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Cats in summer by Lucy Grossmith

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2023-07-02

' enchantment '

is an exhibition of new paintings

journey through world mythology, Druid philosophy, and Cumbrian folk tales of faeries and elves

https://t.co/xLvOPNGPFV


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2023-06-04

“Igraine”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

I made a defiant Igraine, an emotion born from being used by will of men.
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2023-04-02

Thank you all for your wonderful tweets on Spring today! Everyone seems to have really enjoyed it! Next week’s theme is an old favourite:

WITCHES & FAIRIES!

Fly your tweets to the hashtag for a retweet after 10:30 am BST! Until then, have a great week! Maude x

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2023-03-27

“Branwen”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

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1) Branwen’s story is the most tragic story in all of the Mabinogion.
She is the Welsh /Irish Goddess of Spring, love and beauty.

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2023-03-27

“When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,
Do paint the meadows with delight.” Love’s Labours Lost
The Flower Fairies: buttercup (cuckoo-bud), double-daisy, lady’s smock, & dog violet

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2023-03-27

- According to Celtic beliefs, hawthorns are sacred and magical and must never be picked as they guard the entrance to the faerie world.

Only exception is Beltane when ribbons of hawthorns can be used as an offering in exchange for a wish.

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2023-03-26

Cuckoos are seen as harbingers of spring because that is when they arrive in Britain. In Wales it was believed that a child born on the day the first cuckoo call of the season is heard will be lucky for their whole life.

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2023-03-26

Great play is made of seeing or hearing the first cuckoo of Spring (c. Lady Day 25 March), but what happens to it in Winter? Some say it hides in a log, others, that it disguises itself as a hawk preying on the adults of the birds it had cuckolded…

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2023-03-26

My current series of explore birth and rebirth; contain elements of Celtic, Greek and Egyptian, Tibetan mythology; Cumbrian folklore; Tarot

https://t.co/vTFphgBofy



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2023-03-26


The world awakes to rapture;
Love rejoices, gods are glad,
Flowers unfold around her footfalls,
Youth in virgin garb is clad;
All the Muses chant a welcome;
Nymph and Naïad swell the strain;
Dancing sunbeams, laughing waters,
Aid the triumph of her train.

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2023-03-26



When daffodils begin to peer.
Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3.

🎨 Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert.

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2023-03-26

«Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.»
Kenneth Grahame decides to start his "Wind in the Willows" like this.

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2023-03-26

In Welsh mythology the cyhyraeth is a hag of the mist who resides in mountain fog. Her wail is so terrible that the blood of those who hear it freezes in their veins.

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2023-03-19


Irish myth tells of the Tuatha Dé Danann, (the people of goddess Danu) an ancient, magical and immortal race who dwell in the Otherworld. They often visit the mortal world, mist being a powerful symbol for them. Its appearance signals their presence.
🎨Joan Brull

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2023-03-19

Brigid was an Irish goddess associated with spring, healing, wisdom and poetry. She was also a water goddess, and many rivers and wells across Ireland were devoted to her. Many Irish writers credited Brigid as their inspiration well into the Christian era.

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2023-03-19

My explore birth and rebirth; contain elements of Celtic, Greek and Egyptian, Tibetan mythology; Tarot

https://t.co/i94rbPINoc


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2023-03-19

Scottish lore for

My late grandmother said her native Galloway was the last stronghold of the Fae. In 1850 a hawthorn tree halted the widening of the road between Glenluce and Newton Stewart because it was faerie property.


art : Joanna Wolska

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2023-03-19

Legend has it that on his death King Arthur turned into a chough, the crow of Cornwall, so that he could return again when needed. The bird's beak and legs turned red with Arthur's blood

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2023-03-13