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Before you start building a new home, put a pile of rocks or stakes at the potential corners. If you return & the markers are disturbed, pick a different site; the fairies aren't happy. They may even move your stakes to the spot they'd prefer.
Art: Alan Lee

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There is a long-held fear of the Fae in many cultures, especially around times of birth. It is believed that the “little people” often steal babies, boys especially, and replace them with replicants or Changeling kind, a shadow of the true babe.

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Dryads are a type of fairy or tree spirit found in all old Celtic countries in Europe

The Celtic "Druids" are said to have gotten their names from the Dryads. Thought to be female fairies and live in the highest boughs of the 13 Celtic sacred trees

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Richard Folkard says that on New Year's Day, 1641, the Duc de Montausier gave his beloved, Julie, a specially-commissioned book of floral illustrations and poems. He placed it in her bedroom, so she found it as she awoke into a new year.

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BIRTH OF HELEN OF TROY
Helen was Zeus' daughter. In the form of a swan, the king of gods was chased by an eagle, and sought refuge with Leda. The swan gained her affection, and the two mated. Leda then produced an egg, from which Helen emerged.

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The divine Creators Izanagi and Izanami birthed tens of thousands of gods but were separated by tragedy. They reunited in Yomi, where Izanagi found his wife rotting. She vowed to kill life, and daily he vowed to create more life than she destroyed.

🖼: genzoman

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rebirth:
In Gaelic myth, faeries were regarded as either non-human nature spirits or as spirits of the dead. They would exist in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation.
There's a similar belief regarding elves in N. Europe.

🎨 The Fairy Raid; Noel Paton 1867

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

🎨R Sheppard

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Records show that fear of changelings was a disturbingly common belief:
“The complexion of the supposed Changeling was perfectly delicate…he never spoke or cried…If he were left never so dirty, the woman on her return found him with a clean face.” (Waldron)

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In Wales it was believed that a child born on the day the first cuckoo call of the season is heard will be lucky for their whole life.

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The Cedar tree is often referred to as The Tree of Life in plant folklore, due to it's long life.
It represents purification, with its wood often burnt to ward off evil spirits.

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Aries is considered the first sign in the zodiac because the spring equinox originally occurred during the sign. (It's now moved to Pisces). Find out some Greek origin myths for Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius here 👉 https://t.co/UmFZcmehff [img: Sidney Hall]

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The daisy is sacred to Freya, Norse goddess of love, beauty & fertility. Thus it came to symbolise childbirth & motherhood. The daisy is actually 2 flowers - a disc floret & a ray floret, which blend together perfectly, so it also symbolises true love. Img: CB

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7th Jan is Distaff Day when Medieval women resumed their spinning after a break over Christmastide. A distaff is used to hold fibre when spinning is done by hand. It was a day of pranks when lads tried to set fire to the flax & in return were doused with water.

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THE LIMINAL When we are on a threshold, between the known & the unknown, between darkness & light, or bordering one year and the next, during any of these liminal moments, it is said that the Community of Shadows stands ready to claim us 🎨Froud

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NEW YEAR FAY are often encountered at thresholds in time, at midday or midnight, between night & day, darkness & light, & at liminal times like the change of the year & Yuletide Wishing you lots of fairy magic for
🎨Froud

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According to urban legend, the Goatman is an ax-wielding half-animal, half-man creature that was once a scientist. An experiment backfired and he mutated. He attacks cars with an axe, roaming the back roads of Beltsville, Maryland.

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In Chinese folklore, 10 sun crows settled in 10 separate suns. The sun crows loved eating two grasses of immortality, one called Diri & the other Chunsheng. They would often descend from heaven on to the earth & feast on these grasses.

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