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Summer fading, winter comes
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.

Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses

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2019-11-14

The Dauphin of France was a title given to the Heir apparent to the Throne of France (1350-1791). Many Dauphins passed away during childhood, such as Charles Orlando (3 years-left), Louis XVII (10 y. upper right), Louis Joseph (7 y.,lower right)

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A great example of Sympathetic Magic is the widespread practice of offering a child's tooth to a rodent - to ensure the child's teeth grow as strong as a rat's...

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It is prudent to tickle a newborn's nose with pepper as soon as possible—for babies aren't safe from the fairies until after their first sneeze.
Art: Brian Froud

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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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Not the merriest of children folklore tweets here with Cronus, leader and youngest of first generation of Greek titans devouring one of his children. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

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Working on a book, I can’t help but recall the reading I was lucky enough to absorb. These are four books that fostered
1.Old Rhymes For All Times
2.Brothers Grimm
3.H Christian Anderson
4.Narnia
Barker, R Sheppard, P Baynes

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In the children's tale of Cinderella, the existence of the glass slippers has remained an unexplained error in oral transmission; in the earlier versions, the slippers were made of squirrel fur! 🐿️

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🌿👶🌿In the Scottish Highlands, a newborn baby would be given sap from a green stick of Ash (held in a fire till the sap oozed out then mixed with honey) as its first food, to give the child strength and to protect it from being bewitched or stolen by Faeries.

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Mine too, along with Oranges and Lemons. Another playground favourite and in the canon of

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In German folklore,the Roggenmuhme ("rye aunt") is a corn demon. Her bosoms are filled with tar, and may end in tips of igneous iron. She is known for stealing children who are looking for cornflowers. She also replaces children with changelings
Igor Krstic

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1 OC. 3 versions (?)

HERE'S IDRIS, well, a version without details in his clothes and 2 versions more (A class project. I have to make 2 versions more)

He's lovely in all of them I love my osamodas child so much

LOOK AT FLORETTE SHE'S SO TINY HHHHHHH

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Boobrie
A gigantic black bird, which is supposed to have lived in the lochs of Argyllshire. It had webbed feet and fed on cattle.

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2019-11-07

That's it for another amazing 🧜‍♀️
This week's theme was the lore of and A personal favourite, was the one about litterers being obliterated by lightning. Screw those guys! This is wishing you all an epic week (img J. Waterhouse 1893)

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The Obol was an ancient greek coin made of bronze, copper or silver and popular for funerary use. Deceased were buried with obol coins in their mouth to pay the ferryman Charon for the passage across the rivers Styx or Acheron.

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... for Nimrodel flows into Silverlode, that Elves call Celebrant, + Celebrant into Anduin the Great, + Anduin flows into the Bay of Belfalas whence the Elves of Lórien set sail. But neither Nimrodel nor Amroth came ever back.”

Art: Līga Kļaviņa

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Amroth dived into the sea in a attempt to swim back to his beloved, and his fate is also unknown. But Legolas concludes:


Art: Olga Kukhtenkova

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Her lover Amroth waited for her in “havens grey” but a storm set the ship loose + on its way to Valinor. Of Nimrodel we only hear that she was never seen before, though there is a stream that bears her name.

Art:

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I think it was the inspiration for the story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The Legolas speaks of the Elven-maid Nimrodel, who got lost on her way to the west shores of Middle-earth.


Art: Julian Bauer

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2019-11-08