#FolkloreSunday.Badgers find sanctuary in woodlands. In folklore they symbolise healing and protection. Other tales warn that they foreshadow death. “Should one hear a badger call,.And then an ullot (owl) cry.Make thy peace with God, good soul,.For thou shall shortly die.”

RT @ColinBrazierTV: Tonight, not necessarily far from where you live, a farmer will be bringing home harvest 2025. Often their labours are….

Beatrix Potter born #OTD in 1866, English writer and illustrator of children’s stories. She also made huge contributions to science but was barred from presenting her work at the Linnaean Society due to her gender. Today, mycologists use her work to identify mushroom species.

#MythologyMonday.In Greek mythology some sources.say Talos was an automaton fashioned into the likeness of a giant man made of bronze and built by Hephaestus, the divine metalworker and son of Zeus and Hera. He was given to the king of Crete to guard the island from invaders.

RT @ReismanGuy: These carved figurines are merely representations of tupilaqs, killing-objects from Greenland Inuit folklore. A tupilaq is….

RT @ThereseTaylor12: 'the child Jesus made clay, he moulded twelve sparrows from it. {he} clapped his hands and shouted to the sparrows,….

RT @VenetiaJane: In Greek myth, Phyllis dies of grief when Demophon fails to return & she is transformed into an almond tree. At his belate….

RT @HistoriumU: Walt Disney wasn't the first to bring a character to life through animation, but he was the first to give it synchronized s….

RT @bthomasa: Scientist, philosopher, and Catholic saint Albertus Magnus supposedly built a brass man that could answer any question. Howev….

RT @ClassicMovieDig: Tippi Hedren, 95, of "The Birds" fame and her former son-in-law, Don Johnson, 74, star of "Miami Vice." .

#ShakespeareSunday.For now I am in a holiday humour. As You Like It, Act IV Scene 1.

🎨Gustaaf Wappers, The Shulammite.

RT @ParnanenSari: #FolkloreSunday. It was certainly not a beautiful face, by any period's standard or taste. But it was an unforgettable fa….

RT @HistoriumU: Frida Kahlo painted her anguish, her lovers, her miscarriages, and her politics onto canvas. Her relationship with Diego Ri….

RT @frome_maude: Beatrix Potter, author, #illustrator & natural scientist, was born in London on 28 July 1866. She changed children’s liter….

RT @SundayFolklore: Hi all, a reminder that this Sunday’s theme is:. PASSION (BOTH WILD & QUIET) IN FOLKLORE, ART & LITERATURE. Bring you….

RT @frome_maude: Some flower fairies that don’t get out & about very often. Meet sorrel, robin’s pincushion, convolvulus & wild thyme. Im….

RT @ColinBrazierTV: It can take generations to set up farms that survive the vicissitudes of weather and war. It takes a single government,….