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Birds and our hair have a complex history. In Scottish lore, a magpie which stole a piece of your cut hair for its nest died in a year. In Appalachia, a bird that got tangled in your hair shared a piece of your soul. Here's a beautiful bird comb to get it out!

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If you see a magpie on its own, you can salute it with a cheery “Hello Mr Magpie” & that should diffuse the worst of any ill-fortune. But apparently in China a solitary magpie is a good omen

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Odin had two Ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who would fly everywhere and bring information to him. That's how he knew everything which was happening!

Huginn and Munninn, two of the greatest gossipers ever!

Art: Odin by SirGrunt (DeviantArt)

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and the is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god in the form of a swan, seduces the mortal woman Leda.
🖼️Leda and the Swan | François Boucher via https://t.co/TmMjX7fAc6

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4 April. Make offering of cream to the cuckoo to stem bad luck & cuckoldry:
"The cuckoo’s a bonny bird, he sings as he flies,
He brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies…
The grave will receive me & bring me to dust
An inconstant lover no maiden can trust”

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to my Swan Maiden for 🌿
This one was painted for the cover of Emma Hamm's novel, The Faceless Woman.

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The pear is linked to the Greek goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, who watches over wives & fidelity in marriage. It is an ancient fertility symbol, & there is a custom in many countries of planting a pear tree to celebrate the birth of a daughter. Img: Cicely Barker

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Jenny Greenteeth lurks at the bottom of rivers and ponds. Her cold, sinewy arms reach up to grab the ankles of those who get too close to the water and drag them down to her underwater lair.

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Home is Where the Heart Is. Thomas Mackenzie, from Aladdin.

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PEARS' SOAP WITCH: A naked on a broomstick was used in 1899 to advertise Pears Soap. A familiar image showing the use of folklore in the house and hearth at the turn of the century

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THREAD
For today’s here’s some household + death lore💀🐝

In the 18th & 19th centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe, a strange ritual involving households that kept bees took place called ‘The Telling of the Bees.’

(Image by Nikolay Tolmachev)

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Mummers go door-to-door in costume; calling on their friends and neighbours. The earliest record of Mummering in Newfoundland dates back to 1819. https://t.co/rSgUN5lRo4 Etchings by Canadian artist David Blackwood.

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"Nibble, nibble, like a mouse,
Who is nibbling at my house?"

The witch house in the "Hansel and Gretel" is made of bread, cake and sugar, whereas the house of the russian witch Baba Yaga is askew and stands on chicken legs.

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European plant folklore says that the plants that grow naturally near your home are the ones that nature spirits have determined are the ones you should eat to improve your health issues. "Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

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Thanks ! here for the next two hours of home, hearth and household themed (Image: Cinderella by Herman Vogel)

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Good morning here to kick off today's theme: hearth and the household!
[Img: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust]

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During some rare research I've just found out that a 'bugger' (a word I use on a regular basis) is in fact a goblinesque faerie that dwells in the astral world & is very dangerous to humans.
I'd been under the impression that it was just like a bloody nuisance.

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Ravens are common characters in mythology worldwide, ranging from symbols of bad luck to trickster characters & creator deities. by Jemima Blackburn for "Birds from Moidart and elsewhere" (1895): https://t.co/LdRDCh11ES

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“The swans settled close by her.” 1922 by children’s in The Wild Swans and Other Stories (1922), reprinted in By a Woman’s Hand: Illustrators of the Golden Age.

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