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Maid Maleen is a princess shut up in a tower for 7 years because she wouldn't marry the man her father picked for her. This German #fairytale via the #BrothersGrimm tells us how she eventually escapes, locates, & marries her true love the prince. #HEA #FairyTaleTuesday

🪄✨ #WyrdWednesday games. https://t.co/FfDyft8Wb1

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1848 – 1926) was a Russian artist specializing in mythological & historical subjects. As a co-founder of Russian #folklorist & romantic nationalistic painting, he was a key figure in the Russian revivalist movement. #FairyTaleTuesday #illustrator

The Pythia was the god Apollo's mouthpiece, also known as the Oracle of Delphi, it was the major source of divination for ancient Greeks. The site was initially sacred to Gaia, & subsequently it was believed to be sacred to Poseidon, the god of earthquakes. #MythologyMonday

Flora is the Roman #goddess of flowers & a nymph of the Islands of the Blessed. 💐 She was honoured with the annual festival of the Floralia, & is known as Khloris in the Greek pantheon. Wife of Zephyros the West-Wind, she was mother to Carpus, god of fruit. #MythologyMonday

Happy #NationalOrchidDay!
The @smithsonian Library highlights beautiful #orchids from their collection, via the @BioDivLibrary 💐 https://t.co/xbzworBGWC

"There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky."

The Moral of #Flowers - Rebecca Hey, 1836

Illustration - Mr. W. Clark, engraver, London Hort. Soc.
#Daisy 🌼 (Public Domain)

The Grecian Centaurs, half human, half horse, understood the properties of herbs & cultivated them; but as a rule, they never willingly divulged to mankind their knowledge or secrets of the botanical world. 🌿 #FolkloreThursday #Myth #plantlore

The #love story of Tristram & Ysold mentions a #rose, R. eglanteria. 🌹 "From his grave grew an #eglantine, twining about the statue, a marvel for all to see; & though 3 times they cut it down, it grew again, winding its arms about the image of the fair Ysolde." #FolkloreThursday

A Brownie's presence ensured household prosperity, so humans left offerings of cream or cakes for them on the hearth. Brownies would perform domestic work, but if they felt taken advantage of, they'd vanish forever, taking the prosperity of the house with them. #FolkloreThursday