Daniel Defoe's book, "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" was published in 1719 and is said to be based on the extraordinary life of Alexander Selkirk, who was castaway on an island where he lived for over four years before being rescued in 1709 #FolkyFriday.
"I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all around to the sea, I am the lord of the fowl and the brute..." The opening lines to William Cowper's poem "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk", the real life Robinson Crusoe #FolkyFriday#MiraculousReturns
Mabon marks the autumn equinox, a time of balance between light and dark as the seasons shift. It’s a celebration of the harvest and a moment to reflect on what’s been gathered before preparing for the winter ahead. 🍂🌾 #FolkyFriday#myth#folklore#Wicca
In Welsh legends, Mabon ap Modron ("Son, son of the Mother") was stolen as a baby from his mother Modron so many centuries ago that even the oldest animals of Britain (who themselves are centuries old) don't know where he is. He is freed from his prison by King Arthur. 🎨Jen Delyth #FolkyFriday
#FolkyFriday The Hare was considered to be a messenger between humans and the Otherworld by the Celts ... 🎨Wendy Arnold
The mound at Cahokia has a historical set of pillars called the Cahokia "Stongehenge" which align to the equinoxes and solstices, and now excavated, are still observed (but no longer called a "ritual") particularly at the autumnal equinox. #FolkyFriday
After wasting his summer doing nothing but making music, a grasshopper is left without any food to harvest come the autumn and learns the hard way that there's a time for work and a time for play in Aesop's fable of 'The Ant and the Grasshopper.' #FolkyFriday 🎨: Milo Winter
Medieval Reaping - the medieval method of using teams of women reaping the grain followed by a man who would collect and tie the sheaves during harvest, was still being practiced in Northumberland in the early nineteenth century. #FolkyFriday 📚Luttrell Psalter (1330) British Library
