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Host of #LegendaryWednesday every #Wednesday. #Folklore enthusiast & Anthropologist, reposting all of your #Legend, #fairytale, #Folklore, #mythology, #traditions, #archeology #quotes, #poetry & #art. (Mt. time)

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#LegendaryWednesday @legendarywednes1.bsky.social · 3d

💫Thank you for the #LegendaryWednesday doll posts. They were spectacularly spineless! Hope you all have a great week. Will announce next week's theme by Monday. Follow & will follow back. See you #Wednesday!!💫
#Legend #poetry #folklore #fairytale #mythology #art #quote #film💫

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#LegendaryWednesday @legendarywednes1.bsky.social · 3d

a group of people with their hands on their faces and their mouths open

ALT: a group of people with their hands on their faces and their mouths open

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

"Vasilisa the Beautiful" is the Russian tale of a girl abused by her stepmother, her only friend being a magic doll from her late mother. The doll helps her complete chores and later aids her when she's sent on an errand to the home of the feared witch Baba Yaga. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

The Island of the Dolls is located in the channels of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. During the 1950s, the owner of the island, Julián Santana Barrera, hung thousands of dolls on the trees to appease the spirit of a drowned girl who haunted him, crying out, "I want my doll!" #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

In the Comanche legend of the bluebonnet flower, a girl loses her parents to drought and is left with only a handmade doll to remember them by. The girl sacrifices her beloved doll to the Great Spirits to end the drought, making rain fall and bluebonnets grow. #LegendaryWednesday

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

Hindu temples often use murti, sacred deity dolls or idols, as vessels for divine presence. Rituals treat them as living beings, with offerings of food, clothing, and care. #LegendaryWednesday

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

In Slavic tradition, motanka dolls were made without faces to protect households. With no eyes or mouth, spirits could not enter. They became guardians against both envy and evil. #LegendaryWednesday

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neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social · 3d

The oldest undisputed figurines known to man (~40,000 years old)

*Venus of Hohle Fels
*Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel
*Animal figurines of Vogelherd Cave

All discovered in the caves of southern Germany.
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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#legendarywednesday: `Approximately four inches tall, these figures were often crafted from the final sheaf harvested. Such harvest dollies were kept near the hearth until replaced by a similar doll after the next year’s harvest. In Scotland a similar “harvest […]

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Corn dollies from 2025, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

Horror cinema gave us the possessed doll. From Chucky to Annabelle, folklore fused with fear to create dolls that walk, whisper, and kill, carrying childhood’s comfort into nightmare. I wrote about this several years ago: www.theatlantic.com/...

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'Child's Play': Chucky and the Horror of Creepy Dolls - The Atlantic

The 1988 film introduced an iconic villain in Chucky—just one of many living toys that have haunted cinema for decades.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

Ancient Rome used poppets of wax and clay for curses or blessings. These dolls were vessels, carrying wishes to gods or binding oaths in secret. #LegendaryWednesday

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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#legendarywednesday #celtic: `On the Isle of Man it was a custom to cut off a bunch of ears from the last sheaf of corn, with about 12 inches of straw attached. This bunch of corn, called baban ny mheillea, 'the doll of the harvest,' or simply yn mheillea ( […]

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

In Mexico, the Island of the Dolls is a shrine of horror and grief. Hundreds of dolls hang from trees, left by a caretaker who believed they appeased the spirit of a drowned child. #LegendaryWednesday

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

Scottish witches were said to use Corp Criadhach, or clay corpses, when harming others. The doll, made of clay, would be placed in a moving body of water, preferably under a waterfall, and then fall apart: the intended victim would get sick and die. #LegendaryWednesday

A small clay doll in the resemblance of a person, placed in a small coffin, meant to indicate a clay corpse

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

Katashiro is a form of substitution in Japanese magic, often a paper or wooden doll used in the place of a person. While they can be used to purify a person or a ritual too intense for the body on the doll, they can also be used to harm #LegendaryWednesday

🖼: Inkstuff

Inkstuff's depiction of several Katashiro, vaguely human-shaped folded pieces of paper with an inverted pentagram on its center, all flying around while black spots of ink sit all over the page.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

There is a strange tale from #JapaneseFolklore about how a wooden sumo doll magically came to life and saved a family from a group of bandits. Full tale is in the thread below.
🎨'Sumo Kid' - Sekino Junichiro, ca. 1970s.
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A doll resembling a child sumo wrestler holding an object above his head. A candle is burning in a stand nearby.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

Here is an interesting #yokai for #LegendaryWednesday. They can grant your wishes but unfortunately they have a more sinister side too. More in the thread below.
🎨'Green Kimono - Doll Series' - Kawase Hasui, 1935.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

In Japanese folklore, the Okiku doll is said to grow human hair. Housed in a temple, it belonged to a little girl who died young. Visitors swear the strands lengthen year by year, alive with her spirit. #LegendaryWednesday

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

Hinamatsuri (girls day or dolls day) is a Japanese festival held in March. Dolls play an important part in a tradition known as hina nagashi that's explained in the thread below. This print by Toyohara Chikanobu (1896) shows groups admiring a display of dolls during the festival.
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A group of people stand looking up at an elaborate display of dolls.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

The voodoo doll is more complex than pop culture portrays. In Haitian Vodou, dolls and effigies honor spirits or guide prayer. They've been twisted into objects of fear, but their roots are devotional. #LegendaryWednesday

Art: GM Binder

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

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How to give your young child nightmares ... this doll was owned by Marjorie Cousins, the daughter of family friends during the 1910s.

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observethedate.bsky.social @observethedate.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday #
#WednesdayGreen
#AquilineWednesday
#BookshopWednesday
#EgyptologyWednesday
#GothicWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
#HollowayWednesday
#WaterTowerWednesday
#LegendaryWednesday
#ReliefWednesday
#RoseWednesday
#WallsOnWednesday

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

#DailySpookLore #Superstitiology #AncientSky #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #ParapsychologySky #OccultSky #CanadaSky #DollSky #GhostSky #HauntingSky #Mythology #Folklore #Parapsychology #Occult #UrbanLegend #Canada #BritishColumbia #Quesnel #Doll #Ghost #Haunting

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

Mandy, a haunted doll, is kept in the Quesnel & District Museum in Quesnel, British Columbia. Her eyes supposedly follow the movements of museum visitors, and cameras trained on her flicker. Mandy was given to the museum after her owner kept getting woken up by her crying.
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Photography of Mandy, the haunted doll of Quesnel.

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 4d

🕯️🎃🕯️Pumpkin Lanterns - by Arthur Rackham
#FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Have fun in autumn with this children's middle grade, packed with adventure,food and friendship!

www.amazon.co.uk/Housie-Mousi... #childrensbook #allthefeels #wellbeing #feelgood #friends #fun #humour #shenanigans #outdoors #autumnvibe #FairytaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday #homeschooling #love #mg

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