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Gordafarid is a woman warrior in the Persian epic poem The Shahnameh, described as "a lion eager for battle." She delays enemy troops marching on Persia by riding out to meet them, roaring, "Where are your heroes, your warriors, your tried & tested chieftains?"

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2023-03-28

In the Chinese tale "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," a serpent terrorizes a village into feeding him a maiden once a year in exchange for their safety. A girl volunteers to be the sacrifice, then pulls out a sword & slays the serpent with help from her hunting dog.

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2023-03-28

Taletwist Alphys! (Alphys is sans)

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2023-03-27

This is what the Spring Fairy said: "Everything is waking from its winter sleep. […]In the garden plots crocuses and snowdrops and golden daffodils nod to one another across the ground,primroses and violets scent the air, and hyacinths ring their merry chimes.“

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2023-03-22


In Welsh mythology sea god Dylan Eil Tôn personifies darkness, his twin Lleu Llaw Gyffes light. At the spring equinox night & day are of equal length - after which the balance tips towards the light ....

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2023-03-22

'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

Daffodils were the harbinger of Spring in the distant past. It was once believed that if you looked at a daffodil and it drooped, it was an omen of death.

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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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2023-03-21

"..a fantasy scene for the costume party. Since Digger found the treasure chest,
he dressed as a pirate."
https://t.co/Fff20zVR24

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2023-03-21

'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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