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🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌿A Scottish charm to protect newborn babies from Witchcraft was to take a green Ash twig, put one end in the fire till the sap bubbled out then collect, cool and mix with a little honey before giving a spoonful to the baby.

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2021-01-23

🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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2021-01-23

theme of home remedies 🌿
A local recipe for that nasty cough:
1lb onions
1lb black treacle
Peel & cut the onions into small pieces. Pour the treacle over and allow to stand for 48 hours. Then strain & bottle.
A dessert spoonful taken if desired 🤢

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2021-01-16

Chinese snuff bottles with lucky bat decorations. In China bats were associated with auspiciousness & good fortune flying into one’s life. A bat hanging motionlessly upsidedown was a symbol of longevity.

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2021-01-09

🌟🍀🌟It was believed to be very disrespectful - and therefore unlucky - to point at a star.

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2020-12-19

That's it for today's session! A heartfelt 'thank you' to all who gave a little bit of their time to participate this year 🐈‍⬛ Next week (19/12) will be the last of 2020, before a Solstice and a conjunction, with optional theme of

🌒NIGHT, LIGHT & SKY🌘

🐾

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2020-12-13

At Hogmanay, or Scottish New Year, a preferably tall, dark haired man bearing gifts of coal, silver coins, black buns, salt or whisky, is invited over the threshold as “First-Footer” to bring good luck for the coming year.

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2020-12-05

According to a compendium of Ozark superstitions—killing a goose in the fall & examining its breastbone gives clues about the winter to come. If the bone is thin & more transparent, the weather will be mild; if the bone is thick, the weather will be severe.

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2020-12-05

It was once said in Brittany that if a girl cooked an oak apple in the waters of a fountain whose source watered a cemetery, she would be imbued with the ancient wisdom of the fairies of old.

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2020-11-28

recounts that if the holly used for the decoration of a house at Yuletide is smooth, then the wife of the household will head it for the coming year, but if prickly, the husband will rule the roost!

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2020-11-28

At Hallowtide in Scotland, the Samhnag bonfire was made of ferns and peat; a circle of stones placed around its edges. Each stone "named" for a family member. Next day, if any stone had gone that person would not last the year...

🖼Krøyer

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2020-11-07

One of the most long-held food superstitions is that garlic wards off vampires and evil. This originated because of its medicinal and healing properties. It was used during the Black Death, and it protected people from catching the disease
https://t.co/XWrLAGe3VG

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2020-10-17

Mice were once believed to be the incarnate souls of those who had been murdered...

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2020-10-10

If you drop your keys it is a bad omen. If you lose your keys, you will hear of a death. Carry an old iron key in your right pocket for good luck.The image of crossed keys, one gold, one silver are said to represent the Keys of Heaven of Saint Peter.

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2020-08-30

Blackberries were considered protective against earthbound spirits and vampires. If planted near a home, a vampire couldn’t enter because he would obsessively count the berries and forget what he was about.
https://t.co/N8oDvyOMGV

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2020-08-30

Taking the Mari Lwyds to shout at the sea. Only traditional on Hopeless Maine.

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2020-08-29

In Cornwall if you see a bat it's traditional to chant for luck:
“Airymouse, airymouse, fly over my head

and you shall have a crust of bread,

and when I brew and when I bake

you shall have a piece of my wedding cake.”

🎨Dudley Hardy (1891)

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2020-08-01

According to folklore, evil spirits would appear on the summer solstice. To ward off evil spirits, people would wear protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most powerful of these plants was known as ‘chase devil’ or St. John’s Wort

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2020-06-20

Some fairies are murderous, such as the Redcaps who are said to haunt the Border peel towers. They try to redye their caps in human blood...#SuperstitionSat

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2020-05-30