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Today we are celebrating the birthday of author Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle) our ✨THURSDAY THEME✨ is MAGIC IN LITERATURE✨Tag us for retweets✨

We will also be hanging out with the FABULOUS
for “hobbies, sports and recreation"✨

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2022-08-18

An early collection of fairy tales was described as "impossible to read without vomiting even on an empty stomach.”
The stories included... Cinderella. What was going on? , author of The Fairy Tellers, explains:
https://t.co/agFqVtUT6D

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2022-08-12


The xana is a fairy from Asturian mythology that lives in fountains. They are all female with long curly golden hair and lithe builds. Their beauty belies an ugly inside; they are vain, cruel, and greedy enough to exhibit hoarding behavior similar to dragons.

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2022-08-11

A CROOKED MILE - Selected Illustrated Nursery Rhymes by Rima Staines

New! Pre-order your copy here!
https://t.co/oUCAFqCAgI

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2022-08-05

In Latin American lore La Patasola is a terrifying, one legged vampire-like creature haunting remote mountains and dense untamed forests and seen as a guardian of the wild animals and the jungle https://t.co/atGcyvv1tf

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2022-08-04

"The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!" (Shelley)

🎨 San'Ok (2021)

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2022-08-04

The Celtic tree month of Hazel goes from 5th Aug to 1st Sep. Hazel is the tree of knowledge, wisdom & poetic inspiration, & its nuts bring prophetic power. It is good for magical wands & dowsing for water & ley lines, as it holds the secrets of the earth.

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2022-08-04


SHERWOOD FOREST
..Robin Hood, folk hero outlaw, forms a gang, to fight the injustices, of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levied unjust taxes, upon the local citizens, "robbing the rich, to pay the poor.." 🏹

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2022-08-04

Worn as talisman the branch of a willow tree is said to help aid in healing from a grievous death. The tree is associated with being the ‘tree of ghosts’ & has the ability to evoke souls & to touch a ghost.

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2022-07-29


If there’s any one thing that all Americans can agree on it’s folklore. This painting is done with acrylics on textured gesso.

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2022-07-28

- The raven - is one of the most intelligent birds. Unlike the eagle, ravens work together for the benefit of the group, symbolizing the benefits of teamwork. Considered a prophetic bird of dawn & a symbol of knowledge & omniscience.
https://t.co/wA7fyeOxlx

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2022-07-28

The cats of born 28 July 1866. Here we have Miss Moppet, Tom Kitten & his sisters, & wicked Simpkin from the Tailor of Gloucester.

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2022-07-28

An old Polish tale tells of a she cat crying at a river bank as her kittens were drowning. A willow tree at the river’s edge swept its long branches into the water & rescued them. Now at springtime the willow sprouts tiny furry buds where once the kittens clung.

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2022-07-28

Choctaw tale: Opossum bragged endlessly about his lovely bushy tail. Fed-up, Trickster Raccoon told Opossum his tail would be far prettier with stripes. If Opossum wrapped bark in bands around his tail & put it in the fire, he'd get stripes like Raccoon's...
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2022-07-28

The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who have been turned into swans. Their brave sister, Lisa saves them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She cannot speak a word until she's done or her brothers will die.

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2022-07-28


In Hebridean folklore, the Sithchean, or fairies, are a magical race of small humanoid creatures that dwell in knolls & places of importance like Fairy glen. Evidence of the Sithchean can be found throughout the Hebrides

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2022-07-22

- Art degree coming out! Behind (on the back of the canvas) the famous Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in 1781 is the portrait of a woman on the reverse - obviously a society beauty but with terrifying, demonic hands.

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2022-07-21


"But you can't feel small
once you start to wonder
all those trees so tall
were once tiny seeds
that stood against
the strongest winds
and kept thriving
shade or sheen"
GROW🎵https://t.co/I69ms4x13y
There is always time to Grow

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2022-07-21