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The theme of today's is work.

Scandinavian folklore has quite a few beings that have been known to help farmers, lumberjacks, hunters and others out during their often arduous and solitary work, but the most beloved is probably the tomte, who look after farms.

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This is trasgu. Not goblin, orc or elf; he is Celtic, maybe cousin of leprechaun. Trasgu lives in forests north west of the Iberian Peninsula. He steals, hides & moves things in your home. If you move house, he follows you. Treat him well & he won't prank you.

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"The Lion's Share" is a folktale where a jackal, a fox, and a wolf go hunting with a lion, but when it comes to split up their hunt the lion claims the whole thing for himself.

The moral here is "Partnership with the mighty is never trustworthy"

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The Fenodree is a Manx Faerie of the brownie type. Known for being a skillful mower, he carries out a variety of tasks. Naked and covered with hair, he was originally a fair courtier cursed with ugliness and hard labor for bad behavior at court.

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In many tales, the hero has to do various sorting tasks. In 'Vasalisa the Wise', she needs to pick poppy seeds from the dirt as a way to connect to her instinctual self & learn what it is she really wants, to tell real from fake, nourishment from deprivation.

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For the rural poor coffins were made by the local carpenter. They often worked over night to ensure the coffin was ready for the morning. In the fens it was unlucky to be make a coffin at night as it was said to disturb the souls at rest in the churchyard.

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🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were believed to wield a powerful magic rooted in their work with fire, iron and horses. An ancient hymn known as 'St Patrick's Breastplate' summons divine protection against "spells of Women, Smiths and Druids".

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The Tailor of Gloucester by was based on a true incident
A tailor named Pritchard, making a suit for the new mayor, returned to his shop to find the suit finished save for one buttonhole. He encouraged the belief that it was fairy-work. Potter

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Thanks to you all for a brilliant start to today's
This is signing off now, but we'll be back in just 60 mins with the epic !
(Image: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust part II. I'd like this job...)

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Survival test for sick babies: lay sick baby on anvil & around it stood 7 smiths, each one the son & grandson of a smith. They raised their hammers & shouted as if striking heated iron - if child showed no fear it would be fine. If not, there was no hope at all!

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Take good care of your dogs in hard weather:
‘If it be a hard Winter, after your hounds are fed suffer them for an hour or two to stretch themselves before the fire.’
(Country Contentments, 1615) 🎨J F Lewis

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You must refrain from whistling on board if you want a smooth sailing course. Sailors believe that to whistle is to encourage or challenge the wind to get stronger.

🎨The Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt (Gardner Museum, Boston)

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Building the London Tube,1898.
An urban legend recounts a train bricked up under Crystal Palace Park, complete with passengers & crew - & dead hands trying to grab the living. An experimental railway was once built there but abandoned after failure.

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Similar to a Brownie, a Hob-thross appears in Cumbrian folklore. One, nicknamed Tawney Boy lived with a family at Overthwaite. Hob-thross will do a great deal of work for a family if treated well
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art: Spiderwick Chronicles

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In the story of the Lindworm, an old woman emerges from a tree, twice to help women in need. The crone and the tree are forever intertwined.

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For , some folklore-inspired beginnings (cosmogonies) of fantasy worlds:
Tolkien’s Ainulindalë
Lewis’ Aslan sings Narnia into being
Adams’ Lord Frith creates the animals
Dunsany’s creator god, Mana-Yood-Sushai
Can you think of others?

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Zeus burned Semele (Dionysus' mother) to death so he sewed Dionysus to his thigh which "in labour became female, and the boy too soon born was brought forth, but not in a mother’s way, having passed from a mother’s womb to a father’s."(DIONYSIACA 9, Book 1)

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The primordial bovine, Auðumbla, gave ”birth” to Odin’s grandpa by slurping away at his salty rimfrost womb. Also, the original frost giant, Ymir, guzzled her frothy milk straight from the teat in order to grow big and strong.

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