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#FolkloreThursday Most common profession for Leprechauns is shoemaker/cobbler. An invaluable job seeing as Trooping Fairies spend so much time dancing in fairy forts at balls & wearing their shoes out. The tapping of his hammer often betrays his position.
Illus. Holly Black
#FairyTaleTuesday ‘“O Grandmother, what big ears you have got” she said’
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1909. Illus. Arthur Rackham
Sewing, thread, a web around women; the Fates to Ariadne to Sleeping Beauty. Sewing forbidden on All Soul’s Day, each stitch a stab to the dead. Unlucky to mend a garment while wearing it. Magical hemp shirts, shirts sewn from nettles to restore lost brothers. #folklorethursday