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#ShakespeareSunday
"I have bedimmed
The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,
And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war - to th' dread rattling thunder..."
#Tempest
(Image: #JuliaEverett
#ShakespeareSunday
"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."
#KingLear
#DonovanBixley
#FolkloreThursday
The mighty #Ash Tree #Yggdrasil was the centre of the #Norse nine worlds which were held together by its branches & roots - a #dragon (#Nidhogg) & an eagle live in its roots & branches & a squirrel (#Ratatoskr) scurries up & down.
(image #SolHrafnsdottir)
#FolkloreThursday
Created from flowers as a wife for Lleu (who was cursed never to have a human wife) #Blodeuwedd was turned into an owl after an adulterous relationship - so she would be attacked by other birds if she ever showed her face in daylight again. 🥀🦉
#Mabinogion
I love this painting - originally posted by @MenschOhneMusil ...... it captures the cat's personality brilliantly 😃
#Caturday 🐱
#FolkloreThursday
The #LadyOfShalott spent her life working at a loom -
"A curse is on her, if she stay
Her weaving, either night or day"
..... however she ends up bringing the curse down upon herself after seeing #Lancelot riding by .... #TheMirrorCrackedFromSideToSide
#FolkloreThursday
A #cobbler met a giant carrying a shovelful of earth he intended to smother #Shrewsbury with; the quick thinking cobbler told him he had worn out his whole sack of (mended) shoes trying to get there, so the disgruntled giant dropped the soil forming the #Wrekin
Nurse #EdithCavell born 4 Dec 1865 & helped over 200 allied soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium. Shot for treason by the Germans in 1915, the return of her coffin to #Norwich saw thousands of people line the streets to pay their respects.
#OTD
#ShakespeareSunday
"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not .... "
#Tempest
#FolkloreThursday
In #Wales #CwnAnnwn - the Hounds of Hell - are sent out during the hours of darkness to collect the souls of the damned ...... their howls can be heard in the distance, but the nearer they come to you the quieter they become .....
(image: #akreon)