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Due to its hallucinogenic properties, nightshade was used by witches during Sabbaths. Its latin name, Atropa Belladonna, refers to its extreme toxicity and cosmetic uses. Atropos is the Fate who cuts the thread of life. Belladonna means 'beautiful woman' in Italian.

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2020-04-28

ENCOUNTERING A QUEEN C17th Poets saw MAB as the Queen of the Fae, particularly of the diminutive fairies of Drayton's Nimphidia, 1627. Queen MAB is usually pictured in white as if dressed for the bridal 🎨Smedberg, from The Seven Wishes, 1907; Maybank, 1906

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2020-04-27

🌿Meaning 'return of happiness' in the Victorian Language of Flowers, Lily of the Valley is also known as 'fairy ladder', 'fairy bells' and 'ladder to Heaven'.

🎨Cicely M Barker; vintage Easter card

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2020-04-25

Once benevolent water & forest beings, Rusalki turned sour during C19, vengeful spirits of drowned maidens were taken in chez Rusalka and instead of granting fertility boons in spring, they now drown, tickle or dance their victims to death

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2020-04-23

In Canto XIII of his 'Inferno', Dante Alighieri envisages the wood infested with harpies, where the suicides have their punishment in the 7th ring of Hell. William Blake was inspired by Dante in 'The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides'.

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2020-04-21

Rosehip has always been considered a magical plant. In Apuleius' 'The Golden Ass', Lucius -turned into a donkey- acquires his human shape again by eating rosehip flowers. Its berries are used as an exorcism against mischievous fairies, witches, & nightmares.

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2020-04-18

FLOWERS PERSONIFIED It can be hazardous being a flower maiden, you might be possessed by an over zealous collector, or if too invasive or unruly, Hawthorn & Gillyflower, you risk being contained by male gardeners 🎨 J. J. Grandville, Les Fleurs Animées. 1867

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2020-04-18

BLODEUWEDD: Her story is found in Mabinogi where she was created from flowers to be the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes. She betrays and kills Lleu with her lover. As punishment, she is turned into an owl, hated by all other birds.
Ill: Christopher Williams (1930)

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2020-04-17

In Andersen's 'The Snow Queen', Gerda meets beautiful talking flowers. The hyacinths tell the story of 3 girls disappeared in the wood and then found dead in 3 coffins. 'The fragrance of the flowers says they are dead, and the evening bell tolls for their funeral.'

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2020-04-15

Les Fleurs Animées (The Flowers Personified)
Tulip and Pansy by JJ Grandville (1847)

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2020-04-15

VINTAGE EASTER CARDS After all nothing says Easter quite like a creepy egg family, an army of rabbits, multiple hares on penny farthings or flowers with human faces

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2020-04-10

WEREWOLF WARNING Tonight the biggest of 2020 will inspire increased activity from Folklore warns that they will be compelled to leave their hunting grounds in woods & and make their way to open fields where they will prowl & howl at the moon

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2020-04-07

Aconitum (Wolf's-bane/Devil's Helmet) is a genus of 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. In his poem 'Metamorphoses', Ovid tells how the herb comes from the mouth of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades.

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2020-04-07