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Woe to the orchard owners too fanatical in their picking—if a few apples weren’t left to fall and ferment for the wee folk’s party favors,  their disappointment would be taken out on next season’s crops.

pic from: https://t.co/3zwRcnObA8

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Good afternoon here to take you through the next 90 minutes of folklore. Here's a your would be proud of... alchemist! Who's in?

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Leprechauns are fairy shoemakers, but they don’t make pairs, just multiple right or left sides. After they’re done working they get drunk either with their clurichaun cousins or become clurichauns themselves until they sober back up.

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Give me love and work, these two only. ~William Morris [Shown: May Morris, embroidering, May Morris's room - Mary Ann Sloan. Tile: May Morris Flower pot, blue and white variant]

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The theme for this week's is folklore. Have your work-related lore tweets at the ready for another folklore-packed Thursday!

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In Greek Myth Gaea (Gaia) is the personification of our world. She's the ancestral mother to all; Mother Earth. In the beginning, Gaea, Chaos & Eros were born out of the Cosmic Egg, which was created out of nothingness. Together, they gave birth to all creation.

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It is said a dragon horse rose out of the Yellow River with a mystic chart inscribed on its back from which the written language of China was created

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Indonesia's Bakaran Village was said to begin from 2 siblings opening up a forest. The sister said that she, being a woman, couldn't chop as much trees as her brother & suggested she burn some leaves. Where the ashes of its smoke falls would become her territory

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In Celtic Lore, Fionn Mac Cumhail helped create geographical locations. Legend has it, he built the Giant's Causeway as steppingstones to Scotland. He also scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a foe; it became the Isle of Man, Rockall, and the Lough Neagh.

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Week 1 of my personal drawing challenge, to post a new Crow drawing every Monday for the whole year. PLS RT and send me your Crow Folklore stories (max 600 words) to 52crows2018.com

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"In olde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons speake great honour, All was this land full fill'd of faerie...But now can no man see non elves mo..."

-from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The Snowdrop Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker. Blooming through the frozen earth from early Jan until the end of Feb, the
is a symbol of rebirth, renewal & hope, as its arrival in cold winter means other flowers will soon follow.

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In honour of we'll share the Greek myth of Persephone. Hades kidnapped her to live with him in the Underworld for half the year, leaving her mother, the goddess of harvest, sad. This causes the infertile winter months. https://t.co/j590jM3azy

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[Gerda and the Reindeer (Illustration by Edmund Dulac to The Snow Queen]

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Some wintery art for by artist CHARLES ROBINSON:
The Russian Princess-1913 from "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" OscarWilde

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As the Ijiraq is a shapeshifter it can come in a range of different shapes and sizes, even going so far as to copy the appearance of other monsters.

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The reindeer did not dare to stop. It ran on till it came to the bush with the red berries. There it put Gerda down, and kissed her on the mouth, while big shining tears trickled down its face.
Image:

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Jack Frost, the winter spirit that leaves frosty fern-like patterns on windows & nips the extremities in cold weather. He leaves Frost wherever he goes & personifies crisp, cold, wintry weather. Similar to the Norse god(Kári)'s son, Jokul Frosti (frosty icicle).

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From Inuit mythology comes the Ijiraq. A shape shifting creature who kidnaps children. Legend has them as people who went too far north, and became trapped between the world of the living and the dead.

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The epitome of fairytales: "The Snow Queen". Boris Diodorov (b. 1934, Moscow) received the 2001 Grand Prix of Hans Christian Andersen for these illustrations and was named 'Ambassador of Andersen in Russia' (2005).

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