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A rhyme of rival courtesans? In The Beggar’s Opera (1728) 'Lucy Lockit' loses her (rich)man to Polly. In reality 18thc courtesans Kitty Fisher & Maria Gunning were rivals; Maria wed wealthy Lord Coventry but Kitty had an affair with him thus 'picking her pocket'

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This I want to discuss Thomas the Rhymer, a scottish laird and poet from Erceldoune in the border. After being carried off by the queen of elfland, who was charmed by his poetry, when he returned he had the power of prophecy and the inability to lie.

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🌿💘🌿Ash leaves with an even number of fronds were believed to bestow good fortune, and were used in divination and love charms...
"Even, even, Ash,
I pluck thee off the tree.
The first young man that I do meet,
My lover he shall be!"

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Happy (Edward Lear's "Owl and the Pussycat" illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke)

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A warning about the Witch of Burwell survives in this rhyme:
'A wicked old crone
Who lived all alone
In a hut beside the reeds,
With a high-crowned hat
And a black tom-cat,
Whose looks were as black as her deeds!'

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Counting cherry stones:
When shall I marry?
This year, next year, sometime, never.
What shall I wear?
Silk, satin, cotton, rags
How shall I get to church?
Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart
Where shall I live?
Big house, little house, pigsty, barn
N Rockwell)

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Riddles, poems and oracles: a post from the archives for https://t.co/Z0ZuXmJkWQ (Art by Alan Lee)

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lovely anthropomorphised vegetation & dragon-shaped roots in from 'Erbario' - a C15th Herbal from Northern Italy for :

https://t.co/f9ZUW9SrJT

TY

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Married in...
grey, you'll go far away
black, you'll wish yourself back
blue, you'll always be true
yellow, ashamed of the fellow
pink, your spirits'll sink


1914 by Elsa Beskow

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by Heinrich Hoffmann is a collection of moral tales from 1845.

The stories end with horrendous consequences for naughty children like the boy who wouldnt stop sucking his thumbs so they were cut off.

Its a favourite from my childhood.

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In Cambridgeshire it was considered unlucky for a girl to marry a man with a surname beginning with the same letter as her own:
'Change the name and not the letter,
Change for the worse and not the better.'

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"What plant we with this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery Springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee..."
W Cullen Bryant

🎨 Alice Helena Watson

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"When the open fire is lit
In the evening after tea
Then I like to come and sit
Where the fire can talk to me

Fairy stories it can tell
Tales of a forgotten race
of the fairy ghosts that dwell
In the ancient chimney place"
F Sherman

Hilda Boswell

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Kate Greenaway published A Apple Pie in 1886 as an illustrated rhyme book to teach children the alphabet. First mentioned in writing in 1671 by clergyman John Eachard, the rhyme is probably much older. The first printed versions appeared in the mid C18th.

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In the C18th the rhyme was published as:
The Tragical Death of A, Apple Pye Who was Cut in Pieces and Eat by 25 Gentlemen with whom All Little People Ought to be Very Well Acquainted. Capitals I & J were written the same way, so the rhyme for I came later.

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Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke.

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In Greek myth, a sphinx guards the city of Thebes & won't allow travellers to enter unless they answer a riddle. When they guess wrong, & she devours them. The Greek hero Oedipus finally answers correctly, & the sphinx throws herself off a cliff to her death.

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The tree month of begins on 13th May. The May tree, it gifts love & healing to the heart & is sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new growth & fertiity. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. Img: Cicely Barker

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The answer to this week's on Thursday is:

Ham-mock

Just the one winner this week. The nimble-witted 🥇🏆

Congratulations!
(Image Winslow Homer: Sunshine and Shadow) https://t.co/8dwi5u14va

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