🌹🧛 #FolkloreThursday In vampire folklore, the wild dog-rose is a powerful ward! Scatter its petals and a vampire must stop to count them. Rose garlands around a coffin or a bush planted on the grave were said to keep the dead from rising. 🥀 📸 Sten Porse, Wikimedia Commons, 2007.

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Some western countries have stories about the grim, aka the church grim. A belief the first person buried in a graveyard will be its guardian. In some places, a black dog was sacrificed, which may be why grims can be described as black dogs or wolves #FolkloreThursday 2015 wiki photo by Mathias

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#FolkloreThursday 🎃 Tonight is Punkie Night in Somerset! Children in Hinton St George parade with glowing mangelwurzel lanterns, led by a Punkie King and Queen! 👑 These grinning roots are spooky cousins of the jack-o'-lantern! 🕯️ livvigrant.substack.com/p/punkie-nig... #PunkieNight #HalloweenLore

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Known in English as the Lucky Cat, the Maneki Neko actually has a folklore story all its's own. Two of them, actually, with claiming to be the truth. Which is correct? That is up to you to decide! #folklorethursday KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN coming Nov 10! link.amazon/B03xIojn6

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#FolkloreThursday The ingenuity of making a #Halloween mask from a piece of pigskin. From An Fál Mór, Co. Mayo, 1930s, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland

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