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15 March The Ides of March. A time to settle debts.
“On his way to the Theatre, Caesar passed the seer & joked "The Ides of March are come”, implying the prophecy had not been fulfilled.
To which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not yet gone.”
(✒️Plutarch 🎨Camucci )

In March sow garden herbs:

“In March & in April from morning to night,
In sowing & setting good housewives delight,
To have in a garden or other like plot,
To physic their house, or to furnish their pot.”
(Good husbandry 1753)
🎨 Waterhouse #folklorethursday

In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues 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) #FolkloreThursday

The answer to this week's #riddle is:

Cat, fiddle, cow, moon, dog, see (sea), dish, ran, spoon.

The winner is: @Mimirsbrunnir 🥇🏆

Maybe it was just too easy?

See you next week. https://t.co/RUT4SP0YMO

My research pinboard while writing #TheProphet Day 3. The Cheshire Prophet Robert Nixon. Said to be a stupid ploughboy yet if he existed, foretold death of Charles I, Great Plague & 'Three years of great wars,' one still to come...
https://t.co/tncPrEqk2U #FairyTaleTuesday

Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.

The idea of wishing on a star seems to be a very ancient one.
The rhyme has been referenced by artists from Steinbeck to Madonna. #Folklorethursday (🎨 C M Barker)

The Bridesmaid, Millais, 1851
It was said that a bridesmaid would see a vision of her true #love if she passed a piece of wedding cake through a ring nine times. Here, the chaste bridesmaid (symbolized by orange blossom) appears to contemplate her future. #FolkloreThursday

The tradition that birds pair off on Feb 14 seems to be the true origin of Valentine's Day - and nothing to do with saints:

‘Oft have I heard both youths & virgins say,
Birds choose their mates & couple too, today.'
(Herrick, 1648)
#FolkloreThursday

Mother Goose is an imaginary teller of #fairytales & rhymes. Part witch-figure, her fame grew with Perrault's Tales (1695) including Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty.
Representing an ancient line of female storytellers, her origins have been lost
(🎨F Richardson) #FolkloreThursday

Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester was based on a local legend. A tailor making a suit for the Mayor returned to work to find the suit finished – supposedly by his assistants. He encouraged the belief that it was fairy work. #folklorethursday #clothes