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💙🌟💙An old English rhyme to be spoken as you see the first star at twilight...
"Star light, star bright,
The first star I've seen tonight.
Would it were that I might
Have the wish I wish tonight."

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"A pool was once congealed with frost;
The frogs, in it's deep waters lost,
No longer dared to croak or spring;
But promised, being half asleep,
As very nightingales do sing."

From "The Frogs" by Goethe

Our Frog Prince is very much awake!

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Hello again! I'm Jackson, a streamer from the UK. I like good stories, going on adventures and being comfy and cosy. I only do video game content right now but I want to expand in future to do tabletop games and storytime streams. I want to collect folklore from around the world!

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Limericks Day at 🧐

A mosquito cried out in pain:
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of its sorrow
was para-dichloro-
diphenyl-trichloroethane.

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This week’s theme is fun wordplay —so here is some nonsensical happiness courtesy of the great Edward Lear. I love his self-portrait with his cat! And I’ve never had “gooseberry fool,” but I’m sure my British followers know it well. ☺️📚

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It was said that in the early 18th c. fairies tried to carry off Langton House, crying:
Lift one, lift a'
Baith at back and fore wa',
Up and away wi' Langton House,
And set it down in Dogden Moss.

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There was an old man of Blackheath
Who sat on his set of false teeth
Said he, with a start
"O Lord, bless my heart"
I have bitten myself underneath

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day 13 Ningyo. Ningyo is from Japanese , I based mine off an older Japanese painting, tried to mimic the older style the best I could

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The Book of Good Love (1330), is a masterpiece of Spanish poetry.

It's a pseudo-biographical account of the romantic adventures of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita. It took him 13 years to complete it.

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O Saci é uma criatura humanoide de cor escura e uma perna só. Ele veste um gorro vermelho (fonte de seus poderes) e pode desaparecer em um redemoinho. É Considerado um brincalhão irritante e uma entidade potencialmente perigosa.

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The Mad Hatter is an odd host. He asks a riddle of Alice to which he doesn’t know the answer: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”Years later, besieged by “enquiries,” as Carroll said, the author offered a belated answer: “Because it can produce few notes...”

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“Whom do you want, O lonely night,
That you wail the long hours through?”
And the night would say in its ghostly way:
“Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!”
By Eugene Field (1850-1895).
+My original song and drawing "THE WIND SONG Listen: https://t.co/e0ExGhPWn7

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I couldn't find a limerick, so here is a poem about an old gnome from written & illustrated by the talented Nina Kennard Brisley (1898-1978) from the 16.12.1911.

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Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books. Working in watercolours, she brought to life with lively characters often wearing delightful period costumes.

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“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” from Walter Crane’s book of The Song of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909.

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Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were sets of instructions generally written to magically resolve a situation or disease. Usually, these charms involve some sort of physical action, including making, doing, saying.
https://t.co/fW5XBed8nS

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WOLFBANE 'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms & the autumn moon is bright'
Faux ballad from the film that created the folklore that the sign of the is a ‘pentacle’, The Wolfman, 1941#FolkloreThursday

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Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) includes the darkly amusing rhyme “Mathilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” which has a similar theme to Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” (1/2)

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The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which cause rapid heartbeat, confusion, hallucinations and seizures when ingested, hence the rhyme:

Hot as a hare
Blind as a bat
Dry as a bone
Red as a beet
Mad as a hatter

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