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An old superstition said if you saw a dead butterfly, it was a sure sign you would shed tears within a week...🦋

🎨- Richard Doyle

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According to Swedish lore, dragonflies are known as "Blindsticka" or “The devil’s knitting needle.” For they can use their long bodies to pick-out your eyes & sew your eyelids shut! Also befriending the snake; if one got sliced, they'd just sew it back together.

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A Mayan story:
A tyrant Jaguar once ruled the jungle. Afraid, the animals obeyed him until a Grasshopper challenged him to a duel.
Jumping inside Jaguar’s ear, Grasshopper drove him to insomnia and desperation by chirping endlessly until he surrendered.

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In an old poem of J.R.R. Tolkien, called "Errantry", the hero fights against some insects:
"He battled with the Dumbledors,
the Hummerhorns, and Honeybees,
and won the Golden Honeycomb,..."

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This weeks theme insects/ creepy crawlies 🕷

I love the myth of Arachne, a talented weaver who challenged the goddesses Athena to a weaving contest.
Arachne’s boasting got her transformed into a spider

Here is my artwork inspired by the myth

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Per Plato’s Phaedrus, cicadas were once humans who lived before the muses. When the muses were born, these humans took such delight in singing they forgot to eat or drink. Thus the cicada was born—as a gift from the muses they sign without need of nourishment.

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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 flowers & humanised insects. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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In Irish folklore, bees are very nosey. You must tell them about all births, deaths and marriages, or they might take offence and stop producing honey.
Artist: A.L.O.E

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The word for "dragonfly" in Croatian and Serbian literally means "fairy's little horse".

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There came a great spider,
And sat down beside her..

1881

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In 1899 in Northern England, a newspaper reported that clothes moths were often called "ghosts" and each time one was killed, there was serious risk of a relative being injured...
🎨-public domain

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Hashtags to follow if you want a bit more magic in your life:



Also, check out these profiles for current hashtags:
(#GothicFairies)
(#FiendsAndGhouls)
Very happy to hear of anything I've missed.#ff

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2019-09-20

In mythology Yavanna is the Giver of Fruits. She is robed in green and loves “all things that grow in the earth”. There are clear resonances with Demeter from classical myth, but who is who? 👇
Art by Yannis Stephanides + EPH-SAN1634

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King Erysichthon cut down one of Demeter's sacred trees. She punished the king by calling upon Limos, the spirit of insatiable hunger, to enter his stomach. The more the king ate, the hungrier he became. Eventually, Erysichthon ate himself.#FolkloreThursday

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Before refrigerators, blocks of ice were cut from frozen rivers and ponds, and preserved in straw. [L: 'The Ice Harvest', Clarence Gagnon, ca. 1926. Private collection. R: 'Ice Cutting, Quebec City', Maurice Cullen, 1906, via .]

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Spirits live everywhere: homes and every place outside of the home have or had its guardian spirit: springs, old trees, fields, vineyards, boundary lines, and so forth. Deadliest of all was the water spirit, the Vodyanoy.
https://t.co/265UExCAtv

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In European folklore is a tale of an old hag who turned into a hare to steal cow's milk. Driven until the last field in the village The hag could go no further and it was the unfortunate lot of the tardy farmer that he must support the hag or hare for a year.#FolkloreThursday

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Púcaí, small creatures of Celtic are shape changers, though their natural form is said to be says they run about harvested fields after Samhein, as is their due, for all that is left after harvest belongs to them.

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In Old French romance, a faie or fee was a woman skilled in magic, and who knew the power and virtue of words, of stones, and of herbs. Faie became Modern English fay, while faierie became fairy.

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