Visit the Mermaids Pool at Kinder Scout in Derbyshire at midnight on Easter and she may grant you immortality, or she may drag you into the depths to your death. I guess it depends on her mood and whether she likes you.
#FolkloreThursday
Did I mention that I have another folklore book out this year?
Coming soon: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
200+ characters from world folklore, with illustrations throughout; including a Rogues Gallery
https://t.co/ZUei2f8rJS
#folklore#bookologythursday
"A tuft of hair gotten from the head of a full-grown Brock
is powerful enough to ward off all manner of witchcraft"
#folklorethursday#witchlore#badgers 🎨 by me
At dusk they went, a-wassailing, carrying lanterns and spiced apple cake and dark polished bowls of lamb's-wool; a happy procession along the frozen lane to the orchards, which lay beyond Old Fox's cottage.
Old Twelfth Night, a very old day, a day still held in the old places of England, a day for waking the bare rounsepiked trees from their winter slumber. Old Fox knew the Dorset dryades well, they were elegant and kindly spirits and very fond of him. And as they sang the songs of new buds and hope a-kindle, the songs of Pan and the songs of Arcadie, the trees began to silver in the winter darkness until they gleamed as bright as the crescent moon above.
Me holding a Roman tile fragment with dog’s paw print! 🐾 😍
I love seeing Roman tiles with animal imprints in museums. Fleeting moments in time captured in clay some 2,000 years ago.
Imagine my excitement when this came through PCA Finds recently!
#TilesonTuesday#Archaeology
For #FindsFriday, beautiful Bronze Age blue glass beads. Evidence of long-distance trade in luxury goods around 3,000 years ago.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark, in 1885, analysis of the beads shows they were made in Mesopotamia.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Queen #Bees - HELP THEM OUT!
Another important thread concerning #bumblebee queens at this time of year!
Please #retweet/#share as every queen bee that survives gets to establish a nest that otherwise would not happen. This has knock on effects going forward. Let me explain.
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There have ben times when I've posted a photo of myself & I get the response, "I can't believe a grown man is behind this account." Not sure why. Wonder & whimsy, beauty & gentleness are traits I think everyone should have.
OK, one more time for those who are hard of understanding at that back...its not about saying women can't be monsters its about admitting the biological reality that men are physically stronger than women and therefore all women aren't safe when men are allowed in women's spaces.