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Pomegranates are symbolic in many cultures, often representing prosperity and fertility.
In Ancient Greek the features prominently in the fate of daughter of the goddess of the harvest.

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2018-01-25

The "holy herb" vervain could cure a host of diseases, and records the Gallic provinces using it for soothsaying and fortune telling

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2018-01-25

In there is an ancient belief that if you plant a tree near your front door it will ward off witches’ spells as well as faeries & bad spirits. Rowan is also known as witchentree or witch-wood. by Cicely Mary Barker

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After death, one will be made 2 walk barefoot over unforgiving ground, unless in life, they gave a pair of shoes in good repair 2 one who couldn't afford them; in that case, a spirit will greet  the deceased, with said pair of shoes, and spare them the task.  

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2018-01-18

Abbindale Oss acrylic and oil on paper 18 x 12 inches.Folk costumes

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2018-01-18

Hopeless, Maine twelfth night costume/clothing for (art-self)

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2018-01-18

In Welsh Lore, the Bwbachod is a household spirit who assists with domestic chores. They are fast & efficient, but very destructive when offended! They detest ministers & people who don't drink. Like most Faerie Folk, they will take payment for work, in cream.

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2018-01-11

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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2018-01-11

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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"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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