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While it's for everyone else, it's FolkloreEveryday in the Southland! There's already a kappa featured in this first story, but did you know there will be kodama, nurikabe, and a Baba Yaga-inspired witch? It's probably true!

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2019-01-25

I love all things folklore, but especially mermaids. Here is an Andalusian mermaid. Most likely to be found dancing the Flamenco in warm Southern Spanish waters.

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2019-01-25

OAK: Acorns cups can become fairy shelters, as in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: “All their elves for fear, creep into acorn-cups, and hide them there”

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2019-01-24

The rose is a magical flower. A special ink for writing charms and spells can be made with rosewater. Rosa Gallica may have sprung from roses growing around the tomb of the Fair Rosamund, mistress of Henry II, allegedly murdered by his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine

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2019-01-24


The mighty Tree was the centre of the nine worlds which were held together by its branches & roots - a (#Nidhogg) & an eagle live in its roots & branches & a squirrel (#Ratatoskr) scurries up & down.
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2019-01-24


Created from flowers as a wife for Lleu (who was cursed never to have a human wife) was turned into an owl after an adulterous relationship - so she would be attacked by other birds if she ever showed her face in daylight again. 🥀🦉

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2019-01-24

Fitness, superfoods, clean eating and mindfulness are nothing new🥑💪

Check out our board featuring images from a medieval handbook on health, nutrition and well-being https://t.co/n378sBhGzY

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2019-01-24

Look on the bright side of life!
A symbol of eternal love, happiness and glee...

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2019-01-24

As the old tale goes, 'when gorse is in flower, kissing's in season' - get ready to pucker up!

Image - Watercolour by John Miller Nicholson, 1865.
https://t.co/TKqLJGaGyJ

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2019-01-24

🌿💘🍀Old English charm for finding true love, divined by counting the number of leaflets...
"Even Ash and four-leaved Clover
You are sure your Love to see
Before the day is over."

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2019-01-24

How to harvest a without getting cursed: Tether a dog to the base of the and throw it a tasty morsel just out of reach so it lunges forward, uprooting the mandrake. The dog will die at sunrise & should be buried with secret rites.

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2019-01-24

In there is an ancient belief that if you plant a tree near your front door it will ward off witches’ spells, as well as faeries & bad spirits. The rowan is also known as witchentree or witch-wood. Flower Fairy: Cicely Mary Barker.

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2019-01-24

Mermaids are my favourite mythical creatures. Does anyone know where did the concept that they grow legs on land comes from? (Here is a mermaid I painted a few years ago.)

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2019-01-18

Today is and I thought that for once I would keep up with the art hashtag and post characters I did a while back inspired by Japanese folklore. ❤️

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2019-01-18

The Banshee has diff. names & forms in Celtic lore; but this female keening spirit will omit a high-pitched lamenting cry when a family member dies or is near death. This ominous herald of death is often the first warning to the family, that a loved one is gone.

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2019-01-17

Błędne Ognie (Lost Fires)are Slavic Will-o'-the-wisps that are believed to be souls of treacherous men who in an attempt to regain their bodies made deals with serpentine bog&field demons to lure Men in so the serpents could bite, kill & take their victim's soul

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2019-01-17

The Vroffa Tree Inn - renowned community hub of 'The League of Lid-Curving Witchery' - where creature-witches of all descriptions gather to tell tales, settle disputes and consume Grimwagel Wine in ever-impressive quantities...

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2019-01-17

*17 January Take good care of your hounds 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)

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2019-01-17

Wassailing the apple trees takes place in the West Country, where there is cider-making. Traditionally held on Old Twelfth Night, 17th Jan, it is the custom of drinking & singing to the health of the trees so they yield plenty in the autumn.
Image: Cicely Barker

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2019-01-17

The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Queen Mother, and Jade Emperor, floated down on a moonbeam. She wove the stars and their glow, into "Silver River" (Milky Way), to shine over heaven and earth

🎨 by Honor Charlotte Appleton

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2019-01-11