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“I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms” ~Peter Pan

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2023-02-15

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On February 14th - 15th the ancient Romans also celebrated Lupercalia revering Lupercus also known as Faunus meaning “The Wild One.” It's kin
Fauna meaning “Good Goddess."was the 'keeper of Mysteries,'
Fauna's initiates were women.

🎨 Herbert Dawson

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2023-02-15

The loved cherubs, hearts & flowers. They especially loved By 1871 1.2 million cards were being sent throughout England, with postmen given a special allowance for refreshments to help them cope with the extra exertions.

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2023-02-15

Winefred V. Barker (that is the correct spelling, apparently)

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2023-02-15


Happy Valentine's Day 💖

(Art by Me from way back in 2007!)

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2023-02-15

In "The White Cat" tale, a prince is sent by his father on a series of impossible tasks & arrives at a castle populated by cats & ruled by a white cat queen. She helps him & they fall in love. In the end, he cuts her head off & she turns into a human princess.

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2023-02-14

In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return to him, but after many years of waiting, he died, alone


: Arthur Rackham

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2023-02-14

Gan Ceanach is known as the love talker. A Northern Irish fairy with dark eyes and no shadow, birds went silent when he appeared in the lonely glens, seducing young maidens before vanishing, leaving them to pine to death...

🎨Pirner

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2023-02-14


Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.
–Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera.

🎨Sulamith Wülfing.

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2023-02-14

The original English tree is the Crab Apple. Ancient lore says that if you throw its pips into the fire while chanting the name of your beloved, they will explode if your love is true & lasting. Image: Cicely Mary Barker

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Boreas / Waterhouse

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2023-02-08


Art credit: Barbara C. Freeman, British (1906-1999) Mother Holle

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2023-02-08

Little Red Riding Hood Looking for the Wolf

Art credit: Linda Ann Strang generated on Deep AI

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2023-02-08

"The Battle of Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh" is a Vietnamese myth behind monsoon flooding; a fight between Mountain God and Lord of Waters to win the hand of a princess, ending in perpetual grudge of the water lord.

A tale for theme of weather. 1/4

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2023-02-08

2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the first English translation of the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen, translated by Edgar Taylor and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Throughout 2023, we will be sharing excerpts and holding events to celebrate. Stay tuned!

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2023-02-07