This is beautiful, and speaks to memories of traditions older than the Christianity of the churchyard
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RT @P_J_Richards
🌿🖤🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them..."

📖Deeper Older Darker.
#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
https://twitter.com/P_J_Richards/status/1650764034143145984

The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde is a fairy tale about a (magically beautiful) princess. When the King wishes her to marry, Fiorimonde - with the help of a friendly witch - transforms them into beads on a necklace.

#fairytaletuesday #fairytaleflash

https://youtu.be/0YyChVXipNw

"The Elves" (German: Die Wichtelmänner) is a well known story from Grimm's Fairy Tales about a down-on-his-luck shoemaker & his wife who receive much-needed help from tiny, skilled men (aka Brownies).

https://youtu.be/q539Omghmj4

#BrothersGrimm #folklore #audiobook #fairytaleflash

"The Elves" (German: Die Wichtelmänner) is a well known story from Grimm's Fairy Tales about a down-on-his-luck shoemaker & his wife who receive much-needed help from tiny, skilled men (aka Brownies).

https://youtu.be/q539Omghmj4

#BrothersGrimm #folklore #audiobook #fairytaleflash