where Folklore meets your algorithm. The design features a teal background with silhouetted black tree branches. At the center is a stylized Spotify player with the Lexicons Unbound logo — a minimalist line drawing of a woman’s profile with sound waves and thought symbols. White text at the top reads “Streaming now on Spotify.”
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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In this mini-episode, Melanie reflects on the legacy of women healers often labeled “Granny Witches,” weaving her own family history into the folklore of faith, care, and community.

Listen to the latest episode of Lexicons Unbound wherever you get your podcasts

#FolklorePodcast #WomenHealers
An elderly woman with silver hair pulled back sits beside a glowing lamp that casts a warm amber light across her lined face and rustic clothing. The scene feels quiet and intimate, evoking wisdom and calm presence.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
lexicons-unbound.bsky.social
What makes a tombstone glow? Science says reflection. #Folklore says mystery. We say it’s somewhere in between. Take a moonlit hayride through Texas #cemetery legends.
New Blog post! bit.ly/4ooufzF

#WyrdWednesday
Glowing Tombstones: Folklore Under a Texas Moon
Explore how Texas glowing tombstone legends blend immigrant design, folklore, and legend-tripping into cultural crossroads of memory and story.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The guys at GraveYard Tales are covering one of my favorite Tennessee legends today: The Bell Witch of Adams, Tenn. Listening now. #paranormal #folklore #podcast
The Bell Witch
Podcast Episode · GraveYard Tales · 10/24/2025 · 1h 38m
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October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
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Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?
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October 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Folklore preserving memories: www.thepacer.net/southern-gho... #folklore #southernghosts #folkloring #ghosts #familylore
Southern ghosts: how folklore keeps our past alive
Every Southern town has a ghost story.  Whether it is the haunted plantation down the road, the bridge where the “crying woman” was said to appear or the old courthouse clock that never struck midn…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober
A Jolly Halloween vintage Halloween card; a child is stood on a chair looking out of the window and watching three witches in flight on broomsticks over rooftops.
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In Alpine traditions, wooden masks, called Larven, were passed down through families. At Fasnacht, they danced to drive out winter spirits. Many of these “witches” were actually men in drag. A reminder that the witch figure was always a liminal one.
#WyrdWednesday #WitchWednesday #Halloween2025
Three costumed figures at a Fasnacht parade in Bad Rotenfels, Germany, 2016. They wear traditional carved wooden masks: two grotesque witch faces with hooked noses, bulging eyes, and black headscarves decorated with pins, and one horned, animal-like mask with a shaggy mane. The scene reflects Alpine carnival traditions where such masks are used to drive away winter spirits. Baden de, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Really enjoyed talking witches, mermaids, crooked coins, and hidden shoes, exploring the #Folklore that shaped Shakespeare’s England with
@odavies9.bsky.social @thatshakespeare.bsky.social

🎭 🎧 Listen now: cassidycash.com/ep392
Dragons, Saints, Witchcraft, and Magic of the 16th Century - Cassidy Cash
Explore Shakespeare’s world of folklore—accidental witches, mermaids, healing wells, crooked coins, and the superstitions of 16thC England.
cassidycash.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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“They didn’t burn witches—they burned women.”

New episode is live! The Witch Next Door.

What’s reclaimed, what’s commodified, and why the witch endures.🎧 Listen www.podpage.com/lexicons-unb...

#Folklore #Witches #Feminism #Podcast #October #Halloween
Silhouette of a woman in profile set against a glowing teal-blue background. She stands beside a lit candle and shelves, framed by warm orange light. The design is painterly and moody, evoking folklore and witch imagery.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Soup is a story of the turning season. Autumn harvests of pumpkins, squashes, & roots all find their way into the pot. Every ladle carries tradition, a tasty reminder that food is folklore too. What's your favorite Fall soup?
#FolkloreSunday #Foodlore
Photo credit: Cala cala_maffia Wikimedia Commons
A bowl of bright orange autumn soup garnished with pumpkin seeds and crumbled cheese, placed on a light stone surface beside a spoon and a fall leaf. Photo credit: Cala cala_maffia, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
September 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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In Texas, the Wampus Cat has leapt from forest creature to Friday night lights. Once feared in folklore as a half-woman, half-cat, it’s now a high school football mascot. Proof that the stories we whisper become the symbols we wear. 🐾🏈
#WampusCat #FolkyFriday #HighSchoolFootball
Graphic of two black football helmets facing each other on a green football field background. Each helmet displays a fierce golden cat head with an open mouth as the logo. Above the helmets, bold gold text reads ‘WAMPUS CATS.’”
September 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This Blood Moon rises tonight on the Corn Moon, the time of gathering, storing, and sharing the harvest.
Folklore says red moons mark change, and maybe tonight it’s simply to nudge us to savor what we’ve gathered, and release what no longer serves.
#FolkloreSunday #BloodMoon #CornMoon
Stylized painting of a woman in an apron standing in a golden field under a dark blue night sky, gazing up at a large red Blood Moon rising over layered Ozark-like mountains. The image evokes rural folklore and the symbolic Corn Moon harvest season.
September 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The ghost light of the theater is more than safety. Lore says it burns to keep away mischievous spirits who might otherwise perform their own plays in the darkness, leaving chaos for the living troupe. #FolkloreSunday
September 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Today, folk traditions live in unexpected places - like sports stadiums. Folkdance isn’t just circles & squares. It’s familiar steps turned into spectacle on a baseball field. The Savannah Bananas know: when we dance the moves together, we find joy, belonging, & community. #folkyfriday #BananaBall
Savannah Bananas baseball players in bright yellow uniforms perform on the field, holding guitars and banjos while dancing together. They smile, laugh, and kick up their heels, turning the ballpark into a lively stage with the city skyline in the background.
September 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Logging camps gave us this giant lumberjack & his blue ox, legends of outsized power, adventure, & American spirit—long before #Marvel assembled theirs.
#FolkloreSunday #PaulBunyan #Minnesota
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Statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji, Minnesota. Paul is a giant lumberjack with a red plaid shirt, blue pants, and black cap. Beside him stands Babe, a bright blue ox with long horns. A sign marks “Paul Bunyan 1937,” with tall pine trees in the background. Photo credit ‪@daytripper28.bsky.social‬
August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Leave out milk, bread, and honey and you'll have less housework to do: the brownie is a Scottish spirit that at night will tidy up the home a bit if given offerings. If ignored or offended, they become boggarts, so be kind. #FolkyFriday

🖼: T. DiTerlizzi
Arthur Spiderwick's notes about the Common House Brownie, from the Spiderwick Chronicles series of books, by Tony DiTerlizzi. I can't read the smaller text, but it shows a little man with funny ears in a white tunic and green striped pants, no shoes, and a hat of a thimble, needle, and other random bits, with a badminton feather duster, showing bread and honey above.
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Vance Randolph recorded Ozark folklore that says buttermilk + honey cured skin disease and restored a youthful glow.

Today? The beauty industry sells similar for big $$$.
Turns out grandma’s kitchen was the original Sephora. 😁
#FolkyFriday #Ozarks #Honey #HomeRemedy
Rustic folk-art style painting of a vintage milk bottle and a jar of golden honey, symbolizing an Ozark folk remedy once believed to heal skin and restore youth. Image created with Midjourney AI
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The Ozark Howler is described as a black, horned beast with glowing red eyes. Part panther, part phantom, its howl still echoes in the mountain folklore. From backwoods legends to modern memes, it refuses to be forgotten.
#FolkloreSunday #OzarkHowler #AmericanFolklore
A shadowy black panther-like creature with glowing red eyes crouches on a wooded hillside at dusk. Mist drifts through the forest as the beast stares forward, evoking the folkloric Ozark Howler.
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM