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The famous Celtic shield found at Battersea. One similar to the Shield of Dagda that Cadegan has.

At the Bistro
Art by Belgian artist Fernand Toussaint (1873-1955)

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Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.
The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.
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Henry-Eugéne Delacroix, French painter, 1845-1930 - Danse antique

Portrait of Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian who first wrote down the Prose Edda and Heimskringla (sagas of Scandinavian kings).

July 23, 1777
German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born in Wolgast, in Western Pomerania.
He is considered among the best of the German Romantic painters.

The Cat Sith is a fairy creature from Celtic Mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest.
On Samhain, it was believed that a Cat Sìth would bless any house that left a saucer of milk out for it to drink, and those houses that did not let out a saucer of milk would be cursed into having all of their cows' milk dry.
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Art by John D. Batten,1894

Rabbits & Hares have long been associated with Goddesses & were the totem of several. The hare 2 Artemis & Hecate, the rabbit 2 Aphrodite. Holda was accompanied by several torch-bearing hares, Cerridwen & Freyja both had hare attendants, and, of course Ostara. Art by Wendy Andrews. #FolkloreThursday

The Cheval Gauvin is an evil horse that haunts eastern France & the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. According to legend, it is a harbinger of death that is found in forests & cemeteries and kills those who ride it by drowning or tossing them off into chasms.
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Beekeepers kept the custom of Telling the Bees any events in the family, especially of any deaths.
If the beekeeper died the surviving spouse or oldest son would knock on the hive 3 times & say “Little bees, our lord is dead, leave not while we are in distress."
Painting (1897) by Charles Napier Hemy of a widow and her son telling the bees about the death of their master. #folklorethursday

2000yrs ago Glastonbury Tor was surrounded by a vast lake named in Welsh, Ynys Wydryn, the Isle of Glass.
In Celtic folklore the Tor is hollow, a place of enchantment & gateway to the Underworld of Annwn inhabited by the fairies led by King Gwyn ap Nudd. #FolkloreThursday

Augury is divination by watching birds. The augur watches the birds and makes interpretations based on their behaviour. This is called “taking the auspices”, which is where we get the word ‘auspicious’. #folklorethursday Bernhard Rode, German 1768
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