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day four: solstice 🌳🌓🌕🌗🌲

the oak queen and the holly queen meet at the changing of the seasons

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Folktale week is in full-swing and here’s my first four prompts!

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A lil' contribution to the FolkTale Week. Thinking of solstice and Kupala Night (Slavic midsummer). Making wreaths and sending them in water, jumping over the bonfire to bring good luck. And finally, the Fern Flower-which blossoms only on that night and has power to grant wishes.

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On the night of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, Owl took flight and set off towards the moon, hoping the night would be long enough for them to meet.

My first ever attempt at ..I wrote a short story following the prompts (4. Solstice ✔️)

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Day 4 and every seven years the selkies come ashore to dance. In the years between, she dances with her children.

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🌟THE LIGHTBRINGERS🌟
As it is we thought we'd share some of the book's folklore references. First: Mari Lwyd. A Welsh tradition: a pale horse that stalks villages with a troup of wassailers, its skull adorned with ribbons and winter foliage. https://t.co/xdlUJHQZAF

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Day 4 - Surrounded by magic the moon child grew. By winter solstice she could walk, but all the time the forest kept her warm, safe and sheltered.
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I’m starting to get very fond of the forest spirit, they are now all over my sketchbook… https://t.co/7Qzp71VQc6

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Psychedelic week with some butterflies - “Birth”

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It was Christmas Day and Santa decided that everyone deserved a Christmas feast. The dragon loved his turkey dinner!

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oops I posted Day 2 on Instagram but not on twitter!
'Ritual'

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🚨Hallmark rom-com alert🚨
“ Seven years later, Paul would be so annoyed with his mom for making him wear that Christmas sweater, Christmas is for little kids! Until...He saw Blanche.
And Squirrel approved him.”

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Be careful, Snow!
This painting is done in 100% real paper & pencils.

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I wanted to try to make a 2-3 paintings for Here's prompt for Monday: birth.
This watercolor painting of course is the

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Day 3 - For this child was the result of a secret courtship between the Moon and the Queen, and the King must never find out.
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If I had to do this one again I might make the queen less traditional but I’m enjoying letting my own narrat… https://t.co/JPDFZEnw7r

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