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'In an age before this, and the one before that, when time was an infant and dawn dews were diamonds, there lived a worthy knight who performed many deeds of valour to keep marauders from raiding the shores of his homeland...'
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2023-03-22

Persephone to Hades
‘You are the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told…
You showed me how a love like ours can turn even the darkest, coldest realm into the happiest of homes.’ N. Gill

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2023-03-22

Jarilo is a Slavic god of fertility, spring & the life-death-rebirth cycle. He's the lost tenth son of Perun but was abducted & taken to the underworld by Veles. He was raised there by him, but returns to the surface every year, bringing springtime with him.

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2023-03-21

According to Polish legend, a cat was crying as her kittens fell into the river chasing butterflies and a sympathetic willow tree rescued the drowning kittens with its long branches. Each Spring the willow sprouts catkins where the kittens clung to its branches

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In this week's episode, we talk about the 5 types of fairies, The Mermaid of Zennor, , the Lizard Peninsula and more! Listen here: https://t.co/FqoX7ocm5n

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2023-03-21

In Greek mythology, seasons were explained through the tale of Hades & Persephone. Spring meant that Persephone returned from the Underworld to be with her mother Demeter

🖼️Alicia Aldebarán

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2023-03-21

- Ostara was the Spring Goddess of rebirth, renewal, and fertility. She was a patron of the lily of the valley that marked her coming. Legend tells she transformed an injured bird into a hare, and the hare responded by laying colored eggs for her festival. 🐇🌞

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'He has seen the starry hours
And the springing of the flowers;
And the fairy things that pass
In the forests of the grass.'
Robert Louis Stevenson.

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2023-03-21

"Spring" by Alphonse Mucha.
Have a good one, people!

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2023-03-21


My hundred thousand bells of blue,
The splendour of the
They carpet all the woods anew.
–Cicely Mary Barker

Bluebells symbolise constancy, humility and eternal love. It is said that they ring their bells summoning the fairies to dance and play.

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2023-03-21

"Then the coach drove off."

Illustration by Ruth Sanderson from Cinderella.

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2023-03-21


FAIRY TULIPS
A little old woman guarded her tulips after secretly discovering at night little Fairy mothers crooning and rocking the flowers like a cradle, while in each tulip-cup lay a little Fairy baby laughing and playing.

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2023-03-21

“I think fairy tales and medicine both deal with the human spirit and the human condition.”
~Valerie Gribben



darkmoon_art @ pixabay

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2023-03-15



„I will not leave Naisi, who has left the whole world scorched and desolate. I will not go away when there is no light in the heavens, and no flower in the earth under them, but is saying to me that it is Naisi who is gone for ever.“

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I was surprised, as a child, to learn that many of the fairies from Irish look nothing like the lovely sparkly creature on the left, and often resemble demon horses, such as the pooka, or puca, shown on the right. https://t.co/XFsSpPRvQV

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2023-03-15

Leprechauns are widely believed to wear green, but before the 1900s they were often depicted as dressed in red. In 1831, the writer Samuel Lover stated the leprechaun was 'quite a beau ... for he wears a red square-cut coat, richly laced with gold.'

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There are many stories of vampirism in Ireland and one of the most frightening creatures is known as the Dearg Due, or ‘Red Thirst’. However, the legend of the Dearg Due is as tragic as it is scary.

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Art : Coby Rickettes on ArtStation

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
(The Stolen Child)
W. B. Yeats - 1865-1939

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