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26 Oct 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Nifty Buckles
Hold onto your heads! The Halloween/Samhain countdown continues... 5 more days! The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short fictional story crafted by Washington Irving in 1820. It was based on folklore of the American Revolution. A Hessian soldier was d...
16 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
The Cunning folk of old and ancient Druids kept much tree knowledge and treelore they respected nature. The Sycamore in the U.K. is a cousin to the North American maple tree also known as the Western Plane-tree. illustration of a sacred grove u...
15 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Our Halloween countdown and #FolkloreThursday continues with Loki's daughter Hela or Hel. In Norse mythology the trickster god Loki and the giantess Angrboða birthed a daughter and named her Hel or Hela which means ‘concealer.’ Hela is a sister...
8 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Folklore Thursday’s theme this week is on the folklore of bold girls courageous women and powerful goddesses. Celtic goddesses in folklore are interesting, colorful and magical such as Cerridwen a Welsh enchantress, shape-shifting herbalist and famou...
5 Oct 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Nifty Buckles
Eastern European Gypsy folklore cites an offspring of a woman and a male vampire grow up into a vampire hunter, called a Dhampire. They do not live as long as humans, because they have no bones just a thick rubber plasma within their bodies. Dhampire...
24 Sep 2020 3 minute read 4 comments Nifty Buckles
Folklore of Today is on Pirates & Sealore, Grog what is it? Bumbo what is it? How did a couple of beverages effect the American Revolution? Well read on my friends. Here is an old Leprechaun's take on it. Grog was considered a sailors’s drink to pr...
21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Autumn-Equinox Folklore Tuesday September 22nd 9:31 A.M. E. D. T (according to the Farmer’s Almanac) marks the start of the Autumn- Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Welcoming Scarlet and golden leaves on rustic old trees. A time for long wind...
3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Ogham or Old Irish Ogam is an ancient Celtic/Irish tree alphabet/language of the Druids. The term Druid means "The Wise person of the Oak." In the Welsh myths, a Druid was called dyn hysbys, which means 'Wizard.' The Birch tree in Ogham called Beith...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
According to Norse Mythology, Mimir is a Lord of Wisdom, a talking oracular head. Mimir was decapitated during the Æsir–Vanir War. He was the Keeper of the Well at the base of the World tree, Yggdrasil. Mimir's severed head protects the well. The W...
14 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
The BURRYMAN Custom began in 1687 in South Queensferry Edinburgh,Scotland today, via competition for the Fringe Fest each second week of August. The Burryman was said to repel evil spirits and unintentionally frighten wee children. Oh look it's the...
