A lovely old superstition from British children said that every leaf caught fluttering down between Michaelmas and Hallowe'en, would result in a happy day in the coming year...
🎨Millais #SuperstitionSat
I've been researching Margaret McCarthy aka 'Carroty Meg' today. I like her a lot. Here she is in Cardiff in 1853 'newly rigged in a new bonnet trimmed with pink lining, purple ribbons and tied with pink streamers' and in 1854 'with a wreath of flowers around her head.'
Long before Perrault's moral tale, Little Red was a folk heroine who defeated the wolf with her own ingenuity and bravery, needing help from no-one, not even a woodcutter...
🖼Fleury-Richard
#FairyTaleTuesday#folklore @EnchantedEzine
Pretty awesome way to support an industry on it’s knees, a country in the grip of a medical emergency, and a planet that’s already victim to flytipping on a scale that is killing millions of animals and destroying habitat.
https://t.co/LTfJlad0yP
Thank you Danielle! I talk all about gothic novels, my upcoming book, and what I do in my spare time:
Author Interview: Delphine Woods https://t.co/qmpMXBMoZI via @DanielleApple6
London pubs doing takeaway pints is not a new thing, rather an new old thing. Beer was often ordered and delivered to nearby addresses. My great grandmother appears in the Old Bailey Sessions papers for using fraudlent coin given to one of her children sent to fetch her beer.
Many people have asked me why I didn’t include Martha Tabram in my exploration of the lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Martha is not considered one of the Canonical Five victims. However, I thought I’d briefly tell her story today, so buckle up... #thefivewomen