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Grandville's The Flowers Personified (1847) show a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement. #FolkloreThursday

‘We plough the seeds & scatter’, is one of the most performed hymns in the UK, written by German poet Claudius.
John Betjeman parodied it as "We spray the fields & scatter the poison on the land" in protest against modern farming methods. #FolkloreThursday
(🎨Clausen)

Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books. Working in watercolours, she brought #rhymes to life with lively characters often wearing delightful period costumes. #rhymes #folklorethursday

“Pimpernel, pimpernel, tell me true,
Whether the weather will be fine or no…”

The scarlet pimpernel is known as “the poor man’s weatherglass”.
It’s tiny red flowers open for sunny days and close for rainy days.
(🎨Cecily Mary Barker)

My favourite scene isn't in the film. The dogs stop at a crumbling Jacobean manor and an old man makes them buttered toast in front of the fire. He nods off and thinks they're ghosts - lovely scene and huge influence.

A #pet for a fairy:
A fairy went a-marketing
She bought a little mouse
To take her tiny messages
To keep her tiny house.
All day she kept its busy feet
Pit-patting to & fro
And then she kissed its tiny ears
Thanked it & let it go.
( R Fyleman 🎨C Barker) #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
(🎨R Sheppard)

Why does the old rhyme tell of 'Gathering nuts in May' when no nuts grow?
It seems to be a corruption of 'knots' of May blossom, gathered to celebrate May-tide.
#Folklorethursday

(Nature through the seasons in colour 🎨P Chadwick)

A #riddle for #FolkloreThursday:

“My First is a human male, my Second is to move,
my Whole is a delicious Indian fruit.
What am I?”

(First + Second = Whole answer)

Reply with answer.
Solution tomorrow.

A Cheshire broadside tells how 5 maidservants conjured their future bridegrooms by making a ritual supper.
After reading the Lord’s Prayer backwards the door flew open & 5 ghastly gentlemen sat beside them. One girl apparently died from fright...
#FolkloreThursday #sin 🎨Finden