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It's again! Which means I'm late, oops. There's another house fairy in this lot, my favourite mythical creature! The fact that they appear in folklore all over the world suggests to me that there's some truth in the idea.

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✨💖✨An old English charm to discover who you would marry...
Count seven stars on seven consecutive nights, and the first person to shake your hand on the eighth day will be your future wife or husband!

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In Finland, the Northern Lights are called "revontulet" or "fox fires". One old folktale tells of an Arctic fox running and scampering in the far north, throwing fire coloured lights up into the dark sky by sweeping frozen snow crystals upwards with his tail.

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Tanabata is a star festival meaning ‘evening of the 7th.’ It marks the annual meeting on 7th July of the celestial star-crossed lovers, Orihime & Hikoboshi, who, according to Japanese legend, live on opposite sides of the Milky Way & are forbidden from meeting.

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For this week’s theme of the skies and the stars, here’s a little moon-gazey dragon from the depths of the northern Welsh forests.

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In astrology the sign of Cancer rules bees, which adore the flowers of the linden or lime tree (tilia). Ruled by Freya, goddess of love, the flowers are used in love spells, & the linden is a symbol of fertility, luck & prosperity, as are bees. Img: C. Barker

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In Aztec babies come from a store of unborn souls in the 13th heaven (the highest heaven) where the gods hold them until they decide to place them in a mother's belly. This was the first step in the Aztec birth culture, focused on hygiene and ritual.

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2019-06-20

This week’s theme is the lore of births & birthdays! Continuing with the theme of magical happenings following weird cravings during pregnancy, here is a positively gorgeous by the great

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In Germany it is believed that you should not lie a newborn baby on its left side first or it will grow up clumsy.

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is popular in folklore. Some say that if you see bats flying on a June evening, it's a sign hot weather's on its way. Also, if swallows fly near to the ground, it means rain is due, + 'a swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon'

🎨 Edmond Dulac

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20 June. Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin. Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings"

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Hey it's what a good day for another 4 fairies! Mostly plants. I think the squirrel fairy looks more and more like a squirrel the longer she lives with them.

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The magical birth of Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japan 10thc): A childless bamboo-cutter finds a baby girl inside a glowing bamboo stalk (He & his wife raise her but when grown she returns to her people on the moon) (Print:Yōshū Chikanobu)

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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Image: Cicely Barker

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Leto gave birth to the children of Zeus on Delos which, unattached to the ocean floor, was neither ocean nor land. Artemis was born first, and then helped her mother give birth to her brother, Apollo, whereupon she became the goddess of childbirth & midwives.

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2019-06-20

Forest trolls are the friendly sort, sharing magic herbs with travelers they meet in the One often hears them singing as one hikes in and - They especially love singing in the shower, er... waterfall. (John Bauer)

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2019-06-14

This week's theme is the folklore of seas and water. The obvious thing would be to tell you something about but I'll give the honour to his wife Amphitrite instead.
But I will mention his male lovers Pelops and Nerites in honour of

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2019-06-13

Sirens and mermaids. Mermaids are a sort of sea nymph with a fish tail who save sailors; but for the Greeks, Sirens were bird-like, um, beauties, who lured them to their doom. Below are from the Bestiary of Anne Walshe (https://t.co/SXENjc1UMk)

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