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Isobel and her coven flew through the air, shooting anyone they wished - the souls of their victims went to heaven, but their bodies remained as soul-less husks with the witches. #FolkloreThursday (Artist: Peter Nicolai Arbo)
#FolkloreThursday Fairy paintings are strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Henry Fuseli and William Blake produced works that would be indicative of the later genre even before 1800.
#FolkloreThursday Mab is the Queen of the Fairies in English folklore. She is a mischievous but kind and benevolent sprite.
Img: Sylvia Duran
Born of ‘extrapluffs’ or ‘majickal’ intuition, the sylpha will glide on the autumn breeze, joyful amongst the leaves in Winchett Dale... #FolkloreThursday
2/ On Christmas morning, the bag would be silently unwrapped, and the rose placed in the lady's bosom for church. The first man who either asks about the rose or plucks it from her bodice (cheeky!), will be her husband. #FolkloreThursday [From Lindley's history of roses]
1/ Cornish ladies used roses for divination. Walking backwards into a garden on Midsummer's eve (as you do), they would pick a rose, then place it in a bag... [A plate from 'Flora Londinensis', by William Curtis.] #FolkloreThursday #PlantLore
Jack climbing the beanstalk. Illustration by Walter Crane. #FolkloreThursday #FairyTales
Never destroy or even pluck a leaf from a fig tree, or a dreadful curse will befall you! #Art by #MonikaBeisner in Secret Spells and Curious Charms. #vintage #picturebook #folklore #illustration #folklorethursday
Sometimes, I don't know what to say for #folkloreThursday. Not true on #InternationalCatDay -- Medieval cat tiles are also featured (that means seriously discounted) and do help support @BlindCatRescue @FolkloreThurs (All #medieval #cat #tiles are here: https://t.co/0QZ6Na5UXh)
Ah! Magic Herbs and folklore of herbs, plants, and flowers. I can do that! Let us start with.... John Bauer...
(More Bauer art: https://t.co/gVI5HfMOGL and even more John Bauer with the stories: https://t.co/FJiWLZw0yP
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Intéressons-nous à L’Epître Othéa de Christine de Pizan. Allégorie où la déesse de la Prudence, Othéa, envoie une lettre au jeune Hector de Troie. Dieux, déesses, héros de mythologies, tous se confondent dans un ensemble de 100 textes ou courts poèmes #FolkloreThursday #medieval
A Neanderthal Cave site in Iraqi Kurdistan, Shanidar 4, revealed pollen of various plants in the soil next to human skeletons, pollen of plants that are still used as healing plants today, including Yarrow and Hollyhock. #FolkloreThursday
Narcissus was so attractive he was desired by all sexes. He rejected a man; Aminias. To punish him the gods had him fall in love with his own reflection, leading to him dying of heartache. #FolkloreThursday
’Echo and Narcissus’ - #JohnWilliamWaterhouse
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In ancient #Egypt lotus was a symbol of regeneration & resurrection. This meaning refers to the ability of the plant to close its flowers at sunset, to dive under water and to rise again from the water at sunrise. #Lotus was considered sacred in ancient Egypt. #FolkloreThursday🌸
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According to legend bluebell woods are enchanted. Fairies use them to lure & trap the unwary in their nether world.
A bluebell ringing is a call to fairies to gather together, but if a human hears, they will die soon after.
Art Margaret Tarrant
There is much folklore about how roses got their red colour. Many of these were tales of divine origins, like this from Herrick:
"'Tis said, as Cupid danced among the gods, he down the nectar flung,
Which on the white rose being shed, made it ever after red."
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Flora is the Roman goddess of flowers. She had a special garden which featured all of the mythological creatures who turned into flowers upon their deaths. Among them were Narcissus, Hyacinth, Ajax/larkspur, Clytie/sunflower & Adonis/anemone.
Img Luca Giordano
🌿💘🌿Yarrow herb love divination... pluck a sprig at the new moon, place it under your pillow saying:
"Good night, fair Yarrow
Thrice good night to thee
I hope before tomorrow's dawn
My true love I shall see"
...& your future spouse will appear in your dreams!
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Witches are said to be partial to Elder trees, often hiding their offspring beneath them. The mischievous progeny then mature into Holdikens: worms, bees, caterpillars, and butterflies that aid their parent witches in mischief.
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