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March in Old English: Hrēþ-mōnaþ, which gives rise to a lot of debate. It could be "Month of the Goddess Hrēþ" or perhaps more likely "Month of Wildness". (Image is from a 13thc psalter Trin MS B.11.4, suggesting a time for planting/digging.)

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Like the old songs they left behind, We hung our harps in the willows again. Ballads of boys blow on the wind, Their blood is mingled with the rain. War / Rhyfel / Hedd Wyn Translation Gillian Clarke ©️Aaron Mccoy #BookWormSat

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In Welsh folklore, whoever found the first daffodil in March would have more gold than silver that year... #FolkyFriday 🎨Sophie Pemberton

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⛈️🐦‍⬛⛈️Rooks perching close together in tall trees and facing into the prevailing wind, is said to be a sign of bad weather on the way. If they fly wildly, with sudden downwards swoops, strong gales or storms are coming. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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A loudly screeching Barn Owl was said to predict icy weather or even a severe storm. ©️Jeremy Paul / Snow Flurries #FolkloreThursday

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In Staffordshire folklore wood anemones were known as thunderbolts and to pick one meant a sure thunder storm! #FolkloreThursday 🎨 Graa -Jensen

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Harlequin and Ballerina Vanity Fair Cover April, 1918 #WyrdWednesday

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Twilight or bows to the moon 1890 Georges Marie Julien Girardot French, 1856–1914

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A beautiful short eared owl. 📸 wayno_turner #owl #Wild #Birds

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Nightingales know love and sorrow. In Persian poetry, the nightingale longs for the rose, singing of devotion and pain. In Greek myth, Philomela is turned into a nightingale, her song carrying a tale of vengeance. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash Art: Denise Monaghan

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Reverie 1872 Winslow Homer born #OTD 1836 in Boston, Massachusetts

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#FolkyFriday Daffodils symbolize new life, marking the transition from winter to spring. In various cultures, their bloom is seen as a good omen, especially during the Chinese New Year. In Victorian flower language, they express unrequited love and joy. 🌼✨ #Daffodils 🎨 Cicely Mary Barker

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The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun, The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem, Though beautiful, cold — strange — as in a dream I dreamed long ago, now new begun. On Visiting The Tomb of Burns / John Keats Caspar David Friedrich #BookWormSat

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Signs of Spring this morning 🌼

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Sharp summit from the Chamonix Valley… ⛰️⛰️ #photography #bluesky #nature #art #landscape #mountains #sunset

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When a man falls in love with orchids, he’ll do anything to possess the one he wants. It’s like chasing a green-eyed woman … it’s a sort of madness Susan Orlean / The Orchid Thief Martin Johnson Heade #WyrdWednesday

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The Blue Feather 1917 William J Edmondson Cleveland Museum of Art

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Legend says the clever fox sought help from mischievous fairies to move more silently. They crafted a special flower, its soft blooms perfect for slipping onto his paws, muffling his steps. These enchanted flowers became known as foxgloves! #FairytaleTuesday

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'The Sense of Light,' by Annie Luisa Swynnerton, 1895

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Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, The Rover / Aphra Behn Caspar David Friedrich #BookWormSat

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There, in a meadow, by the river’s side, A flock of nymphs I chanced to espy, All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untied Edmund Spenser Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale #WyrdWednesday

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"Undine," By Miss Starr." The Illustrated London News 23.7.1870. #WyrdWednesday #Undine

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Hare and snowdrops © Vanessa Bowman #nature

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For in her hand the nymph a casket bears, Full of diseases, and corroding cares … And Hope alone remains entire within. HESIOD J W Waterhouse #BookWormSat

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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. Anne Brontë / Agnes Grey George Dunlop Leslie, 1864 #BookologyThursday

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Hare and snowdrops © Vanessa Bowman #nature

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🌊❤️‍🔥🌊'Tristan and Isolde with the Potion' - by John William Waterhouse. #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

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"Such music I never dreamed of.... Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us." Mole, greatly wondering, obeyed. "I hear nothing myself," he said, "but the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers." - Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows" 🎨Chris Dunn #BookologyThursday

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Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. Jacqueline du Pré 1945-1987 Lilla Cabot Perry #BookologyThursday

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There had just been a big battle between the dolls and mice. The reason I was so scared was that the mice were going to capture poor Nutcracker … E.T.A Hoffman / Nutcracker Maurice Sendak #WyrdWednesday

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The earliest version of Morgan le Fay was Queen Morgen, a benevolent fairy sorceress who ruled the enchanted island of Avalon with her sisters Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, Thiten, and Thiton. They brought the dying King Arthur to Avalon to heal his wounds. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Callistephus is commonly known as the China Aster or the Rainbow Aster. Its genus name comes from Greek “kalli” meaning beautiful, and “stephos” meaning a crown, wreath or garland. In Chinese folklore these blooms are associated with loyalty & unwavering devotion. #FolkloreSunday

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🎩 The Hatter for today's #WyrdWednesday 'A Mad Tea-Party', illustration by Milo Winter from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 1916.

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I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. The Waves / Virginia Woolf Timothy Easton #BookWormSat

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“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando #BookWormSat 🎨Bryullov

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Bear’s eyes flicker. His nose pinches the air. He does not care what I say … Oh, black bear, soften me with your immutable disdain. Mary Oliver William Herbert Dunton #BookWormSat

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According to some, the first man to ever pull a rabbit from a top hat was the celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian magician Louis Comte, also known as 'The Conjurer of the Three Kings'. The trick is now so well known that the top hat has become synonymous with stage magic. #WyrdWednesday

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Innocent men insisted, they had been “scratched, pierced, maimed, wounded, and disfigured” by failing to dodge hatpins at home and out in public. Indianapolis Star, May 1910 #WyrdWednesday

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In 1778, experiments were performed testing the concept of placing a lightning rod above a person's head, in an accessory, to protect them from lightning strikes. A woven metal ribbon was placed around a lady's hat, and a small chain made of silver was attached to the ribbon. #WyrdWednesday 🧵

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🌔✂️🌖It was said that if you wanted your hair to grow quickly you should trim it during a waxing moon - to keep it shorter, cut it when the moon was on the wane. #FairyTaleTuesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday

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To marry a local princess, the Greek mythological hero Jason broke his oath to love the witch Medea forever. In revenge, Medea murdered the princess. The goddess Hera was so disgusted with Jason's oath-breaking that he lost her favour, and Jason died destitute, alone, and miserable. #FolkyFriday

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'But always on that angel brow Rests such a shade of deep despair, As nought divine could ever know.' -Emily Brontë 🎨Abbott Handerson Thayer #BookWormSat

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At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow Your trumpets, angels John Donne / Sonnets Edward Burne-Jones #BookWormSat

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#OTD Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, musician, and educator, died in 1838. She worked in Europe, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and commissioned the first portrait of Napoleon seen in England.

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Suzanne Valadon, French (1865-1938), Study of A Cat, 1918, oil on canvas

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Spirit of the Beehive Andreas Duncan Carse 1876–1938 #LegendaryWednesday

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Study of a Seated Woman for ‘The Hours’, 1866 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1076818

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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. Dracula Bram Stoker Caspar David Friedrich #BookChatWeekly

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