Sharon Carr, Folklore Twitcher & Story Spinnerさんのイラストまとめ

‘Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them – that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still.'

- Anne -"Anne of Green Gables"
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“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
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Wood engraving - Alfred Rethel (1816–1859)

".. I gathered that what he chiefly remembers is a horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen."

Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad–M R James
#BookWormSat 🎨James McBryde (1904)

In Warwickshire, gold finches were k/as "proud tailors" as it was said that the souls of tailors who sang while they worked, had settled in these colourful little birds. #SuperstitionSat

When the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (k/as Llangollen Canal) was being constructed in 1795, the navies who worked on it, believed that mixing ox blood into the lime mortar would strengthen the structure, making it resilient. Well its still standing as strong as ever
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More weathery rhyming lore - St Swithin's Day
- just keep your umbrellas handy on 15th July!

St Swithin's day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
St Swithin's day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain na mair.

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Mu Guiying (穆桂英) was a warrior-heroine of Imperial China. Captured her future husband & fell in love. Wanted to marry him but first had to fight his irate father who'd ordered his execution. Mu won & they married. Became a respected General of the Song Army. #FolkloreThursday

The Legend of Merlin's passion for Nimue, the Lady of the Lake tells of his undoing when he revealed the secrets of his magic to her. Using one of his spells, she imprisoned him within a Hawthorn Tree where he remains, muttering to this day #FolkloreThursday
🎨E. Burne-Jones

"Drink nettle tea in March
And mugwort in tea in May,
And cowslip wine in June
To send decline away."

(Folk-lore and Folk-Stories of Wales, M Trevelyan 1909)
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A fossilised Trilobite k/as Calymene blumenbachii, was often found & sold by 18th century quarrymen in Dudley, W Midlands. Nicknamed the Dudley Bug or Locust, the fossil came to symbolise the town & featured on the Borough Council's Coat of Arms.
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📷John James