According to older mid European folklore, if your lamp goes out on Christmas morning you will see spirits. And if you burn elder on Christmas Eve you will see witches #FolkloreThursday 1993 book cover by Ian McCaig

Feliz Navidad #FolkloreThursday ❄️✨🎄❄️ That was Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social being merry and bright before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your elven host for the next one hour ⭐ Today's theme is "Winter and Festive Folklore” 1900s early German postcard

A tarot spread uses cards in a pre-determined order to explore a question or theme. How the cards are laid out will give a reader their answers #FolkloreThursday A clever spread by the Polish Folk Witch on YouTube exploring her fear of the Bent Neck-Lady ghost on The Haunting of Hill House.

Hello #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Thank you to Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your last host today for the "Folklore of Games and Pastimes" event. 1 hour left 🃏🎲 To play, use the #folklorethursday hashtag in a themed post 1920 N. Rockwell

#FolkloreThursday #Reed November’s Reed Moon (Ngetal) dips into Donn’s underworld at Tech Duinn, winds whisper for the dead. Also known as Broom or Fern,original plants of the ancient Celts. @shanonsinn.bsky.social article explores the Reed. livinglibraryblog.com/ngetal-reed-...

PROGRAM UPDATES: 🎃Spooky scavenger hunt (first 20 arrivals) 🎃Chat local cryptids & ghost lore w/ folks who've lived, unearthed & reimagined coastal horror! 🎃Haunting & horrifying (short) readings! 🎃Interactive storytelling—let's invent our own bookshop cryptid/urban legend/local creepypasta!

My contributors copy of The Kindread Coast finally arrived! Very excited to be a part of this anthology of writers from Western Canada! Thanks to @shanonsinn.bsky.social and @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in this!

Received my contributor copy of The Kindread Coast from @blackcatbooks.bsky.social 🎃 It was an absolute thrill to write for this collection - thanks to the editors and look forward to reading these haunting tales by firelight tonight…

2025 Release 🧵4: Powerhouse in THE KINDREAD COAST @blackcatbooks.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛Gen-Alpha slang attempt (feel free to laugh!)🫡 🐈‍⬛Much horror, many monsters, also cryptids🐙 🐈‍⬛Nature is SO over us💀 🐈‍⬛He likes to neg, she likes to watch (her bullies get eaten)👀 books.kawiggins.com/kindread #ecopunk

That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🔥🎃🌙 Today's theme was folklore of Ghosts, Monsters, and All Things Spooky! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you the best Spooktober ever 🍁 1883 Bernard Gillam - Gambling with death

A well-known American legend claims blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil on the crossroads at midnight -- for musical genius and fame. Remembered as the godfather of rock music, Johnson died at 27 years old #FolkloreThursday Digital painting for an art class two yrs ago.

Greetings #FolkloreThursday 🎃 Huge thanks to Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social for being our host before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your crypt keeper for the next one hour. Today's theme is "Ghosts, Monsters, & All Things Spooky!" 👀 1898 Josef Mandl 🌙

Many Tarot readers interpret The Star card as connecting to the universe, creation, and divine guidance. Stars also appear on The Chariot card, on The Empress’s crown, and in The Hermit’s lantern. As pentacles, they have their own suit #FolkloreThursday 1909 Pamela Coleman Smith (colour U.S. Games)

Hello everyone and happy #FolkloreThursday ✨🌛✨ Thank you to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your folklore host for the next one hour. Today's theme is "The Folklore of the Stars and Skies" 1872 Eleanor Vere Boyle

Dates for the Diary! The next hosted #FolkloreThursday dates and themes are as follows: Thur 4th September: Folklore of the Stars, Skies and Heavens Thur 2nd October: Folklore of Ghosts, the Supernatural, and all things Spooky!

That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's theme was "Folklore of Travel, Journeys, and Holidays." This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you good luck on the path ✨ 19th Century Albert Schindler poster

When travelling, protection against the Evil Eye is needed. Cast by an envious gaze or supernatural being, the curse of misfortune is both ancient & contemporary and spans many cultures. Glass eye beads are popular protective amulets #FolkloreThursday 1911 Poster Detail and 1925 Vancouver Province

Welcome aboard #FolkloreThursday ✨🚋 🐉 Huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I'll be your host for the next one hour. Today's theme is "Folklore of Travel, Journeys, and Holidays" 1584 map detail by Abrahm Ortelius

We are having another Art Jam Night on Thursday July 3rd, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join us. Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (a few people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app). www.meetup.com/boho-victori... #Victora #DrinkandDraw

A phantom ship is the spirit of a destroyed vessel. A ghost ship, on the other hand, is an unmanned craft adrift at sea. Ships can also be haunted, “hoodooed” (have bad luck), or may even be favoured by benevolent beings #FolkloreThursday 1882 from Arctic Adventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

Ahoy there #FolkloreThursday 🌊 A huge thank you to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your sea captain for the next hour. Today's theme is "Folklore of the Sea and Oceans" 🧜‍♀️☠️🦈 1562 (sometimes 1555) Olaus Magnus

We are having another Art Jam Night tomorrow, Thursday June 5th, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria! Anyone who sees this is welcome to join. Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (seven people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app). Art Jam Night www.meetup.com/boho-victori...

Ghost Plant is also known as Ghost Pipe, Corpse Plant, Fairy Pipe and Indian Pipe. The parasitic flower is associated with wolves in Coast Salish culture. Europeans with the ghost world. A folk remedy claims it can heal a broken heart after the death of a loved one #FolkloreThursday A photo I took

Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🌻 A special thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your uninterrupted host for the next one hour! Today's witchy spring theme is the Folklore of Plants, Flowers, and Herbs. 1921 Arthur Rackham

A few of us are meeting tomorrow, May 8th, at 7 pm at the Drake in #Victoria BC for a drink and draw. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (five confirmed on Discord, etc. who don't use Meetup) Art Jam at the Drake www.meetup.com/boho-victori...

The next hosted #FolkloreThursday is 8th May - our theme will be the folklore of plants, flowers and herbs!

Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote that eggshells were used in spells by witches. In 1584, Reginald Scot added that witches could, "Saile in an egge shell, a cockle or muscle shell, through and under the tempestuous seas." #FolkloreThursday BreeAnn Veenstra, still one of my favourite images ✨

Black Cats are often associated with Witches. They might be familiars, carrying out tasks, or a witch in her animal form. Sometimes, as in Lady Wilde's accounts of Irish folklore, Black Cats were used in witchcraft. Hopefully, never true. #FolkloreThursday #Witchsky Arthur Rackham 1924

Join us on 13th March for the next hosted #FolkloreThursday! To celebrate publication day of The Story of Witches by @willowwinsham.bsky.social our theme is folklore of witches! Get your witchy folklore at the ready! Our hosts will share your posts: (GMT) 9am-2pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm

“A Dunrosses witch, becoming vexed at a boat’s crew, put a wooden cup into a bowl of water and sang to the devil. The water became agitated, the cup overturned, and the boat never came in” – 1885 Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors #FolkloreThursday 18th ce print of Thomas Watson art

There is an old German proverb that says a person who makes a cat his enemy will be attended at his funeral by rats and rain #FolkloreThursday 1903 image Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Proverb from 1885 Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors by Fletcher S. Bassett

Hello #FolkloreThursday 🌬️🐉 A huge thanks to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting our last shift! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be with you for the next one hour. Our theme today is Weather Folklore – from storm giants to honeybees to red, red skies. 1921 Charles Edmund Brock

"Among the hurtfull witches he saith there is one sort more beastlie ... for these usuallie devoure and eate yong children and infants of their owne kind. [They] raise haile, tempests, and hurtfull weather; as lightening and thunder" - Discoverie of Witches #folklorethursday 16th ce Olaus Magnus

Was lovely to see @blackcatbooks.bsky.social in Coombs today!

Yes, please try to remember to credit artists if you use an image when posting to the #FolkloreThursday tag - If you run out of space or forget in the moment (which has happened to me today!) add it as a comment to your original post 💛

Many view Halloween as the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year 🌙 One 1900 reported practice of British fishermen was for them to catch fish after dark on Hallowe'en. Anyone who ate some after midnight could expect a year of good luck #folklorethursday 18th ce Claude Joseph Vernet

Black Cat and That Witch Whispers! Looking good at Russell Books in Victoria, BC. I was happy to hear both were bestsellers over the holidays 🐈‍⬛ #booksky #vancuverisland

2025 is off to a great start ✨ Our third anthology is manifesting into something extraordinary! Caroline and Monique have already approved eight story pitches about supernatural beings by some of Western Canada's most exciting genre authors. More to come. Image: Alchemy 1977

The first book I read this year was 'Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions' by Ed Zwick - director of The Last Samurai, Glory, and many other movies. Zwick is a great writer. Some anecdotes are clearly meant for older readers though. There are notes on directing and writing in between each chapter.

Hope you are having a happy and safe holidays 🎄☃️ Grateful to be celebrating in BC. Hot Chocolate Porter out of the Krampus glass (Strange Fellows)! Alongside cobbler I made with berries I picked and froze, mixed with local farmed. The tiny blackberries are native ground ones, the large invasive.

That time Santa and his reindeer met E.T. 🎄 A 1982 Victoria Times Colonist cartoon Illustration by Raeside shows an interesting blend of #Christmas folklore and popular culture.

I try to make this happen whenever I'm home for Christmas 🎄

Made magic cookie bars for a get together last night! A classic #Christmas treat from my mom’s old cookbook. Mom only used caramel chips but I rarely found them. So I started using Skor Chipits instead. People seem to like them a lot.

Happy #WinterSolstice everyone ❄️🌞🎄🔥❄️ This early 1900s Liebig card translates as: The Winter Solstice Festival among the ancient Germans. I'm seeing parallels to Christmas in North Saskatchewan 🤔

Originally from the Alps region, Krampus is a horned and chained companion of Saint Nicholas. As good children receive presents, Krampus whips the bad ones. Now known around the world, Krampus is often depicted as covered in black hair with a long tongue. 2015 Krampus movie art #FolkloreThursday

Hello #FolkloreThursday ☃️ This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social! I'm excited to be your host for the next hour. A huge thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break 🤶 Today's theme is Festive Winter Folklore 🎄🦌 1915 Arthur Rackham

According to an old Scottish superstition, babies born on Christmas Day have the power to see and command spirits. Another widespread European belief claimed that if your lamp went out on Christmas morning you would see the gathering ghosts of deceased family members. #FolkloreThursday #ghosts

Seattle from the airplane. That’s the Space Needle below the shoreline 🤩 Our last flight to Victoria took less than an hour after eight+ hours of flying and two layovers. I’m happy to be home for the holidays 🎄

The central plaza in Guatemala City is getting more and more into the Christmas spirit every day 🎄

This is thought provoking and really well done.