I Always Love How High-pitched The “Snufkin” Is :’D

Folklore: The Leaf Lights

This is a lil piece of not very well known folklore that comes from a few places Maryland, Oregon, and Washington mostly.

The leaf lights have some mixed Folklore.

But the leaf lights are apparently autumn colored lights that come along only in November and October. Strange little lights that hide amoung in the leaves and guide people into pumpkin patches, corn fields, squash patches, tree groves, or deeper into the woods.

Many people describe encounters with the leaf lights or " leaf people " as as charming, non-threatening, and playful.

Some ideas of what they are:

1. they are orange, yellow and red willo-whisps.

2. Fall faeries

3. Magic made by the pumpkin people {a entity I'll explain in another post}

4. Leaf people aka far or entities having a connection with changing leaves.

5. Reflections of light on wet leaves.

Making little leaf or autumn themed lights to attract the leaf lights or "leaf people" is what some witches from mostly Maryland and Oregon do from what I've been told.

we need to have a serious talk about antisemitism in America. yesterday, there was a hostage situation in a synagogue in Texas, where a gunman took for people including a rabbi hostage. he wanted to have someone released from prison. I forget who, but she was charged with 80 something years back in 2010. so what do you think this gunman does? does he contact the police or the president and demand the prisoner be released?

no. he tells the rabbi to call another rabbi in New York, and to have that rabbi release the prisoner. now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that his plan was completely stupid. the rabbi in New York had no relation to with prisoner, the prison she was in, or even the justice system at all. so why did the gunman think that the new york rabbi would have the authority to release a random prisoner who was sentenced 12 years ago? one word. antisemitism

most antisemites have the insane belief that all Jews are secretly controlling the world, or the government, or the banks, or natural disasters, or... you get it. its entirely based on fake and antisemitic conspiracy theories, and it literally gets people killed. this gunman thought that a rabbi in New York had the authority and power and ability to release a prisoner who I'm pretty sure isn't even imprisoned in the state of New York (don't quote me on that though). (edit, she was imprisoned within Texas?! literally what is the logic here?!)

antisemitic conspiracy theories, even as jokes, literally get us Jews hurt or killed. those are your "lizard people". your "space lasers". your "new world order". your "George Soros money". all those insane baseless conspiracy theories, even as a joke, cause severe damage to Jews. because people will believe it.

I haven't seen any non-Jews talk about what happened yesterday. that's not surprising. very rarely will goyim care about Jews unless one of their close friends is Jewish. but it's still upsetting. there is still so much antisemitism and hate towards Jewish people in the world today.

I was going to make a Snufkin/Moomin playlist but it looks like the new Moominvalley already did

Snufkin having a wtf-moment.

Graphite, charcoal and digital enhancements.

various Tove Jansson thumbnails

-A compilation of Snufkin laughing- 

not to sound dramatic but the way sam and frodo look at each other makes me believe in true love

drawstring bags, 18th and 19th century