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Kodama are the spirits of old trees in deep forests in Japan. Rarely seen as orbs of light or tiny vaguely human shapes, they are more often heard, as echoes that are just slightly oddly delayed art

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The Japanese fairy tale The Flower of the Peony (aka the Peony Princess) has a peony spirit take the form of a prince. https://t.co/r1KTV5iqL8 Pictured: Warwick Goble illustration of the story, 1910

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Georgius Agricola wrote that miners considered forked twigs from hazel trees best for dowsing. ‘The moment they place their feet on a vein the twig turns and twists, and discloses the vein; when they move their feet again the twig becomes once more immobile.”

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Whenever a seed sprouts, a Flower Fairy baby is born. From snow drops to blackthorns, lilacs to weeping willows, each fairy is responsible for looking after their own plant and keeping it strong and healthy throughout the years to come. 🌼🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️🌸

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Born from the blood of Dragons, are known for their sedative properties. They are ingredients for spells of abundance, love, sleep, & invisibility. Hypnos, (Greek God of Sleep & Dreaming) carried a poppy stalk, or a horn filled with poppy juice.#FolkloreThursday

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Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' - an enchanting illustrated glossary of ‘the meanings of Honey Flower - Love sweet & secret. Daisy - I share your sentiments. Enchanter's Nightshade - Witchcraft & sorcery.

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If you enter woods where rings grow beware! You will be gate crashing their party. will chant a spell and draw you into the circle to dance with them, but if you step on their toes you will turn to stone.

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Hello and thank you for the last, awesome session. This is here talking about Plant Lore. Tweet away!
Image: Double Daisy by Cicely Mary Barker

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Nightshade known as the "witches berry" for its said use in flying ointments. Highly poisonous it is also said to produce visions of the spirit world.
The rhyme in the image is a traditional Girl's Skipping Rhyme from Chokely in Wynterset (on-line attribution)

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Fairies consider it really quite rude to trample on bluebells as they hold them in such high regard...it is said that when they need to summon their kin to a Gathering then the bluebells make a ringing sound - but if humans hear this then it is a bad omen...

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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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A flower of loyalty - day after day the sunflower follows the sun from east to west..

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Lots of history with Bluebells in Ireland, It's unlucky to walk through a field of them, because they're full of spells. When a bluebell is rung it calls the fairies. If someone wears a wreath made of Bluebells they will have to tell the truth.

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Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm Fairy

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Objects - and people - struck by lightning were viewed with reverence and awe in Ancient Greece. Those killed by lightning were called dioblêtoi, "Those smitten by Zeus," and were often given special burials.



(Source: Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Death)

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Rag rugs like this one in cottage No. 5 had a red diamond in the middle called a 'Devil's Eye', which was supposed to trick demons coming down the chimney into thinking there was already a devil in the building!

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In Greek legend Crocus was a mortal youth - after his failed affair with the nymph Smilax the gods turned him into a plant..

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The Mandrake or Mandragora Officinarum has more folklore associated with it than just about any other plant.

The best known piece of folklore about the Mandrake is that it screams as it is pulled out of the ground, killing anyone who heard it.

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