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The Cedar tree is often referred to as The Tree of Life in plant folklore, due to it's long life.
It represents purification, with its wood often burnt to ward off evil spirits.

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‘We plough the seeds & scatter’, is one of the most performed hymns in the UK, written by German poet Claudius.
John Betjeman parodied it as "We spray the fields & scatter the poison on the land" in protest against modern farming methods.
(🎨Clausen)

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The Ellyllon were tiny Welsh Elves that hid in ancient groves and valleys. They lived on Fairy butter (a substance that grew in limestone rock crevices) and ‘bwyd ellyllon’ (toadstools) They were also known to wear Foxglove gloves and hats

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Jubokko are trees found on battlefields in Japan. It is believed that because they absorb the blood of slaughtered bodies through their roots, they transform into They then snatch passers by, pierce their skin and drain every last drop of their blood.

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Lilacs are steeped in legend & lore. In Greek mythology a nymph Syringa (Lilac’s genus name) being pursued by a lecherous Pan, seeks help to escape him, & is transformed into a Lilac bush. In the Victorian language of flowers, lilacs mean new love & remembrance.

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In Park Hill park, south London is the secret flower fairy garden dedicated to artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).

She designed fairy costumes for children, then painted them alongside her accurate depictions of plants which she had supplied by

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It was said that large patches of groundsel grew where witches had gathered. Groundsel growing on a thatched roof indicated that a witch had landed her broomstick there.

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Central Asian lore has tales of the Vegetable Lambs of Tartary: sheep that grow from plants. They stay connected to the plant by stems resembling umbilical cords & can only graze as far as the cords allow. Once all nearby plants have been eaten, the sheep die.

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Circe sits alone with her studies, her charts and books, and her tools of craft, telling herself true stories out of time and place, but as to the truth, only time and place will tell.

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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.

🧐📖🎣📜🖋️🍎🪕🪔

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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