In Slavic myth Leshy, a forest guardian whose temperament blows hot & cold, is a shapeshifting trickster. Known for leading astray unwary travellers, abducting naughty children & unbaptised babies. However make him laugh & he’ll warm to you.

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FAIRIES & SOULS Wentz recorded the belief in fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, 1911 🎨White plume moth; Pirnir, funeral fairies, 1888

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The clergyman Isaac Ambrose (baptised 1604-1664) made these remarks in his diary about the aftermath of the battle of (1648), where he was the resident preacher. These were later printed in his 'Media, the Middle Things' (1649). https://t.co/EhLURnzYGr

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His birthday is unknown, but in 1733, Thomas Hornsby was baptised.

Hornsby was an astronomer who suggested & petitioned for the construction of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory. This aquatint print by J. Bluck shows its beauty.

Its instruments are now in !

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Tw : Blood
🩸Baptised in Blood 🩸

Just another Captain Flint fanart because Black Sails is still all I can think about

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En 826, Harald Klak se fait baptiser avec femme, fils et vassaux à Mayence ou Ingelheim en présence de l’empereur, qui devient son parrain. La parenté spirituelle étant alors un lien aussi fort que le sang, ce baptême est avant tout la concrétisation d’une alliance politique.

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WIP - First original monster: Thiccus Fishus, they have been baptised 😂

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In Slavic myth Leshy, tree spirit & forest guardian is a shapeshifter & trickster. He gets his kicks by leading astray unwary travellers, abducting naughty children & babies who are not baptised. Don’t annoy him! If you do, make him laugh to get on his good side.

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tout les canadiens français :)

Happy Saint-Jean Baptise to all the french canadian around :)

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Today is Trinity Sunday. In St Matthew’s Gospel Jesus commissions his disciples “to make disciples and baptise them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” How can you be a disciple today? 🙏🏽🌍

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8 Apr 1586: John Venn future regicide is baptised at Lydiard St Laurence (Houghton Library)

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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)

latecomer J.W. Waterhouse was baptised 1849 in Rome

Naiad (1893)
Echo & Narcissus (1903)
The Sorceress (1911)
A Tale from the Decameron (1916)

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[2] Many Jews chose to commit suicide rather than be murdered or forcibly baptised by the rabid attackers.

I studied in York for three years. Around the anniversary they plant daffodils, whose six-pointed shape echoes the Star of David, around the tower mound in memoriam.

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Antonio Vivaldi–born 1678–& immediately baptised by the midwife, either due to his poor health or bec an earthquake had shaken Venice that day. Either trauma may have caused his mother to dedicate her red-haired son to the priesthood, where he became known as The Red Priest.

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Baptised in 1619: French painter (1619-90)

Portrait of (1638-1715), 17th Century

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Portrait of Princess Anne Stuart, 1637-40, as a baby seated on a cushion; above, two cherubs hold aloft a sheet within which is the dead infant Charles, Duke of Cornwall 'born, baptised & buried 13 May 1629'

(British Museum)

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Je baptise se compte par un premier twitt pour les 35 ans de zelda, parce que Nintendo ne se bouge apparement pas les fesses (on vous aime quand même <3)

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11 Jan 1632: Katherine Fowler, later Phillips, baptised at St Mary Woolchurch (BM) 'Matchless Orinda'.

Her ‘Pompée’ was premiered in Smock Alley on 10 Feb 1663


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11 Jan: St Fidelma "the red" & St Ethna "the fair". Daughters of King of Connacht & gr-daughters of Niall of the Nine Hostages. St Patrick went to Croghan royal residence; baptised & died straight away (Colgan via ). Only Fidelma listed on 11 Jan https://t.co/k31alL5bEs

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