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#MythologyMonday
As it’s June, let’s look at Juno, the patron goddess of Rome and divine protector of women, marriage, childbirth and motherhood. This month is named in her honour. Her sacred animal is the peacock, an emblem of immortality.
🎨Gustave Moreau.

#ShakespeareSunday
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
MND Act III Scene 1.
🎨Walter Stanley Paget.

#FolkloreThursday
Áine, the Queen of the Fairies in Irish mythology, is the goddess of love, fertility, the sun, and Summer. The summer solstice and the days leading up to midsummer are her sacred days. Rites were performed in her honour as recently as 1879.
🎨Julia Cellini.

@AudryRibka @be1t2h @RosaTrunk Thank you. Happy Monday, enjoy your week.

#SuperstitionSat
In Malaysia, you should always bite your new shoes before wearing them, to save them biting you. It is a way of "breaking them in" so that they do not hurt or pinch your feet the first time you wear them!

#FaustianFriday
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance
–W B Yeats, The Cat and the Moon.

@AudryRibka @be1t2h @RosaTrunk Thank you for reminding me Ribka.

@Beth396 Muchas gracias querida Beth. Feliz Jueves para ti. Cariños.

#FolkloreThursday
Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a frame story comprising 100 tales, told by a group of 10 young friends, over a period of 10 days. The #storytellers are sheltering in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Florence, to avoid the risk of the Black Death.
🎨JWWaterhouse

#WorldTurtleDay
Every kid got a turtle some time or other. Nobody can't keep a turtle though. They work at it and work at it, and at last one day they get out & away they go – off somewheres.
–John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.
🎨Virginia Sterrett, Raphael Kirchner