#FolkloreSunday
@SundayFolklore
A hosted hashtag folklore day with a different theme every Sunday! Retweets after 10:30 am by @frome_maude.
Hi all, a reminder that #FolkloreSunday is happening now with the theme of: PASSION (BOTH WILD & QUIET) IN FOLKLORE, ART & LITERATURE. Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after See you soon, Maude xx Image: Lucy Almey-Bird
The heart-skippingly lovely brown argus🤎🦋🧡 It is named after Argus - the hundred-eyed guardian of Greek mythology - because of its 'many-eyed' underwing 🦋 This diminutive 🦋is one of my favourites!
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In Shakespeare's play Hamlet , Hamlet proclaimed "Get thee to a nunnery I say we will have no more marriages." And so the inevitable path was set for Ophelia. Soon after she is found drownd floating in the brook Suicide or accident? It's never quite made clear #FolkloreSunday
#FolkloreSunday: `By druidic art #Lugh caused a spell of oblivion and forgetfulness to descend upon the Sons of Turenn, and put into their hearts withal a yearning and passion to return to their native land of Erinn. 1/3
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#FolkloreSunday 💔🎭 In Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (1597), wild passion fuels the lovers’ defiance of Verona’s feuds, yet Juliet’s quiet yearning sings: “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” 🎭Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' ✨A star-crossed tale of…
Fuchsias symbolise deep love and, when planted by entrances, they offer protection. #FolkloreSunday
“Hi,” said the little leatherwing bat, “I’ll tell you the reason that, The reason that I fly the night: Because I lost my heart’s delight.” Sounds plausible. An American #FolkSong offering love advice from wildlife for #FolkloreSunday. #BrownBat #bats bushbanjo.net/songs_a/images…
Oh father, father, dig my grave, And dig it deep and narrow. A young man died for me today, I shall die for him tomorrow." So they both were buried in the old churchyard, But she was buried higher. And from her grave a red rose grew, And from his grave a brier. #FolkloreSunday
“Oh, Jove, Jove, this shepherd’s passion Is much upon my fashion.” #Rosalind #AsYouLikeIt #ShakespeareSunday A passionate shepherd and his indifferent love for #FolkloreSunday: “Silvius and Phoebe” by #JohnPettie, 1872. eclecticlight.co/2022/08/29/pai…
Hildegard von Bingen wrote in her 12th-century book Physica that arnica could ignite love. If one person was touched with the herb, they’d burn with passion for whoever was touched next, “the person will be so incensed with love…that he or she will become a fool.”…
#FolkloreSunday In Irish myth, Oisín falls madly in love with Niamh, an otherworldly woman from Tír na nÓg, the Land of Eternal Youth. They live together in the Otherworld for three hundred years, and have two sons and a daughter. One day Oisín decides that he wants to visit…
Beatrix Potter, author, #illustrator & natural scientist, was born in London on 28 July 1866. She changed children’s literature forever. Here are the mice from the Tailor of Gloucester, who save the tailor’s fortunes. Costumes @V_and_A inspired Beatrix’s art. #FolkloreSunday
Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost brid and her groom. ~DH Lawrence #FolkloreSunday…
PASSIONATE VAMPIRE CLARIMONDE Gautier, Paris, 1836. From La Morte Amoureuse ‘If thou wilt be mine the angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud. I am beauty. I am youth. I am life. Come to me. Our lives will flow on like a dream in one eternal…
In Scots dialects, awthorne and halthorne is hawthorn Hawthorn is "associated with unregulated love in the fields, rather than conjugal love in the bed" ~ Roy Vickery #FolkloreSunday #Scotland
Cú Chulainn fell in love with Fand! His wife Emer tried to kill her but when she sees how much Fand loves him she decides to give him up! But then Fand is so touched by that she returns to her own husband, Manannán mac Lir! It ends by a druid wipe of their memory! #FolkloreSunday
Harebells, of the bellflower family, also, Scottish bluebell, cuckoo shoe, heath, wind & #witches' bells. "The #flower that's like thy face, The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor, The leaf of eglantine," Cymbeline 4.2 #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
Bottled sunshine💛🪷💛 This wild native yellow water-lily is also known as 'brandy bottle' due to the distinctive shape of its fruit #sundayyellow
Just two more sleeps and arriving 29th July 2025 😊 available in print and ebook, online or can be ordered at your local bookstore: "Folklore of the Lake District" ghost stories, folk tales, nature lore, dialect, verse bardofcumberland.com/folklore #FolkloreSunday #LakeDistrict