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#FolkloreThursday

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

#FolkloreThursday
In one story in the #Mabinogion's #CulhwchAndOlwen. a group of heroes undertaking a quest, visit a succession of animals each one older than the last until they come to the oldest animal of all who helps the heroes fulfill their quest.
#RedBookOfHergest

#ShakespeareSunday

"When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with ..."

#AntonyAndCleopatra

#FairyTaleTuesday
In #Celtic mythology the #Oak King #GreenMan is at his strongest at the Summer Solstice ...... his power then wanes & he is defeated by the #Holly King GreenMan at the #AutumnEquinox who holds sway until the Spring equinox when the roles are reversed again.

#MythologyMonday
Tread on #StJohnsWort after sunset & that night you will be swept up by a magical white horse and raced across the skies until dawn - when you will be deposited back in bed exhausted after a sleepless night (or maybe after a bad dream!)
#CelticMythology #Dreams

#FairyTaleTuesday
#Shrek is in fact a re-boot of the #Arthurian romance #GawainAndTheLoathlyLady .... which also reappears in the Wife of Bath's Tale in #Chaucer's #CanterburyTales .... the moral of the tale being that what women want most is #FreedomOfChoice

#FolkloreThursday
Living in the river #Conwy the terrifying #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

#FolkloreThursday
The #Welsh coal mines were home to #Coblynau - similar creatures to the #Cornish #Knockers - who could be benign & help miners to find new seams of coal ...... or if you upset them, they would throw rocks or cause rockslides .....

#MythologyMonday
#Rhiannon (whose name literally means "Great Queen") was a strong woman - she said of her husband Pwyll "Never was there a man who made feebler use of his wits." The singing of her 3 magical birds "wakes the dead, and lulls the living into slumber"
#Mabinogion

#MythologyMonday
Queen #Guinevere gets a bad press in Arthurian Legend - especially for her adulterous relationship with #Lancelot .... in the earliest tales Gwenhwyfar (White Phantom) was beautiful, wise, and loyal as well as being able to wield a sword ...
#Mabinogion