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Hedgerow weather forecasting:

"Many haws, many snows,
many sloes many cold toes..."
#FolkloreThursday

(Flower fairies C M Barker)

"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 #cold

Long before adult colouring books Walter Crane designed this children’s Painting Book, 1889. Disappointed in his artistic career he became the ‘academician of the nursery’. Here he gave a blank & a coloured plate for children to work from. #FolkoreThursday

Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books.

Working in watercolours, she brought rhymes to life, often wearing delightful period costumes.
#childlore #folklorethursday

Can you spot what isn’t different?
Rossetti clearly loved this spiral hair ornament and gave it different models to wear. Apparently it was last seen when borrowed by blackmailer Charles Howell’s wife who never returned it….
(Thanks https://t.co/tejk8l5lLJ)
#FolkloreThursday

My Dutch mother gave me a treasured a copy of Sprookjes van Hans Andersen (1915). Dutch illustrator, Rie Cramer (1887-1977) was influenced by Beardsley, Rackham & Dulac. I always loved this poignantly naked figure of the Little Mermaid once she'd lost her tail. #FolkloreThursday

In 'Circe Invidosa'' the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues depicting her jealousy. In a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨 Waterhouse) #FolkloreThursday #ocean

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

Straw-berry

Fastest off the mark:

1. @LauraFUnderhill 🥉🏆
2. @merryme300 🥈🏆

Well done! https://t.co/NzlESSOKJs

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

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 🎨CM Barker)
#FolkloreThursday