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..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.." 🏹

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. #FolkloreThursday

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

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

#FolkloreThursday 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.

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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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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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

#FolkloreThursday - 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. #Art #Painting #Regency #Masterpieces

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"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

“A brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash’d all to pieces.”
Miranda, The Tempest, Act 1, Sc 2
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Image: John William Waterhouse, 1916

#FolkloreThursday - God Ukko in beliefs of Native Finns & the Sami people ca. 2,400 BC. Ukko was driving his sky chariot sending thunderstorms, frost, snow, hail, wind, rain, sunshine, with ax, lightning, a magical hammer, a flaming sword. https://t.co/9hzbk8d5J8

“So mickle was this storm that the men said it was the work of enchantment” (Heimskringla V)

Scottish weather wizards raise a storm off the Hebrides and send King Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1263) and fleet on his way back to Norway

🎨 Waterhouse

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Never urinate in a fairy ring! If you do, your body will be covered with pustules, and you’ll be urinating blood for weeks. #FolkloreThursday #SummerForGoths

A Flemish folktale says that a captain jumped into the sea when his ship was attacked without caring for his crew. When he died he roamed the sea for a thousand years as punishment. He was only seen when it was stormy. With good weather he hid in the dunes.

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In Hungarian folklore, sárkány is a blind dragon that carries around hail clouds on its back.

They dwell in mountains and forests, and snack on everything they can catch (even humans).

It’s said, sárkány can swallow the Sun.

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🌙Attila Gallik

I know that the seven small stars on the tarot card the star don’t represent them.

But when I drew this I saw the Pleiades, telling us when to sow and reap, when winter is nigh and when the veil between worlds is thin

Seven bright sisters in our night sky

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#FolkloreThursday The Cow Jumped over the Moon. In UK & European folk lore, the Milky Way was a soul road & one's guardian for the journey was a cow. Rustic funeral processions often included a cow ostensibly as a gift to clergy but also for the soul's safe passage.

"... and a star to steer her by" (John Masefield)

A more recent sailors' superstition has it that a tattoo of a compass rose or the North Star helps to guide you safe an sound back home again

🎨 Aivazovsky (1849)

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