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There was an old man of Blackheath
Who sat on his set of false teeth
Said he, with a start
"O Lord, bless my heart"
I have bitten myself underneath

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2021-05-13

The Book of Good Love (1330), is a masterpiece of Spanish poetry.

It's a pseudo-biographical account of the romantic adventures of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita. It took him 13 years to complete it.

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2021-05-13

The Mad Hatter is an odd host. He asks a riddle of Alice to which he doesn’t know the answer: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”Years later, besieged by “enquiries,” as Carroll said, the author offered a belated answer: “Because it can produce few notes...”

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2021-05-13

“Whom do you want, O lonely night,
That you wail the long hours through?”
And the night would say in its ghostly way:
“Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!”
By Eugene Field (1850-1895).
+My original song and drawing "THE WIND SONG Listen: https://t.co/e0ExGhPWn7

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I couldn't find a limerick, so here is a poem about an old gnome from written & illustrated by the talented Nina Kennard Brisley (1898-1978) from the 16.12.1911.

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2021-05-13

Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books. Working in watercolours, she brought to life with lively characters often wearing delightful period costumes.

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2021-05-13

“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” from Walter Crane’s book of The Song of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909.

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2021-05-13

Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were sets of instructions generally written to magically resolve a situation or disease. Usually, these charms involve some sort of physical action, including making, doing, saying.
https://t.co/fW5XBed8nS

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2021-05-13

WOLFBANE 'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms & the autumn moon is bright'
Faux ballad from the film that created the folklore that the sign of the is a ‘pentacle’, The Wolfman, 1941#FolkloreThursday

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2021-05-13

Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) includes the darkly amusing rhyme “Mathilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” which has a similar theme to Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” (1/2)

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2021-05-13

The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which cause rapid heartbeat, confusion, hallucinations and seizures when ingested, hence the rhyme:

Hot as a hare
Blind as a bat
Dry as a bone
Red as a beet
Mad as a hatter

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2021-05-13

THREE BLIND MICE is a nursery rhyme some believe refers to the horrific fate of three famous Protestants (Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer) accused of plotting against the Catholic, Queen Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"). Burned at the Stake.

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2021-05-13

"An Ox Roars on a Hundred Mountains", Ukrainian folklore and riddles illustrated by Valentina Melnichenko in 1988.

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"An Ox Roars on a Hundred Mountains", Ukrainian folklore and riddles illustrated by Valentina Melnichenko in 1988.

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That's the end of another epic 🐉

Today's theme has been Heroines and Heroes! From the reluctant to the very bold. Who would you emulate?

This is signing off, wishing you all a lore-filled week 🦹‍♂️⚔️🦄🌞🧅🏇🎯💃

John Bauer 1914

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2021-05-07

Lāčplēsis is a folk hero in Latvia known as "The Bear Slayer." He could kill bears with his bare hands & was part bear himself. He died helping the Baltic gods fight off Christian crusaders & is immortalized in an epic poem that suggests he will return someday.

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2021-05-07

I had a lot of fun working on this painting. The Boogeyman who's inky form changes based on ones fears.
https://t.co/awI6QB5lLZ

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2021-05-07

By accident the ten solar crows were all released and the heat was such the world was going to catch fire. The archer Hou Yi went out with nine arrows and killed nine of the ten: that is why their is one sun. Later, he would lose his great love Chang'e, the moon

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2021-05-07

In the Dagda a.k.a. Eochaidh Ollathair ("All-Father") wields a sentient harp named Uaithne. When stolen by the evil Fomorri, the Dagda tracks it down & summons it. The harp flies to its master, killing nine Fomorri. https://t.co/VGGRhRng4e

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2021-05-07

- Persian Folktales: The Son of Malik ut Tujjar and the Grateful Dead https://t.co/EFF7NtJRp9

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2021-05-06