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Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a #hunting,
He'll never get this rabbit's skin,
To wrap the baby bunting in.
This nursery rhyme dates to 1784 but is believed to have been part of an earlier oral tradition. [ Note Rabbits hunting in the Rackham illustration] #folklorethursday
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs. I make them look like pigs. ~Louise Gluck, Circe's power
Complete poem: https://t.co/jhkfKyjUUd ]
#folklorethursday @folklorethurs #thursdaythoughts
@Hstry_with_Cats That's a medieval dog treating a cat for melancholy, probably with milk thistle. [#caturday en avance]
Will you go a'maying? And Blessed Beltaine! [ From Left: John Collier Guinevre A'Maying, May from the Labors of the Months at Queens College, Ford Maddox Brown. ] All the labors: https://t.co/LAkFR5Uk9g #MayDay #WilliamMorris #InternationalWorkersDay2018 #InternationalWorkerDay
Happy Walpurgisnacht, Witches! [WTH is #Walpurgisnacht? Halloween in the Spring: https://t.co/Aw8WBSpkXD ] [Arthur Rackham #witches ]
And you *know* what day it is.... Hail, feline overlords! #cats #caturday #medieval [ All my #cat tiles: https://t.co/qvduXEH18b]
@barcudcochddu @DickKingSmith Oh and a Dachsund from the Book of Hours of Joanna the Mad, Queen of Castile from 1504, and of Aragon from 1516. Joanna was married by arrangement to Philip the Handsome. Medieval dogs: https://t.co/d5Ogxo2ikM
@HistoriumU @FolkloreThurs @SirenTV Sirens got better looking over time, or learned to camouflage their figure flaws with feathers. Left: Siren and Beaver (Bestiary of Anne Walshe, c. 1452). Right: Siren from Waterhouse Sirens and Ulysses.
@AjonesAmanda @FolkloreThurs William De Morgan's kraken! Clearly, no threat to Sea Horses....