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#FairyTaleTuesday
Remembered for her Flower Fairies, Cicely Mary Barker also caught the magic and innocence of childhood endeavour and friendship. Who knows whether the children here are siblings or friends? Her visual storytelling lends itself nicely to today’s theme.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Growing up in a family of male siblings, I much preferred the story of the kind, devoted and resourceful sisters in Snow White and Rose Red, to Snow White. I adore the child like simplicity and naïve realism of the illustrations of Felicitas Kuhn-Klapschy.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.
–Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera.

🎨Sulamith Wülfing.

#FolkloreThursday
Valentine folklore says that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine’s Day, she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire. ❤️❤️❤️

#ShakespeareSunday

These are stars indeed;
And sometimes falling ones.
Henry VIII, Act IV, Scene 1.

#FolkloreSunday
Today the Chinese New Year begins, the year of the Rabbit, the 4th animal in the Chinese Zodiac cycle. The Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace & prosperity in Chinese culture. A harbinger of hope for 2023.

Xīn Nián Kuài Lè! 新年快乐 Happy Chinese New Year!

#FairyTaleTuesday
Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran.
—John Keats, Lamia.
In Greek mythology Lamia is a predatory monster with a serpent’s body and the head and breasts of a woman.

🎨Isobel Lilian Gloag, The Kiss of the Enchantress.

#FaustianFriday
Her long hair flickered in the midnight blast
She sighed with sighs inhuman;
On snow-white horse she galloped fast.
– Johannes Carsten Hauch, The Wild Hunt.

The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif involving a host of lost spirits led by a legendary deity at Yuletide.

#FolkloreThursday
In Germanic folklore Holda/Frau Holle, the Dark Grandmother and White Lady reigns over the dark, cold months of winter. It is said that, it is, she who causes the snow to fall, – whenever she shakes out her feather pillow. It would seem she’s been busy of late.

Jólakötturin - Iceland’s Yule Cat. A huge, ferocious black cat who searches for anyone who has no new clothes to wear on Christmas Eve. Upon finding such a wretch the feline greedily gobbles them up, swallowing them whole, before resuming the hunt for others.
#FairyTaleTuesday