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Survival test for sick babies: lay sick baby on anvil & around it stood 7 smiths, each one the son & grandson of a smith. They raised their hammers & shouted as if striking heated iron - if child showed no fear it would be fine. If not, there was no hope at all!

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Take good care of your dogs in hard weather:
‘If it be a hard Winter, after your hounds are fed suffer them for an hour or two to stretch themselves before the fire.’
(Country Contentments, 1615) 🎨J F Lewis

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You must refrain from whistling on board if you want a smooth sailing course. Sailors believe that to whistle is to encourage or challenge the wind to get stronger.

🎨The Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt (Gardner Museum, Boston)

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Building the London Tube,1898.
An urban legend recounts a train bricked up under Crystal Palace Park, complete with passengers & crew - & dead hands trying to grab the living. An experimental railway was once built there but abandoned after failure.

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Similar to a Brownie, a Hob-thross appears in Cumbrian folklore. One, nicknamed Tawney Boy lived with a family at Overthwaite. Hob-thross will do a great deal of work for a family if treated well
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art: Spiderwick Chronicles

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- Here are a few ideas for sharing the Reylo Love on Sat., Jan. 16th.
Fill the timeline w memes, art, quotes, RTs of artists from their TL, your hopes for Ben & Rey's reunion & blue butterflies!

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recently started playing stardew valley...can you guess which bachelorette i'm going for first

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2021-01-13

- So many ideas for Day, Saturday, Jan. 16th!
Recommend your favorite fix-it fanfic, your art, your ideas, and hopes for & reunion! Check out our FAQ.
See you then!

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2021-01-11

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
Sat., Jan. 16th share the joy of & reunion w Share the tag w your art, manips, thoughts, fanfic & fancams. Keep Ben alive!

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2021-01-08

In the story of the Lindworm, an old woman emerges from a tree, twice to help women in need. The crone and the tree are forever intertwined.

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For , some folklore-inspired beginnings (cosmogonies) of fantasy worlds:
Tolkien’s Ainulindalë
Lewis’ Aslan sings Narnia into being
Adams’ Lord Frith creates the animals
Dunsany’s creator god, Mana-Yood-Sushai
Can you think of others?

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In the Aztec myth of creation, Tonacacihuatl & Tonacateuctli—a.k.a. Ometeotl, the god who was both male & female—gave birth to four sons, the Tezcatlipocas of the East, North, South & West who created the universe, including the cosmic time known as suns."

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Zeus burned Semele (Dionysus' mother) to death so he sewed Dionysus to his thigh which "in labour became female, and the boy too soon born was brought forth, but not in a mother’s way, having passed from a mother’s womb to a father’s."(DIONYSIACA 9, Book 1)

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The primordial bovine, Auðumbla, gave ”birth” to Odin’s grandpa by slurping away at his salty rimfrost womb. Also, the original frost giant, Ymir, guzzled her frothy milk straight from the teat in order to grow big and strong.

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Before you start building a new home, put a pile of rocks or stakes at the potential corners. If you return & the markers are disturbed, pick a different site; the fairies aren't happy. They may even move your stakes to the spot they'd prefer.
Art: Alan Lee

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There is a long-held fear of the Fae in many cultures, especially around times of birth. It is believed that the “little people” often steal babies, boys especially, and replace them with replicants or Changeling kind, a shadow of the true babe.

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Dryads are a type of fairy or tree spirit found in all old Celtic countries in Europe

The Celtic "Druids" are said to have gotten their names from the Dryads. Thought to be female fairies and live in the highest boughs of the 13 Celtic sacred trees

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