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🌿🍏🌿When harvesting apples it is traditional to leave at least one fruit on the tree as a gift for the Fae.
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🍄🌓🍄Beware circles of toadstools - known as Fairy Rings - if you step within them you may fall under the power of the Fae, who will steal you away to the Otherworld or force you to dance with them until you go mad or die from exhaustion.
#WyrdWednesday
🌩️🌙🌧️If Jackdaws are late in coming home to roost at dusk it's a sign of storms to come - if they spend all their time fluttering and cawing around buildings, they are foretelling rain.
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🌿💘🌿A Cornish charm to see your future spouse in your dreams...
Pick a sprig of herb Yarrow at the new moon, place it under your pillow and say:
Good night, fair Yarrow
Thrice good night to thee
I hope before tomorrow's dawn
My true love I shall see!
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⏳🪨⌛️"Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright..."
🕯️Sonnet 55
#ShakespeareSunday
💘"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."💘
✨A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
#ShakespeareSunday
🌬️🌈🌬️Iris, Greek Goddess of the rainbow, is a messenger of the gods, and married to Zephyrus, God of the west wind. Her twin sister Arke, who betrayed the Olympians and turned messenger to the Titans, is represented by the rarely seen and paler, second rainbow.
#MythologyMonday
🌿🌺🌿Cuckoo lore...
"In April, come he will,
In May, he sings all day,
In June, he changes his tune,
In July, he prepares to fly,
In August, go he must."
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🌿💘🌿Ash leaves with an even number of fronds were believed to bestow good fortune, and were used in divination and love charms...
"Even, even, Ash,
I pluck thee off the tree.
The first young man that I do meet,
My lover he shall be!"
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