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🪶Artist & Author🦄occasional Unicorn 🌿🏹folkloric novel DEEPER OLDER DARKER🌿by @snowbooks 🌗On a mission to bring magic into the mundane world 💚Loves Yews🌿

Within a hollow yew, Somerset.

Joined March 2015

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P J Richards

5 years

✨🌿Read my story for free!🌿✨ 'The Tyranny of Beauty' - a tale of how the destruction of Nature causes the vengeful return of the Fae - is the first short story in this collection and can be viewed in the 'Look Inside' feature... #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌖Hag Stones - pebbles with naturally formed holes - were believed to be windows that granted a view into legendary lands... 🌘Look through the hole, and you might see the Otherworld! #FolkloreThursday

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🏹Longbow archery had to be practiced every Sunday by law, and since the Church was often the only stone building in a medieval village, its walls were used to sharpen arrowheads. 🏹Many archers believed that using such arrows would magically improve their aim. #FolkloreThursday

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✂️Cut your hair at the waxing moon if you want it to grow back quickly, or on the waning moon to keep it short. Don't trim on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday or you'll never be rich! Sunday brings bad luck. Cutting your hair at sea will raise a dangerous storm! #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌿Beware sitting beneath a Hawthorn on the #SummerSolstice when the borders with the Otherworld are thin. The tree is beloved of the Fae, and you run the risk of being enchanted or carried away by them! #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🌳🐾🌳Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor - a tangled remnant of ancient oak forest, said to be a sacred Druid grove and home to the Wisht Hounds of the Wild Hunt. #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

🌿🌘🌿Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, Devon, is reputed to have been a sacred Druid Grove - and is home to the Wisht Hounds of the Wild Hunt. #FolkloreThursday

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7 years

🌔Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, Devon, is believed to have been a sacred Oak Grove used by the Druids. 🌘Now it is only home to the fiery-eyed Wisht Hounds of the Wild Hunt. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🌺🦉🌺Seeking the magic of Springtime this #OwlishMonday

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1 year

🌿✨🌿The Rowan - known also as the wicken-tree or witch-tree - is believed to ward off evil. It is fortunate to have one growing beside your home, and a necklace made from its scarlet berries is said to protect the wearer from spells and enchantments. #FolkloreSunday

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7 years

'The Gurt Dog' - a Black Dog that haunts the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Unlike most of its kin, this Dog is said to protect wandering children. Parents would allow their children to play unsupervised in the hills, believing the Gurt Dog would watch over them! #FolkloreThursday

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1 year

🌺🐈‍⬛🌺Garden Cat - by Gustav Klimt #Caturday

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2 years

📜🦉📜Medieval owl overwhelmed by its to-do-hoohoo list on #OwlishMonday

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7 years

Chinese Cat Goddess Li Shou, tasked with running the world, preferred to lie in the sun or chase butterflies. She suggested Humans would be better suited to the job, so the Gods took speech from Cats and gave it to us - but Cats are still the Keepers of Time. #Caturday #Folklore

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3 years

🌿🌓🌿It's said that if you fall asleep beneath a yew tree you will dream of the Otherworld. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

☀️Legend says that at dawn on the #SummerSolstice you will see a tall figure wearing pale robes standing upon West Kennet Longbarrow, with a huge, white, red-eared hound at his side. As the sun rises, they turn, walk to the entrance & disappear into the tomb. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌿It was believed that graveyard Yew trees would grow a root into the mouth of every corpse - making a hidden Greenman and Greenwoman of every buried body. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🦅Maori lore tells of the Pouakai, a huge eagle capable of carrying away humans - thought to be a racial-memory of Haast's Eagle, largest species known to have existed, which died out around 1400 when its prey the giant flightless Moa was hunted to extinction. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

❄️🦉❄️Stepping into a wintery #OwlishMonday !

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5 years

🐾🙏🐾A sect of Buddhism from the old kingdoms of Burma & Siam believed that if, at death, a soul was sufficiently pure & holy it would travel into the body of a Cat for safekeeping, and when the Cat eventually died, the human soul would ascend to paradise. #Caturday #Folklore

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5 years

🌿💧🌿The Chalice Well, at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, is said to be the place where Joseph of Arimithea buried the Holy Grail, and its red, iron-rich spring waters - sacred to the Goddess - are believed to have healing properties. #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

🍂🔥🍂Minty and Dandelion curled up against the autumn chill this #Caturday

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10 months

❄️🕯️❄️Winter Solstice - by Tijanadraws #FolkloreThursday

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3 years

🌳🌙🌳Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, Devon - a remnant of ancient oak forest - is reputed to be a sacred Druid Grove, and a shelter for the fiery-eyed Wisht Hounds of the Wild Hunt. #MythologyMonday

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1 year

✨🤍✨Dandelion being mythical this #Caturday

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6 years

🌿🌘🌿The Huldufólk (hidden folk) of Iceland are a race of elves who make their homes in certain rocks. They are shown respect by the Icelanders, and new roads and houses will be moved from their planned sites if they threaten to disturb or displace the elves. #FolkloreThursday

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10 months

❄️🎄❄️'Ratty and Mole Walking Home at Christmas' - by Chris Dunn🤍 #FairyTaleTuesday

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2 years

🍁🔥🍁May Bright #Samhain Blessings light you through the dark of the year🕯️

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7 years

🌊In medieval lore, the Tempestarii were Witches who possessed the power to raise or calm storms at will. Capable of sinking or saving ships at sea, they were highly respected - and feared.🌩️ #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

🦋Chinese Cat Goddess Li Shou, used to run the world, but preferred to lie in the sun or chase butterflies. She said Humans would be better suited to the job, so the Gods took speech from Cats and gave it to us - but Cats are still the Keepers of Time. #Caturday #ChineseNewYear

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6 years

✨🌿Happy Birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien!🌿✨ A genius, inspired by Anglo-Saxon mythology and the Welsh language (for Elvish), he created an enchanted world that I entered at age seven, in the company of The Hobbit, and only ever left to visit Narnia! #FolkloreThursday

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🌿🌺🌿"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." 📖Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden. #BookWormSat

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🌿🌗🌿“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.” 🌿Wintersmith - by Terry Pratchett. #WyrdWednesday #WitchWednesday

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6 years

👍It is lucky to meet a left-handed person on any day except Tuesday - then it's an ill omen. A superstition from areas of England that were ruled by the Danelaw, because the day is named for Norse God Týr who sacrificed his right hand to bind the Fenris Wolf. #FolkloreThursday

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10 months

🌿⌛️🌿"He watched the sunset through more than two thousand years’ worth of yew branches, twined into a net of wood and shadow. Time was so abundant here it lost its linear nature and hung suspended in the air with the dust motes and dandelion seeds." #WyrdWednesday #TreeLore

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2 years

🌿🌗🌿Folklore says that if you fall asleep beneath an ancient Yew, you will dream of the Otherworld. #LegendaryWednesday

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5 years

🌒✨🌘Hew Draper was a 16thC Bristol innkeeper accused of sorcery and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Despite denying the charge, he engraved intricate astrological charts on the walls of his prison - there is no record of his fate, so perhaps they worked! #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

🌒⛈️🌘Tempestarii are Witches who possess the power to raise or calm storms. #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

💚🐉💚For #AppreciateADragonDay - an Oak Dragon hatching from an acorn on #FolkloreThursday !

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2 years

🪙🐈‍⬛🪙The Matagot/Mandagot - a Fae black cat from French lore. If lured with meat, carried home, given the first mouthful of food & drink at every meal, it will bring a gold coin each day - but the owner must free it before they die or suffer an agonising death. #MythologyMonday

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4 years

🌿🌓🌿It's said that if you fall asleep beneath a yew tree you will dream of the Otherworld... #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🪶🖤🪶In Wales it was said that if a blind person showed kindness to a raven they would regain their sight. #FolkloreThursday #Superstitiology

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4 years

🌿🌘🌿Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body - their essence would be drawn in with the sap, the tree would remember them. And yews were practically immortal. #1LineWed #WyrdWednesday

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5 years

🌿🌗🌿Rabbits were believed to burrow beneath the ground to reach the Otherworld, and were able to carry messages from humans to the Fae, and from the living to the dead. #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

✨🌙✨Pooka - a shapeshifting trickster from Celtic folklore for #FairyTaleTuesday

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4 years

🌿🌕🌿It is said that the gateway into the Otherworld beneath Glastonbury Tor can be revealed if you walk nine times around the hill, widdershins, at a full moon... #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

✨🍄✨Fairy Rings, circles of toadstools that appear in fields, are said to be where the Fae dance. If you run 9 times around one at the full moon you will hear their music & singing - but beware, if you run widdershins (anticlockwise) you will be lost forever! #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

🌊🌳🌊St Michael's Mount in Cornwall - a tidal island crowned with a castle, is known in the Cornish language as 'Karrek Loos yn Koos' meaning 'Grey Rock in the Wood' - a folk-memory of when it was a hill towering above an ancient forest, now drowned by the sea. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🍂🦉🍂Troll Witch with Owl by Brian Froud for #OwlishMonday

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5 years

🌿🌖🌿It is said that if you fall asleep beneath an ancient Yew tree, you will dream of the Otherworld... #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

🌿👶🌿In the Scottish Highlands, a newborn baby would be given sap from a green stick of Ash (held in a fire till the sap oozed out then mixed with honey) as its first food, to give the child strength and to protect it from being bewitched or stolen by Faeries. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🍀🐈‍⬛🍀Scottish folklore says that if an unfamiliar black cat arrives at your house it brings good fortune, especially if you show it kindness - but if the cat is shooed away it will take all your luck with it! #WyrdWednesday

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6 years

🍀🐾🍀If a cat unexpectedly walks across the stage in a theatre, the performance and actors will be blessed with good luck! #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🦉☯️🦉Seeking balance this #OwlishMonday

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7 years

Some Anglo Saxon women wore crystal balls on their belts - amulets of the sun & purity but their true meaning is a mystery #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

🍀🐈🍀To ensure good luck if you're moving house, your cat should be the first to set foot in your new home! #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🐾Black Dogs, hounds of the Otherworld, walk the borderline between friend & foe. They have many names: Shuck, Barghest, Moddey Dhoo, Grim, Padfoot, and most are portents of death - but the Gurt Dog of Somerset, protects wandering children in the Quantock Hills. #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

🌿🍏🌿Glastonbury Tor - formally a sacred island rising above the flooded marshland of the Somerset Levels - is believed to be the legendary isle of Avalon. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

☀️Stonehenge has been a sacred place of gathering and worship on the Winter Solstice for more than 5000 years. 🌕This year a full moon will light the longest night - the next time this will happen is in 2094! #FolkloreThursday 🦄 #SolsticeUnicorn

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6 years

If you gather three grains of fern seed on a pewter dish, in silence, only touching the leaves with a hazel rod, between the hours of eleven and midnight on #SummerSolstice Eve - you will have the power to summon any living creature, become invisible, or discover buried treasure!

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2 years

🐾🌘🐾The Wild Hunt rides out at Samhain - and will reach its full, dark power on the Winter Solstice. #FolkloreSunday

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2 years

❄️🐇❄️An enchanting Yuletide rabbit by Margaret Winifred Tarrant for #FairyTaleTuesday

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2 years

🍂🖤🍂"I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" 📖Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. #FaustianFriday

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6 years

⚒️Blacksmiths have always been credited with magical powers. An old hymn invokes protection against "Spells of Women, Smiths and Druids". They knew the Horseman's Word, a charm of control, and were Blood-Charmers, able to staunch the flow of blood from a wound. #FolkloreThursday

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5 years

🐾🖤🐾In northern England it was said that single women living in a household with a black cat would never be short of suitors... "Whenever the cat of the house is black The lasses of lovers will have no lack!" #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌙Witches were known (and feared) for their power to transform into animals - most often a Hare. 🌙Many tales tell of a hunted Hare taking refuge in a cottage, but when the pursuers break in to catch it, all they find is a woman quietly sitting by her hearth. #FolkloreThursday

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1 year

🌿☀️🌿Folklore warns against sitting beneath a Hawthorn tree on Midsummer Day - a time when the veil between the mortal realm and the Otherworld is thin - as you risk being enchanted or stolen away by the Fae. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #SummerSolstice

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2 years

⛈️🐈‍⬛⛈️Ship's Cats were always well cared for as it was said they could raise storms using magic held in their tails! #FolkloreThursday

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1 year

🍂🦉🍂Feeling autumnal this #OwlishMonday

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2 years

🌿🌳🌿Woodwose - kin to the Green Man and found in medieval European legend, art and heraldry - were said to be a race of wild people, covered in hair and crowned with leaves, who lived harmoniously with nature in deep forests and untamed landscapes. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🌿🥀🌿The Urisk from Scottish folklore was said to be a gentle Fae creature that haunted wild and watery places. Sometimes overcome by loneliness it would seek out human company, but its strange appearance would always scare everyone away. #MythologyMonday

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8 months

🤍🌱🤍Wishing everyone bright and hope-filled #Imbolc blessings💚

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3 years

⏳🐈⌛️Chinese Cat Goddess Li Shou, tasked with running the world, preferred to lie in the sun or chase butterflies. She suggested Humans would be better suited to the job, so the Gods took speech from Cats & gave it to us, but Cats are still the Keepers of Time. #FairyTaleTuesday

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⏳🦋⌛️Chinese Cat Goddess Li Shou, tasked with running the world, preferred to lie in the sun or chase butterflies. She suggested Humans would be better suited to the job, so the Gods took speech from Cats and gave it to us - but Cats are the Keepers of Time. #MythologyMonday

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5 years

🍀🌓🍀Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee - the exquisite art book published in 1978, that changed the way the Fae were portrayed - from sweet and childlike flower-fairies, back to their older, darker and dangerously beautiful forms... #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🌿🦌🌿In Norse mythology, four great stags, Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór - said to symbolise the four winds - browse the branches of the World Tree Yggdrasill. #FairyTaleTuesday

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🍎The Autumn Equinox - named for Welsh God Mabon - is the 2nd of the 3 Pagan harvest celebrations, falling between Lammas & Samhain. 🍂A time when Light & Dark are held in balance before the year turns towards Winter, and the Holly King takes his turn to rule. #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🕯️🦉🕯️ Stay warm and cosy this #OwlishMonday #BoxingDay

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1 year

🥀🦉🥀Feeling very tired this #OwlishMonday

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2 years

🌳🐾🌳Wistman's Wood, on Dartmoor, is a relic of ancient oak forest, said to be a Druid Grove and home to the Wisht Hounds of the Wild Hunt. #FolkloreSunday #Superstitiology

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9 months

🌱💚🌱The days are cold and darkness still rules, but the Green is stirring... Art by Brian Froud for #FolkloreThursday

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2 years

🐈‍⬛🖤🐈‍⬛A Witch and her Familiars - by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite for #FairyTaleTuesday

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5 years

🌿🌳🌿The Celtic tree alphabet Ogham (pronounced 'owam') displays a deep respect and reverence for the plant kingdom - a perspective that needs to be reinstated in the modern world. #MythologyMonday

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3 years

🤍🌙🤍Celtic peoples believed that a solitary white animal was a messenger from the Otherworld. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿St. Melangell, patron saint of Hares, defied the Prince of Powys by standing up to his dogs and hiding a hare he was hunting beneath her cloak. Moved by her courage, he gifted her lands to found an abbey, as a sanctuary for her and anyone who needed a refuge. #FolkloreThursday

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1 year

🌖🦌🌘A solitary white stag is said to be a messenger from the Otherworld - guiding towards a mystical quest, or warning of a spiritual transgression. #FaustianFriday #Superstitiology #FolkloreSunday

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🍀🤍🍀Lucky White Rabbit (Hare!) Blessings for #September1st

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Hew Draper, held in Tower of London, carved occult symbols in his cell - maybe they worked, there's no record of his fate #folklorethursday

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🍀In Scotland, and in the border counties of England, it was believed that if an unknown Black Cat appeared at your house, it was bringing you good fortune! #Caturday #Folklore

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6 years

🔥Japanese legend tells of the Nekomata, a supernatural feline with powers of pyromancy & necromancy. It can summon destructive fireballs, or raise the dead and control them with ritualistic dances, gesturing like a puppet-master with its paws and forked tail. #Caturday #Folklore

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1 year

🌺🦉🌺Pyewackett nestled in the shade this sunny #OwlishMonday

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1 year

💗🦉💗Sending out love this #OwlishMonday

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1 year

🌿🐝🌿"He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest..." 💍J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings. #BookWormSat

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3 years

🏡🐈‍⬛🏡To ensure good fortune and happiness when moving house, your cat should be the first to enter your new home. #FolkloreThursday

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4 years

🍀🌗🍀Pooka is a shapeshifting trickster from Celtic myth, capable of bestowing good or bad fortune. #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌿Ancient Yew trees often predate the churches they grow beside, and are the living links between Pagan & Christian holy ground. 🌿In the Lore of both religions, Yews protect all the dead buried amongst their roots, and hold fast to any restless spirits. #FolkloreThursday

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3 years

🌿🌳🌿Woodwose are the legendary Wild Men and Women from the ancient forests of medieval Britain and Europe. Depicted covered with hair and crowned with leaves, they perhaps symbolise our lost kinship with Nature. #FolkloreThursday

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3 years

❄️🤍❄️Winter Solstice peace and blessings for #FairyTaleTuesday

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2 years

🪶❤️‍🩹🪶I always hoped the folklore of lost loved ones visiting or messaging as robins was true - now I know it is. Thank you Mum❤️‍🔥 #FolkloreThursday

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6 years

🌩️🐣🌩️Swan eggs were believed to hatch only during storms, and that it was the power of thunder & lightning that broke their shells to release the chicks. #FolkloreThursday

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