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Long before true crime and blood spatter evidence, there were singing drops of blood, summoning people to the crime scene♥️

"Where are you?"
"Here I am! On the stairs sweeping," answered one of the drops of blood.


🎨 Arthur Rackham

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A stepmother hated her step sons and cast a spell turning them them into swans. Their sister resolved to free them and set about making each brother a shirt of starwort, not speaking, or laughing for seven years https://t.co/8riA3BbdGC

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The Pied Piper Of Hamelin, a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Set in the Middle Ages about a rat catcher hired to rid Hamelin of its rat infestation. The citizens refuse to pay him, so he retaliates by luring away their children forever.
🖼Arthur Rackham

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"One day he took her to walk with him out of the town and showed her the spot where the boat was turned adrift upon the wide waters. Then he sat himself down, and said I am very much tired; sit by me"

King of the Golden Mountain

🎨Sophie Rodionov

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to the creator of The Flower Fairies, Cicely Mary Barker. Born OTD 28 June 1895, in Croydon (at the time Greater London). Her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923. Image: The Sweetpea Flower Fairies. in Cancer

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Brothers Grimm liked Thomas Crofton Croker's 'Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-1828)' so much they translated it into German, in Leipzig, 1826! Irische Elfenmärchen; Irish Elven Tales. Contained this illustration of The Banshi of Bunworth

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In "Clever Gretel," a chef eats the chickens she cooked for her master & his guest. So she tells the guest her master wants to cut off his ears, & he flees. She then tells her master the guest stole the chickens, & he runs off to chase the guest with a knife.

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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
- Henry James
Image "At the Beach"
by Edward Henry Potthast

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"Long Meg" is the story of a witch and her daughters and their meeting with a mysterious fiddler during Summer Solstice (Source: Taffy Thomas' Cumbrian Folk Tales).

Image: Tiffany Turrill's "Long Meg and Her Daughters"

Source: https://t.co/3xiLXoQdQk

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Sun goddess Amaterasu,guardian of the Japanese people,shut herself away,but people set up a mirror for her to see her own beauty. As she was dazzled,they tied the door open so she remained with them.Her emblem--the rising sun on the Japanese flag

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To ward off evil on the summer solstice, wear garlands of flowers to prevent evil spirits from overtaking you, and especially St. John's wort. Adapted to Christianity, this superstition supposedly has pagan origins.

🖼: L. Garland

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely, more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Summer’s lease hath too short a date.
So long as men can breathe &eyes can see,
So long lives this,& this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare

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The summer solstice marks both the year's longest day w/ the Sun in its full power & the start of its descent into darkness that peaks at winter solstice w/ its renewal. Thus, solstices are "a divine rotation of ascent & descent that makes light & darkness one."

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☀️'Summer' by Alphonse Mucha

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In Pagan folklore evil spirits appear on the summer solstice. To protect themselves from them, folks would wear garlands of herbs and flowers fashioned as crowns upon their heads.‘Chase-devil’or St John’s Wort, is an effective herb used in the garland.

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Last night on the eve of Solstice was the night to gather fern-seed, for today it conveys invisibility...

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