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#FolkloreThursday
Sorry a day late, through work shifts, but my personal favourite rhyme -

Said Hamlet to Ophelia
"I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?"

#SpikeMilligan

#FairyTaleTuesday
The spectral #CŵnAnnwn - Hounds of Hell - prowl woods & forests during the hours of darkness collecting the souls of the damned ...... their eerie howls are loud in the distance, but get ever quieter the closer they get to their prey.
#WelshMythology

#FolkloreThursday
Famed for leading an #Iceni rebellion against Rome, #Boudica was reputedly a skilled horsewoman & warrior. Accompanied by her daughters, she led her people into battle & legend has it that they killed themselves rather than concede to the Roman Empire.

#FolkloreThursday
Later literary works besmirched his image, but in Celtic legend #Cai "the Tall" was a hero, one of the 3 Enchanter Knights of Britain, friend of #KingArthur & #Bedwyr, slayer of giants, endowed with magical powers - a wound from his sword would never heal.

#WyrdWednesday
The magical #AdarLlwchGwin (a combination of eagle & lion) were given to Drudwas ap Tryffin by his wife & obeyed only him. He was killed by his own birds after ordering them to kill the first arrival at a battle - his opponent was delayed & he arrived first ...

#FairyTaleTuesday
Living in the river #Conwy the monstrous #Afanc dragged off unsuspecting victims & caused flooding in the Conwy Valley. Lured onto land by a beautiful young woman, the Afanc was captured & taken to a new home in the deep, secure #LlynFfynnonLas in #Snowdonia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@WyrdWednesday @MaeneSigne Welcome @MaeneSigne

#WyrdWednesday
There is a perpetual battle for supremacy between the #Holly Green Man (ruler of the Winter months) & the #Oak Green Man (dominant during the Summer) - the power shifts between the two at the Spring & Autumn solstices.
#GreenMan #CalanMai #Mabon #WelshMythology

#FairyTaleTuesday
The magical birds #AdarLlwchGwin were given to Drudwas ap Tryffin by his wife & obeyed only him. He was killed by his own birds after ordering them to kill the first arrival at a battle - his opponent was delayed & he arrived first ...
#WelshMythology

#FairytaleTuesday
Welsh sorceress #Ceridwen was hardly a model mother .... persistently trying to "cure" her son #Morfran of his "ugliness" through her potions & putting her baby #Taliesin in a leather bag & throwing him into the sea (luckily he survived) ....
#Mabinogion