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is popular in folklore. Some say that if you see bats flying on a June evening, it's a sign hot weather's on its way. Also, if swallows fly near to the ground, it means rain is due, + 'a swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon'

🎨 Edmond Dulac

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2019-06-20

20 June. Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin. Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings"

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2019-06-20

Hey it's what a good day for another 4 fairies! Mostly plants. I think the squirrel fairy looks more and more like a squirrel the longer she lives with them.

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2019-06-20

The magical birth of Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japan 10thc): A childless bamboo-cutter finds a baby girl inside a glowing bamboo stalk (He & his wife raise her but when grown she returns to her people on the moon) (Print:Yōshū Chikanobu)

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2019-06-20

Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Image: Cicely Barker

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Leto gave birth to the children of Zeus on Delos which, unattached to the ocean floor, was neither ocean nor land. Artemis was born first, and then helped her mother give birth to her brother, Apollo, whereupon she became the goddess of childbirth & midwives.

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2019-06-20

"Mi hanno trasformato in una specie di pompino" - LoreTheKeyHolder94, 15 febbraio 2015

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2019-06-19

"The Bachelorette" is just getting ridiculous now

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2019-06-19

Como está resultando un domingo tranquilo me dio tiempo a darla colorete. ¡Espero ver vuestras versiones!

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2019-06-16

Hi! It's i'm Cristian (abueloretrowave) and i love pixelart.

Hope you enjoy my art 😊🙏

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2019-06-15

Forest trolls are the friendly sort, sharing magic herbs with travelers they meet in the One often hears them singing as one hikes in and - They especially love singing in the shower, er... waterfall. (John Bauer)

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2019-06-14

This week's theme is the folklore of seas and water. The obvious thing would be to tell you something about but I'll give the honour to his wife Amphitrite instead.
But I will mention his male lovers Pelops and Nerites in honour of

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2019-06-13

Sirens and mermaids. Mermaids are a sort of sea nymph with a fish tail who save sailors; but for the Greeks, Sirens were bird-like, um, beauties, who lured them to their doom. Below are from the Bestiary of Anne Walshe (https://t.co/SXENjc1UMk)

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Who would be a river-fairy in the Tweed? Cruel fishermen believed these creatures affected a day's fishing and so would salt their nets and throw salt into the water in order to blind them. Artist: Warwick Goble -public domain

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In Cornwall it was once said, that a white hare would appear before a storm, on the docks and wharves.
Image: Public Domain

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2019-06-13

In France it was believed certain sailors could control Wind. They did this via a ring, worn on the little finger of the right hand. However if they spent more than 3 months on a single voyage, or stayed ashore for more than 3 days, they would die

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2019-06-13

In the Iliad, Poseidon drives a chariot drawn by "brazen-hoofed horses over the sea's surface."

Apollonius said the horses of Poseidon emerged from the sea & galloped across the Libyan sands.

Part horse / part fish: HIPPOCAMPUS.

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2019-06-14

From Elves and Fairies (1916), illustrated by reprinted in Women Illustrators of the

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