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Married in...
grey, you'll go far away
black, you'll wish yourself back
blue, you'll always be true
yellow, ashamed of the fellow
pink, your spirits'll sink


1914 by Elsa Beskow

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2020-05-14

by Heinrich Hoffmann is a collection of moral tales from 1845.

The stories end with horrendous consequences for naughty children like the boy who wouldnt stop sucking his thumbs so they were cut off.

Its a favourite from my childhood.

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In Cambridgeshire it was considered unlucky for a girl to marry a man with a surname beginning with the same letter as her own:
'Change the name and not the letter,
Change for the worse and not the better.'

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"What plant we with this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery Springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee..."
W Cullen Bryant

🎨 Alice Helena Watson

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"When the open fire is lit
In the evening after tea
Then I like to come and sit
Where the fire can talk to me

Fairy stories it can tell
Tales of a forgotten race
of the fairy ghosts that dwell
In the ancient chimney place"
F Sherman

Hilda Boswell

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Kate Greenaway published A Apple Pie in 1886 as an illustrated rhyme book to teach children the alphabet. First mentioned in writing in 1671 by clergyman John Eachard, the rhyme is probably much older. The first printed versions appeared in the mid C18th.

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In the C18th the rhyme was published as:
The Tragical Death of A, Apple Pye Who was Cut in Pieces and Eat by 25 Gentlemen with whom All Little People Ought to be Very Well Acquainted. Capitals I & J were written the same way, so the rhyme for I came later.

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Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke.

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In Greek myth, a sphinx guards the city of Thebes & won't allow travellers to enter unless they answer a riddle. When they guess wrong, & she devours them. The Greek hero Oedipus finally answers correctly, & the sphinx throws herself off a cliff to her death.

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The tree month of begins on 13th May. The May tree, it gifts love & healing to the heart & is sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new growth & fertiity. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. Img: Cicely Barker

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2020-05-13

wow! we are very rusty with digital art it seems--but heres a quick info sheet about americas favorite doll

(actually, maloret would never let itself get caught dressed up like a magician but like. Let Me Indulge Myself. Please)

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2020-05-12

while waiting for some New Maloret Content, here are some older doodles i did of it ✌️

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2020-05-11

we are just everywhere with art styles lately. this wasn't gonna be maloret and then it was tbh
also idk what this outfit is about. don't @ me ok

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2020-05-11

The answer to this week's on Thursday is:

Ham-mock

Just the one winner this week. The nimble-witted 🥇🏆

Congratulations!
(Image Winslow Homer: Sunshine and Shadow) https://t.co/8dwi5u14va

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2020-05-08

Installation 07, known colloquially as Zeta Halo, is the most unique of the seven Halo rings that are spread across the galaxy, being the only surviving member from the original array of 12.

Learn more about this mysterious ring here: https://t.co/AjBoEKwCrq

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2020-05-07

holds Hamamatsu's   where 100 professional kites are flown over windy sand dunes. Battling in the sky, using friction to cut their opponents down! Newborn names are written on the kites. For the higher the kite, the healthier the baby!

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2020-05-07

🌿🎀🌿May Day in Herefordshire... crosses woven from birch & rowan were hung over cottage doors & seed-beds to ward off bad luck & the spells of Witches, also birch trees decorated with red & white ribbons were stood by stables, to protect horses from the Fae.

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Additionally it was said that during the night of the 24th of June during the Drăgaica, the Iele (spirits of the forests) would perpetually dance leaving burnt traces around oak trees, while also making those who disturbed their dances mutes for life.

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2020-05-07

The Drăgaica,a traditional Midsummer fair, has been held for centuries near the Buzau river in Wallachia (paused between 1806-29 because Ottomans burned the city).It is said that whoever did chores on the main day on the 24th of June would be struck by lighting.#FolkloreThursday

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