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On 8 March 1939, J. R. R. Tolkien delivered a lecture at the University of St. Andrews titled "Fairy Stories", later published as essay titled "On Fairy Stories", in which he argued that fairy tales are not just for children.

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🎨: J.R.R. Tolkien

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Hello there 🐈‍⬛

Huge thanks to Crystal for hosting before the break! I'm your last host of the day.

This week's theme is Stories, Storytelling + Storytellers.

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Oskar Herrfurth pre 1934

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I love these storytelling scenes: SJ Guy’s “The Story of Golden Locks” c. 1870, & the original frontispieces for the British editions of the Grimms’ fairy tales, c. 1820s, & illustrated by the great George Cruikshank. I love the coziness. ☺️📚💫

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A saga is an Icelandic prose story or history, though the term can apply elsewhere in Nordic culture as well. Most famous is the Saga of the Icelanders, but also much of Norse myth recorded, split between poems and prose. Today saga often means long stories.

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The sea is as densely populated with fairies as any place on earth. These water sprites control the weather and the water, raise storms, and have the power to cause shipwreck, or keep a ship safe.

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In Greek Mythology, Titaness Mnemosyne was the deity of memory and the keeper of stories from history and myth, predating the written language. She was also the mother of the Muses and was given the task of naming all objects on Earth.

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Hilali performers are Egyptian storytellers who recite the Sirat Bani Hilal, an epic poem about the migration of the Arab Hilal tribe and their conquest of North Africa. Taking years of training, they were once in demand for social events but are now endangered

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"Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen. The remedies for repair or reclamation of any lost psychic drive are contained in stories."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

🎨Stephanie Law

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is often used to make teaching approachable & memorable, "[making] use of humble incidents to teach great truths" (Apollonius of Tyana on Aesop). Jesus's parables use this principle. Fables tend to have anthropomorphised animal characters.

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To celebrate the folklore of storytelling this who else recalls Jim Henson's The Storyteller as an iconic part of their childhood? The cadence, the rhythm of the stories was mesmerising. Love John Hurt!

"The best place by the fire was kept for The Storyteller"

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Pentamerone or The Tale Of Tales by Giambattista Basile has a frame story of a false bride & 10 female storytellers that are hired to tell a story each over 5 nights (50 in total). The true bride (who has been disguised as a storyteller) is revealed at the end.

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and also possible source for the later Brer Rabbit stories.

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That's the end of another epic 🐉

Today's theme was limericks, rhymes, and riddles for

This is signing off. Wishing you all a lore filled week 🌞🐈‍⬛🍄🥠🎧🐝💃🗝️🧿

Edmund G Caldwell 1887

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Famed Sōtō Zen poet Dōgen is known for his engimatic yet pragmatic, almost literal poems about nature, existence, and enlightenment, drawing on an understanding of Buddha that is very much with us daily.

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💙🌟💙An old English rhyme to be spoken as you see the first star at twilight...
"Star light, star bright,
The first star I've seen tonight.
Would it were that I might
Have the wish I wish tonight."

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"A pool was once congealed with frost;
The frogs, in it's deep waters lost,
No longer dared to croak or spring;
But promised, being half asleep,
As very nightingales do sing."

From "The Frogs" by Goethe

Our Frog Prince is very much awake!

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Limericks Day at 🧐

A mosquito cried out in pain:
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of its sorrow
was para-dichloro-
diphenyl-trichloroethane.

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This week’s theme is fun wordplay —so here is some nonsensical happiness courtesy of the great Edward Lear. I love his self-portrait with his cat! And I’ve never had “gooseberry fool,” but I’m sure my British followers know it well. ☺️📚

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It was said that in the early 18th c. fairies tried to carry off Langton House, crying:
Lift one, lift a'
Baith at back and fore wa',
Up and away wi' Langton House,
And set it down in Dogden Moss.

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