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Wise Women & Cunning Folk
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air" -  The Three Witches, from Shakespeare's Macbeth *** Cunning folk, also known as folk healers or wise folk, or, in Swedish, "kloka gummor" ("wise old women") were practitioners of folk medicine, folk...
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A Visit to Fairyland
- A Story from Wales - ONE BRIGHT moonlit night, a young man was on his way to visit his sweetheart. As he passed by a lake, he saw a group of fairies dancing and reveling in a field. Drawn...
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About the name Aurora
Image by Louise Nevander 2024. "What's in a name?" Aurora is the princess who pricks her finger and sleeps for a hundred years. The number of versions of this fairytale is as many as the number of narrators. The Disney...
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