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Forecast winter weather from your hedgerows:

Many haws, many sloes,
Many cold toes.
(🎨 Cecily Mary Barker)

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A yuki-onna only appears on snowy nights. This inhuman entity has blue lips, black & very long hair, & pale (often transparent) skin. She can be very beautiful with the ability to shapeshift into fog or snow, floating above it, she leaves no tracks.

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Irish sayings about❄️! If it snowed Christmas Eve🎅, children told geese being plucked in heaven! New moon lucky omen🌑. Mild weather on Christmas Eve was cause for concern because, "A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard"!😲 ©mistletoediary, my house

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A Japanese folk tale tells of Yuki-onna, a beautiful snow ghost described as having white skin, long black hair and wearing a white kimono. She blows on her unwary victims freezing them to death & then sucks out their souls through their mouths.
🎨Sylvia Strijk

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FAIRIES & TOADSTOOLS
I imagine this is what you see on an autumn morning when you kneel and look under a toadstool . Titania awakes on a toadstool 1785 ; Fitzgerald, banquet on a toadstool 1859

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Anhangá, o Deus branco é o mais antigo dos mitos brasileiros. Foi identificado nos primórdios do Brasil nas cartas do Padre José de Anchieta (1534 a 57). É descrito como um espírto malfazejo que era temido por todos os indígenas. +
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The secret of King March is this weeks Time between Times storytelling video . Banish the darkness outside and watch this tale traditionally told .
Enjoy
https://t.co/YsNXw3khfg

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A fun The Enormous Turnip. Where an old man can't pull a gigantic turnip from his garden without the aid of everyone, even the smallest & weakest(a mouse). Just like he needed the participation of his entire land to pull out the turnip.#FolkloreThursday

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Once in a while – maybe once every one hundred years – one appears among us who is different, somehow enlightening our lives bringing joy and easing our tired minds. This is the story of Yannik, the Mad Thing of the Woods https://t.co/w4jWGCRpe5

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Don't forget! Rather than announcing the theme each week, you can now see ALL of the upcoming hashtag day themes for 2021 and 2022!
Check them out: https://t.co/pC25Dpf7bu

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The dwarves made the gods many treasures. One of the most striking was Freya's fiery necklace, Brísingamen.
She got it in exchange for a night with each of its creators. It became so linked with her that Thor wore it to impersonate her to steal back mjolnir.

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When the cook of the monastery of Caaveiro (#Galicia) opened the belly of that salmon, he found a ring inside. It was the ring that the Abbot Saint Rosendo, years before, had thrown into the river, as a sign of repentance for having sinned.

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"Pearls mean tears" also applies to the tears of mourning. Pearls are used to symbolise grief in mourning jewels.
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The fuchsia first arrived in England in 1788, having been discovered in the Caribbean c.1696. It is known as the Virgin Mary’s earrings & when worn by a bride on her wedding day can bring great blessings. It is also a favourite hiding place of fairies. Img: CMB

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Lady Edgecombe’s ring glistened in lamplight as she lay in her tomb. As the sexton took the knife to her ring finger, the lady screamed , she was alive!
This tale is well travelled it’s told in and Aberdeen!
Animation: https://t.co/mS6plOoLMe

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Huldra, the wood nymph in Norwegian folklore, is known to make silver jewelry, called 'huldresølv'. The jewelry Huldra makes, is so ravishingly beautiful that no human could ever make anything similar. Anyone who steals huldresølv, is forever cursed.

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Pearls are an essentially feminine gem associated with the moon and Venus. In Ancient Greece pearls were thought to lead to a happy and harmonious marriage, representing love, purity & innocence and as such are worn by brides.

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Thr staple crop of most of the Americas, the Three Sisters were maize, squash, and beans, often grown together to keep the soil fertile. Myths from the Maya to the Haudenosaunee involve these three crops, be they represented by gods or their shenanigans.

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