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Sleeping in moonlight causes blindness.
#folklore #superstition
Image: Hans Rombouts

The valiant wren braved Hell to bring fire to mankind. Returning ablaze, the robin saved him, thereby gaining his red breast.
#folklore

If a cockerel crows at midnight, it signifies that the angel of death is flying over your house.

In #myth, the whistle was invented by a woman, Brigit, goddess of poetry, of healing, of smith's work. #folklorethursday #Irish

Folklore celebrated on 1981 #British stamp! There was quite a revival in the 1980s. Seeing this made me nostalgic. #Lammas #folklorethursday

Tom Thumb plays a most 'excellent bagpipe made of a wren's quill and the skin of a Greenland louse.'
Image: @marcpottsart

Merrie England! Where shall we search to discover its secret? It is a tapestried thing of colour and gaiety. #FolkloreThursday

1876: #faeries seen in the Isle of Man described as"girls with scaly fishlike hands and blue dresses." #Manx #folklore.

How to ensure you'll never be short of friends: plant #rosemary in your garden. (image: Ingeborg Lievonen)

@jenningsjaxfl Hi Joshua - the picture is "Funeral of the Fairies" by Czech artist, Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924) Love, EJ xx