Every Recipe has a Story.

Eric Johnson is a writer and lifelong cook whose work explores the intersection of folklore, foodways, and everyday life.

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

The Folklore Cookbook invites you into a warm, whimsical kitchen where fairies argue over seasoning, witches stir more than trouble, knights defend honor with biscuits, and ogres develop surprisingly refined tastes.
https://t.co/E5ddLZGzQH

[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

The Morrigan, the Phantom Queen, the Irish Goddess of witchcraft, war, death, retribution, but also fertility.

art: A. Leonards

[🎼 𝕸𝕬𝕽𝕂 🎼 @2112Westy]

#MythologyMonday
In Greek myth, psyche means both butterfly and soul.
It was said that when a person died, the soul slipped free like a butterfly taking flight.
Fragile, silent, and brief, it reminded the living that life itself is only a moment between two mysteries.
Even the lightest wings can carry eternity.

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

#FolkloreSunday Norwich pease-porridge became popular when two desperate young boys, seeking something different to eat, stole sausages from an upper-class market and cooked them with their pease-porridge.

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

Blackthorns also have a long association with witchcraft and dark magic; during the 17C when fear of witches was especially rampant, it was said that witches used thorny blackthorn wands and blackthorn walking sticks to curse people and wreak general havoc.#Folklore

[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it" ~ Herman Melville; Moby-Dick

#WorldWhaleDay art: Sergey Shikin

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

@Cozyreads_ Thank you.

[Nifty Buckles Folklore @NiftyBuckles]

#BookwormSat 📚 #ValentinesDay 💞
The goddess Venus sends her son Cupid to punish the mortal Psyche for her beauty — but Cupid falls for her instead, defying his mother’s command.

Their story reminds us that gods and mortals alike can suffer; when jealousy poisons the heart, only love and trust can bind — and redeem — the soul.

Charles A.ntoine Coypel 1730.

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

@TitaniasRealm ah, a 2-keyboard cat.

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

#FolkloreSunday

Norwegian Forest Cats, also known as Viking cats, are large-bodied, domestic cats that look like something straight out of a fairy tale.

According to Norse mythology, the goddess Freyja travelled across the heavens in a chariot pulled by two large cats.

Legend has it that Freyja's cats are the ancestors of the Norwegian Forest Cat breed.

📷 aslantheforestcat on IG

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
#illustration by Arthur Rackham

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

According to English folklore, the devil was in the habit of tricking boys into skipping church by challenging them to a game of cricket. He was also known to appear in the form of an enormous badger, leading them on a merry chase so that they missed church entirely.

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

There was once a cat who persuaded a mouse to live with her and share in the household chores on account of the great love she felt for her. When winter drew near, the cat said that they must prepare or go hungry, but the mouse should stay home in case she got caught in a trap.

[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

Nettles are associated with barren and desolate places....but also fairies...

In the UK and Ireland they support over 40 different species of insects and grow near to the places that magical folk gather 🦋🧚🏻‍♂️

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

'Oak, Man' by Stephen G. Rae

twig, leaf, acorn;
chlorophyll flows
root, branch

twig, leaf, acorn;
hardened skin
cracked, misshapen

twig, leaf, acorn;
cellulose heart
oak, man

art: 'Tree Beard' by Stephen G. Rae

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

@books_n_books4U A cookbook for people who love stories—and stories for people who love to cook. https://t.co/E5ddLZGzQH

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

@BluebellRaven Cooked → ATU 327-type witch tale

[Bluebell Raven @BluebellRaven]

The youngest of three beautiful princesses, kind and lovable, often walked in the garden of a ruined castle. One day, she encountered a wounded black crow that revealed itself as an enchanted prince. To break his curse, she had to abandon her family, live alone in the castle’s one habitable room with a golden bed, and remain silent, no matter what horrors she witnessed at night.

Bravely, she endured terrifying nightly visits from evil spirits who dragged her toward a boiling cauldron, never screaming. Her endurance eased the prince’s suffering. When her curious elder sister visited and screamed, breaking the progress, the youngest insisted on facing the trials alone.

After two more years, the prince explained that one final year of her serving as a mistreated maidservant would complete the seven-year enchantment. She obeyed, suffering greatly. At last, the prince (now a handsome youth) appeared, freed from the spell, and they returned to the restored, magnificent castle, living happily together for a hundred years.

📖“The Crow” from the Yellow Fairy Book (1894) by Andrew Lang
🎨Henry Justice Ford

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

Books arrived today, so a rather impromptu video, filmed in my back garden 💚

Introducing: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae

Bitesize tales of elves and giants, faeries and goblins; of dragons, King Arthur and Merlin the magician; witches and wizards; gods, goddesses and sinners; poetry, song and dance; from mighty trees to hairy fish.
https://t.co/DQRnFaIJ2v

#book #ebook #folklore #lakedistrict

[Every Recipe has a Story. @AuthorEEJohnson]

@Tree_Folklore ATU 826 – Hidden or esoteric knowledge of fairy folk

[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

"The old women are most learned, but will not readily talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of"

W.B. Yeats