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#FairyTaleTuesday
Today is the feast of St Nicholas, a 3rd century saint who sold all his possessions to help the poor. He was known for giving gifts in secret, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and so became the inspiration for Santa Claus.

#SuperstitionSat

Look & see the saddle markings
Where the fairy warriors rode them.
(As they ride them still at midnight,
On Midsummer's Eve at midnight,
When we mortals all are sleeping.)
–Anne G. Biddlecombe.

This poem fixed the Pembrokeshire Corgi into fairy folklore.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Snow White and Rose Red is one of the folk tales collected and adapted by the Bothers Grimm. It is the story of two sisters, one fair and one dark, who live with their widowed mother.
🎨Kerry Darlington.

#MythologyMonday
Irish myth tells of Étaín loved by the fairy king Midir. Fúamnach, his wife turns her into a pool of water, a worm, & butterfly. She falls into the wine goblet of Étar’s wife who drinks it & becomes pregnant. Étaín is reborn, 1012 years after her first birth.

#LegendaryWednesday
In Manx lore the god Manannán Mac Lir possesses the ‘Féth Fíada', a cape of invisibility used to protect the Isle of Man from being seen. He rises from the sea conjuring up his magical cloak of mist, wrapping it around the island to protect it from invaders.

#FairyTaleTuesday

“Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.

🎨Emily Winfield Martin.

#FolkloreThursday
In Irish history and folklore the Bean Feasa, ‘wise woman’ was a local woman skilled in the arts of healing and herbalism. Biddy Early of Co. Clare was one such practitioner. Biddy possessed a magic blue glass bottle, which she claimed was a gift from the Fae.

#WyrdWednesday
In WWII the RAF launched new radar helping pilots shoot down enemy planes at night. To keep the technology secret, the British government attributed the pilots’ success to eating carrots.

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Norse mythology the ravens, Hugin and Munin, are the companions, messengers and birds of wisdom belonging to Odin. It is spectaculated that they are a metaphor for Odin casting out his thoughts and his mind in a trance-like practice.
🎨Chris Reach.