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#BookWormSat “If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. 🖼️Arthur Rackham.

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#FaustianFriday Toads & frogs appear in the folklore of many societies, well known for their magical skills, including the ability to predict the weather, curing warts and influencing destiny. In the Middle Ages they were regarded as witches familiars with demonic powers.

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#FolkloreSunday Autumn is conker season, the horse chestnut tree’s spiny shelled fruit contain the seeds, or 'conkers'. Children everywhere will gather them for their games and competitions. According to folklore carrying conkers in your pocket wards off arthritis. 🖼️CMB.

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#FairyTaleTuesday In Slavic folklore Snegurochka, the Snow Maiden, is the daughter of the immortal gods, Father Frost and Mother Spring. She is sent into the care of a childless human couple. 🖼️ Masha Kurbatova, Sleeping Snow Maiden.

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#FolkloreThursday In Greek myth hamadryads are woodland nymphs connected to forest trees, being both the spirit and vital essence of the tree. If the tree should die, its hamadryad too would die. For that reason the gods would punish anyone who harmed the tree. 🖼Josephine Wall.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Moira Shearer as Vicky Page in the 1948 British drama film “The Red Shoes” written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, loosely based on the 1845 fairytale “The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen.

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#BookWormSat “I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!” – Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. 🖼️Cicely Mary Barker

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#BookWormSat When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, & not as it should be! –Cervantes, Don Quixote

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#MythologyMonday Swans are said to be harbingers of Spring. Regarded as sacred, myths and folk tales tell of them being gods in disguise. Celtic mythology connects them to the fairies and the Otherworld, where it is said that they can flit between realms. 🖼️Cicely Mary Barker.

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#FolkloreSunday Horses were highly regarded in Celtic mythology, white horses were especially revered. The Mabinogion, a collection of medieval Welsh tales, tells of Rhiannon and her son Pryder being associated with horses, often depicted as mare and foal. 🖼️Kinuko Y Craft

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#WyrdWednesday In Greek myth Pandora was given a box. Instructed by the gods to never open it, under any circumstances, as it contained special gifts. However, unable to quell her curiosity, she opened it, unleashing all the perils of the world. Only the gift of Hope remained.

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#FolkloreSunday Arthur Rackham was an English illustrator of children’s books and leading light of the Golden Age of British book illustration. His chefs d'oeuvre were those of a folkloric, mystical, magical or legendary background.

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#MythologyMonday Basil the sacred plant of love & healing brings prosperity & happiness when planted in the garden. The ancient Egyptians & Greeks believed that it would open the gates of heaven if placed in the hands of the dead. Img J W Waterhouse

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#FaustianFriday The Forest Procession by Annie Stegg.

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#FolkloreSunday In Scottish folklore Selkies or “Seal Folk” are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. Many stories involve selkies having romantic or sexual relationships with humans, resulting in children. 🖼️ Arantza Sestayo

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#BookWormSat Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon. ~Robert Burns.

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#BookWormSat If acorn-cups were tea-cups, what should we have to drink? Why! honey-dew for sugar, in a cuckoo-pint of milk; With pats of witches’ butter and a tansey cake, I think, Laid out upon a toad-stool on a cloth of cob-web silk! ~Beatrix Potter, The Toads’ Tea Party.

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#FolkloreSunday In Celtic mythology the Cailleach was the goddess of the winter, also known as the Veiled One or the Queen of Winter. It is she who determines the length and severity of the season. Depicted as an old woman with a deathly pallor and blue skin. 🖼️Naomi Cornock

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#FaustianFriday Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in the movie The Mark of Zorro, 1940. Basil Rathbone was a a highly skilled swordsman, teaching Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Danny Kaye against whom he fought in combat on the silver screen. 🗡️🤺⚔️🎬

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#MythologyMonday When the change came she was floating in the millpond, foam like white lace tracing her wake. First her neck shrinking, candle to candleholder, the color of old, used wax. Wings collapsed like fans. –Jane Yolen 🖼️ Walter Crane, The Swan Maidens.

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#BookWormSat Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair: For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!~T.S. Eliot 🖼️LouisWain #Caturday

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#FairyTaleTuesday According to English folklore Mab is the Queen of the Fairies, and for some the fairy midwife. She is a magical, mischievous creature but kind and benevolent. It is said that she will grant your wishes and all your heart desires. 🖼Arthur Rackham.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Japanese folklore tells of Yuki-onna, a beautiful female snow ghost described as wearing a white kimono and having white skin, and long black hair. She appears in human form to prey on weak, unwitting men. 🖼️Warwick Goble.

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#BookWormSat You never can tell what's magic. ~Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes 🖼️Margaret Tarrant.

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#FolkyFriday According to English folklore Mab is the Queen of the Fairies, and for some the fairy midwife. She is a magical, mischievous being yet, kind and benevolent. It is said that she will grant your wishes and all your heart desires. 🖼️ Arthur Rackham.

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#FolkloreSunday In Celtic mythology the magical blackthorn tree found in many a woodland glade or forest was said to be home to fairies. Also known as a witch’s tree, anyone carrying a walking stick made from its wood was suspected of being a witch. 🖼 Cicely Mary Barker

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#FolkloreSunday Lughnasadh is ancient Celtic festival held on August 1st, traditionally the first day of the summer harvest. Named after the god Lugh, it is also linked with his foster mother Tailtiu who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.

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#MythologyMonday In Celtic mythology the magical blackthorn tree found in many a woodland glade or forest was said to be home to fairies. Also known as a witch’s tree, anyone carrying a walking stick made from its wood was suspected of being a witch. 🖼 Cicely Mary Barker

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#FaustianFriday In Arthurian legend Morgan le Fay is a healer, enchantress & wise woman regarded by many as a witch. Beautiful and alluring she charms and leads the heroes of the legends into danger. Art: Frederick Sandys

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#WyrdWednesday “Every night the owl with his wild monkey face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver.” ~Mary Oliver In myth, legend, and lore owls are regarded as harbingers of doom and the bearers of prophecy. 🖼️Clancy Cavnar

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#FairyTaleTuesday “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.” ~A E Housman, Loveliest of Trees. Glorious cherry blossom, the delightful harbinger of spring. 🖼️Cicely Mary Barker.

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#FaustianFriday The bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. ~Shakespeare, Macbeth act 3, scene 2. 🖼️Virgil Finlay.

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#WyrdWednesday In Mexico the Lechuza is a mythical creature used by adults to frighten children into good behaviour. She is a bruja (witch) who is able to shapeshift into an owl. The lechuza is nocturnal preying on the unwary, and naughty children. 🖼Abigail Larson

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#BookWormSat “You alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito.

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#FairyTaleTuesday In Greek mythology the goddess Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. 🖼Arthur Rackham

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#FolkloreSunday Foxgloves found growing in woods and hedgerows are said to have magical properties. Planting them in your garden will protect the household, and attract fairies. However never bring them indoors as this will upset the fairies. 🖼️Percy Tarrant.

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#FolkloreSunday The bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. ~Shakespeare, Macbeth A3, S2. 🖼️Virgil Finlay. #ShakespeareSunday

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#WyrdWednesday “The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.” (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan) #PirateLore 🏴‍☠️

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#BookWormSat “Rare pears and greengages, Damsons and bilberries, Taste them and try: Currants and gooseberries, Bright-fire-like barberries, Figs to fill your mouth, Citrons from the South, Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; Come buy, come buy.” ~Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

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#WyrdWednesday Unsure as to whether Pan’s Labyrinth falls into the wyrd genre but it’s certainly one of my favourite movies. Guillermo del Toro’s wonderfully magical, yet moving fairy tale set in 1944 fascist Spain.

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#ShakespeareSunday And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails, To make your vessel nimble. Cymbeline Act 2 Scene 4. 🖼️Hilda Hechle

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#FaustianFriday Lamia, half woman, half serpent. John William Waterhouse and Isobel Lilian Gloag.

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#SwampSunday Naiads are nymphs, water spirits found living by rivers & streams. The water where they dwell is said to have healing & magical powers. They are kind, benevolent creatures but don’t offend them as Hylas found to his cost. 🖼Hylas & The Water Nymphs, by Henrietta Rae

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#BookologyThursday “She looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.” Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn 🖼️Vasily Polenov.

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#WyrdWednesday Nobody feasts and frolics quite like the fairy folk. Feast your eyes on these enchanting illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Helen Jacobs, Anne Hope, and Margaret Tarrant.

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#FolkloreSunday In praise of frogs and toads. Found in the folklore of many societies and famous for a variety of magical properties, including the ability to predict the weather, curing warts and bringing good luck. Art: Fritz Schwimbeck

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#MythologyMonday In Arthurian legend the enchantress Morgan le Fay is a skilled healer & herbalist, regarded by many as a witch. It is she who takes King Arthur, gravely wounded by Mordred at the Battle of Camlann to Avalon, to be nursed safely, but where he succumbs to death.

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#FolkloreThursday Basil is a sacred herb of love and healing. It is said to promote prosperity and happiness when planted in the garden. 🖼J W Waterhouse, Isabella and the pot of basil.

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#BookWormSat Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” –Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven. 🖼Edmund Dulac

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#BookWormSat “You alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince. 🖼️ Mili Weber.

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#FaustianFriday Mandrake is part of the nightshade family. Its long root resembles the human form. Since ancient times it is believed to have magical properties, the power to increase wealth, overcome infertility & aphrodisiacal qualities. Best not ingest as it is highly toxic.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Bluebells have grown in English woodland since ancient times, and are renowned for their magical enchantment. Low-growing they are the ideal hiding place for fairies. They use them to lure and trap unwary children and to hang out their spells to dry on them.

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#BookWormSat However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. ~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden. 🖼️Inga Moore.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Just some of Arthur Rackham’s gorgeous images illustrating the allure and mystery of the ocean and all its creatures.

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#FolkloreSunday The delightful illustrations of animal friends and adversaries, by Susan Jeffers for the charming fairy tale of Thumbelina, by Hans Christian Andersen.

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#MythologyMonday A glimpse of the magical wonder found in Fairyland, courtesy of the paintbrush of Margaret Tarrant.

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#FairyTaleTuesday According to Norse mythology the Valkyrie are a group of young women sent to the battlefields by the god Odin. Once there they choose the souls of slain warriors worthy of a place in Valhalla, where they wait upon them forever. 🖼E R Hughes

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#BookWormSat “I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle) 🖼️Samuel Melton Fisher

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#FolkyFriday In Celtic mythology white horses were highly esteemed. The Mabinogion, a collection of medieval Welsh tales, tells of Rhiannon and her son Pryder being associated with horses, often depicted as mare and foal. 🖼️Kinuko Y Craft

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#WyrdWednesday The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl, And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves. Shakespeare, Henry VI part II Act I Scene 4.

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Japanese folklore says that a ghost will appear wherever a willow grows. Whilst a Chinese legend says that on Qingming Festival, the ruler of the underworld allows the spirits of the dead to return to earth. The fearful wave willow branches to keep them away. #FairyTaleTuesday

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#FolkloreSunday In her Book of Household Management, Victorian writer Mrs Beeton suggests cold cuts of meat, pies and salad. For those with a sweet tooth, such delicacies as fruit turnovers, cheesecake, steamed pudding, blancmange and jam puffs were packed in the basket

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#FairyTaleTuesday Legends tell of the magical enchantment of bluebell woods. Fairies use them to lure and trap the unwary into Fairyland. A bluebell rings to summon the fairies to gather together, but if a human hears it, they will die soon after. 🖼️Margaret Tarrant

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#FaustianFriday “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” Macbeth: Act 1, Scene3 #Shakespeare The prophecy of the witches. (Art: Daniel Gardner)

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#FairyTaleTuesday Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world. For I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame. ~W B Yeats. 🖼️ Annie Stegg, The Forest Procession.

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#FolkloreSunday In ancient Judaism, Seraphim are divine beings who are the highest order of God’s angels. They have three sets of wings, one to cover their faces, another to cover their feet, and the third pair used for flying. 🖼️Howard David Johnson

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#FairyTaleTuesday The ringing of church bells at weddings is an old Irish custom. It is said to bring good fortune to the marriage, and ward off evil spirits. Some brides even sewed tiny bells into their bridal gowns or veils or fixed them amongst the flowers in their bouquets.

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#FolkloreSunday Ceres is the Roman goddess of the harvest and grain. She taught how to preserve and prepare corn and grain once it was ready for threshing. She is a mother-type goddess who was responsible for agricultural fertility. 🖼️ Howard David Johnson.

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#FairyTaleTuesday The delightful illustrations of Susan Jeffers for the charming tale of Thumbelina and her animal friends and adversaries by Hans Christian Andersen.

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#FolkloreSunday Happy St Patrick’s Day☘️ May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright happy hours, That stay with you all year long. –Irish blessing. 💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚

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#BookWormSat “Knowing your promise to me; The lilies and roses were all awake, They sigh'd for the dawn and thee.” Lines from ‘Come into the Garden, Maud' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Art: John William Waterhouse

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Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women. Art: Jessie Willcox Smith #BookWormSat

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#SuperstitionSat Tales of owls are to be found in the myths and legends of many countries and ancient cultures. Many superstitions surround them, being regarded as symbols of wisdom, of both good and evil, omens of death, harbingers of doom and the bringers of prophecy.

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#MythologyMonday In Ireland it was customary for dairy farmers to give away butter and milk to their neighbours on May Day. Failing to do so, meant the herd would fail to produce milk for the rest of year. 🖼Julien Dupré.

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#WyrdWednesday Rapunzel is a folk tale from the Brothers Grimm, with its famous refrain, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” It tells the story of imprisonment and an escape plan that goes terribly wrong, but comes out well in the end. 🖼️Laura Ramie #LegendaryWednesday

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#FolkloreSunday Frogs are found in the folklore of many societies, being known for a variety of magical properties, including an ability to predict the weather, curing warts and bringing good luck. They make especially charming companions to the fairies. 🖼️Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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It is the #HarvestMoon ! On gilded vanes And roofs of villages, on woodland crests And their aerial neighborhoods of nests Deserted, on the curtained window-panes Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests! ~HW Longfellow

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#FairyTaleTuesday Mab is the Queen of the Fairies in English folklore. She is a mischievous but kind and benevolent sprite who grants your innermost wishes and heart’s desire.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Snow White as envisioned by American illustrator Trina Schart Hyman. What’s not to love about an artist who spent a year of her childhood wearing a red cape because Little Red Riding Hood was her favourite #FairyTale

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#FairyTaleTuesday Robins, the glorious red breasted harbingers of winter. Legend tells of a brave little bird tending to a fire lit to warm baby Jesus. Suddenly a flame burst forth burning the little bird’s breast a bright red forever, as he tried to protect the sleeping child.

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#FairyTaleTuesday The Snow Queen by Milo Winter

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#FolkloreThursday According to legend bluebell woods are enchanted. Fairies use them to lure & trap the unwary in their nether world. A bluebell ringing is a call to fairies to gather together, but if a human hears, they will die soon after. Art Margaret Tarrant

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#FolkloreThursday White lilies symbolise peace, chastity, grace and grief. In ancient times brides wore garlands of lilies in their hair, as a lucky charm for a pure and fruitful marriage. Symbolic of the souls of the recently dead and a sign of peace, they are seen at funerals.

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#FairyTaleTuesday Robins, the glorious red breasted harbingers of winter. Xmas lore says a brave little bird tending to a fire lit to warm baby Jesus. Suddenly a flame burst forth, burning forever the little bird’s breast a bright red as he tried to protect the sleeping child.

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#TempleThursday In Japan it is ‘Hanami,’ time to enjoy the sakura/cherry blossom trees, whose blooms are beautiful, yet fleeting. This fleetingness chimed with the Japanese aesthetic and philosophical concept of 'mono no aware', the poignant awareness of life’s impermanence.

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#FolkloreSunday Today is St John’s Eve. An Irish tradition at this time was to light bonfires at the end of the working day. On the day itself girls picked flowers and herbs to make garlands. These customs were rooted in the ancient pagan rites of sun worship. 🖼️Kate Greenaway

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#MythologyMonday In Greek mythology Pandora was given a box or jar. The gods told her that the box contained special gifts & she was not ever to open it. She could not quell her curiosity, opened it & unleashed all the hardships of the world. Only Hope remained. 🎨JWWaterhouse

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Once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, & he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.— Susan Cooper A Boggart, in the folklore of northern England is an ogre like creature who haunts houses. #MythologyMonday

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#FolkloreSunday Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away Lengthen night & shorten day Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. –Emily Brontë, Fall, leaves, fall. 🖼️Franklin Booth.

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#FairytaleTuesday Mab, the fairy queen by Milo Winter.

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#MythologyMonday Beowulf is a legendary hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of English literature. He slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded. He is cremated on a funeral pyre, and his remains are buried in a barrow by the sea. 🖼️Anton Pieck.

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#FolkloreSunday Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. –Mary Oliver, In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music. 🖼Molly Brett

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#FairyTaleTuesday In Norse mythology the Valkyrie are a group of young women serving the god Odin, and sent by him to the battlefields. Once there they choose the souls of slain warriors worthy of a place in Valhalla and there wait upon them. 🖼E R Hughes

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#FaustianFriday “…the rose was awake all night for your sake, Knowing your promise to me; The lilies and roses were all awake, They sigh'd for the dawn and thee.” Lines from ‘Come into the Garden, Maud' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Art: John William Waterhouse

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#WyrdWednesday Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ~Guy de Maupassant. 🖼️ Marie Spartali Stillman,

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#FolkloreSunday Foxgloves are said to have magical properties. Planting them in your garden will protect the household, and attract fairies. However never bring them indoors as this will upset the fairies. 🖼️ Margaret Tarrant.

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#FolkloreSunday According to Ovid “Vesta is the same as the earth; both have the perennial fire: the Earth & the sacred Fire are both symbolic of home.” Ancient Romans worshipped Vesta in the form of a flame that burned day and night in the Temple and at home. 🖼️Wenzel Tornøe.

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#MythologyMonday A willow growing near water can be haunting. In Japanese folklore, it’s said that wherever a willow is, a ghost will appear. #Halloween

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#FairyTaleTuesday “When they came nearer they saw that the house was built of bread, roofed with cakes; the window was of transparent sugar.” Brothers Grimm, Hansel & Gretel. Charming illustrations of the Gingerbread House to feast your eyes.

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#BookWormSat “How sweet the cake, its layers dear, Delicious, moist, and full of cheer. Each bite a taste of sheer delight, A symphony of flavors wrapped in white.” ~Emily Dickinson, Ode To The Cake.

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