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Pan & Psyche by Edward Burne-Jones.

Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds & fertility. Part man, part goat, his name gives us the word ‘Panic’.

Psyche, who earned the love of Eros, gives her name to the soul or mind and the term ‘Psychology.’
#FolkloreThursday #myths

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 disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement. #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 #FolkloreThursday #Flowers

The Tailor of Gloucester by @beatrixpotter was based on a true incident.
A tailor was making a suit for the new mayor. He returned to his shop to find the suit finished save for one buttonhole. He encouraged the belief that it was fairy - or mouse - #work. #FolkloreThursday

Hope, Symbolist painting, G F Watts, 1886.

In 1959 Martin Luther King Jr based a sermon on the painting, heard by a young Barack Obama, who was deeply moved. Obama based a book & his successful 2008 presidential campaign around the theme of "Hope".
#HappyNewYear #peaceonearth

20 December. Old Style ❄️#Advent 🕯️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 #dogs #folklore #Fridaythoughts

And the answer to this week's #FolkloreThursday #riddle by Jonathan Swift is:

❄️Snow ❄️

Winners:
@_schaduwmens 🥇🏆
@Tamlin517 🥈🏆

Well done https://t.co/Dn5f9BkMHw

Thanks everyone for the RTs and answers.
The answer: Devil
(Sorry, not Lucifer or Satan as Devil is 'Lived' reversed)
Fastest off the mark:
@SuzeSchulz 🥇🏆
@witchwalk 🥈🏆
@Littlepiggin95 🥉🏆
See you next #FolkloreThursday 👋 https://t.co/jsqe87fptQ

Manfred on the Jungfrau by Ford Madox Brown depicts Manfred's torment as he contemplates suicide. Based on Byron's dramatic poem, Manfred’s unnamed guilt is generally thought to reference Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh #FolkloreThursday #mountains

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 #ChildrensDay