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"Come buy from us with a golden curl”
by Hilda Hechle, an illustration for Christina
Rossetti’s 'Goblin Market'.

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NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & is actually made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer (according to folklore). 🎨Fairy Banquets: Rackham & Fitzgerald

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Charybdis is Scylla’s partner; either a sea monster that makes a whirlpool or just plain a living whirlpool, Charybdis sucks all nearby boats down her abyssal gullet. She will eventually choke on all the salt in the water, which is the perfect time to get past.

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Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' tells the story of the encounter between Laura & Lizzie and goblin merchants. When Laura exchanges a lock of her hair for the taste of the goblins' 'fruit forbidden', she deteriorates https://t.co/HeSTxcb51O
🎨 Arthur Rackham

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In Irish fairy-lore, if you dropped food, it meant the fairies wanted it. For best luck, pick it up, have a nibble, then throw the rest to them...

🎨E. Stuart Hardy

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“Meet Alice”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

The Wonderland Series.

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is the Year of the Water in the Chinese zodiac 60-yr cycle that embodies the passive principle of the universe of relaxation & quietness expected to bring hope, peace, prosperity & longevity.

🎨 Claire Mcelfatrick


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Late GM post! 🫣🤓🌈

Happy Tuesday beautiful people!

“We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.”

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Andersen, The Little Matchstick Girl (Michel den Dulk

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The New Year's New Moon is for divination.For a vision of a future love, steal out at night, climb a stile & hail the moon. View the moon through a handkerchief,the number of moons you see is the number of years you have to wait.Img:Frank Dicksee The Moon Maiden

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On New Year's Eve, the rats around your house are listening. If they hear nothing said about them, they leave forever. But, if they hear the word rat, they take it as an invitation and return with all their friends...


🎨Warwick Goble

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'There is much speculation as to where the snow comes from. Some surmise that it is simply weather...but it is the old woman who brings the snow.'
- The Old Woman Who Brings the


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by James Christopher Carroll

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The little wren, in wife of the robin, stands up to birds much larger than herself. In Celtic lore she symbolised the year that was past. She is known to sing throughout & is thus a symbol of hope & rebirth. (5th Jan)

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PUSS IN BOOTS Often seen in panto, is the most renowned animal trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & Blue Fairy Book, 1889🎨Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten,1887

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An oft' overlooked folklore character is Mother Goose, a fascinating teller of children's fairy tales, who will appear in your vestibule/hallway on if you leave your shoes near the front door.
Expect tangerines & nuts in them come New Year's morning

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“Wild Swans”
©️Bridget & John Original2022

“For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.”
― Juliet Marillier.

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"The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality.."
-- Frederick Lenz
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🎨The Enchanted Tree by me🎄🙂🎄

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In Basque lore is a unique gift giver known as Olentzero, a big friendly giant who varies from tale to tale; some say he has three eyes, others say he carries a sickle, and in others he is a sea captain.

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