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#FairytaleTuesday
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
Bound up at length for harvesting,
And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
~D G Rossetti, Autumn Song
🖼 Evelyn De Morgan, The Cadence of Autumn.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Beautiful, alluring, the witchy, enchantress Morgan le Fay is both a healer & wise woman. In Arthurian legend she was, initially, a kind character & protector of King Arthur. As legends developed, so too did the unpredictable duality of her nature.
🖼BurneJones

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Norse mythology the Valkyrie are a group of young women serving the god Odin, and sent by him to the battlefields. Once there they choose the souls of slain warriors worthy of a place in Valhalla and there wait upon them.
🖼E R Hughes

#BookWormSat

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
–Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.
🖼Edmund Dulac

#FairyTaleTuesday
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin, a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Set in the Middle Ages about a rat catcher hired to rid Hamelin of its rat infestation. The citizens refuse to pay him, so he retaliates by luring away their children forever.
🖼Arthur Rackham

#FolkloreThursday
White lilies symbolise peace, chastity, grace and grief. In ancient times brides wore garlands of lilies in their hair, as a lucky charm for a pure and fruitful marriage. Symbolic of the souls of the recently dead and a sign of peace, they are seen at funerals.

#FairyTaleTuesday
A dragon, a mythical creature breathing fire, having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, and a long tail. It appears in the folklore of many world cultures, considered both benevolent and malevolent according to region and belief system.
🖼Antonello Venditti

#FolkloreSunday
An old custom on May Day was to give a May basket. Children created the baskets, filling them with flowers they had picked, homemade trinkets and other goodies. On May Day morning the baskets were hung surreptitiously on the front door of their friends’ homes.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Beautiful and alluring, the witchy, enchantress Morgan le Fay is both a healer and wise woman. In Arthurian legend she was, initially, a kind character and protector of King Arthur. As legends developed, so too did the unpredictable duality of her nature.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Princess Mononoke, an animated film by Studio Ghibli based on Japanese legend & folklore. Searching for the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the midst of war between the forest gods & Tatara. In his quest he meets the Mononoke Hime.