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"The Shakespeare Code." Season 3, episode 2. Written by Gareth Roberts. Directed by Charles Palmer. #DoctorWho First broadcast April 7, 2007.
The King of Hearts
Called for the tarts,
And beat the Knave full sore;
The Knave of Hearts
Brought back the tarts,
And vowed he’d steal no more.
The Knave of Hearts (1901) illustrations by William Wallace Denslow. Wikimedia Commons. #FolkloreThursday 🥧2/3
#Caturday and Corvid-19 mash-up. "Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant? / Familiar with candle, with book and with bell?"
Wanda Maximoff brings resolution to the victims of the Basque witch trials at Logroño in Scarlet Witch #5 by James Robinson (script), Javier Pulido (art), Muntsa Vicente (colours), Cory Petit (lettering), and Emily Show (ed.). #SpanishInquisition #WitchWednesday
O, when she is angry, she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
. . . . . . .
Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray:
My legs are longer though, to run away. (Dream 3.2.323-325, 342-343)
#ShakespeareSunday
Atropos, "whose name means 'the dreadful,' 'the merciless,' or 'the cutter,'" holds the shears, cuts the thread, determines the manner of one's death. (Judika Illes's The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, 154-155) #FolkloreThursday (2/3)