Looking out to sea. #Art : Brian Paterson for Foxwood Tales. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Thrift is the county flower of the Isles of Scilly, & the Isle of Bute, off Scotland. Also known as Sea-Pink, Our Lady’s Cushion & Cliff Rose, in Gaelic it means ‘Beach Wave.’ Thrift was the emblem on the British threepenny coin from 1937 to 1952. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Thank you all for your wonderful posts on lore from childhood! Next week’s theme is:

WILDFLOWERS & WILDLIFE

Bring your tweets to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST! See you then, Maude xx
#Photo : Frances Crickmore

Looking out to sea. #Art : Brian Paterson for Foxwood Tales. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

The Mermaid, by Howard Pyle, 1910. Is she rescuing him or about to pull him under? This enigmatic painting was left on the artist’s easel in his studio when he set off from America for Italy. He died in Florence a year later, so never returned to complete it. #FairytaleTuesday

The Stygian owl is so-called after the River Styx in the Greek Underworld. Stygian also means extremely dark, gloomy & forbidding. Almost wholly nocturnal, it is known as the devil’s owl in Brazil, as its eyes glow red when reflected with light. #MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday

When you are stuck in the middle of a fairy ring & need rescuing in time for #FairytaleTuesday !
#NewMoon is coming
#Art : Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s

Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper. #BeatrixPotter #illustration , 1902 #FolkloreSunday

Wind in the Willows, #illustration by Chris Dunn #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly Chris Dunn

#May by Eugene Grasset, for La Belle Jardiniere, #artnouveau calendar, 1896. #May 1st #1stMay #May Day #Beltane #spring #May Day2024 #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday