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20 December. Old Style ❄️#Advent 🕯️Take good care of your dogs in hard weather:

‘If it be a hard Winter, after your hounds are fed suffer them for an hour or two to stretch themselves before the fire.’
(Country Contentments, 1615) 🎨J F Lewis #dogs #folklore #Fridaythoughts

And the answer to this week's #FolkloreThursday #riddle by Jonathan Swift is:

❄️Snow ❄️

Winners:
@_schaduwmens 🥇🏆
@Tamlin517 🥈🏆

Well done https://t.co/Dn5f9BkMHw

12 December. Old Style #Advent ❄️🌕🎄
Full Moon tonight known as the Cold Moon, or to the Anglo-Saxons, the last moon before Yule. For many centuries a full moon was associated with temporary lunacy.
An ominous moon by #Gothic Romantic painter CF Friedrich. #FolkloreThursday

Thanks everyone for the RTs and answers.
The answer: Devil
(Sorry, not Lucifer or Satan as Devil is 'Lived' reversed)
Fastest off the mark:
@SuzeSchulz 🥇🏆
@witchwalk 🥈🏆
@Littlepiggin95 🥉🏆
See you next #FolkloreThursday 👋 https://t.co/jsqe87fptQ

"Who is the third who walks always beside you?" (Eliot: The Wasteland)
Today’s #mountain theme reminds me of a great #ghost story for dark nights: #ThinAir by @MichellePaver #FolkloreThursday

David Bowie stated the wish to be cremated using Buddhist rites in Bali. Though cremated in the US his ashes were scattered in Bali, reportedly near volcanic Mount Agung. The Balinese say the #mountain is a replica of Mount Meru the central axis of the universe #FolkloreThursday

Manfred on the Jungfrau by Ford Madox Brown depicts Manfred's torment as he contemplates suicide. Based on Byron's dramatic poem, Manfred’s unnamed guilt is generally thought to reference Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh #FolkloreThursday #mountains

Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local #children.
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm Fairy #FolkloreThursday #ChildrensDay

Working on a book, I can’t help but recall the #childhood reading I was lucky enough to absorb. These are four books that fostered #TheAlmanack
1.Old Rhymes For All Times
2.Brothers Grimm
3.H Christian Anderson
4.Narnia
#FolkloreThursday🎨CM Barker, R Sheppard, P Baynes

The Wedding, collected by folklorists Iona & Peter Opie, is a #children’s counting game using cherry stones, petals, buttons etc to tell fortunes. Sometimes incorporating ‘Tinker Tailor’, it is generally played by girls to foretell fates and futures. #FolkloreThursday