Book Review: Tales from the Brambles
07-09-2021
Simona D'ors
Witches are forever humming, singing and rhyming. They are a cheery bunch. But it has got us into trouble, that little habit of ours. The Muggles think of witches as always cooking up a diabolical rhyme, hubble bubble and trouble, to speed up gubbly cauldron nasties, or cackling as they speed off on their brooms.
Our reputation for mad rhyming and laughter notwithstanding, we do love the occasional rhyme and song. And why not, squinting through the gloom as one picks herbs in the twilight or waiting long hours for a potion mixture to cook just right, can be such a tedious affair! Everyone needs a cheering charm on them now and again!
This collection of rhymes about bramble picking, and the songs that village folk used to sing as they meandered in a line through woods looking out for nut trees and juicy forest berries, when those hunter-gathering activities were a part of fun everyday life, will transport you into a realm of delight!
It also has one of my favourite wizarding rhymes in it! A challenge to every shy boy wizard, which we girls oft would join in! Not surprisingly, I highly recommend this collection, and it is reasonably priced too, at just over a Galleon!
Tales from the Brambles, by Emory Stiles, 1 Galleon, 3 Sickles is available at Flourish and Blotts
Roundabout the hickory tree
๐๐ฐ, ๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ
๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ
๐๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ' ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต
๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต, ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ' ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ!
๐๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ
๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ
๐๐ฐ, ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ, ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ
๐๐ฆ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต!