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“Come, Mother of Flowers, that we may honour thee with merry games" (Ovid)

The "Floralia" games around 1 May in ancient Rome to honour Flora, goddess of flowers, may well be one of of the origins of the medieval "Maying" traditions

🖼️ Tiepolo "Flora" 1743

#FolkloreThursday

"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all." (Camus)

Some of Theodor Kittelsen's (#BOTD 1857) haunting illustrations of Svartedauen (Black Death), featuring Pesta, the personified plague.

#Gothicspring

"Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the BrightdaylerWhere?“ (James Joyce "Ulysses")

Great Auks, the now extinct northern penguins, for #WorldPenguinDay

@HoldenEve ***Dooooooooom!***

"A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it"

Actually American author Henry James was born #OTD 1843 in New York.

🖼️ John Singer Sargent, "Cashmere" (1908)

@HoldenEve No harvesting of toadstones, right?

@bjorn_stjerne Good girl!

“Exit, pursued by a bear” (The Winter’s Tale)

#ShakespeareSunday

🖼️ P.P. Sokolov "General Toptygin" (1875)

@bjorn_stjerne @GarethB38376815 The horn-trading I suppose...

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)

#PreRaphaelite latecomer J.W. Waterhouse was baptised #OTD 1849 in Rome

Naiad (1893)
Echo & Narcissus (1903)
The Sorceress (1911)
A Tale from the Decameron (1916)

#FairytaleTuesday