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This week's theme is children's and sayings!
(We're not sharing virus lore this week, to make sure those impacted can enjoy it too. Thanks folks 🙃)

(Image from Nursery Rhymes by Edward Cogger)

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Nursery rhyme scamps Jack & Jill may have origins in a Scandanavian myth of Hjuki & Bil. Kidnapped by Moon to be its children, they can still be seen there, carrying their bucket. As they climb the hill, moon waxes, as they fall down, it wanes...

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Though not much, I want to do my bit for anyone self-isolating or feeling generally anxious right now so I'm offering digital copies of my unholy trinity of horror graphic novellas, Malevolents, The Eyrie & Hallows Fell free on Amazon for the next week, enjoy!

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Good morning, Thanks to , this is here now for more and sayings!
(Quick reminder: we're not sharing any virus lore today, thanks folks🙃)
(Image: Little Miss Muffet, WW Denslow)

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“She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure
So if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells”

Tongue twister referencing palaeontologist Mary Anning

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Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books. Working in watercolours, she brought to life with lively characters often wearing delightful period costumes.

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Glorious springtime tomorrow!🥀🌺🌿🐦
For a little sanity, tomorrow Radio 4 will be 'Celebrating Winter Becoming Spring' with interludes of poetry from 12.18pm https://t.co/Mf7lqbZpkh
(🎨 B Powell, Blossoms of the fruit tree: Nature through the seasons)

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The King of Hearts
Called for the tarts,
And beat the Knave full sore;
The Knave of Hearts
Brought back the tarts,
And vowed he’d steal no more.

The Knave of Hearts (1901) illustrations by William Wallace Denslow. Wikimedia Commons. 🥧2/3

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The woodpigeon has a distinctive coo. Across England children came up with various different interpretations of what the pigeons were saying. Some thought it was ‘Oh Betty, my sore toe’ and others ‘Take two cows Taffy’.

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"The Muffin Man" is a traditional nursery rhyme of English origin. Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered, such as muffins, which were delivered door-to-door by a muffin man. https://t.co/sDtKULIRtz

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"Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
On a cold and frosty morning,
This is the way we wash our hands, wash our hands, wash our hands,
On a cold and frosty morning."

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The nursery rhyme Jack & Jill dates back at least to 18thC England. In the 16thC the words Jack & Jill implied a boy & girl romantically involved, as referenced by Shakespeare & the old English proverb. “A good Jack makes a good Jill.”
Art: Walter Crane

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"Ring Around the Rosie" a suitably debatable for the times. Where children dance in a circle & curtsey to the center 'rose tree.' Later argued to represent the Great (Rosy rash; posies to ward off the smell of we all fall down!

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Roman deity Fortuna, goddess of luck & chance, was sometimes known by other names to reflect different types of luck, such as Fortuna Dubia (dubious fortune), Fortuna Brevis (fickle fortune) and Fortuna Mala (bad luck). More Fortuna -> https://t.co/y4BVAp7j5Z

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In the Outer Hebrides, Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) was used to prevent the theft of milk by witchcraft.

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In the Divine Comedy, thieves are locked in an eternal struggle with snakes and reptiles, which strike them them and steal their forms. As in life they didn't respect others' property, so in death even their bodies are not their own.

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The Fae take what they believe mortals deserve to lose. When mortals cursed their lot, the Fae stole their possessions, leaving them, in dire poverty. Many methods were used to thwart fairy paths,most popular was burning embers in a sowen,none worked.

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Although the Resurrection Men sold corpses, legally a body was not property. Bodies were often stripped; it was a felony to steal shrouds or silver coffin fittings. [Image-Thomas Rowlandson, 1775]
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