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Agrarian Ritual. Acrylic and oil on paper 17 x 26 inches. Strange folk dance. If interested in purchasing please message me.

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2020-05-24

My new book out now from

Traditions, customs and superstitions relating to Knitting, Spinning Weaving - Bees - Blacksmiths - Milling and Baking - Beer and Brewing

Hardback: https://t.co/KBPVnzXcrS

Kindle: https://t.co/rHLlTICdSv

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2020-05-22

The Grimm Brothers gathered tales far & wide. An old woman famed for her repertoire did not wish to pass on her lore to the young men. So a child was sent to ask her for a story & bring it back to them. The result was Aschenputtel, the German Cinderella
🎨Vogel

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2020-05-21


Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the world. is a unique way for people to develop an understanding, respect & appreciation for other cultures, and can promote a positive attitude for people from different lands.

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2020-05-22

...an emperor offered half his kingdom to whomsoever should repair his clock; one and all they came, tried and failed. The clock housed 24 tunes, and when it played, the emperor grew young again...
https://t.co/7Qh7LAvhJO
from 'Gypsy Folk Tales', F Hindes Groome

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2020-05-21

It's said the first modern ghost story was 'A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal' a pamphlet written by Daniel Defoe, published in 1706. The haunting was based on an alleged Canterbury incident in which a local woman returned to her friend after death

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2020-05-21

Hilali performers are Egyptian storytellers who recite the Sirat Bani Hilal, an epic poem about the migration of the Arab Hilal tribe and their conquest of North Africa. Taking years of training, they were once in demand for social events but are now endangered

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2020-05-21

The Aesop wrote fables using animals to tell moral tales in ancient Greece. These stories often solved problems or highlighted human failings such as 'The Boy who Cried Wolf' and 'The Tortoise and the hare'.

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2020-05-21

‘A treasure house of stories of every kind, annotated and categorised for easy reference.’ https://t.co/jExAvoUmdw

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2020-05-21

Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. The ghost story is a form of fiction specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.

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2020-05-21

Good morning Thanks to , this is here now for today's theme: the folklore of and
(Img: John Bauer, 1915)

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2020-05-21

Taliesin (‘radiant brow’) is the earliest known historical Welsh bard (6th c). Legend has it, he gained his gift when he put his scalding thumb to his mouth after 3 drops splashed on it from the Cauldron of Inspiration.

🎨 The Bard by Thomas Jones

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2020-05-21

- Orkney Folktales: A Close Tongue Keeps a Safe Head - https://t.co/nfVZUOMlJX

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2020-05-21

was an epic feminist storyteller who led the sugar-coated disneyfied classical fairytales back to their more gruesome origin.#TheBloodyChamber

(Illustration by Katy Horan from the book Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia)

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2020-05-21

Memory is an important component of storytelling. In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne was the titan goddess of memory and mother of the nine muses, fathered by Zeus. It is from her name we get the word mnemonic, which is a memory aid.

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2020-05-21

so on the bachelorette show i was on last night, there was a talent round. and for that round, HakiRozen had taken some time before the show and drawn art of me??? IT'S SO CUTE AND I'M NOT OVER IT???

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2020-05-18

i'm loretto and i love drawing!! :•P

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2020-05-15

We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
Sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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2020-05-14

‘Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;
The high springs of alder on thy shield;
Bran thou art called, of the glittering branches.’

Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), a Welsh riddle poem from the Book of Taliesin. The Bran mentioned is Bendigeidfran.

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2020-05-15