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Lughnasadh is the first harvest festival of the Irish year. Named for Lugh, it was actually a celebration of his foster-mother Tailtiu, Sovereign Queen of the Fir Bolg. Chariot races, log rolling, and marriages marked the day both mythically and historically.

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2021-03-03

According to an old Swedish belief, on Maundy Thursday those who born on Sunday can dig up treasures hidden by trolls. To stop you, trolls will be trying to make you laugh, but you should stay silent while digging.

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2021-02-24

One more for this evening - 'The Extinguisher' A misery old man counts his money by candlelight. Little does he know that death is about to drop a massive candle snuffer on him. William Daniell, after George Dance. 1806 ()

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2021-02-11

💔"The silver spoon drew her back, she went down on one knee to stroke the smooth metal. Winced.
It was so full of salt tears. Made and given as a final gift, it had never touched warm lips or stirred sweetness into a drink. It was a talisman of drowning sorrow."

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2021-02-11

Melisandra plays at being Ophelia.

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2021-02-10

Puffin Carcass is an imprint based in Norumbega, Vinland.

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2021-02-04

- sometimes it's not just the place but the mystery of the people in this beautiful orientalist Happy Prince (Oscar Wilde) by Charles Robinson - the mystery and beauty of travel to an outsider, many moons ago (jhttps://pic.twitter.com/rJ3l9Xc3lt

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2021-02-03

Oh to be in Cockaigne, the medieval peasant’s dream. Cheese rains from the sky, wine flows in the streams. A widespread idea of Utopia in the 12th century, who today would not like to live where geese roast themselves & roofs were made of bacon?

Images: Pinterest

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2021-02-03

Beautiful illustrations of the weird and wonderful underwater world in 'The Little Mermaid' by Nika Goltz.

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2021-02-03

Underwater kingdom in the 'Little Mermaid' by Hans Christian Andersen would be the imaginary place to visit!!! Beautiful creatures of the deep frolic in the illustrations by / Russian artist Nika Goltz published in 2003.

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2021-02-03

Imaginary places to visit for Well, perhaps I already have:
Along Hardknott Pass, Cumbria’s Faerie King Eveling holds his court. He's an intriguing figure, his name may be connected to the Avalon of Athurian legend

La Mort d'Arthur by James Archer, 1860

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2021-02-03

A Hagstone, (Adder stone) is "a splendid product shot forth by serpents". 🐍 It's said these stones, or any rock containing a natural hole, is a way see the Wee Folk & Fairyland if you look through it. (Feel lucky to have 2 of my own.) 🧚‍♀️

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2021-01-28

Franklin Booth illustrated the ‘wonderland’ created by James Whitcomb Riley in The Flying Islands of the Night (1913) where King Krung is ensnared by Queen Crestillomeem & her son Jucklet the dwarf but heroine Dwainie of Wunkland saves the kingdom & wins the prince

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2021-01-28

Chanctonbury Ring is a gateway or portal to the other. An Iron Age fort & a Roman temple, for centuries strange encounters have been reported. Run round the hill 7 times & the devil may bargain for your soul with food, fairies dance at midsummer, & UFOs are sighted

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2021-01-28

There is a neurological condition called Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Symptoms include the perception that things are larger or smaller than in reality, and or closer or further away. It can also affect perception of time. Most often experienced in childhood.

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2021-01-27

Yuri Vashchenko's illustrations of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll.

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2021-01-27

🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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2021-01-23

Best not to ask who lights the candles

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2021-01-20

"In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow,
The fate of Franklin no man may know.
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell,
Where Lord Franklin and his gallant men do dwell" (Lady Franklin's Lament)

🎨 Landseer "Man Proposes, God Disposes", 1864

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2021-01-21

”Troll” is so versatile in Swedish. It forms the basis of many exciting words & lends itself to George Carlin style usage-of-the-word-troll phrases such as:
”Den trollkunniga trollkarlen trollade fram den förtrollande trollen med trolldom och stor trollkraft!”
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2021-01-20