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🥀👑🥀"Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honour for an inward toil."
⚜️Richard III
#ShakespeareSunday
🍀💚🍀Folklore says that if you carry a four leaf clover you will see Faeries.
#FairyTaleTuesday
🌖🐇🌘Any solitary, unusually large and pale-coated Hare was said to be a shapeshifted Witch.
#WyrdWednesday
🌿🪶🌿Celandine was sometimes known as Swallow-wort, from the belief that swallows would feed the plant to their young to cure weak eyesight.
#FolkloreSunday
🍎🌗🍓Accepting even the smallest morsel of food or drop of drink in the Otherworld means you will be trapped there forever - but within the mortal realm, declining such generosity from the Fae will cause great offence and end in curses or death for the refuser.
#FolkloreSunday
🌿🍄🌿Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a trickster and mischievous Fae sprite from English folklore, famously featured in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
#FairyTaleTuesday
🍀🔥🍀Fire omens...
Flames roaring up the chimney = a quarrel.
Cluster of sparks = good news.
Blue flames = frosty weather.
Coffin-shaped cinder falling onto the hearth = a death, or cradle-shaped one = a birth.
A coal falling at your feet = soon to be married!
#FolkloreThursday
⛈️🐈⬛⛈️Ship's Cats were always well cared for as it was said they could raise storms using magic held in their tails!
#FolkloreThursday
🌊🌩️🌊The Doom Bar at Padstow, Cornwall - a wide sandbar notorious for shipwrecks - is said to have been raised in a violent storm by a Mermaid who cursed the town with her dying breath after being shot.
#WyrdWednesday
🌿💜🌿Sage lore...
To conjure a vision of your future spouse, pluck twelve leaves - without breaking any - at midnight on Midsummer Eve, one at each strike of the clock.
Eat it in the month of May to ensure long life.
Believed to remedy failing sight and memory.
#FolkloreThursday