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FleurishFolk

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🌿 Nature, comparative myth & folklore 🌸 #amwriting 🇨🇦 One foot here (for now), & the other at https://t.co/kOhC92mAze

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Always be kind to trees. 🪄🌳 You never know when they'll help you out of a jam. 🎨 Arthur Rackham, ca 1918 #fairytale #art

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#FolkyFriday "But when they saw the darksome night, They sat them down and cry'd, Thus wander'd those two little babes, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As babes wanting relief ..." The tragic Ballad of the Babes in the Wood 🎨R Caldecott

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"Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, On a cold and frosty morning." The #song using 'mulberry' may be a later version, updated from earlier lyrics using 'bramble' instead. 🎨 Walter Crane #FolkyFriday

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A lullaby from the Isle of Mann recalls, in part, a language almost extinct and now again being taught. In another version titled alternatively "Uiseag Bheag Ruaidh" (Little Red Lark), 🧵 #FolkyFriday youtube.com/watch?v=aoMHBa…


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‘The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming “Off with her head! Off with—” ‘Nonsense!’ said Alice. ~ Lewis Carroll. This #BookWormSat wears a little 👑 to celebrate the kings and queens of literature. Join us.

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Born on this day, 15 November 1887, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart1 #BOTD

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'When daisies fill the grass like snow And blossoms white the trees And to the bee-master I go To buy a skep of bees. I do not pay in brown money, Or silver new or old. Nay, that my bees may have good luck I cross his hand with gold' From #BritishBeeJournal, 1970 #FolkyFriday

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Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather The fairies, a child's song 🪶 ✍️William Allingham William, 🎨E. Gertrude Thomson #FolkyFriday

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🖤🖤🖤 Good morning everyone!!! #FernFriday

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Rhyme believed to be written by Shakespeare after he’d lost in a drinking contest at Bidford: Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton, With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggar’s Broom and drunken Wixford #FolkyFriday

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In Greek #mythology, Pandora (Greek: derived from pān, i.e. "all" and dōron, i.e. "gift", was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. Her other name is Anesidora (Ancient Greek), "she who sends up #gifts from below" the earth. 🎁 #MythologyMonday

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We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind. ~ Rosemary Sutcliff

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Always be kind to trees. 🪄🌳 You never know when they'll help you out of a jam. 🎨 Arthur Rackham, ca 1918 #fairytale #art

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In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high. A walker can be seen on the path; the person's shadow is short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, green, blue – everything shimmers in the sunlight.…

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“Bonne-Biche, Bonne-Biche!” she exclaimed, “I entreat you to explain to me the change which I see and feel in myself. Last night I went to sleep a child—I awoke this morning, and found myself a young lady.” #BookologyThursday

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This is a CAKE!!! It was created by the unbelievably talented @cake_emma I’m in complete AWE 🤩🤩🤩

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Prepping for this evenings meal & suddenly realising as I look through the window that even without sight of any timepiece I know what the time is. Follow the sun…

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In most epic #Myths & #fairytales, a mentor appears & gifts the hero/heroine with an item to help them on their journey. In the Wizard of Oz, Glinda the Good #Witch gives Dorothy the ruby slippers & sage advice on how to find her way home. 🪄👠 #BookologyThursday

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The legendary #heroine Hua Mulan of Chinese history dates back to the 4th to 6th century AD. In the ballad, Mulan disguises herself as a man & takes her father's place in war to protect him. #FairyTaleTuesday #warrior

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The seven deadly sins equate with the classification of seven deadly demons: Lucifer: pride Mammon: greed Asmodeus: lust Leviathan: envy Beelzebub: gluttony Satan: wrath Belphegor: sloth 👿 #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday

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