#Wren Day

[nepeteaa]

The Wren! The Wren! The king of all birds!

[weirdchristmas]

Victorian "dead bird" Christmas cards were a very real thing, and I've done my part to document them. So here I am offering to (insufficiently) answer all your questions about this odd tradition and why it seemed to be so common that it didn't even need commenting upon.

[stairnaheireann]

Wren Day, also known as Wren's Day or the Day of the Wren (Lá an Dreoilín), celebrated on St Stephen's Day.

The tradition is very much on the wane now but in some few localities Wrenboys still go out in Ireland on St. Stephens Day. The central theme of the wrenboy visit is the wren, an effigy of which is carried about in a holly branch or in a box or cage. Previously it was hunted and killed prior to St. Stephen’s Day and a matter of honour for groups to have a real bird. Why, of all birds, is the…

[pagan-stitches]

Lankum — Hunting the Wren

[theatre-in-ireland-moodboard]

Wrenboys: Wren Day is an Irish and Manx tradition with roots in Paganism, taking place annually on the 26th December. A group of men and boys "hunt" a wren. Once killed, the wren is affixed to a decorated staff (fig. 2) and paraded around the neighbourhood by "Wrenboys" in conical straw masks (fig. 3 & 4). He who kills the wren is thought to have good luck for a year. Money is collected and songs are sung, such as "the wren, the wren, the king of all birds".

[stars-n-spice]

Happy Mother's Day :)

To all the wonderful space moms of the galaxy 🩵💫

[loth-creatures]

🏳️‍🌈BE GAY DO CRIMES 🏳️‍⚧️BE GAY DO CRIMES 🏳️‍🌈 BE G A Y DO CRIMES🏳️‍⚧️ FINALLY FINISHED YEEHAW 

MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU FUCKERS

NOW GO CAUSE SOME TROUBLE KARK SHIT UP LETS GOOOO

[critter-of-habit]

Just keep the headdress on please, Ahsoka

[wayward-wren]

The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is that he was always in a box someone else put him in. Watto said you are a slave. Qui-gon said you are the chosen one. You are a Jedi, you are a general, you are a good person. And when he knew without any doubt that he was no longer what people told him he was, he had to find new boxes. You are a sith. You are a servant. You are mine.

He spent his whole life being defined by people around him. And then along came Luke. And Luke didn't say 'you are a good person, come back to the light where you belong.' Because Anakin by all rights didn't belong in the light. No, Luke said 'you are my father. There's good in you." Luke said 'you have done great evil, but you can still change.' Luke said 'I do not excuse your villainy but I believe you can make your own choices.'

And that--that--is what got through. Not 'here is another box you must fit into' but finally, after his whole life, someone told Anakin 'you decide who you are.' And Anakin decided he was a man who loved his son.

[nataliabdraws]

Sabine and her wolves 🐺

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[fictionproblem]

mike making fun of game michael for being british

chewsday

[divinerivals]

HOLLY BLACK REPOSTED MY POST 😭😭. I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW. Literally shaking rn. It's cool you guys just Holly thought my post was hilarious no big deal

[stairnaheireann]

Christmas in Ireland

The greeting for ‘Happy Christmas’ in Irish is Nollaig Shona Duit or Nollaig Shona Daoibh (plural), the literal translation of this is ‘Happy Christmas to you’. If ‘Nollaig, Shona, Duit/Daoibh’ was literally translated, word for word, into English, it would be “Christmas, happy, to you”. Christmas is also a time for remembering the dead in Ireland with prayers being offered for deceased at…

[pagan-stitches]

Lá an dreoilín/Wren Day/St. Stephen’s Day/Boxing Day 2023

[rancidsugar]

Who wants to be trapped in a box with their favorite person this Valentine’s Day ‼️⁉️

[wrensog]

listened to the ineffable husbands spotify playlist i made while drawing this thats how you know im too far gone