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✨🦇✨Bats were often seen as bringers of bad luck, but this rhyme was said to ward misfortune away...
"Airy mouse, airy mouse, fly over my head,
And you shall have a crust of bread,
And when I brew and when I bake,
You shall have a piece of my wedding cake."
#FolkloreThursday
🌿❤️🔥🌿"For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy."
🌹Sonnet 152
#ShakespeareSunday
✨🍀✨Clover lore...
Brings good luck if kept in the house, or worn in buttonholes or hats.
Protects against evil spells and enchantments.
If seen in dreams it foretells a happy and prosperous marriage.
Carrying a four-leafed clover allows you to see the Fae.
#FolkloreSunday
🌿🗝️🌿"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."
📖C.S. Lewis
#BookWormSat
🪶🍀🪶First Cuckoo call lore...
Count the notes to find out how many years before you marry - or how many years you have left to live!
Good fortune if you hear it when standing on soft ground, bad if on hard.
Lying in bed = illness.
Coins in pocket = prosperity.
#FolkloreThursday
🖤"No picture he’d ever taken of the Seelie or Unseelie had ever shown anything more than vague shapes & shadows. He prayed that the screen would show her face. If it was just a haze, & proved that an enchantment had been slipped into his heart, he would suffer."
#FairyTaleFlash
🍄🍎🍄Folklore warns against accepting food or drink from Faeries - no matter how deliciously tempting it may appear - otherwise you will fall under their power!
#FolkloreSunday
🌊🧜♀️🌊In Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, a church bell lost long ago in its waters can be heard chiming at dawn on Easter Sunday - it's said that a mermaid swims through a subterranean channel from the river Mersey to ring the bell and sit upon it to sing.
#SuperstitionSat
🍀💍🍀A four-leafed clover placed in the right shoe is said to be a divination charm - the first eligible person you meet on the first journey wearing it, will be your future spouse!
#FolkloreSunday
🌸🍀🌸To dream of violets foretells good fortune and a change for the better in the dreamer's life.
#SuperstitionSat