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We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
Sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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‘Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;
The high springs of alder on thy shield;
Bran thou art called, of the glittering branches.’

Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), a Welsh riddle poem from the Book of Taliesin. The Bran mentioned is Bendigeidfran.

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Midsummer Art Contest 2020

9th international Norse mythology art contest

Theme:
World Tree at midsummer

Divisions:
Kid, teen, adult

Judges:
artist Dom Reardon (UK)
Mythologist Utkarsh Patel (India)

Details:
https://t.co/IUducqtb2t

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🌿🌺🌿Cuckoo lore...
"In April, come he will,
In May, he sings all day,
In June, he changes his tune,
In July, he prepares to fly,
In August, go he must."

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Yōkai cards. (These come from a book of Japanese folklore illustrations.)

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A rhyme of rival courtesans? In The Beggar’s Opera (1728) 'Lucy Lockit' loses her (rich)man to Polly. In reality 18thc courtesans Kitty Fisher & Maria Gunning were rivals; Maria wed wealthy Lord Coventry but Kitty had an affair with him thus 'picking her pocket'

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This I want to discuss Thomas the Rhymer, a scottish laird and poet from Erceldoune in the border. After being carried off by the queen of elfland, who was charmed by his poetry, when he returned he had the power of prophecy and the inability to lie.

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🌿💘🌿Ash leaves with an even number of fronds were believed to bestow good fortune, and were used in divination and love charms...
"Even, even, Ash,
I pluck thee off the tree.
The first young man that I do meet,
My lover he shall be!"

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Happy (Edward Lear's "Owl and the Pussycat" illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke)

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A warning about the Witch of Burwell survives in this rhyme:
'A wicked old crone
Who lived all alone
In a hut beside the reeds,
With a high-crowned hat
And a black tom-cat,
Whose looks were as black as her deeds!'

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Counting cherry stones:
When shall I marry?
This year, next year, sometime, never.
What shall I wear?
Silk, satin, cotton, rags
How shall I get to church?
Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart
Where shall I live?
Big house, little house, pigsty, barn
N Rockwell)

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Riddles, poems and oracles: a post from the archives for https://t.co/Z0ZuXmJkWQ (Art by Alan Lee)

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lovely anthropomorphised vegetation & dragon-shaped roots in from 'Erbario' - a C15th Herbal from Northern Italy for :

https://t.co/f9ZUW9SrJT

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Married in...
grey, you'll go far away
black, you'll wish yourself back
blue, you'll always be true
yellow, ashamed of the fellow
pink, your spirits'll sink


1914 by Elsa Beskow

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by Heinrich Hoffmann is a collection of moral tales from 1845.

The stories end with horrendous consequences for naughty children like the boy who wouldnt stop sucking his thumbs so they were cut off.

Its a favourite from my childhood.

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In Cambridgeshire it was considered unlucky for a girl to marry a man with a surname beginning with the same letter as her own:
'Change the name and not the letter,
Change for the worse and not the better.'

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R is for Redcap
Popular in Border folklore, the redcap) is a malevolent goblin that is well-known for soaking his cap in the blood of his victims.

Artwork (c) Lizzie Cavanagh

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