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Tweets a weekly riddle & more every #FolkloreThursday. From @MartineBailey author of An Appetite for Violets, The Penny Heart, The Almanack & The Prophet.
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Hope is blind, seated on a globe & playing a lyre with only one string. The artist Watts said '#Hope is here suggesting not expectancy, but listening to the music from the remaining chord.'
Recently, Barack Obama claimed it inspired him to enter politics.

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The tradition that birds pair off today seems to be the true origin of Day – & nothing to do with the two Saints of that name:
‘Oft have I heard both youths & virgins say,
Birds choose their mates & couple too, today.'
(Herrick, 1648)

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The Tailor of Gloucester by was based on a true incident.
A tailor named Pritchard, making a suit for the new mayor, returned to his shop to find the suit finished save for one buttonhole. He encouraged the belief that it was fairywork.

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

(🎨 R Sheppard)

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The answer to this week's on is:

Devil (lived backwards)

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Great work and see you next week 👋 https://t.co/EeyaCN6HZn

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‘Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year.’
(✒️Christina Rossetti, 🎨Walter Crane)

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Forecast winter weather from your hedgerows:

Many haws, many sloes,
Many cold toes.
(🎨 Cecily Mary Barker)

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The Maid of Chalon is a rare documented account of a feral child. For 10 years the Amerindian child hunted alone in the forests of France until captured ‘hairy & with claws’. She learned to speak, read & write & died aged 63 in Paris
(🎨'Sauvage' graphic novel)

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Edward Robert Hughes was a modestly regarded painter and assistant to Holman Hunt.
Now his paintings of women as heavenly bodies are loved around the world on thousands of posters and greeting cards.

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In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens depicting jealousy.
In this scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨Waterhouse)

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