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🌸🍏🌸If the sun shines through the branches of apple trees on Easter morning it's a sign of a plentiful crop to come, and foretells a happy and prosperous year for the owner of the orchard.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday

💤🦉💤Feeling tired this #OwlishMonday

🌊🐂🌊The Crodh Sith 'Fairy Cattle' of Scottish folklore were said to swim to the Isle of Skye to graze its lush pastures - but if soil from a churchyard was cast between them and the sea they could be prevented from leaving and kept within the island's own herds.
#WyrdWednesday

🌺🤍🌺"From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."

📖Shakespeare - Sonnet 98
#BookWormSat

🪶🦉🪶a mystical doorway into #OwlishMonday

🌺❤️‍🩹🌺In C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Aslan's return to Narnia breaks the spell of the hundred-year Winter - Peter is gifted a sword and shield, Susan, a bow, arrows and a horn, and Lucy, a dagger and a crystal phial of healing cordial.
#LegendaryWednesday

❄️👑❄️The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen - a magical tale of how the brave and resourceful Gerda embarks on an epic quest to find and rescue her dearest friend Kai, who has been stolen away by a beautiful but cruel Enchantress.
#FairyTaleTuesday

🌺🥚🌺Sussex folklore warns that the first bunch of primroses brought into the house in springtime must contain more than thirteen blooms, or your hens and geese will only lay as many eggs as there are flowers.
#FolkloreSunday #Superstitiology

🌿💜🌿It's said a dream of violets foretells a change for the better in the dreamer's life.
#FolkloreThursday

🪶🔥🪶The Phoenix - legendary sun-bird from Greek myth - gained its immortality from a cycle of rising, rejuvenated, from the ashes of its funeral pyre.
#MythologyMonday