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Wild animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – male, female, hoglet
Fox – dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup
#folklorethursday #life #renewal
(🎨R Sheppard)

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

What will the future bring?

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

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