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#FolkloreThursday
Lilies, symbolic of new life and a popular choice of floral decoration at Easter. Legend says white lilies sprang up in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus wept in the last hours before he was betrayed by Judas.

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Greek myth, the owl was symbolic of Athena, goddess of wisdom, intuition and warfare. Owls are regarded as intelligent with excellent hunting skills, mirroring many aspects of Athena.
🎨Cynthia Sheppard.

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Irish myth The Morrigan is a goddess of war and death. Spurned in love by Cúchulainn, she hinders him in battle. Some legends say she was gifted with foresight, and, thus able to predict the death of warriors which she used to influence the outcome of war.

#FolkloreSunday
The world awakes to rapture;
Love rejoices, gods are glad,
Flowers unfold around her footfalls,
Youth in virgin garb is clad;
All the Muses chant a welcome;
Nymph and Naïad swell the strain;
Dancing sunbeams, laughing waters,
Aid the triumph of her train.

#ShakespeareSunday

When daffodils begin to peer.
Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3.

🎨 Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert.

#FolkloreSunday #Spring

#FairyTaleTuesday
My hundred thousand bells of blue,
The splendour of the #Spring,
They carpet all the woods anew.
–Cicely Mary Barker

Bluebells symbolise constancy, humility and eternal love. It is said that they ring their bells summoning the fairies to dance and play.

#FolkloreSunday
Irish myth tells of the Tuatha Dé Danann, (the people of goddess Danu) an ancient, magical and immortal race who dwell in the Otherworld. They often visit the mortal world, mist being a powerful symbol for them. Its appearance signals their presence.
🎨Joan Brull

#FairyTaleTuesday
A charming illustration by Mabel Lucie Attwell, of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Wild Swans. The story of a plucky, resourceful princess who saves her 11 brothers who have been turned into swans by a spell cast by their wicked stepmother.

#ShakespeareSunday

We talk with goblins, owls and sprites.
Comedy of Errors, Act II Scene 2.

🎨Thomas Maybank

#FolkloreSunday
Folklore links the hare to the moon, death, rebirth & Easter. Eostre, Celtic goddess of spring, is said to be the namesake of the Christian holiday. For her, hares are sacred messengers, and at the full moon she assumes the shape of one.
🎨Helena Nelson Reed