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🍎🌗🍓Accepting even the smallest morsel of food or drop of drink in the Otherworld means you will be trapped there forever - but within the mortal realm, declining such generosity from the Fae will cause great offence and end in curses or death for the refuser.

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2022-07-24

NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer🎨Mary Evans, A human girl is fed night mist scented with flowers; Rackham

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2022-07-24

Morning all, here, welcoming you to this Sunday’s theme:
REFRESHMENTS & ALCOHOL

Serve up your tweets about tea, cucumber sandwiches, Victoria sponge, gin & tonic & other delights to for a retweet!
(Image: Charles Maciver Grierson, c.1900)

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2022-07-24

In Germany it was believed that if you did not wash your face after seeing the first cuckoo of the year you would become sunburnt and covered in freckles.

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2022-07-17



Here Summer in her wheaten garland crown'd.
–Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2, 34.

🎨Alphonse Mucha.

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2022-07-17

The Celtic Otherworlds (such as the Welsh Annwn and the Irish Tír na nÓg) are often depicted as places of eternal youth and resplendent beauty, their trees heavy with fruit. Thus, they're sometimes referred to as the "Summerland" or the "Summer Country."

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2022-07-17

The Scottish Play is cursed by a real coven of witches, mad at Shakespeare for using a real spell in the play. Those who break the taboo of speaking it's name must undergo cleansing to be reinvited back into the theater so the play can be performed.

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2022-07-11



Poetry was once a hallowed profession the world over. It was associated with Brigid, goddess also of healing and blacksmithy. Irish and Scottish poets were possessed of powerful magics, such that their satires could steal the luck even from a king.

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2022-07-10

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare, Macbeth

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2022-07-10

Hi everyone, a quick reminder that is happening now with the theme:
FOLKLORE of PROTECTION from HARM.
See you on the hashtag! Maude xx

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2022-07-03

Morning all, here, welcoming you to this Sunday’s theme:
FOLKLORE of PROTECTION from HARM.

Pass your tweets over the hashtag for a retweet!
(Image: Beatrix Potter)

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2022-07-03


Pinning a blessed medal on baby’s vest, pram or crib is a lovely, time honoured tradition for generations of Catholic families. The medal is a visual reminder that God sends guardian angels to protect His children, keeping them safe from harm.
🎨Frances Brundage

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2022-07-03

Thank you all for your wonderful tweets on sports & other activities. Some really fascinating stuff there! signing off now, but next week’s theme is:
LORE OF PROTECTION FROM HARM!

Sprinkle those tweets with St John’s Wort petals & use the hashtag

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2022-06-27

Happy belated International Fairy Day (June 24) 🧚‍♀️
Illustrations: Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (English, 1895-1973)


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2022-06-26

"Do you like my reading" - Bae
We love it. And we appreciate the hard work you put on spending 3 days to TL the folklores to EN for us EN Brats. She's admirable. <3

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2022-06-24

Who will win?

The witches and a fairy with a giant teddy bear
or
A bunch of villains based on different folklores

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2022-06-20

Chilli peppers will turn out more spicy if you plant them while angry.

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2022-06-19

In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers (pic 3) The Owl Service 1960 was born S.Bechtold

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2022-06-19

Traditionally Shepherds Purse was used as a charm against bleeding. The seeds in an amulet were used for teething children. Eating the seeds could protect against all manner of diseases. (I ❤️SP - using the herb saved me from a surgery!)

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2022-06-19

'I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Lebanon.'
37:35

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2022-06-19