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The myths surrounding herbs and their associated Greek God or Goddess - the tale of Daphne/or the Bay leaf. Parsley and Peresphone...#FolkloreThursday https://t.co/JGJGae0E4o

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Jasmine's reputed to be a mystical fairy vine, with night-blooming types holding especially potent magic - it's said to stimulate love, enchantment, psychic dreams

Aromatherapists use it to treat depression, low morale, and menopause
JJ Grandville

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Personified with reference to their myths, & place in olde lore... by influential J.J Grandville, from 'Les Fleurs Animées' (1847), which was his last completed work...

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Motherwort, known as the 'woman's herb' for its ability to help with menstruation & menopause, might also help you live longer. One old folklore tale tells of a town spring which bubbled up through a patch of motherwort, & everyone there lived to be over 100...

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In issue 2 of we have a French Folklore talenser in Brittany. Written by and art by

Back our Kickstarter here https://t.co/l99K53q7w7

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Lavender, a favourite of the fae, has been used for centuries both medicinally & for love spells & rituals. Carrying lavender can encourage peace, love & good health. It is also a talisman of love & protection & can ward off the evil eye.💜
🎨Cicely Mary Barker

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In ancient lotus was a symbol of regeneration & resurrection. This meaning refers to the ability of the plant to close its flowers at sunset,to dive under water & to rise again from the water at sunrise. was considered sacred in ancient Egypt. 🌸

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Round 4-

A serpent that grows 2 heads for every 1 lost vs a 100 headed dragon that fervently guards the golden apple tree. Both slain by Hercules. Who would win?

Like for Hydra (Left) RT for Ladon (Right)

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2020-06-26


Ancient Sailors of old, used a handy tool to help measure precisely how high or low a star was in the sky: their fingers!🙌🏻

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After the hostile giant, Thiazi, gets burned to death in eagle-form for his kidnapping of Idunn, Odin carves the eyes out of his bird-corpse and places them in the sky as stars in part of the plea bargain intended to placate Thiazi’s enraged daughter, Skadi.

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A story from Sierra Leone says God sent Bat to the moon with a package containing darkness

Bat got hungry + put the box down to search for food. Curious animals opened it and set the dark free

To this day, Bat flies back and forth trying to recapture the night

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The sun used to live among the San of the Kalahari as a man, unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky to drive out the prior darkness of the world.
Brian Froud Illustration

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- Do NOT point! At stars, that is. According to legend stars might be gods looking down on you, and to point would anger them and bad luck was sure to ensue. Below is a 1660 celestial map. Just so you know where not to point!

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"The most powerful magicians, too, as Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Pasetes, Iamblichus, and Odo de Stellis, can force them to...build castles in the air."

Entry on "demon" in The New American Cyclopædia (1868)

Image: The Chernabog in Disney's Fantasia

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2020-06-25

Excited to announce my paper, 'Analysing the monstrous mermaid revived to ward off coronavirus' at CORONAGOTHIC: Cultures of the Pandemic’: an online conference by , 10am BST Tues 30 June. Free to register https://t.co/goM3qst4VI

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FENRIR the most infamous of the many in Norse mythology. He’s the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is ultimately Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok

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The constellation Ophiuchus represents Asclepius, the healer of Greek myth & son of Apollo. Ophiuchus is called the Serpent Bearer as Asclepius healed a snake, earning the gratitude of Athena. She gave him the means to resurrect the dead (image: Sidney Hall)

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is one of the twelve visible in the Northern Hemisphere and known as the 'dark constellation' due to its few stars.

In Hera placed the crab there after it was slain by Hercules.

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