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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Jul 17, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday 🐱

This week's folklore Friday explores the cat in Celtic and Welsh mythology — a creature the tradition never quite trusted to be simply domestic.

The Cath Palug of Welsh legend began as an ordinary kitten and grew into a creature of monstrous destructive power, which reflects something the broader Celtic tradition understood instinctively about cats. They were threshold guardians, Otherworld creatures that chose to sit beside human fires without ever fully relinquishing where they'd come from. They watched things invisible to everyone else. They knew things by means that didn't bear close examination.

The Celtic animal month of the Cat is running alongside the tree month of Holly right now — both of them quietly liminal, both of them more formidable than they first appear.

#FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #CelticMythology #TalesFromWales
     
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Aug 4, 2026  
Sealed with a Curse — Brodyr Alarch Book 0

The root from which seven books grew.

A kingdom in mourning. Six princes whose grief turned cruel. Selene, the Swan Herder of Melthkior, who grew up alongside the princes and now endures their mockery and who, when the gods of Wales intervene and a curse takes hold, never doubts that they deserve saving and is determined to do so.

Sealed with a Curse is the unifying thread of the Brodyr Alarch series, the framework that holds seven fairytale retellings woven through Welsh mythology into a single mythic tapestry. Welsh mythology, Brothers Grimm, divine interference, and a heroine whose courage is quiet and entirely real.

The series begins here.

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#FantasyRomance #FairytaleRetelling #BrodyrAlarch #BrothersGrimm #WelshMythology
     
Dolittle (2020)
Dolittle (2020)
2020 | Adventure
Robert Downey Jr's first post-Marvel/Iron Man foray, in which he takes on the role of celebrated vet Dr Dolittle (he who can 'talk to the animals' … although there's no singing in this version!), this is a pretty basic by-the-numbers children's film.

I've also no idea why Downey Jr is putting on a (very bad) Welsh accent throughout.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Sep 4, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday 🦢

This week's folklore focus explores the swan in Welsh tradition. The swan is a consistently liminal creature; it belongs to the water and the air, the mortal world and the Otherworld simultaneously. Welsh swans are rarely simply birds in the old stories; they are transformed beings wearing the shape of a swan, the boundary between the person and the bird growing genuinely uncertain over time.

The protective folk belief surrounding them reflects how seriously the tradition took that liminality. Harming a swan was considered deeply unlucky, as the bird was understood to be under divine protection; something that moves between worlds deserves more than ordinary treatment.

The last quarter moon arrives today alongside a turning season. Both are creatures of the between-space, asking for a different kind of attention. 🦢

#FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales
     
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Tiana Striplin (0 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Mar 21, 2018  
Duolingo
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Easy to use. Many languages to close from. (0 more)
English to Chinese has no explanations, they just start you off with learning both the symbols and words without knowing the English translations of them. Sometimes the app freezes in the middle of a lesson. (0 more)
I use the app on a daily basis to study French. Have dabbled in Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Esperanto, Welsh, and Gaelic.