💙💛Patricia Furstenberg, Author 🏰✨️🌿さんのイラストまとめ

A hero travels to the sky using his powers or aided by the Magic Bird. A mortal soul requires initiation, moral strength and above all a desire to climb this Cosmic Tree / Stairway to Heaven through the air.

#Norse Yggdrasil & #Romanian Tree of Life
#FairyTaleTuesday #Im4Ro

🐇He is hairy,
Got a tail,
Hops around
On feet with nails.
Wants a princess,
As his bride -
Cross his border
To scold and chide.
Sold for life
Your freedom is
While his breath
Cuts like a knife...

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The Forest Godesses, Vâlve or Charmstresses were said to hold power over herbs, magic flowers, thermal springs, winds, mountains and forests, where they lived among themselves, speaking a language no one understood.

#FolkloreThursday #Romania #Im4Ro
🎨Giuliano Bartolomeo

🌿Warding off evil #spirits is the mugwort, a #plant said to protect against #pandemics too, so wear some around your neck...

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#FolkloreThursday #Romania #Im4Ro

🌿Love in #Romania is brought by handsome Dragobete with his ebony hair and eyes as green as spring leaves. He's the one teaching us how to love. As a reward Virgin Mary turned him into a #plant, Navalnic, hart’s-tongue fern.
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#FolkloreThursday #Im4Ro

Romanians celebrate the #Ignat today. It is the sacrificial killing of the #pig 🐷 for the #Christmas feast.

It symbolizes the passing of the old year and the hopes a #NewYear brings.

#MytholyMonday #Im4Ro #traditions

If you ever set foot in the Giant Mountains of Central Europe, watch out for a gnome. Be friendly and he will repay you, pointing the way to buried treasures. Mock him and you will pay for he can send lightening, fog or #snow your way! He is Rübezahl.

#FolkloreThursday

An old #Romanian saying goes like this:

If the #sun finds you in bed on the 1st of the month, no wealth will enter your home that month.

#folklorethursday #sun #sleep #wealth

Flowers were seen as symbol of rebirth since Roman times, each month having its own #birthday flower.

June's birth flowers are #rose and honeysuckle.

#folklorethursday

2000 years ago #OnThisDay Romans finished a 1km bridge over #Donau River, wt plans by Apollodorus of Damacus. It took them only 2 years. The bridge facilitated #Roman invasion of #Dacia & the genesis of Trajan & Dochia #myth. #TodayInHistory

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