"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 💐

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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

Hilma af Klint, Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower), sheet 27 from the portfolio Nature Studies, 1919 #Womensart

#FolkloreThursday THIS WEEK! Join us 16th April for our Guardians of the Forest: Spirits, Deities, and Creatures of the Woods themed hosted #FolkloreThursday

Wyrdlings, 271 years ago #OnThisDay, Dr Johnson published his famous dictionary & even if “aardvark” was left out, #BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday team up, take the opportunity & give you: “Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes” as this week’s joined topic!

The RHS Wellbeing Garden Blueprint has launched. This in-depth guide shows how gardens and gardening can help us feel better, promote good health, prevent ill-health and support recovery when we need it most. www.rhs.org.uk/advice/healt...

Ghost postcard genre. A favourite from my collection - "It Appears...". 1930s.

“Dreams” 🎨  “Culpeo-Fox”

Beautiful Merovingian brooch of the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’, AD 660-670. Found during excavations ahead of construction works at the Grand Place, Quaregnon, Belgium, in 2008-2009. Gold, silver, copper-alloy, garnet, and glass. Diameter 5.6cm. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. Faust, part 1 Goethe William Blake #BookWormSat

Crime writer Michael Connelly is one of nearly 20 authors, including John Grisham, George RR Martin and Jodi Picoult, involved in a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Eggs are oval. The word ‘egg’ is even etymologically related to ‘oval’. ‘Oval’ comes from Latin ‘ōvālis’ (egg-shaped), a derivative of ‘ōvum’ (egg). ‘Ōvum’, in turn, was a distant cousin of Germanic *ajjan, the ancestor of Old Norse ‘egg’, which English borrowed. Click the graphic to learn more:

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-europeans Silk Roads / Rotas da Seda Indo-Europeias +INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/03/rota... #Archaeology #Prehistory #indoeuropeans #eneolithic #BronzeAge #ironAge #yamnaya #scythians #mobility #migration #pastoralism #ethnoarchaeology #books #openaccess

Start looking for the Monarchs and their look alikes! #TheOutpost 🦋🌱🌿🚶‍♂️🌻

"The Sorcerer's Assistant" 🎨 Erin Kelso #owlishmonday

Pagan Roman and early Christian lore regarding the hare suggested it was hermaphroditic and thus able to reproduce without loss of virginity: this is one of the many reasons hares and rabbits are associated with spring and fertility. #FolkloreSunday

Easter post box toppers at Warwick (L) and Tredington (R). #FolkloreSunday (📷 by me. NB the Tredington pic was taken during yesterday's high winds)

A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

In many global cultures the egg is a symbol of new life and rebirth. Iranians decorate eggs on #Nowruz, Iranian New Year at spring equinox and eggs are eaten during Jewish #Passover. Fragments of decorated ostrich eggs found in Africa are 60,000 years old (below) #Easter

'Spring Ritual' Embroidery by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici #WomensArt

Illustration from The Cat’s Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, illustrated by Francis, Boz, Palmer Cox, and Others, Boston, 1881. #booksky #artsky #caturday

Happy Easter 🌷🐰🥚🐣

I've just been swimming and got wet.

Easter Island.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't just dream; he redefined humanity’s moral compass. On April 4, 1968, a bullet silenced his voice, but his legacy of radical empathy and nonviolence was already immortal. He taught us that justice is a duty, enriching the soul of the world. 🕊️

🥚🥚🥚 For this Easter weekend, a medieval selection of eggs, including a Magrittesque-looking egg floating in the air! Livre des Propriétés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais, 15th c., BNF. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #medievalsky 🏺 #Easter #Eggs

#Easter bunny preparing for a visit? #Roman marble sculpture that once adorned the space by a fountain, in front of a mosaic, in #Pompeii. Do interpret as rabbit minding a basket of eggs rather than fruit if you wish.... C1 AD, Via del Vesuvio; in the Antiquarium 🏺

Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again to all my Easter Witches! 🌼 🌸 🐰 🐣

Viewing vintage seed catalogue collections on the @archive.org is a lovely alternative to doomscrolling. #bloomscrolling #seeds #gardensky 💐 archive.org/search?query...

Morning stretch