THE OLD WAYS
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I explore hidden history & other alternative information, European/ Slavic pagan music & folk art, ethnic folk traditions & rites of indigenous European/ Slavic people, animism, and more...
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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
Gaelic singer Gillebride MacMillan played a bard that performed his songs in castle Leoch in TV series “Outlander”
Forwarded from Oakwood Forest
Illustrations from an old Croatian fairytale book http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/60095
I can’t say for sure if COVID is a natural occurring virus, or a lab-crafted one, but my inner-knowing, and my reason/logic tells me that this is not some dangerous pandemic like what the media would have us believe. The way I see it, is that there are two separate realities, the media reality, and the one that’s in the real world. The reality that the media is creating, is panic, fear, global pandemic crisis that’s similar to old world plagues. However, if you don’t listen to what the media says, and look around in your real life, you don’t see a pandemic situation. And each time they announce the COVID death counts on the news, I view it with great suspicion & skepticism. I’m sure some folks do get sick with the virus, but only few actually die from it. There’s no way to prove if media information about increasing COVID deaths is true
Soul of the Water Dragon. Gustav Graef (German, 1821-1895).
Fishing, the Nymph of the Stream, circa 1910. Edward John Poynter (English, 1836-1919).
A Winter Tale, 1917. Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939).
“Circe Invidiosa” by John William Waterhouse
Oracle of Delphi - Pythia in Greek Mythology ~ John Collier
The Magic Circle by John Willoiam Waterhouse (1886)