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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

TY

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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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"What plant we with this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery Springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee..."
W Cullen Bryant

🎨 Alice Helena Watson

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"When the open fire is lit
In the evening after tea
Then I like to come and sit
Where the fire can talk to me

Fairy stories it can tell
Tales of a forgotten race
of the fairy ghosts that dwell
In the ancient chimney place"
F Sherman

Hilda Boswell

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Kate Greenaway published A Apple Pie in 1886 as an illustrated rhyme book to teach children the alphabet. First mentioned in writing in 1671 by clergyman John Eachard, the rhyme is probably much older. The first printed versions appeared in the mid C18th.

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