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Gardening, #folklore, fairy tales, comparative #mythology, & cats. 🐈‍⬛ #amwriting ➡️ bsky.app/profile/karslo…
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Sharing 'The Christmas Fairy', a lovely Victorian book of short stories, written by Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (1856–1911), under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter, which would have otherwise gone unpublished because she was a woman. https://t.co/F4D6bW1FVr

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2019-12-12

"So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom."

~ King Henry V 🐝

Image: Public Domain
https://t.co/8Go5pcqNZG

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2019-11-17

According to Margaret Murray, there's a formula for 'Flying ointment'. 🧹 In the UK, it included parsley, aconite, sweet flag, deadly nightshade, soot, & bat's blood. In mainland Europe, a might add hemlock to the mix.🧙‍♀️

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2019-11-13

Sleeping Beauty is a classic about a princess cursed to sleep for 100 yrs by an evil fairy, & is awakened by a handsome prince's kiss. 😘 The earliest known version is found in Perceforest, composed around 1330. by

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2019-11-13

In classical antiquity, the cornucopia, (aka the horn of plenty), was a symbol of & nourishment, usually portrayed as a large horn-shaped basket, overflowing with flowers & nuts. 🍇 🧺 💐 Fortuna, Goddess of luck is often shown holding one.

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2019-11-12

"One moonlight night, the fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings that she could not help putting them on."

'The Water Babies', by Charles Kingsley. ca 1922.
(1st pub. ca 1863)

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2019-11-06

Sometimes a assumed the form of a beautiful singing virgin who'd died young, or a shrouded shrieking crone, crouching beneath a tree. In actuality, both were harbingers of coming doom to a human family member.👻

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2019-10-29

Who does Doug think he is? Mayor Tommy Shanks from Melonville? 🔥 https://t.co/1kiDtVCgos

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2019-10-23

Beauty & the Beast, (La Belle et la Bête) is a written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in 1740 - Sharing 3 from different artists inspired by this story: Warwick Goble, Anne Anderson, & Walter Crane.

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2019-10-22

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” - Romeo and Juliet

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2019-10-21