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Some say it is perilous to sleep under a fig tree, as lore tells of a nun's spectre appearing, proffering a dagger and asking "How will you take the knife"? #FolkloreThursday Answer "by the blade", it will pierce your heart, but "by the handle" will bestow you with untold fortune
#FolkloreThursday #wildflowers
In some areas an old Celtic practice was to place mallow seeds upon the eyes of dead people to prevent evil spirits entering and taking over the corpse
#illustration by J.J. Grandville (1803-147, French)
Jasmine's reputed to be a mystical fairy vine, with night-blooming types holding especially potent magic - it's said to stimulate love, enchantment, psychic dreams
#FolkloreThursday
Aromatherapists use it to treat depression, low morale, and menopause
#illustration JJ Grandville
#FairyTaleTuesday
Queen of the Meadow
“Kingfisher-courtiers,
swift-flashing, beautiful,
Dragon-flies, minnows,
are mine one and all;
Little frog-servants who
wait round me, dutiful,
Hop on my errands and come when I call”
#illustration and verse by Cicely Mary Barker
@FrikkinMisfits @profdwh @Mukund_the2nd @bonyscribe @themoonisamelon @ghostmaker36 @fesi_df @WhyHelloRenato @MrMurke @slayboyday @jmurphy88884984 @thecalliebrown @DirkLabel @Soothsa04931408 @Smartmatthew @DavidPaulBooth1 @ClimatePatriot @Ladyfish666 We all know how to rocket, endive conversation!
'The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids'
https://t.co/sDfZ8uI1KJ
"What rumbles and tumbles,
Inside of me.
I thought it was kids,
But it's stones that they be"
#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine
#illustration by Robert Lumley, in "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids", Ladybird 1969
#FairyTaleTuesday
"Gerda cried, and almost hugged the crow to death as she kissed him
"Gently, gently!" said the crow "I think that it may have been little Kay that I saw, but if it was, then he's forgotten you for the Princess"
Andersen's "The Snow Queen"
🎨 by Errol Le Cain