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Cherry blossom now in bloom:

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”
🖋️Housman🎨Kate Bunce #folklorethursday

April. Young nettles growing plentiful:
When rubbing a sting with a dock leaf, use this spoken charm:
"Out nettle, in dock.
Dock shall have a new smock.”
(Traditional) #FolkloreThursday
Ill. C M Barker Dead Nettle Fairy

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

Glorious springtime tomorrow!🥀🌺🌿🐦
For a little sanity, tomorrow Radio 4 will be 'Celebrating Winter Becoming Spring' with interludes of poetry from 12.18pm https://t.co/Mf7lqbZpkh
(🎨 B Powell, Blossoms of the fruit tree: Nature through the seasons) #FolkloreThursday

Time to sow 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 #InternationalWomensDay #herbs

A favourite poet's simple lines for children:

‘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) #InternationalWomensDay #FolkloreThursday

Recalling Celia Fiennes, pioneering English #traveller & diarist. From 1684-1703 she rode through most of England on horseback with only 2 servants. Single & independent, her interests are innovations, new spas at Bath & Harrogate & visiting new ‘stately homes’ #FolkloreThursday

“He promised to buy me a length of blue ribbon…”
Ribbon was a common lover’s gift; when bought at fairs called a ‘fairing’. A blue ribbon refers to a medieval symbolism of colour in which blue represents loyalty, constancy, faithfulness and truth. #colour #FolkloreThursday

The Little Mermaid, shown as naked & vulnerable by Rie Cramer.
Folklorist Virginia Borges writes that the story is about the dangers of accepting abuse or inconsiderate treatment in the name of love. #FolkloreThursday #NationalStorytellingWeek

Born in poverty, Emma Hamilton clawed her way from prostitution to invent classical ‘Attitudes’. Aristocratic audiences had to guess which #mythical character she portrayed. As Nelson’s mistress she became the world’s first media superstar #FolkloreThursday
("Bacchante"🎨Romney)