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#legendarywednesday
Toadflax (Linaria Vulgaris) is also known as Trwyn y Llo, or Calf’s Nose, in Wales.
In England, 3 Toadflax seeds strung on a linen thread were said to ward off evil.
#FlowerFairy #folklore #plantlore
🖼️The Estate of Cicely Mary Barker

#LegendaryWednesday
Anne Griffith b. 1734 was a midwife & herbalist on the Llŷn Peninsula, a pioneer in the medical uses of foxglove (Digitalis) for “weakness of the heart” before it was scientifically recognised in 1785
More info: https://t.co/k734CtZGrT
#Wales
🖼️Otto Müller

Myths about #Glastonbury Tor #Somerset - that it is hollow underneath & home to a Fairy King (Gwyn ap Nudd) or a dragon.
Some also believe that the Holy Grail is buried there

https://t.co/ECkebCxU1N
#LegendaryWednesday #legend  #folklore #mythology
🖼️: Janice MacDougall

#FolkloreSunday
Toadflax (Linaria Vulgaris) is also known as Trwyn y Llo or Calf’s Nose in Wales.
In England, three Toadflax seeds strung on a linen thread were said to ward off evil.
#FlowerFairy #folklore #plantfolklore #botanicalfolklore
🖼️The Estate of Cicely Mary Barker

Born #OTD in 1889 #IreneSteer
Irene of #Cardiff was #Wales' first female world-record holder & first Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 yards freestyle relay team #Stockholm 1912
This was the first #Olympic games where women competed in swimming 🌟🥇
https://t.co/nU9An1JqbG

In South Wales, Friday was the fairies’ day, it was their whim to make the weather differ
'When the rest of the week is fair, Friday is apt to be rainy, or cloudy; & when the weather is foul, Friday is apt to be more fair.’ (W. Sikes 1880)
#SuperstitionSat

🖼️: M.Tarrant 1924

#MythologyMonday
In Welsh folklore mysterious lights known as Canwll Corfe or Corpse Candles were said to hover in the air & were considered to be an omen of death.
The lights would disappear if approached

more detail here: https://t.co/oafdVy7dIR
🖼️: I.Ulyanov

#WyrdWednesday
Harpies of Greek mythology - part-human, part-bird "employed by the gods as instruments for the punishment of the guilty"

This is a key drawing of the scene from Jason & the Argonauts by #HarryHausen c.1961

🖼️: https://t.co/BhRcXbTwgk
https://t.co/ShVtubJ4CM

In Wales premonitions of death included the Deryn Corph or Corpse Bird which might hover around a house or tap on the window of the room where a sick person lay, it sometimes called out “dewch, dewch!" (Come, come!). #FaustianFriday

🖼️: via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

In Italian folklore Befana is an old soot-covered woman or witch who delivers gifts to Italian children on Epiphany Eve (6th January
If the child has been bad she might leave them a lump of coal!
Art: Laura Tempest Zacroff
#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #folktales #legends #myths