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Had to share. Something I've written has been long-listed for a prize - my first ever. It's a long list but I couldn't be more surprised & thrilled. Oh heck, they could still change their minds before it's made official... Kindly remember me in your spells🧙‍♀️#FolkloreThursday

The Bridesmaid, Millais, 1851
It was believed that a bridesmaid would see a vision of her true #love if she passed a piece of wedding cake through a ring 9 times. Here, the chaste bridesmaid (symbolized by orange blossom) contemplates her future. #FolkloreThursday #Valentine

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

@SelineSigil9 @FolkloreThurs Saw many wonders when I visited Sulawesi but not this. An amazing place.

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)

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