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"A pool was once congealed with frost;
The frogs, in it's deep waters lost,
No longer dared to croak or spring;
But promised, being half asleep,
As very nightingales do sing."
From "The Frogs" by Goethe
Our Frog Prince is very much awake!
#FolkloreThursday #rhymes
Limericks Day at #FolkloreThursday 🧐
A mosquito cried out in pain:
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of its sorrow
was para-dichloro-
diphenyl-trichloroethane.
This week’s @FolkloreThurs theme is fun wordplay —so here is some nonsensical happiness courtesy of the great Edward Lear. I love his self-portrait with his cat! And I’ve never had “gooseberry fool,” but I’m sure my British followers know it well. ☺️📚
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday It was said that in the early 18th c. fairies tried to carry off Langton House, crying:
Lift one, lift a'
Baith at back and fore wa',
Up and away wi' Langton House,
And set it down in Dogden Moss.
#FolkloreThursday
There was an old man of Blackheath
Who sat on his set of false teeth
Said he, with a start
"O Lord, bless my heart"
I have bitten myself underneath
The Book of Good Love (1330), is a masterpiece of Spanish poetry.
It's a pseudo-biographical account of the romantic adventures of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita. It took him 13 years to complete it.
#FolkloreThursday #Poetry
The Mad Hatter is an odd host. He asks a riddle of Alice to which he doesn’t know the answer: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”Years later, besieged by “enquiries,” as Carroll said, the author offered a belated answer: “Because it can produce few notes...”
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday “Whom do you want, O lonely night,
That you wail the long hours through?”
And the night would say in its ghostly way:
“Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!”
By Eugene Field (1850-1895).
+My original song and drawing "THE WIND SONG Listen: https://t.co/e0ExGhPWn7
@FolkloreThurs I couldn't find a limerick, so here is a poem about an old gnome from #Bexhill #Sussex, written & illustrated by the talented Nina Kennard Brisley (1898-1978) from the @BexhillObs 16.12.1911. #History #1910s #folklorethursday #Folklore #poem #gnome #fairy #writers
Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books. Working in watercolours, she brought #rhymes to life with lively characters often wearing delightful period costumes. #rhymes #folklorethursday
“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” #Illustrations from Walter Crane’s book of #nurseryrhymes, The Song of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909. #FolkloreThursday #Edwardian
Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were sets of instructions generally written to magically resolve a situation or disease. Usually, these charms involve some sort of physical action, including making, doing, saying. #folklorethursday
https://t.co/fW5XBed8nS
WOLFBANE 'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms & the autumn moon is bright'
Faux ballad from the film that created the folklore that the sign of the #werewolf is a ‘pentacle’, The Wolfman, 1941#FolkloreThursday
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) includes the darkly amusing rhyme “Mathilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” which has a similar theme to Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” (1/2)
#folklorethursday
The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which cause rapid heartbeat, confusion, hallucinations and seizures when ingested, hence the rhyme:
Hot as a hare
Blind as a bat
Dry as a bone
Red as a beet
Mad as a hatter
#FolkloreThursday
THREE BLIND MICE is a nursery rhyme some believe refers to the horrific fate of three famous Protestants (Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer) accused of plotting against the Catholic, Queen Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"). Burned at the Stake. #OxfordMartyrs #FolkloreThursday
"An Ox Roars on a Hundred Mountains", Ukrainian folklore and riddles illustrated by Valentina Melnichenko in 1988. #folklorethursday #soviet #sovietart
"An Ox Roars on a Hundred Mountains", Ukrainian folklore and riddles illustrated by Valentina Melnichenko in 1988. #folklorethursday #soviet #sovietart
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