or I should say . . . Hey everyone, the monthly Root Children story and hand craft time is coming up this Friday! You will start to detect a theme with this and an upcoming Once Upon a Table project! Look forward to seeing all my local friends this Friday!
I adore the Little Rabbit books by the Klise sisters. I had the pleasure of meeting Kate a few years ago when the very first Little Rabbit book came out, I am secertly hoping for another Little Rabbit adventure. This book is such a clever look at how little ones hear words, literally! Also a great back to school read! Just a bit of trivia from the website http://www.takeourword.com
Interestingly, the mare in nightmare has nothing to do with a female horse. Instead, it comes from Old English maere 'goblin, incubus.' The word was nigt-mare in 1300, and it referred to an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation. By 1350, it was nytmare and in 1440 it was nyghte mare. Mare 'goblin' is a cognate with Middle Dutch mare, maer 'incubus,' Old High German mara, Middle High German mar, mare (dialectical modern German Mahr 'nightmlare'), and Old Icelandic mara 'incubus.' Mare comes from the Proto-Germanic word *maron.
Nightmare was used to describe 'a bad dream caused by an incubus' in the 16th century, and by 1829 it was used to describe 'a bad dream' in general
