I’ve made a couple of tentative steps in putting the fokllore thursday strips on Redbubble, here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/pjholden/ As time wears on I’ll be putting them ALL on, but if you have any favourites let me know. They’ll stay on redbubble
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#43 – “Food”
UK playground food folklore: Green crisps are poisonous. Eat apple or orange pips, and a tree will start to grow inside you. Blue Smarties make you hyperactive. Swallow gum and it will stay in your guts for two months, maybe
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Countdown to the end…
So, we have plans for year two, and hopefully you’ll all join us. But I don’t want year one to pass without some sort of special event. We’re about 11 weeks from the end, which seems like forever, but then
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#40 – “Jack-in-the-Green”
Jack in the Green – the Green Man personified via a disguise of ivy and leaves – features in many folklore festivals across the UK. No Jack’ is more striking though than the floral Garland King, who rides a shire-horse
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Church
This is the strip that started it all. I’d been casting around for something to draw between work, and I saw a tweet John had posted about a Church close to him, and it was such a poetic little tweet
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On loss
No folklore thursday this week From me. We lost my father-in-law today. He’d been seriously ill for over a year (and had spent much of it in hospital). He went home and eventually back in to hospital a week Or
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#38 – “Gandreið”
Gandreið is yet another Old Norse term often interpreted as “Witches’ Ride”. The word gandr seems to have had several meanings including “hound” and “gander”. Greylag geese are sometimes known as Heaven Hounds – their cries sounding like a pack
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Folklore Thursday: Colouring in for Easter! Eggs
If you like, you might enjoy colouring this one in! (Or if you know some young kids who might similarly enjoy it!)
#37 – “Eggs”
First of all let me start off by saying sorry. I haven’t been able to find the time to post any articles for a few weeks now, for fairly obvious reasons. I will 100% do my best to get back
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#33 – “Sin-eater”
When a person dies with unforgiven sins they may be refused entry into Heaven. In Scotland and Wales, as recently as C19th, the Sin-eater would be sent for. Food laid on the body would be ritually consumed by the Sin-eater.
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