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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

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

Cernunnos sleeps
The Old God sleeps
down in the dark, moist,
odorous underfoot,
Waiting for us
To put down our roots
~ J A Reinbold

Veneration to Cernunnos, the god of fertility, abundance and regeneration, this gardening year


art: Luke Hillestad

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2022-06-19

In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries.


art: Arthur Rackham

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2022-06-19

Shahmaran is a cave-dwelling woman/snake hybrid found in the mythologies of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, the Armenian Highlands, & Kurdistan. When a man gets lost in her cave & discovers her garden, she falls in love with him & teaches him about medicinal herbs.

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2022-06-19

- Celtic Phantom queen Morrígan was a magician who could shapeshift into anything as seen during her meeting with the hero Cuchulainn.
Her identity is still shrouded in mystery, but she may have been a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
More: https://t.co/1A402XtI2i

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2022-06-12



An unknown forest being showed up in this painting. To some, he might be scary, but for me, he is a Protector who keeps the fire alive and opens portals to other worlds…🔥👩🏻‍🎨

The Fire Guardian
Acrylics and texture on canvas.
50 x 60 cm.

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2022-06-12

Circe the sorceress, by Waterhouse, 1911. Everyone is psychic to some degree. Magical or divinatory practice is a training of an innate universal capability in order to direct it for conscious use. This cannot be taught, only learned. Circe sits in solitary study.

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2022-06-12