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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 #Flowers

Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disturbing images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement. #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)

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 fairy-work. #FolkloreThursday🎨B Potter

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 #Folklorethursday

Building the London Tube,1898.
An urban legend recounts a train bricked up under Crystal Palace Park, complete with passengers & crew - & dead hands trying to grab the living. An experimental railway was once built there but abandoned after failure.
#FolkloreThursday #work

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
#newbeginnings

Records show that fear of changelings was a disturbingly common belief:
“The complexion of the supposed Changeling was perfectly delicate…he never spoke or cried…If he were left never so dirty, the woman on her return found him with a clean face.” (Waldron) #FolkloreThursday

31 December. The 7th Day of Christmas. New Year’s Eve.
Open your bible at random as midnight strikes The verse your eye falls on will foretell your luck in the coming year.
(🎨Waterhouse: Circe) #prophecy #NewYearsEve #Folklore

The answer to this week's #riddle on #FolkloreThursday is:

Snow ❄️

Fastest off the mark were:
1.@LauraFUnderhill 🥇🏆
2.@merryme300 🥈🏆
3.@amandauren 🥉🏆

Well done and see you next #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/tQD75BsoVp