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A for a fairy:

'A fairy went a-marketing
She bought a little mouse
To take her tiny messages
To keep her tiny house.
All day she kept its busy feet
Pit-patting to & fro
And then she kissed its tiny ears
Thanked it & let it go.'
(✏️R Fyleman 🎨C Barker)

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Lucky Costantino - An Italian Puss in Boots 🐱 A tale about the world renowned crafty and his ostentatiously obtained riches. Accompanied by charming illustrations from Honor C. Appleton, Walter Crane, and Albert Guillaume
https://t.co/7FAvadnrh4

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In Slavic folklore, firebird is a brightly coloured bird reminiscent of flames, hence the name. In tales, written by Alexander Afanasyev, Karel Jaromír Erben, and others, the bird is a part of a difficult quest.

Art by Olga Zakis

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An old Polish tale tells of a mother 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 the kittens clung.

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Oh, also! Another one of my faves:

The Flock, by

https://t.co/LE58YGWMfO

Which featured this cutie

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Painting of Helios (as Personification of Midday,c. 1765), Greek God and personification of the Sun by Neoclassical German painter Anton Raphael Mengs. He was the son of the Titans Hyperion&Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the dawn).#FolkloreThursday

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Easter Bonnets originated during the late 19th Century with the tradition of Easter parades. It represented the tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year, the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption.

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Celtic mythology features numerous magical cauldrons—Brân’s cauldron restores life, Cerridwen’s grants poetic inspiration & the Cauldron of Plenty magically replenishes with food or drink. All are likely precursors of the Holy Grail.

🖼 Waterhouse/Rossetti

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A fiery dragon hath bynne often seene to flye between these hills in the night, whereby it is supposed ther is a great treasure hydd in each hill, and the dragon is the trusty treasurer and sure keeper thereof.

[Cadbury Castle & Dolbury Hill]

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Albanian folklore: when the winged Drangue battles the demon serpent Kuçedra a return of the watery and chthonian world of death will occur, accomplishing the cosmic rebirth of all being. Heavy thunderstorms & rains will be the result of their battle.

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A Germanic legend states will-o'-the-wisp are the souls of unbaptized children; to free them, one need only throw a handful of consecrated ground at the fiery orbs of light.
Art: Hermann Hendrich

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The Sun - prime symbol of Life, universally associated with divinity, from Ra to Inti, Apollo to Amaterasu. Ascribed with supreme power, wisdom, and goodness, solar gods protect and guide. In the Sun is the center of our personality and rules Leo.

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The Ankh - Egyptian symbol of life. Commonly seen in hieroglyphics, art, and statuary, this elegant object signifies the power of Life as it flows from one form to the next, passing through death to rebirth, an endless, joyful process of change and renewal.

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Good day, This is Crystal of back for another 90 minutes of folklore fun. A hat tip to for hosting before our break. What lore do you have about light, life, and renewal? We'd love to hear it! Use the hashtag and send a tweet! (Rackham)

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I've been waiting for this In keeping with today's theme, I bring the Slavic god Yarilo (sort of my namesake), whose name in Ukrainian means Spring. He's also the deity of fire, fertility and the ferocity of life, wears flower crowns and rides a white horse.

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UNICORN LOVE The was white with hooves of silver & graceful horn of pearl. His eyes circled by this sad and beautiful darkness were so sorrowful, gentle, & nobly tragic that they KILLED ALL OTHER EMOTIONS EXCEPT LOVE
E.H.White. 🎨Domenchio; Longhi

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German Easter card with spring-flower fairy, lamb, and chicks.
https://t.co/TqpK1xfKrA

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'The Riders of the Sidhe (1911) by John Duncan (1866-1945). Fab painting.

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