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#Flowers Personified with reference to their myths, #folklore & place in olde #herbal lore... by influential #illustrator J.J Grandville, from 'Les Fleurs Animées' (1847), which was his last completed work...
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Motherwort, known as the 'woman's herb' for its ability to help with menstruation & menopause, might also help you live longer. One old folklore tale tells of a town spring which bubbled up through a patch of motherwort, & everyone there lived to be over 100... #FolkloreThursday
In issue 2 of #the77 we have a French Folklore talenser in Brittany. Written by @DavidRBedford and art by @arichmondo
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#FolkloreThursday Lavender, a favourite of the fae, has been used for centuries both medicinally & for love spells & rituals. Carrying lavender can encourage peace, love & good health. It is also a talisman of love & protection & can ward off the evil eye.💜
🎨Cicely Mary Barker
In ancient #Egypt lotus was a symbol of regeneration & resurrection. This meaning refers to the ability of the plant to close its flowers at sunset,to dive under water & to rise again from the water at sunrise. #Lotus was considered sacred in ancient Egypt. #FolkloreThursday 🌸
Flower Fairies of the Summer 1925 #CicelyMaryBarker #FlowerFairies #FolkloreThursday
Artwork of Karen, one of your Bachelorettes from 'Harvest Moon 64'. https://t.co/adKTvpepmc
“Loretta” (https://t.co/WnSfsPZ7Mn) by @joanatype & Abel Martins for @novatypefoundry, published with @futurefonts, is a straightforward, calligraphy-influenced serif font—delightfully restrained for a FuFo release. Give it some extra tracking for great body copy! #366fonts (181)
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#StoryOfSeasons: #FriendsOfMineralTown Batch #1 - Bachelorette #Emotes!
-Waving Popuri
-Thinking Marie
-Bless RNG/Pray Elly
-Dance/Music Jennifer
-Food/Eating Ran
-Angry Karen
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Автор - Loreto Diaz / Freelance illustrator / Santiago, Chile
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Round 4-
A serpent that grows 2 heads for every 1 lost vs a 100 headed dragon that fervently guards the golden apple tree. Both slain by Hercules. Who would win?
Like for Hydra (Left) RT for Ladon (Right)
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Ancient Sailors of old, used a handy tool to help measure precisely how high or low a star was in the sky: their fingers!🙌🏻
After the hostile giant, Thiazi, gets burned to death in eagle-form for his kidnapping of Idunn, Odin carves the eyes out of his bird-corpse and places them in the sky as stars in part of the plea bargain intended to placate Thiazi’s enraged daughter, Skadi. #FolkloreThursday
A story from Sierra Leone says God sent Bat to the moon with a package containing darkness
Bat got hungry + put the box down to search for food. Curious animals opened it and set the dark free
To this day, Bat flies back and forth trying to recapture the night #folklorethursday
The sun used to live among the San of the Kalahari as a man, unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky to drive out the prior darkness of the world. #FolkloreThursday
Brian Froud Illustration
#FolkloreThursday - Do NOT point! At stars, that is. According to legend stars might be gods looking down on you, and to point would anger them and bad luck was sure to ensue. Below is a 1660 celestial map. Just so you know where not to point!
"The most powerful magicians, too, as Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Pasetes, Iamblichus, and Odo de Stellis, can force them to...build castles in the air."
Entry on "demon" in The New American Cyclopædia (1868)
Image: The Chernabog in Disney's Fantasia
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