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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
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'The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids'
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"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
...an emperor offered half his kingdom to whomsoever should repair his clock; one and all they came, tried and failed. The clock housed 24 tunes, and when it played, the emperor grew young again...
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from 'Gypsy Folk Tales', F Hindes Groome
#FolkloreThursday
#WorldBeeDay2020
Ant and #bee have tea.
#illustration by Bryan Ward, from "Ant and Bee", Book 1 (Kaye and Ward Ltd. 1978.