The Folklore of Warwickshire
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Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @HilaryRSparkes
Warwickshire
Joined August 2023
For years I’ve felt that the folklore of Warwickshire has been rather overlooked compared to that of regions. This account aims to go some way to rectifying this.
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📷 by me. No actual saint's blood involved in the taking of this photo.
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An elm tree on the roadside between Bidford-on-Avon and Wixford was known as the St George’s Elm as he was believed to be buried under it. The elm had grown from a stake driven through the saint’s body. If the bark was cut, his blood would seep from the fissu
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📷 by me. Mice kindly loaned by Millie, The Folklore of Warwickshire cat.
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In Warwickshire death lore, a mouse running over a bed was s an omen that someone would soon die. #FolkloreSunday
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RT @ChristineV8: In the Middle Ages, a pet monkey was seen as a symbol of wealth. Monkeys became all the rage among rich people, and were o….
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RT @HistoriumU: The Brothers Grimm didn’t sanitize tales for children. They made them darker. They believed folklore had a moral core but t….
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RT @OisinTheDeer: Here's one for #fossilfriday: a #Jurassic fossil starfish from our 'founding collection', established back in Victorian t….
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Not sure the photo/text format works but would have been such a long thread and not convinced people read long threads. Source: Meg Elizabeth Atkins, Haunted Warwickshire (London: Robert Hale, 1981). paraphrased by me.
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You know that thing when you go on a work trip and accidently raise the dead?.That’s what happened to St Augustine when he visited Warwickshire👇
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RT @CarolineIrwin3: #AdoorableThursday Ogee headed priest's door in the chancel of St Wilfrid's, Old Arley, Warwickshire. .
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RT @ThereseTaylor12: Millet said: ". I remembered that my grandmother, hearing the church bell ringing while we were working in the field….
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RT @NiftyBuckles: 🌽For #LegendaryWednesday, celebrate the Corn Dolly, a symbol of the harvest’s spirit in European folklore! .Crafted from….
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This Warwickshire harvest-home rhyme goes against sentimental images of a bucolic idyll👇.Hip! Hip! Hip! For the harvest home. Now we’ve taken the last load home. I ripped my shirt and I seared my skin.To get my master’s harvest in. #LegendaryWednesday
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People, it’s time to cut down your thistles*.Seasonal lore from the Museum of Country Bygones at Marton👇.*Caveat: except they are a good food source for insects so maybe leave a few
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RT @2112Westy: #folkloresunday . Finding only one pea in a pod is said to mean good things are coming your way, finding nine peas is also l….
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RT @ChristineV8: It was once believed that plums would grow better if they had a "charmer" who played music to them. The first plum charme….
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Post on my blog about the dark side of Warwickshire’s flora..#FolkloreSunday.
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This month’s post is another of my occasional transatlantic ‘diversions’. The plant, or rather, plants I’m featuring take the devilish theme to the other side of the Atlantic, to the county …
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RT @TitaniasRealm: The white wildflower Queen Anne's Lace, also known as wild carrot (Daucus carota), is named after Queen Anne of Denmark….
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RT @WarwickshireCRO: It's #WorldRumDay and we've found this bill for a gallon of rum!. The bill, dated 1852, is from John Court, wine and s….
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