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🌿👶🌿In the Scottish Highlands, a newborn baby would be given sap from a green stick of Ash (held in a fire till the sap oozed out then mixed with honey) as its first food, to give the child strength and to protect it from being bewitched or stolen by Faeries.
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🌨️📖🌨️"A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins."

❄️The Winter's Tale.
#ShakespeareSunday

🌖🌑🌔The Wild Hunt will ride out at Samhain - reaching its full dark power on the night of the Winter Solstice.
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🌿💘🌿Yarrow herb love divination... pluck a sprig at the new moon, place it under your pillow saying:
"Good night, fair Yarrow
Thrice good night to thee
I hope before tomorrow's dawn
My true love I shall see"
...& your future spouse will appear in your dreams!
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✨💖✨An old English charm to discover who you would marry...
Count seven stars on seven consecutive nights, and the first person to shake your hand on the eighth day will be your future wife or husband!
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✨🍄✨Fairy Rings, circles of toadstools that appear in fields, are said to be where the Fae dance. If you run 9 times around one at the full moon you will hear their music & singing - but beware, if you run widdershins (anticlockwise) you will be lost forever!
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🌿Trees and forests are deeply rooted in our psyche, and spread their branches over myth, legend, folklore & fairytale. The forests that will always have a place in my heart are Mirkwood, Sherwood, and the timeless glades of Ryhope.
#InternationalDayOfForests
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⚜️The Laird of Duffus heard the words: "Horse and Hattock!" from a whirlwind - he shouted it back & was swept up with a troop of Fae to the King of France's wine cellar. He drank all night, got left behind, pardoned by the King, & came home with a Faerie cup!
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🌿💘🍀Old English charm for finding true love, divined by counting the number of leaflets...
"Even Ash and four-leaved Clover
You are sure your Love to see
Before the day is over."
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🎂The custom of blowing out candles marking your age on a birthday cake, originates in Germany, where a larger candle called the Lebenslicht (Light of Life) was set in the centre of all the others, and was the one that granted your wish.🕯️
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