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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. #FolkloreThursday
The tradition that birds pair off today seems to be the true origin of #Valentines 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) #Folklorethursday
The Tailor of Gloucester by @beatrixpotter 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. #FolkloreThursday
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
#folklorethursday #beginnings
(🎨 R Sheppard)
The answer to this week's #riddle on #Folklorethursday is:
Devil (lived backwards)
Fastest off the mark:
1. @TheVelvetNap (29 seconds) 🥇🏆
2. @TC148 🥈🏆
3 @Reflexangle 🥉🏆
Great work and see you next week 👋 https://t.co/EeyaCN6HZn
‘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) #folklorethursday #snow
Forecast winter weather from your hedgerows:
Many haws, many sloes,
Many cold toes.
(🎨 Cecily Mary Barker)
#snow #FolkloreThursday
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 #Folklorethursday
(🎨'Sauvage' graphic novel)
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.
#art #FolkloreThursday
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) #colour #Folklorethursday