In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday 🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)

Dear Animals ~ All humans are not the same. #love #nature

Adorable #nature #gnomes idea for Yule. 💚

The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language

If you see this, QTP with a gif of your favorite wild animal 🌿

‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us! 🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.

🌱 #flowersonFriday As we head to the darkest part of the year, a reminder that spring and summer will return. I am lucky that I have endless pictures of flowers and gardens that I can look at. Hope this one brings you some joy.

#FindsFriday National Museum of #Wales ( Cardiff ). Crescentic bronze plaque with triskele decoration, from Llyn Cerrig Bach lake deposit ( 200 BC - 100 AD). #Archaeology #History #artwork

‘The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy (formerly called ‘Hecate’)’, c.1795 William Blake #Witchsky

Magical and cozy, these small, handcrafted Wichtel scenes appear in the forests of Stuttgart during winter. #LandscapePhotography #Wichtel #Folklore #MiniScenes #culture#landscapephotography#folklore#Goblins

Andrea Kowch, contemporary US painter #WomensArt #Thanksgiving

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! 🪄 The Fairies, William Allingham 🎨 The Fairy Ring, George Cruikshank #FolkloreSunday #Fairytales

Two ghostly portals - the left at Lilleshall, #Shropshire, the other at Malmesbury, #Gloucestershire. Their #ghosts are just a few of my fellow Ghost Monks pottering about, but since the photos were scanned from 'Abbeys', the 1925 book by M R James, I felt they were worth posting for #PhantomsFriday

A particularly striking example of early 20th Century spirit photography. #PhantomsFriday

In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday 🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)

In the early twentieth century there were a number of sightings of a ghost on the road from Shipston to Stratford nr the gates of Alscot Park. On one occasion a man saw it walk in front of his car and thru the park wall. #PhantomsFriday

Call for Papers: Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance – Canadian Literature Deadline: June 1, 2026 csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525” by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Caladrius was a #bird who'd stand at the end of a sick person's bed. 🛌 If the bird met a patient's gaze, it would inhale any illness, rise to the sun burning that sickness away, & the patient would heal. But, if the bird averted its gaze, the patient would not recover. 🪶 #Mythology #Folklore

The tale of the boy who went out to learn what fear was is a #fairytale from the Brothers Grimm. On the first night of his adventure, giant #blackcats visit him to play cards, & he keeps them at bay when they attack. 🐾 #Caturday #cats #art

The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology

What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore

Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince

The maid's asleep. The cat is stealing the dinner. The housewife seems very amused by it all, given that her dinner party upstairs is about to be ruined. By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today, in 1655.

There was an owl liv'd in an oak The more he heard, the less he spoke The less he spoke, the more he heard. O, if men were all like that wise bird. 🦉 #LegendaryWednesday #owls #wisdom #birds

A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable

🔥🐦‍⬛🔥In Native American myth, the Raven - originally a white bird - brought the gift of fire to humans, but the heat and smoke from the flaming brand it bravely carried, scorched its feathers black. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

'People are still haunted by what happened': How history's brutal witch trials still resonate now. As most were women it’s appropriate to share on #InternationalDayForTheElimimationOfViolenceAgainstWomen www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

In the #fairytale 'the Boy Who Knew what the Birds Said', a young lad learns the language of the #birds & his fate. They predict he'll be forced to leave home, win a princess & return as a king. Soon after his family expels him from his home ensuring that predicted fate occurs. 🐦 #LegendaryWednesday

#LegendaryWednesday It can be said, without exaggeration, that Poe's poem, the Raven, is one of the most well known, powerful, and unsettling poems ever written. Phil Rowe, the voice of Pryderi in our game, has recorded a version of the poem that is both haunting, and fierce.

A legend from Guam’s Chamoru people tells of a giant fish who took massive bites out of the island's coast. To stop it from eating the rest of the island, a group of clever maidens sacrificed their magic hair and used it to weave a net that would be strong enough to hold the monster. #WyrdWednesday

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Fresh Snow A.J. Casson 1983

My favourite piece of Warwickshire bird lore as it’s so random: If a peacock flies to your house, a death will follow. #LegendaryWednesday

Save your crumbs for the wee birds... 🐤 #Wildlife #winter #birdsky

Children of hulder-maidens are known to be great storytellers. Even the trolls come out of the forest to listen to their tales ❤️🧌 📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro... #FairyTaleTuesday #trolls #trollseason #fairytales

Here's my latest dark and tragic Victorian short story. It's called, A Vampire in Ursuline Convent. It takes place in New Orleans 1875. Sorry it took so long to write. I hope you like it. 🖤 #Victorian #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothgirl #writing #women medium.com/@emory.cleme...

In Egyptian mythology, Goddess Seshat was the ruler of books, recorder of measurements, inventor of writing and was powerful with wisdom and knowledge. Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek25 #folktale #egypt #myth #mythology #kidlit #kidlitart

Look out Hansel & Gretel... The Witch is watching you eat her candy house. #art #Fairytales 🎨 Herman Vogel, ca 1910

A lovely and productive meeting with Christina at @treadwells-books.bsky.social today. We signed books while we were there, too. Do please give the team at Treadwell's a follow! #BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover

Hawthorn’s very name speaks of its role as the guardian of old boundaries; “haw” comes from haeg, meaning hedge, so it is literally the “hedge-thorn”. Its crimson fruits carried many country names: haws, eglets, hazles, halves, hograves, gazels, hoggins and skeehories. #folklore

In Scottish and broader Celtic folklore, the wren is known as the "king of birds," a symbol of wisdom, and cleverness over strength. This is famously illustrated in a myth where the wren, by hiding on an eagle's back, flies higher than the eagle to claim the title. Art my own. #Folklore #Birds

📣 If you're around #Chichester on Thursday 4 December and fancy a bit of #folklore, I'll be talking all things Household Lore at the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction at 6pm. And it's free! 🎉@chicentreffsf.bsky.social www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2025/11/20/h...

WIDDERSHINS means moving counter clockwise; this inversion of the natural order was associated with the devil and witchcraft. In this image Witches delight in flying widdershins around North Berwick church with their broomsticks #FolkloreSunday

The legend of the White Hare (Cornish) speaks of the lost spirit of a maiden. With a broken heart & a soul which cannot rest, she appears as a white #hare, invisible to others except her faithless lover, who she follows always, haunting him until he meets his end. 🐇 #FolkloreSunday #folksky

Graveyard lights are not just for Halloween.... 🎃💀🕯️

Shetland winter stories on #WorldChildrenDay #Folklore www.shetland.org/blog/shetlan...