Oh man, let’s start with the Tweet. I admit, on first read of this, I got very excited, I knew EXACTLY what I was gonna do. Which sounds great, but it’s inevitably crushingly disappointing as your abilities fail to meet
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Tag: folklorethursday
Folklore Thursday: Labyrinth
Ok, I admit, this one got shorter shrift than some of the others. Totally on me, John gave me plenty of time (and a great bit of inspiration) The labyrinth is an ancient symbol. Painted and carved across the world
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Folklore Thursday: Lindwurm
Klagenfurt, Austria is home to a nine tonne statue of a Lindwurm, erected in 1590. Folklore tells of the beast plaguing the surrounding swamp, until it was eventually slain by a band of brave knights. Its skull was found in
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Folklore Thursday: Woodwose
No time for blogging this week, just enjoy the strip…! Oh and enjoy this email exchange between me and John… John, can you send me a selfie?I have … reasons… ME Hang on… Are you making me the Woodwose? JOHN
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Folklore Thursday: Mushroom
Blame me for the titles. John writes a tweet, I supply a title, it was ever thus (in er.. the five weeks we’ve been doing this). Fairy Rings are circles of mushrooms often seen in fields and woodlands across Europe.
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Folklore Thursday: Mandrake
You know the drill by now… John’s original tweet: The roots of the Mandragora genus of plants are known as Mandrakes. Once prized as magical ingredients they are hallucinogenic, and highly toxic. It was once believed that when uprooted, the
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Folklore Thursday: Hawthorne
This week’s folklore topic is Trees and Forests. As ever, the strip was prompted John Reppion’s tweet length story: In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to
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Folklore Thursday: Blackberries
“John! JOHN! We’ve gotta do another one! Quick! Think of something…” I’m kind of curious about John (Reppion)’s creative process, I should ask him to do the next blog post – does he have any idea in his head what
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Folklore Thursday: Island
After John Reppion and I did a fun little one pager using a tweet from John as my script for a one page comic we rattled around thinking what we could do next, and we’ve glommed on to #FolkloreThursday on
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