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New Forest Fairy Festival 2018

Well, it wasn't the weather we would have liked but it didn't dampen anybody's enthusiasm at the Fairy Festival!

Here are a few quick snaps of our Gazebo:

The Shelf Faeries seem to have taken over this year, but I do sell cards of my artwork and my books such as The Faeries and Folklore of the British Isles, Faerie Flora and The Psychic Sisters series.

Sharing the Gazebo this year was 'The Ivory Dolls of Glastonbury' with an array of beautiful clothes and accessories.

Snowdrop

 One of the first flowers of spring, and

  commonly known as the flower of hope. 

   Although its beauty symbolises purity,

 it is widely regarded as a omen of death and as such

is considered to be unlucky to take into 

the house of anybody who is sick, except

in Shropshire where bunches of the flowers are 

taken into the house to purify it.

After Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, Eve stood

 weeping and surveying the  snowy wilderness to which they had been sent 

when an angel appeared. 

The glowing figure caught a falling snowflake, breathed on it and then

 handed it to Eve:

‘This is an earnest wish, Eve to thee

That sun and summer soon shall be’

The angel vanished and where she had stood the snow had turned 

into a carpet of snowdrops.

From 'Faerie Flora'