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Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, William Blake, c.1786.
Berchta or Perchta is a frosty Alpine goddess - kind to those who are domestically good, terrifying to those who break the rules. A woman must not weave on her festival day (modern Epiphany in Jan). Her spinning should be done, house clean and porridge left. 1/3 #FaustianFriday
‘Grandmother, it hurts to run!’ From a book I can’t find out much about at the moment called Do Animals Have Souls? Theodor Kittelsen, c.1894. #FrogsForFridays
Clerk Colvill and the Mermaid for British Ballads, Arthur Rackham. #MermaidMonday
‘Earth laughs in flowers.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Hamatreya. #BookWormSat
🖼Alpine Flowers, Artist unknown, 1867.