Journey around the planet as spring awakens the natural world, bringing with it a blossoming of new life and new challenges. Wild Spring Watch free on knowledge.ca #knowledgenetwork #springvibes #animals #blossoming #wildlife #nature #babyanimals #wildspring

In my native Ayrshire and adopted Cumbrian dialects, 'tod' is fox. In lore, fox carries a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it more: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk art: Spry Fox by Maryana Kniazevych #FairytaleTuesday

Legend tells that the cunning fox, wishing to move more quietly, turned to the mischievous fairy folk for help. They fashioned a flower of soft, bell-shaped blooms to slip over his paws, muffling each step. From this, it is said, foxgloves took their name. #FairytaleTuesday

May 3rd - A Journey with Goddess. Maia - one of the Pleiades and Greek goddess of growth. Maia is associated with springtime, fertility, the fruitful flourishing of life. She lives in the mountains, far from people. The older I get, the more this seems like a great life choice 😉 #WitchSky

Country Farm Arthur Lismer 1916

A little patch of blue in the garden is a welcome site! 💙 Scottish folklore states that b/c they're a favourite flower of the fairies it's bad luck to pick bluebells & take them indoors. #fairy #folklore #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardensky

off I fly 🦉🔥🧹

A witch ghost for #PhantomsFriday what with it just having been #WalpurgisNacht The ghost of Betty, a reputed witch, was reported to sit on the churchyard wall of St Gregory’s, Tredington, smoking a pipe. In life, she would sit on top of a willow tree in Honington slowly putting on her stockings

Excellent essay by Allan Johnson exploring mail-order occultism in the early 20th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...

Dandelion clocks looking like an army of spirit orbs.

Reporters Without Borders release the 2026 World Press Freedom Index The U.S. didn’t make the top 50 & dropped under +ru^^p 1. Norway 2. Netherlands 3. Estonia 4. Denmark 5. Sweden 6. Finland 7. Ireland 8. Switzerland 9. Luxembourg 10. Portugal 14. Germany 18. UK & 20. Canada rsf.org/en/index

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

“This fascinating and formidably well-researched book has completely changed my view of fairies.” Thank you to Ian Bradley for this terrific review of ‘Fairies: A History’ in @churchtimes.bsky.social: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Late Spring reading sorted: The Green Issue of @helleborezine.bsky.social

Philippe Vachier's tarot from 1639, republished by Yves Renaud of Tarot de Marseille Heritage. Oldest surviving complete tarot from Marseille. Notable for its use of purple colour, instead of the dark blue popular later, which we are more familiar with today #TarotTuesday #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

"The Book of Divination", a Lubok print from the collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895). See more highlights from the collection here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th%E2%80%9319th-century/

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

#SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday #Neolithic owl-faced idol 4300-4000 BC from chamber tomb excavated 1968 in Arnesano near Lecce, Puglia. 🏺 It has similarities w examples found in Cyprus + in Crete. Buried w ceramics associated w cult of Diana. in MArTA - Taranto arch museum #ancientbluesky

Sing a song of May-time. Sing a song of Spring. Flowers are in their beauty. Birds are on the wing. 🎨 Queen Guinevere's Maying, John Collier, ca 1900 #Spring #MayDay #flowers #poem

Frederick Church, 'The Witch's Daughter' (1881) #OwlishMonday #owl #witch #witchcraft #illustration #oldillustrations #artsky

Saw first orange-tipped butterfly of the year yesterday. It was enjoying the beautiful dandelions in my wilded garden (along with peacock butterflies, bumblebees, hoverflies, and assorted small shiny beetles) #butterflies #wilding

Major news! A long-lost episode of one of my all-time favourite series West Country Tales from 1982 has just re-emerged onto Youtube!! The channel has also posted the rest of the 1st season, with promises of the 2nd to follow, and they're all in great quality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLC...

The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #StandingStoneSunday 📷 June, 2023

More Japanese weeping cherry tree pics #photography #nature #bloomscrolling #cherryblossom

I'm grateful to Alex Hughes (of the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' project) for this thoughtful review of 'Fairies: A History' www.opengravesopenminds.com/reviews/revi...

Marcus Aurelius, born on this day in the year 121 into a war-torn world without democracy, sanitation, and science, on how to live through difficult times www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/19/m...

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

insidehalton.com · Mike Pearson The Orangeville Butter Tart Festival returns on April 25 with an array of butter tarts and other sweet desserts. Ontario butter tart connoisseurs in … #buttertart #festival #dessert #food #ontario #orangeville

#BlueskyClassics 🏺 Published today: papyrus excerpt of Iliad's Catalogue of Ships discovered in the abdomen of a mummy. www.beauxarts.com/grand-format...

Why Abbey Gardens should be on your road-trip list this year, a 300 acre former gravel pit now transformed into a community hub. 🐾 #MyHaliburtonHighlands #Ontario #nature #tourism #comewander torontolife.com/culture/why-...

"There was an old woman who rode on a broom, With a heigh, gee-ho, gee-humble; And she took her old cat behind for a groom, With a bumble, bumble, bumble." Illustration from Gems from Mother Goose, 1899 (page 22), public domain. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/inter... #WitchSky #art #illustration

Earth's Dream by Erté

SG̱ang Gwaay, a Pacific island off the coast of Canada, hosted thriving matrilineal communities of the Haida people and their ancestors for 10,000 years. The art and architecture there still inspires! archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2026/off-the-grid/sgang-gwaay-british-columbia-canada/

It’s Grackle season. ✨

Seeing crocuses blooming is a lovely sight after such a long winter, & just in time for #EarthDay, too. 🌱🐾 #MotherNature #Ontario #bloomscrolling #flowers #plantsky

Kittens & daffodils 🎨 by Daniel Merlin, ca 1925 (Zwei Kätzchen vor einer Vase mit Narzissen) #flowers #cats #earthday 💐

🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Happy birthday Rome! According to Roman tradition, Romulus founded the city #OnThisDay in 753 BC. Here's a mosaic of Romulus's early years being raised by a wolf (who had a great smile) #BeforeTheyWereFamous 📷 @followinghadrian.bsky.social / CC BY-SA 2.0 🏺 #Archaeology

Damn right. youtu.be/nXbHOUeFe8s?...

Birding Your Way to Well-Being | Psychology Today 🐦 #birdwatching #birdsky #mindfulness www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

An elm tree on the roadside between Bidford-on-Avon and Wixford was known as the St George’s Elm as he was believed to be buried under it. The elm had grown from a stake driven through the saint’s body. If the bark was cut, his blood would seep from the fissure. #FolkloreSunday

St George is sometimes associated with the colour green, vegetation and fertility. This links to the dragon, as these beasts were blamed for making land barren by obstructing or poisoning water sources. #MythologyMonday #folklore #mythology #history

Folklore tells that the bluebell’s scent induces a deep, dreamless sleep. Its former botanical name, Endymion non-scriptus, recalls the tale of Endymion, the youth beloved of the moon goddess Selene, whom she lulled into an eternal slumber to preserve his youth. #FolkloreSunday

I remember this as a child 😁 #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

And there are over 40 species of crow worldwide. Most people only know one or two. The Hooded Crow looks like it's wearing a grey vest. The Torresian Crow has striking white eyes! Do you know which species lives near you? www.wildlifenomads.com/blog/types-o...

Parrots demonstrate the ability to use specific names to identify individuals, suggesting complex vocal and cognitive skills similar to aspects of human naming behavior. doi.org/hbxj7n

This month’s post on my blog looks at the connections between duppies and sweet-smelling scents. #folklore #Caribbean #anthropologists natureandsupernaturalnature.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/d...

Bat, bat, Come under my hat, And I'll give you a slice of bacon; And when I bake, I'll give you some cake, If I am not mistaken 🦇 #WyrdWednesday #nurseryrhymes #poetry

"Wind Sprite" 🎨 Bertha Lum (1920)

Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky may be based on the County Durham legend of the Sockburn Worm - a poisonous dragon who lived on a peninsula in the River Tees who was beheaded by a local noble. Carroll's father was the rector of the nearby village of Croft. #WyrdWednesday #folklore #literature #weird