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Cherry blossom now in bloom:

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”
🖋️Housman🎨Kate Bunce

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April. Young nettles growing plentiful:
When rubbing a sting with a dock leaf, use this spoken charm:
"Out nettle, in dock.
Dock shall have a new smock.”
(Traditional)
Ill. C M Barker Dead Nettle Fairy

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Myrtle is steeped in myth, magic, and folk medicinal use. The name comes from the ancient Greek word myrtos, meaning a sprig of the myrtle tree. Connected to Venus, according to English folklore myrtle will only grow if a woman plants it. (Image: E. Burne-Jones)

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In some countries, including the Czech Republic, are called stepmothers. They are connected with love & infatuation, they are believed to heal broken hearts, they were used to foretell the future, and they were King Arthur's favourite flowers.

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In Turkey, the word for tulip is the same as the word for turban, and it is considered a charm against evil.
Art: Anastasija Kraineva

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In Germany, Auriculas are a symbol of home. Bear's Ear Primula, Magdalena Bouchard, ca. 1773–1793. From Hortus Romanus, vol. 1, Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library.

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Gathered, cozy by the hearth-fire, families & communities would come together to listen to the seanchaí, (bearer of "old lore") In the Gaelic culture, long lyric poems, stories, and genealogies were recited by these story-tellers.


Image: Pinterest

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Rho 'Barutamee was a Sangheili fleetmaster of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence. He led the initial attacks of the Fall of Reach, and was presumed killed aboard his supercarrier Long Night of Solace.

Read more about Rho on Halopedia here: https://t.co/Y398brGIiM

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Xiuhcoatl

This mythological serpent is an Aztec fire deity and was regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli. Xiuhcoatl is interpreted as the embodiment of the dry season and was the weapon of the sun.

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Usutsuki Warashi are creepy child spirits that come out of the floorboards at night to make eerie noises throughout the house, unnerving the residents. Art

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The hobgoblin, sprite of was once welcomed as a mischievous delightful helper of the But at puritanism grew in the Church, the hobgoblin was named a wicked demon; thus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck cannot hear the church's bells :(

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The kyrkogrim is the Swedish variant of the English church grim: an animal that was buried alive beneath a church’s foundation and that subsequently wakes up from the dead each night to creep around the grounds and spook off ne’er-do-wells.

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Before deciding on a location, put a pile of rocks or stakes at a home's potential corners. If you return & the markers are disturbed, pick a new site; the fairies aren't happy. They may even move your stakes to the spot they'd prefer you build on. Art: Alan Lee

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Let's talk of serious matters: in the early 19th century the Islands were still in fear of the - an utterly disgusting monster like a giant flayed horse & rider - (pic by Joan Llopis Domenech) + https://t.co/rl8Lz2xKf0

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Happy (Mount Olympus, Giulio Romano)

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In Swiss folklore, Jack o' the bowl is a helpful house spirit, often found at farms. In return for a bowl of sweet cream left out for him each night, he would lead cows to graze in places considered dangerous to humans, but none of the cows ever suffered injury.#FolkloreThursday

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Just remember, Rapunzel was locked in her tower for most of her life, and she got her prince at the end of it.

An unmerciful sorceress, a forbidden tower in a forest and a beautiful girl with hair as fine as spun gold https://t.co/enQPxpSMiK

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In medieval Wallachia and Transylvania it was believed that every house had a guardian snake near the foundation and was said that killing it would bring the imminent death of a member of the household.

Jan von Goyen (1633) Peasant Huts with a Sweep Well

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Helpful house spirits well known to country folk and witches include hobs, brownies and gnomes (favouring the garden)! Some of us still cultivate their friendship, though we should think of them as co-workers not domestic servants! And gift them milk and honey!

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