#FolkloreSunday
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A hosted hashtag folklore day with a different theme every Sunday! Retweets after 10:30 am by @frome_maude.
Joined March 2022
Thank you all for your wonderful posts today. Everyone seems to have really enjoyed the theme! As the light returns & spring slowly arrives, next week’s theme is: POSITIVITY & LIGHT Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am GMT Maude xx
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RT @SundayFolklore: Thank you all for your wonderful posts today. Everyone seems to have really enjoyed the theme! As the light returns &…
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@DrSamGeorge1 Thank you for your repost Sam! Brilliant exploration of dark flower & plant lore! xx
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RT @NiftyBuckles: 🌸 #FolkloreSunday In 'Watership Down,' the primrose not only marks the cycle of life but is also the birth flower for Feb…
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RT @HistoriumU: The dandelion, often considered a weed today, was thought to carry messages to the dead. Blowing its seeds into the wind wa…
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RT @VenetiaJane: Quick-Fingers, the fairies’ dressmaker, once hid beneath a holly bush to escape a goblin. A donkey started nibbling the lo…
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RT @Titania2468: In Norwegian, water lilies are called 'nøkkeroser' ('nix roses'), and they are named after Nøkken, a water creature in Nor…
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RT @Kerria: In the Victorian era, dahlias were used to convey secret messages. These brilliant flowers could symbolize a warning, a premoni…
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RT @P_J_Richards: 🪶🌼🪶Celandine was also known as 'Swallow-wort' due to an old belief that swallows would feed the herb to their chicks as a…
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RT @DrSamGeorge1: WILD FLOWER FOLKLORE - Thread WILD ROSES are associated with vampires because their thorns are often placed around the gr…
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RT @frome_maude: From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precurs…
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RT @Marzena15650089: Paeon, the Greek physician to the gods was an incredibly talented doctor, so his teacher-Asclepius,the god of medicine…
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RT @StephenGeoRae: Deadly nightshade, also known as witch-flower, snake-berry, fool's cap, mad dog berry. It's one of our most poisonous pl…
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RT @hoppedizel: #FolkloreSunday At the time of Leopold IV the Glorious (1198-1230), it was customary at the Viennese court to search for th…
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RT @reviewwales: Today is the feast day of St Teilo in Wales. After his death, his body was said to have miraculously transformed into thre…
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RT @_thequietplace: Hyacinths should be growing back! They can symbolise regret and jealousy and are named after the lover of Apollo who wa…
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RT @BardCumberland: In Cumbrian dialects, 'fellin-girse' is green hellebore full of mystery and magic, this is a plant of gothic delight,…
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RT @SamanthaSLK1: #FolkloreSunday Think twice when picking bluebells because there's the risk you might be followed by a goblin for the re…
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RT @HistoriumU: Foxglove, also known as "witch’s gloves," was believed to be enchanted by fairies. In Irish legend, it was said fairies tau…
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RT @ElsaMc1878: #FolkloreSunday In the Mabinogion Blodeuwedd/Flower Face was created by the magicians, Math & Gwydion from the petals of oa…
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