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"On Saturday night shall be my care
To powder my locks, and curl my hair.
On Sunday morning my love will come in,
When he will marry me, with a gold ring
~ Trad nursery rhyme
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#illustration by Einar Nerman (1888-1983, Swedish)
'My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head
For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,
And lusty life away she leaps
As there had been none such'
by Lord Thomas Vaux
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Proverb: "For an old man to marry is like wanting to harvest in wintertime"
#illustration by Ernest Aris
#illustration for "Beauty and the Beast", by Warwick Goble (1862-1943, British)
#FairyTaleTuesday
Cinderella and her fairy godmother, 1920 #illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931, American)
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Long ago, folk believed faeries were invisible, except to cats; a cat sat staring at nothing was watching fairies. When a cat sat on a mother's lap, its purring was the sound of it spinning sleep, so that stealthy wee folk could abduct her child
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Isabel Watkins