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Host of #LegendaryWednesday. Sharing your #legend #art #quote #folklore #mythology #poetry & #fairytale tweets #Wednesday! @Eclary84 (Mt time)
Rocky Mountains, MTZ
Joined April 2022
💫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
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A "Kern Baby" pictured in the village of Whalton, Northumberland, in 1902; a local derivative of the Corn Dollies, made at harvest time right the way across Europe, many of which were believed to be imbued with the Spirit of the Corn itself. #LegendaryWednesday @LegendaryWedne1
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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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#LegendaryWednesday Instructing Her Dolly in the Art of Going Off Nicely to By-byes and The Lost Doll by Millicent Etheldreda Gray.
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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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#LegendaryWednesday Popular in Scandinavia, but also found in other European folklore including Tudor England, a Kitchen Witch is a homemade doll created as a good luck charm. Resembling a crone she is a practitioner of good magic to deter evil spirits and keep the kitchen safe.
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In Scotland a similar “harvest maiden” was thought to protect farms against fairy mischief if suspended somewhere within the house.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore` 2/2
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#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. 1/2
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#LegendaryWednesday Marchpane, the beautiful yet cruel & manipulative porcelain doll in Rumer Godden’s The Dolls House. Consumed by envy she conspires under the guise of sweet innocence to destroy the Plantaganets the little “blended” doll family who live in the eponymous house.
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#LegendaryWednesday Popular in Scandinavia, but also found in other European folklore including Tudor England, a Kitchen Witch is a homemade doll created as a good luck charm. Resembling a crone she is a practitioner of good magic to deter evil spirits and keep the kitchen safe.
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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: https://t.co/PQ4b7iVFyO
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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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#LegendaryWednesday 🎃 Chucky, the killer doll from the Horror film, 'Child’s Play,' brings terror with a soul trapped in a Good Guy doll via voodoo. This pint-sized horror icon slashes through films, blending 80s slasher vibes with eerie folklore roots. #Chucky #HorrorMovies
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#LegendaryWednesday 🎃🪆🌽 #Poppets and Soul Vessels European folklore (Medieval, with roots in ancient ceremonies) Hollow dolls or "poppets" crafted in a person's likeness to house souls during rituals, used for sympathetic magic like healing or cursing; stems from fears of the
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Oharae is a Shinto practice of moral purification where special rings of grass called chinowa are placed along the paths to shrines. This ritual includes entering the chinowa & using paper dolls to float away as symbols of purification. #LegendaryWednesday
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Maneki-Neko or 'beckoning cat' is a common Japanese figurine thought to bring luck and money. Often found in front of businesses or homes, many have a mechanical paw that slowly moves back and forth, 'beckoning'. #catlore #LegendaryWednesday
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Maneki-Neko or 'beckoning cat' is a common Japanese figurine thought to bring luck and money. Often found in front of businesses or homes, many have a mechanical paw that slowly moves back and forth, 'beckoning'. #catlore #LegendaryWednesday
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🔮✨ #LegendaryWednesday 🎃🧙♀️ Did you know? Historically, Paper Dolls weren’t just for play—they were used in folk magic to represent people in spells or curses, much like voodoo dolls. A mysterious link between paper and powerful enchantments! 🧙️📝 #MagicHistory #FolkMagic
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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
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🎭✨ #LegendaryWednesday Discover the mysterious Harlequin Dolls from New Orleans' French Quarter. These ornate, colorful dolls are said to carry spirits and protect their owners from evil. Festive voodoo lore! 🖤🤡 #NOLA #Dolls #Festive 🎨Heather Myers
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