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The Triumph of the Innocents
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William Holman Hunt

The Flight into Egypt

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2023-04-04

The story of the Children of Lir is one of the best known tales of Ireland. This story tells of Lir and his wife Aobh and their four children called Aodh, Fionnghuala, Fiachra and Conn. Lir's wife died and he married again.

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2023-04-03

Apparently, three children remained behind: one could not follow quickly enough, the second was deaf & could not hear the music, & the last was blind, unable to see where he was going.
They informed the villagers of of this when they came home from church.

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2023-04-03

Hamelin suffered from a rat infestation. A piper & rat-catcher, hired to play his pipe, lured them to a river where they all drowned. 🐀 The mayor refused to pay him so the angry piper took revenge by piping their children out of town, never to be seen again.

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2023-04-03

A Germanic legend states will-o'-the-wisp are the souls of unbaptized children; to free them, one need only throw a handful of consecrated ground at the fiery orbs of light.

Art: Hermann Hendrich

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2023-04-03


A 1772 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting Niobe attempting to shield her children from Artemis and Apollo who were punishing Niobe for her blasphemous boast about the number of children she had.

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2023-04-03

“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 crow for bringing us Fire !
So many peoples share this story. Here is an idea of crow, in the time before it got cold.

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2023-03-28

In Norse mythology, at one point, Thor disguised himself as the goddess Freya in order to trick the jotuns into giving him back his hammer. Then he killed all the jotuns and went raging back to Asgard in his pretty dress. And thus, cosplay was born!

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2023-03-28

and the news is out! This week we're heading back over to Romania and Eastern Europe for the Strigoi (or Striga!)

Make sure to bury your dead with a stake in their heart next Thursday!

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2023-03-27

It is said that the nymph Echo fell hopelessly in love with Narcissus, but he was so enamoured with his own reflection he rejected her. Echo retreated to a cave and pined away until all that remained in the darkness was her ‘echo’, the ghost of her voice calling.

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“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


In British folklore on Cuckoo's Day April 28th it is said to be a sign of prosperity & abundance when you hear a Cuckoo first and turnover coins in your pocket at the same time.

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2023-03-21

The tribes of Arctic North America tell of the Sun and Moon chasing one another, though the reasons and names vary by group and region. In some, they are siblings at war; in others, quarrelling lovers or victim and attacker.

🖼️: E. Fiegenschuh

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2023-03-20

The Persian king Kai Kavus is blinded & shut up in a cave by the White Demon. The hero Rostam slays the demon, then uses its blood to restore the king’s sight. 1/2

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2023-03-13


Homer narrates that the 2 mighty Aloeo's sons, Oto and Efialte, one day fought Ares, overpowering and locking him in chains inside a bronze barrel.
Those who usually observe the sky know well that Mars becomes very bright and prominent during the opposition👇

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2023-03-13

- Someone had seen the trickster god Loki with Idun go into a forest, and then she vanished.
Norse gods learned Idunn had been abducted and taken to Thiasse’s palace, where he had shut her in a prison cell. 🍎🦅
https://t.co/1g1fSS7bLC

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2023-03-13

The sun once moved across the sky too fast for people to complete their tasks, so the demigod Māui laid ropes to capture Tama-nui-te-rā (a Māori sun god) & make him travel more slowly. The sun's rays are said to be remnants of these ropes.

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2023-03-13

As punishment for being rebellious, Prometheus was sentenced with eternal torment by Zeus. He was bound to a rock by chains and visited each day by an eagle who fed off his liver.

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2023-03-13

A Mr Noy once strayed into fairy land and was saved by his former sweetheart, Grace, who had been abducted years earlier and who he thought had died. She explained the fairies left a 'stock' (figure), which was buried as her, while she was taken to work for them.

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