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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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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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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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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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“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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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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“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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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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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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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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