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Black Cat Gum was a black licorice tasting gum in the 1960's
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#friday13th
Happy Friday the 13th!
It's filled with Superstition lucky or not.
Discover the origins of this superstitious day read my blog.
Don't forget to Tip the Leprechaun 😜
https://www.publish0x.com/nifty-buckles/friday-the-13th-superstition-xlzqyzk
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Lughnasadh Celtic Festival of The Three-Faced Harvest God and Grain Goddess Tailtiu.
Have a blessed Lughnasadh or Lammas!
Read more on my blog
https://niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/lughnasadh-festival-of-the-three-faced-harvest-god/
An old Celtic grain festival on August 1st and 7th.
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#monstermonday
#mondaymotivation
A little humor to start your week. 🤪
Discover the Spring Equinox.
March ushers in a joyful Ostara Spring celebration.
https://folklorefun.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/ostara-spring-celebration/
#IrishDay
Ancient Irish #Mythology: The Dagda High Priest, The father of Celtic goddess Brigid.
https://niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/irish-mythology-the-dagda-high-priest/
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#IrishDay #StPaddysDay #shamrock #luck
Happy Irish Day!
Discover the lucky origins of the four leaf shamrock and more..
https://niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/st-patricks-day-the-four-leaf-clover/
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Rumpelstiltskin is a German folktale by the Brothers Grimm 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales.
Read it on my blog
https://niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/rumpelstiltskin/
Art by Arthur Rackham
Hänsel and Grethel is a German folklore tale, traditionally handed down orally and first written and published by The Brothers Grimm in 1812. In many of the tales, the mean, selfish mother was changed to step-mother because of the ugly truth that some parents are just nasty to their children,
Read more...
https://folklorefun.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/hansel-and-grethel-by-the-brothers-grimm/
Art by Arthur Rackham
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Pegasus, in Greek myth was a winged horse that sprang from the blood of Gorgon Medusa as she was decapitated by the hero Perseus. With Athena's aid the hero, Bellerophon, caught Pegasus and rode him first in his battle with the Chimera.
Revontulet is the Finnish word for “Foxfire.”
According to Finnish lore, a mystical fox was thought to have created the Northern Lights, with its’ bushy tail kicking up snow and tossing up sparks into the dark, night sky.
Art: in Public Domain
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#archeaology #Wydah #pirates
#shipwreck
Six Skeletons Found in Wreck of 18th-Century Pirate Ship Sunk Off Cape Cod
Model of Whydah pirate ship (jjsala via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0)
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#WelshMythology
Avalon in #arthurian legend is a nether-world island of Celtic mythology. Where Arthur's sword was forged. Where Arthur is taken after his final battle. Home of Morgan LeFey who performed ancient magic there.
Art by Manzanedo/ Deviant Art
Snowdrop flower is the symbol of Brighid and of hope.
It was the eve of Brighid's Day when he at last agreed to go down to the earth once again. As he plummeted towards the garden - the promised place - he felt ice crystals in the air, saw the stars far above glitter with frozen
light.
Art by Ida R. Outwaithe
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Topic: Floods
Welsh Myths, Dwyfan and Dwyfach two people who escape a huge FLOOD caused by the lake monster Afanc,who dwelled in Llyn Llion. Afanc was a shape-shifting demon who resembled a beaver, or at times a crocodile or a dwarf.
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