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

The scarlet pimpernel, known as “the poor man’s weatherglass”.
Its star-like red flowers open for sunny days and close for rainy days. Flowering now until August.
(🎨 C M Barker)
#FolkloreThursday

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 @FolkloreThurs #Flowers

Edward Robert Hughes was a modestly regarded assistant to Holman Hunt and portraitist. Now his paintings of women as heavenly bodies are loved around the world on thousands of posters and greeting cards. #Stars #Skies #FolkloreThursday

Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife & author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin.
Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings" #FolkloreThursday #birth

Counting cherry stones:
When shall I marry?
This year, next year, sometime, never.
What shall I wear?
Silk, satin, cotton, rags
How shall I get to church?
Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart
Where shall I live?
Big house, little house, pigsty, barn
#FolkloreThursday N Rockwell)

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

Ham-mock

Just the one winner this week. The nimble-witted @LauraFUnderhill 🥇🏆

Congratulations!
(Image Winslow Homer: Sunshine and Shadow) https://t.co/8dwi5u14va

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

An Owl

The fastest answers came from:

1 @artmonogatar 🥇🏆
2 @LauraFUnderhill 🥈🏆
3 @merryme300 🥉🏆

Getting too easy! See you next week. https://t.co/lzSApxlqZy

The Wood Sorrel Fairy

In the wood the trees are tall,
Up and up they tower;
You and I are very small—
Fairy-child and flower.

Bracken stalks are shooting high,
Far and far above us;
We are little, you and I,
But the fairies love us.

(🎨 & 🖊️ C M Barker) #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 🎨C Barker)
#FolkloreThursday

Now is the time to sow garden crops:
“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 #garden