The Oak is associated with #magic , celebration, the solar cycle and yearly #solstices . #Folklore links the #tree with thunder-gods and the sky, and with the #goddess of fire and fertility. #Beltane is the Gaelic #MayDay festival marking the start of #summer .

#Blackthorn fading into #spring & associated with the #Celtic #winter goddess, An Cailleach. She regains her youth & ages back over the #year . The #devil was said to prick the fingers of his followers with blackthorn to seal their pact. #FairyTaleTuesday

Celebrating #MayDay
The splendid calendar page from the Book of Hours of Joanna of Castile, Bruges, 1496 and 1506.
Courting, pleasure, music, boating and hunting are the themes for the month of May for the wealthy and the well-born.

It's May Day, the opening of the month which in medieval literature is the most magical time of the year - a season for love, fairies, and marvellous dreams aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-may-…

'When miri and hot is the day,
And oway beth winter schours,
And everi feld is ful of flours...'

The Oak is associated with #magic , celebration, the solar cycle and yearly #solstices . #Folklore links the #tree with thunder-gods and the sky, and with the #goddess of fire and fertility. #Beltane is the Gaelic #MayDay festival marking the start of #summer .

St Botolph's, West #Sussex . Originally called St Peter of the Old Bridge & here since #Saxon times. A #Roman road ran close by east to west. In #medieval times pilgrims travelled across the River Adur from #Canterbury to Winchester. #MedievalMonday #history

#Latin name for Bluebell is Endymion, a shepherd prince loved by the #goddess of the #moon . Selene put Endymion into an eternal sleep so she alone could enjoy his #beauty . #Bluebells mean humility, constancy & everlasting #love . #FairyTaleTuesday #folklore

Happy birthday to sculptor, artist, model and muse, Maria Zambaco, (29 April 1843, London – 14 July 1914, Paris), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti.

She studied art the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and with Auguste Rodin in Paris, and worked as a sculptor.

Girl and Daisies, 1878 - Winslow Homer

#Blackthorn fading into #spring & associated with the #Celtic #winter goddess, An Cailleach. She regains her youth & ages back over the #year . The #devil was said to prick the fingers of his followers with blackthorn to seal their pact. #FairyTaleTuesday

It is unlucky to walk through a #wood of #bluebells as it is full of #spells . Turn a bluebell inside out without tearing the petals, and you will win the #heart of the one you #love . Other names; fairy #flower , wood bell, bell bottle, jacinthe #FolkloreSunday

#April 24th #StMarksEve . In #folklore said that #ghosts of those due to die during the coming #year would be witnessed passing into the #church . From 17thC-19thC watchers kept silent between the bell tolling from 11pm until the bell struck at 1am #FolkyFriday

🌿🏔️🌿'I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.'

📖Emily Brontë
#BookWormSat

Out now! Reimagining the life of groundbreaking 17th century pirate Mary Read, Francesca de Tores' SALTBLOOD entwines themes of gender and survival into a rollicking period adventure story: bit.ly/49Sk66b Francesca Haig/Francesca de Tores

St Botolph's, West #Sussex . Originally called St Peter of the Old Bridge & here since #Saxon times. A #Roman road ran close by east to west. In #medieval times pilgrims travelled across the River Adur from #Canterbury to Winchester. #MedievalMonday #history

Good Day!
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead by John Constable 1821 – 22
Oil on Canvas
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

'These #flowers are like the pleasures of the world' #Shakespeare Cymbeline 4.2. Cuckoo Flower, Mayflower, Milkmaids. Cardamine Pratensis, meaning 'meadow' in #Latin . Revered by #fairies , Lady's Smock is bad luck if brought into a home. #FolkloreThursday

#Walpurgisnight takes place on the night of 30th April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken Mountain in Germany & hold revels with the devil. #FolkloreSunday #FairyTaleTuesday #Beltane #WalpurgisNacht Image: Joseph Tomanek

It is unlucky to walk through a #wood of #bluebells as it is full of #spells . Turn a bluebell inside out without tearing the petals, and you will win the #heart of the one you #love . Other names; fairy #flower , wood bell, bell bottle, jacinthe #FolkloreSunday

The extended & 4K UHD remastered versions of the ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ trilogy will be released in theaters for the first time.

Starting on June 8.