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• in Music
  KidTunes: History Rocks with The Deedle Deedle Dees and Strange Dees, Indeed
  Ya’ know how many of my history teachers were this cool? None!, that’s how many.
  by missbobetier / on Nov 7, 2011
• in TV
  Supernatural Recap - "Clap Your Hands if You Believe"
  Friday's Supernatural features alien abductions and faerie folklore as Sam & Dean try to solve a string of disappearances.
  by thenewuniverse / on Nov 20, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “folklore”

 

• White Ladies and Other Ghosts

  
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  The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is considered to be one of the most famous of the ‘white lady’ class of ghosts in the world. Further, she is said to have been the subject of one of the most famous spirit photographs in history. It is claimed that Lady Dorothy Walpol haunts Raynham Hall. Her reasons for haunting ...
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• Book Review: Legendary Beasts of Britain

  
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  Legendary Beasts of Britain by Julia Cresswell My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Shire Books are short, heavily illustrated introductions to a variety of British subjects. Considering how many theyve published, including one on spoons , Im surprised they havent done one on legendary creatures. Well, good things come ...
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• Sunday Legends-Fairies, and Other Hoaxes

  
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  You have your new house, and you’ve just settled in. The paint is dry on the ceiling of your porch . The house is clean , and being the fae believer that you are, you’ve been putting out some w heat and milk every night. Poking around your garden one night you find something that absolutely amazes you. Can it ...
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• Update: The Van Meter Visitor

  
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  The Jersey Devil on vacation or a migratory pterodactyl from Papua, New Guinea?
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• Gruesome Origins of Favorite Fairy Tales

  
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  Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. Disney and other film production companies have sanitized these stories for a modern audience that is deemed unable to cope with something other than a happy ending. This list looks at some of the common endings we are familiar ...
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• Tiny Chicken Eggs – A Natural Phenomenon With A Spooky History

  
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  Regular Size Eggs and A Small Egg Called A ‘Cock Egg’, ‘Witch Egg’ or ‘Wind Egg’ I went to collect eggs yesterday and found a dwarf egg sitting in the nest boxes along with the regular size eggs. I thought to throw it over the house but instead decided to tempt Fate and brought it indoors so I could take ...
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• Proof of Hell Under the Siberian Tundra? …or Not.

  
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  The Kola Superdeep Borehole, putative site of the gateway to hell, now welded shut due to lack of funding. Image Credit: Rakot13 It was the mid-1980′s, and the Cold War was still going strong. America had won the Space Race with the triumphant moon landings of the sixties and seventies. Now the superpowers  ...
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• The Molecatcher

  
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  Mole, from Wind in the Willows But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, ...
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• The Celtic Myth Podshow go on tour to visit the Faeries!

  
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  We are going to be away for a few days as we are attending the Magical Faerie Festival in Findon, West Sussex. We are hoping to be able to interview some of the people there and maybe bring you a special show to give you a feel for what actually happens at a Fairy festival, what its like and some of the general ...
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• Free admission to Heritage Malta Citadel museums during Notte Gozitana

  
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  Heritage Malta will be opening its Gozo Citadel museums for FREE this weekend during the Lejlet Lapsi – Notte Gozitana. The four Citadel museums namely the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, the Gozo Nature Museum, the Old Prison and the Folklore... This is a content summary only. Visit ArchaeoinAction for full links, ...
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• Bilibin Illustration post

  
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  Tagged: 2013, April 2013, art, bilibin, blog, Blogs, book, folklore, folktales, illustration, image, Images, keep, May, memories, picture, Russia, russian folktales, scanned, xoanna
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• Storyteller Peninnah Schram: Humor in Jewish Folklore - "A Detour Through Chelm"

  
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  Last Sunday the historic Provincetown Playhouse in New Yorks Greenwich Village was the scene  of a visit to Chelm, the fictional Eastern European town of fools, presided over by internationally renowned storyteller Peninnah Schram .  In a program of tales from Jewish folklore, Schram presented folklore from ...
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• Ascension Day and the custom of Beating of the Bounds

  
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  School children beat the parish bounds The custom of "Beating the Bounds" is to recognise the importance of the parish boundary. A tradition that has its roots in Terminalia, a May time Roman festival , which includes punishments of beatings and sacrifices to honour their boundary god Terminus. The ritual of " ...
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• How the Western Saints Lived: A Review and Summary of “Mormon Country” by Wallace Stegner

  
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  This is the second post in a three-part series reviewing and summarizing the CNU21 suggested reading list. CNU21 is this year’s annual Congress for the New Urbanism conference and will be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah May 29 th through June 1 st , 2013. The first book review and ...
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• Light and Magic In The Spring Forest

  
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  Share This: facebook twitter google pinterest bookmark Light from the sun, shines through the tree tops and creates a feeling of magical wonder in this Picton, Ontario forest. Buy Now
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• One-off unique event for Feis Ile – 140 musicians in new work on Battle of Gruinart

  
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  On 30th May, in Islay’s Bowmore Hall, there will be two performances by 140 island musicians of a new Gaelic music piece composed by the renowned Gaelic traditional musician, Clare Jordan, inspired by Islay bard, William Livingstone’s poem on the Battle of Gruinart – the last inter-clan battle fought on ...
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• May Day 2013 - what happened?

  
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  The Shard shines through the May Day blossom in St Johns Churchyard SE1 So how was May Day and the holiday weekend for you? On May Day itself the Fowlers Troop made their way through Deptford and Greenwich with the Jack in the Green - pictured here outside the Rose and Crown in Greenwich. Photo ...
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• Firehose 8: Leyla Acaroglu and "Environmental Folklore"

  
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  "Theres no denying..."  Below are tweets sent last night from Australia, where the New York Times opinion author wrote yesterdays column about how cell phones and electronics are exported for primitive burning.  I tried to reason (and am still trying)... Leyla Acaroglu  ‏ @ EcoInnovators 2h @ ...
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• Rogation Monday: The Custom and Tradition of the Shaftesbury Byzant Ceremon

  
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  Prior to 1830, at an agreed date May usually the Monday before Ascension Day, Shaftesbury would hold their annual Byzant Ceremony. Gold Hill, Shaftesbury The ceremony came about due to the fact that Shaftesburys geographical location was on a hill and that it did not have a water supply to call its own. ...
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• Sunday Legends-Haint

  
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  So you’re moving into a new house. It’s YOUR new house, but it isn’t a NEW house. Knowing that this means you’re going to be messing with whatever big bad or nasty that the people who have lived there before you have managed to dig up, you cleaned the house throughly. The house happens to sit next to a ...
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