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vogue ukraine january 2017, featuring malankars and malanka bears — bear-like costumes made from hay and worn during malanka festival by young men as a part of their adulthood rite of passage

No-face the eggplant facing a tiny Chihiro, super cute miniature diorama by Tatsuya Tanaka.

This set is a Spirited Away twist of an old Obon (festival of the dead) tradition called 精霊馬 shouryo-uma (lit. spirit horse). People craft horses made from cucumber and oxen made from eggplants:

(quote from this article) The cucumber horse is long and sleek, symbolizing ancestors’ swift journeys home to their families. The eggplant cow, plump and sturdy, embodies ancestors’ leisurely return trip, a load of souvenirs with them in tow.

While this long-standing tradition is practiced in many parts of Japan, younger generations have been riffing on it in new ways, carving their summer vegetables into elaborate creations and posting them online. For some people, shouryouma represents a special way to pay tribute to their loved ones.

New documentary series about Irelands holy Wells. In Irish!

First episode on 14/02/24, 8:00 PM on TG4

brodacze (bearded ones) from Sławatycze

A curious custom in the Highlands identifies the Yule-log with the Cailleach or Spirit of Winter. Early on Yule E'en, whilst the housewife was still busy in the kitchen, and the flailman chapped in the barn to provide fodder for the cattle, and the herd-laddie's axe resounded on the fir-stock, so that there should be plenty of fire-candles to brighten the Yule festivities, the head of the house went out to the woods and procured the stump of some withered tree, which he proceeded to carve into the rude resemblance of a woman. He was joined by the other members of the household, now relieved from toil, and they returned with the Cailleach in their midst. The stump was placed ceremoniously in the heart of the peat fire, and the whole company cracked jokes while the Christmas Old Wife blazed. -The Silver Bough, Volume 3: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Hallowe'en to Yule. F. Marian. McNeill.

Margaret Winifred Tarrant

English

1888-1959

4/5 stars

I love this book! I've been wanting to learn about Norwegian folk traditions for years, but only from the 1700-1900's. For a long time I thought this resource didn't exist, and then the Vesterheim Norwegian-American museum in Decorah, IA introduced me to this book! As I learn to forage angelica, elderberries, chamomile, etc here in the upper Midwest I can finally learn how my Norwegian ancestors used these same plants. Wonderful!

The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is I wish there was more detailed information about how Norwegian immigrants interacted with Native Americans. This is mentioned a few times in the book with no reference to specific First Nations peoples.

Día d'o Trache Ansotano, 2023.

For over 50 years, Ansotanos have been celebrating their traditional way of dressing, which remained intact from the Middle Ages until less than 100 years ago, mainly thanks to being a remote valley in the Aragonese Pyrenees.

via Heraldo de Aragón.

There’s magic surrounding us and there is nothing quite like learning about how our ancestors turned ‘every day’ ingredients into integral parts of ritual. From fertility and love to sewing discord and creating hate, eggs have been vessels for magic in Judaism for centuries. Learn about the various forms of usage of eggs in folk magic and practices in Jewish communities.

But Judaism isn’t alone in utilizing eggs—Certain egg symbolism transcends the borders of culture and are nearly global concepts. Eggs as symbols of resurrection, immortality, life, and rebirth: these are cross-cultural beliefs that exist in many different communities and cultures, so you may see things that resonate with you, even if you’re not Jewish!

Have you witnessed or performed magic with an egg? What rituals with eggs exist in your community? And, of course, do you dip your eggs in ashes?

My miniature Dožínky wreathe! Very happy with my first attempt. Part of today’s late equinox celebration.

@graveyarddirt I have to tag you because you’re my seasonal craft partner!

Sick in the head about the power of stories and folk tales and how they are retold and change over time.

Genuinely one of my favorite things about the world of Skyjacks is the way stories insist on themselved until they become true, in James D'Amato's worldbuilding book he refers to this magic system as folkways. Everything about the Luminaries and the folk beliefs of the different cultures becoming stronger and eventually realizing themselves as they are told and retold accross generations.

The strength of culture and tradition but also the power found in breaking from those traditions sometimes. How the stories we tell change and grow with the values we hold.

Especially as we're seeing now the principal actors in those stories try and act against them and create their own. Travis has always carried that theme but its prevelance in the recent episodes has me obsessed. The exploration of free will vs playing your role in the story.

I just AUGH, heart so full of love for this show and these characters, and the story its trying to tell.

Frida Kahlo  Her Universe

Editorial RM/ Museo Frida Kahlo,  Mexico City 2021, 237 pages, 25 x 32 cm., ISBN 9788417975531

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The iconic Mexican painter as seen through almost 300 archival items, from her wardrobe to her personal art collection

This compendium presents the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts and emotions generated around two fundamental, iconic figures of modern Mexico: painter Frida Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera. More than 300 images from the archives of the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City offer readers a glimpse of Kahlo’s distinctive wardrobe and the impressive collections of popular and pre-Hispanic art she assembled with Rivera, her connection with photography and the history of La casa azul, her beloved blue home that now serves as the museum’s main building. This volume welcomes us into Frida Kahlo’s universe, exploring the legacy of an indispensable figure in the world of 20th-century art and culture in her native Mexico and across the globe. Frida Kahlo (1907–54) began painting at the age of 18 when she was immobilized for several months as a result of a bus crash that left her permanently disabled. From then on, art served as an immense source of healing for Kahlo as well as a vehicle for self-expression and cultural exploration. At the heart of Kahlo’s practice was her love for Mexican folk tradition, her staunch communist beliefs and her complex relationship with her body, gender and sexuality. A lifelong activist, Kahlo died of a pulmonary embolism after participating in a demonstration against the CIA’s invasion of Guatemala.

05/06/22

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A Charm for a Dying Person The mist the dew; The dew the mist, The mist the dew In the eye of my love In the eye of my love Thou who didst open the young eye, Close it tonight in the sleep of death, In the sleep of death. "This touching death croon from the isle of Eigg in Scotland was chanted over a dying person. The croon would be chanted by the soul-friend or a village elder who would sometimes be accompanied by helpers. Until recently, it was an important and common practice to chant over dying villagers to ensure their safe journey to an afterlife." The British Book of Charms & Spells. Graham King.