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Also, if you don't make your bed in the morning you won't finish your work for the day &
Hold your breath when you pass a graveyard ... which was challenging when stuck in traffic

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2021-04-01

Today's Here we have ‘Jester and Dragon’ by L. R. Brightwell.

The Jester is fooling around, making the dragon cheekily smile. Legend has it that Jesters are drawn to Dragons because of their playful moves like flying & breathing fire!🐉🤹🏻‍♂️

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2021-04-01

St Michael & the Devil were always getting into scraps, including in Cornish folklore. The devil was flying, with a giant Boulder, on his way to block the gates of hell. St Michael fights him until he drops the Hell Stone, which later became Helston in Cornwall

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2021-04-01

Maundy Thursday and every single witch in Sweden is getting ready to leap astride their broom and take off to orgies with Satan. For a final post about witches, accusers and gruesome death! https://t.co/dDkBbSm5iX

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2021-04-01

People used to believe in the Easter Hare before the Easter Rabbit, and children left out nests to get Easter eggs. Good children got eggs, but bad children didn't. More Easter lore ➡ https://t.co/76WmNjwa8c [public domain image]

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2021-04-01

Baobhan sith, an unseelie wight from Celtic folklore. Likes to lure young men into the forest to dance with her, and when they're exhausted, drain their blood...

Revisiting my old watercolour illustrations made me want to try a digital one!

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2021-04-01


The pinning of spiritual medals on a baby’s vest, pram or crib is a time-honoured tradition for many Catholic families. The medal is a reminder that God sends guardian angels to protect his children & keep them safe from danger.
🎨Frances Brundage

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2021-04-01

Dongzhi (Winter Arrives) is an East Asian winter solstice festival, of which there are regional variations. Families get together to eat dumplings & tangyuan, drink rice wine, & gather in clan tombs to offer food & drink to their ancestors' spirits.

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2021-04-01

The Zamba Zaraa is a hedgehog-like animal, said to live in the Gobi Desert, that inflates like a pufferfish when it feels threatened. Art by for the upcoming book https://t.co/dbxMzxQvc3

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2021-03-26

Blackburn 1869 - local man George Hindle is held accused of breaking windows in the Union Buildings, but as they kept on being broken whilst he was in jail it was said it could only be the work of boggarts & the court had no choice but to pronounce this as so!

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2021-03-25

Mexico is the only revolutionary state in the Western hemisphere that outlawed slavery from its beginning and it stayed that way. This is a central cause of the Texan Revolution: white and Tejano settlers wanted the right to own slaves and Mexico refused.

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2021-03-25

Illustrations by Arthur Rackham for ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ by JM Barrie. Published in by Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.

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2021-03-25

The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which causes rapid heartbeat, hallucinations and seizures when eaten.

In Scotland it was believed that walking over Deadly Nightshade plants would make you see the ghosts of dead people.

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2021-03-25

On my lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to talented local artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).

Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens.

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2021-03-25

The Dragon of Mordiford  was said to reside just outside the Herefordshire  village of Mordiford, at the confluence of the River Lugg and the River Wye.
From early life, the green dragon, was said to have loved a small girl named Maud who resided in Mordiford

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2021-03-25

found in the coastal waters of the River Legend tells of sailor John Robinson being seduced by the siren’s seductive charms & of her giving him a ring on parting. He died 5 days after their encounter.
🎨JWW

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2021-03-25

On my local lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to the amazingly talented artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).

Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens.

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2021-03-25

On my local lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to talented artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).

Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens.

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2021-03-25