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Tristan and Isolde is about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. Tristan escorts Isolde from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. They ingest a love potion on the journey and fall madly in love.

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On Friday of a waxing moon,take 2 candles representing you and your future partner.Write your name on the bottom of your candle and the desired traits of your future partner on the bottom of the other.Annoint both with attar of roses.Light.(&stop kissing frogs!)

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Immortalized by Wagner, Tristan and Isolde is a medieval romance between a knight and a lady who fall for each other after drinking a love potion--even though she's already engaged to the king.

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The Icelandic tale Djákninn á Myrká tells the story of a an unnamed deacon from Eyjafjörður, North Iceland, and of his love for a woman named Guðrún.
Even in death, the deacon came back as a ghost to reunite with his love on Christmas eve, as he had promised.

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'Nature Folklore for Children: Capturing Their Curiosity and Inspiring Awe', by for https://t.co/sy7mfcx8R1

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Legend has it that whilst imprisoned miraculously restored the sight of his gaoler’s blind daughter. His last act was to give her a love letter. Upon opening it she found a yellow crocus, henceforth a symbol of Img: CMB

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In Somerset, honeysuckle inside the house foretold a wedding...

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The French of Rosanella. Where fairies place a bet on One with a man who women pine over; the other with a woman no man could resist. The losing fae is the one whose contestant falls in love. Whereas the winner got crowned Queen of the Faries!

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Cats and Valentine's Day lead to these delightful, if slightly mawkish, vintage cards.

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In 2019, a 2,000-year-old seal tooth pendant was found at an ancient site in Orkney where the seals still sing 🦭

Sound like a fairy tale? Find out how folklore can help us interpret the past and unearth new stories: https://t.co/dRtDsSoMO3

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As a punishment, or as a way to return her to the otherworld, the sea diety, Manannán MacLir, had his minstrel play a song to lull her to sleep and then sent an enchanted wave to bring her back into the ocean from Cork. In some stories, she drowns.
🖼️ Sven Bybee

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It turns out immortality is a recipe for tragedy: Chang'e drank the elixir of immortality meant for her lover, thinking it was medicine for her, only to ascend from Earth beyond Heaven's grasp, to the Moon. Now Chang'e is forever divided from her love Houyi.

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Mexico City is surrounded by love, according to an old Aztec love story: the mountains that surround the city are a tomb for the Tlaxcala Princess Iztaccíhuatl who died of grief thinking Popocatepetl had died; now he watches over her forever.

🖼: J. Helguera

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Enjoyed the ‘Woodlands Dark’ documentary but my mind was blown how ‘Sleepy Hollow’ got around 30 seconds screen time. A folk horror which has multiple variations around the world and acts as such a pivotal foundation to countless other folk horror stories/films

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The crocus was dedicated to St Valentine and ought to bloom on his day.


📷 PD

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The tradition that birds pair off today seems to be the true origin of Day – & nothing to do with the two Saints of that name:
‘Oft have I heard both youths & virgins say,
Birds choose their mates & couple too, today.'
(Herrick, 1648)

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Boc, the little dragon, is lost again – this time in the imaginary lands of Wales. Go in search of her in the World of the Mabinogion, Cantre'r Gwaelod, The Fairy Kingdom, the Monster Zoo... and much more!

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A tale from the Solway Firth of a mermaid who fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground.
She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return to him, but after many years, he died, alone.


art: Arthur Rackham

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ROSE⚘
..the red rose, or the colour red, signifies love and romance. "Rose", the anagram of Eros, the Greek god of love, It was he, that lit the flame of love in the hearts of gods and men, armed with a bow and arrow, or a flaming torch..

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In Turkish folk tales, lovers usually don't meet. This makes them more epic lovers. We use them as examples to describe great lovers in Turkish. Because they try everything to be together despite all the difficulties

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