#FOLK

[sehnis]

[text ID: "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond" is about two Scottish soldiers who were imprisoned on the Scottish border. One of them was going to be set free, but the other one was going to be executed. In Scottish legend, anyone who dies outside Scotland takes the "low road" back to their homeland, where they will finally be at peace.

In this song, the doomed soldier is comforting the soldier who will be set free. He tells them that "you'll take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland before ye". /end ID]

No one on this website understands that me and my true love will never meet again on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond

[vintagehomecollection]

Living with Folk Art: Ethnic Styles from Around the World, 1991

[vektorich-blog]

Haley (Folk AU)

[mythologiestofollow]

hozier on polaroid

[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[bashieashie]

I just think medieval snail ladies are neat.

[thirea]

Polish folk Hatsune Miku because there is a trend going on twtr

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, 1974)

[vintagehomecollection]

The dining room within the home of a Californian passionately involved with contemporary Mexican folk craftsmen and musicians... on the table is displayed a fine collection of Tlaquepaque pottery.

Living with Folk Art: Ethnic Styles from Around the World, 1991

[renegade-hierophant]

Slovak traditional highland axe dance

EDIT: If you'd like to play a character like these guys in a video game, check out Hellish Quart.

[hairtusk]

'Wool waulking is a traditional Scottish process of finishing and strengthening newly woven woolen fabrics. It is a significant social and cultural activity, often carried out by women in the Highlands of Scotland. The Gaelic songs that are sung during waulking have a distinctive rhythmic pattern that aids in synchronising the work.'

(Video and text via Inverness Outlanders)

[hiort]

wanted to join the miku trend too, ukrainian miku inspired by poppy flowers ✿

[baddywronglegs]

Around the world today, the penumbra of the rising of the first sun of May is lined with onlookers and wellwishers, eyes on the eastern horizon to catch the first glimpse of a new season.

Because in our hearts, this is how summer returns to the northern hemisphere; this sun a baton passed in the annual relay as the south prepares for what winter may bring.

Among our number, where the hilltops flatten enough for people to trust their feet in the gloom, for over a century now morris dancers have set out in the fading dark to dance in the dawn, for the same reason we do anything: because it's what we do. That's all tradition is, after all.

And every year, alongside the bells, a passage from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather rings in my mind.

"The sun would have risen just the same, yes?"

NO.

"Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact."

THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.

...

"Really? Then what would have happened, pray?"

A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

And so, every year, follow the sound of bells and sticks, the chorus of voices singing Hal And Tow, and you'll find a bunch of knackered weirdos in the middle of nowhere in daft hats and a chill breeze, but proud of what they've done.

After all, we just made the sun rise.

[onemorecupofcoffee]

[o-rb]