BigFolkSmallFolk

British folklore, myth + magic for curious children + their grown-ups. Tweets by @moominlady.

[BigFolkSmallFolk @bigsmallfolk]

@thetrainline Thanks Lorcan. Took a couple of attempts (sorry) but hopefully you’ll have account details now

[BigFolkSmallFolk @bigsmallfolk]

@thetrainline Hello, are you able to help us with a railcard that has disappeared from an account? We can’t work out how to report it and need it to make a booking for next week. Thank you

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is folklore of plants, flowers and herbs! (Image: Culpeper's Herbal, via wikimedia commons)

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

10 Lesser-Known Fairy Tales That Should Get More Love #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/BOB1Nr7yYV

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

Hello and thank you to the wonderful @WillowWinsham for this morning's session. This is @MythCrafts here for #FolkloreThursday! As it is also #NationalStorytellingWeek2021 we want to hear your best stories. So tweet away!
Img: Storyteller Under Sunny Skies by Rose Pecos-SunRhodes

[BigFolkSmallFolk @bigsmallfolk]

Some inspiration for these long days of lockdown. You’re never too young to love folklore!

Thanks for sharing again @FolkloreThurs ❤️

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

#Top10 Fun Folklore #ActivitiesforChildren and their Grown-ups by @bigsmallfolk #lockdown #schools
https://t.co/7IOBHPdc6L

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is the folklore of plants and flowers! (Image: via Wellcome Collection)

[B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton]

#FolkloreThursday The blacksmith was considered to command magical powers, iron was a powerful weapon against witchcraft and the staples on the step of the font were thought to prevent the theft of holy water by witches, who sought to use it in the casting of spells.

[BigFolkSmallFolk @bigsmallfolk]

Fishermen take care not to whistle aboard their boats for fear it will challenge the wind and stir up a gale. Clapping on a boat could trigger a thunderstorm. #FolkloreThursday

[The BabaYaga Project 🇺🇦🌻 @BabayagaProject]

Traditionally, farmwork had to be careful of fairies. Peasants would refuse to plough certain fields and would not cut down lone trees, for those places were said to be the home of the far, and woe betide and who disturb the fair folk! #folklorethursday

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

The theme for this week's #FolkloreThursday is worklore and the folklore of #work! (Image: Burial chamber of Sennedjem, Scene: Plowing farmer, via wikimedia commons)

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Sybille Schenker's delicate papercraft illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood. She uses layers of laser-cut and die-cut paper overlaid onto her graphic silhouette illustrations.

[Old Weird Britain @oldweirdbritain]

There was a poor #witch on the Isle of Man who prophesied that the herring fleet would not return.

It did not.

She was executed in the usual way by being rolled down the hill of Slieauwhallian in a spiked barrel.

Just so sad and cruel.
#Manx #folklore
Image: John Aitken

[P J Richards @P_J_Richards]

🍀🕰️🍀A Chime Hour Child - born when the parish clock rang out the quarters at 3, 6, 9 or 12 o'clock - was believed to have the gift of 'second sight' and be immune to enchantments, but the most blessed and powerful of all were born at the stroke of midnight.
#FolkloreThursday

[Nifty Buckles Folklore @NiftyBuckles]

#FolkloreThursday
In Ancient Greek folklore, a phoenix is a bird that cyclically regenerates. It is similar to the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its former self. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion

[BigFolkSmallFolk @bigsmallfolk]

It’s an Irish tradition to serve the top tier of a couple’s wedding cake at their baby’s christening and sprinkle the baby’s head with the cake crumbs as a wish for a long, happy life. #FolkloreThursday

[Folklore Thursday @FolkloreThurs]

Thanks for a lively session, #FolkloreThursday! This is Crystal @HistoriumU off to celebrate new beginnings. @ShanonSinn joins at 6:30 GMT for today's last session. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – D. Tutu (Img: Birth of a star/NASA)

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

In Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 fairytale 'Tommelise', the eponymous character (Thumbelina) is born by emerging from the flower of a freshly sprouted barley corn.

#FolkloreThursday

'Thumbelina' (1954) dir. Lotte Reiniger.

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

7th Jan is Distaff Day when Medieval women resumed their spinning after a break over Christmastide. A distaff is used to hold fibre when spinning is done by hand. It was a day of pranks when lads tried to set fire to the flax & in return were doused with water. #FolkloreThursday

[Mark Rees @reviewwales]

It's the first #FolkloreThursday of 2021, and that can only mean one thing - the Mari Lwyd has been and gone, and will return again next winter to challenge you to a battle of rhyming verse before stealing your cake and ale.
Here's to a brighter 2021, @FolkloreThurs friends!