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🕸️ Our free fairy tale trials for families are back on Saturday with Anansi Spider, a cheeky character whose stories originate in Ghana and are central to Caribbean culture and folklore: https://t.co/rg8QeruDry

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'A rabbit that wishes for the moon' is a Thai idiom that has similar meaning with the English idiom 'cry for the moon.' It means wishing for something impossible. In Thai context, this idiom mostly refers to a poor man wishing for a woman that out of his reach.

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For Easter here's hare and spring related artwork! The first one, the white hare is from the archives. Here in Devon, there are quite a few stories of witches turning into hares. The second is my own personal folklore...

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First fresh green appearing on my silver birch tree and lots of movement glimpsed in the greenery - when you're never quite sure if it's a bird, insect or something else... https://t.co/A9xj9cj7Sl

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Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of spring, the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. Since C15th it has been adopted as a symbol of the Virgin Mary Img: Cicely Barker.

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That first coffee in the morning watching the sun rise and the birds getting their day started ☕ ☀

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This week's theme is However you choose to celebrate, get your Easter themed folklore ready for Thursday! (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

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In European folklore, familiar spirits were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to medieval records, they would appear in numerous guises, often as an animal.

Art by me 🐈:)

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Taliesin's Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) describes a fight between Gwydion and the Welsh god of Annwn, Arawn, in which Gwydion brings the trees to life to fight for him. The fight breaks out after Amaethon steals a dog, a lapwing, and a roebuck from Arawn.

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A for Perseus and Andromeda in A Child’s Book of and Enchantment Tales, illustrated by

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My contribution for this week - Bran and Sceolan, Fionn mac Cumhaill's dogs (and also his cousins!)

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Hecate, the of magic, necromancy and liminal spaces, is often accompanied by her pet A howling dog forewarns her coming, and if a black dog crosses your path, it may be a summons from Hecate.

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The Norse Freya rides on a chariot drawn by two strong Freya also has a boar Hildisvini (battle swine) which she rides when she's not using her cat-drawn chariot. She's also able to fly by using her cloak of feathers.

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Japanese lore: Baku: the devour of dreams & nightmares created from the spare pieces left over when the gods finished creating all other animals. Talismanic in nature, Baku are prayed to by mortals to rid them of nightmares. Believed to be based on Asian tapir.

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drew and her fairy godmother this way in 1921. This is from Once Upon a Time, reprinted in By a Woman’s Hand.

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In Celtic folklore, are mythical creatures who have the ability to transform from seal into human form, by shedding their skin and leaving it behind on the shore.

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You may see a man in the moon, but some see a rabbit in the patterns of its surface. The moon rabbit is the companion of the Chinese goddess Chang'e, & he's preparing the elixir of immortality for her with his mortar & pestle.


art:Daniel Skach-Mills

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