A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.

"Lie close," Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: "We must not look at goblin men. We must not buy their fruits. Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry, thirsty roots?" - Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

'Fruit the Fairies steal away, Never comes again.' by Florence Harrison From 'Elfin Song' 1912 #BookWormSat

“‘I will give you three days,’ said he, ‘and if within that time you discover my name you shall keep the child’” ~ 'Rumpelstiltskin' from Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812), The Grimm Brothers. #BookWormSat #LadybirdBooks

“And never, since the middle summer’s spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind” Titania, Queen of faery in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II scene 1 #BookWormSat

'Afar from our lawn and our levee, O sister of sorrowful gaze! Where the roses in scarlet are heavy And dream of the end of their days, You move in another dominion And hang o'er the historied stone: Unpruned in your beautiful pinion Who wander and whisper alone.' ~W.B.Yeats #BookWormSat

"Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake... Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." -W. B. Yeats, "Stolen Child" #BookWormSat

"They stole little Bridget For seven years long. When she came down again, Her friends were all gone. They took her lightly back Between the night and morrow. They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow." - William Allingham, "The Fairies" 🎨Alice B. Woodward #BookWormSat

"Behold! What's this? A mushroom huge! Towering brolly rising tall... Whence came this monstrous mushyroom? What elves have brought it to my grass? What sort of toad is large enough To plonk upon it one large ass?" #BookWormSat #Poetry #Autumn #GnomeHome www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...

#BookwormSat 🧚‍♀️ In Icelandic folklore, the Huldufólk (“hidden people”) are mystical beings said to dwell in rocky mounds and hills, unseen by most humans. They live in harmony with nature, shaping customs & landscape lore. 🌄 The #Huldufólk a living part of Iceland’s heritage. #IcelandicFolklore

#BookWormSat "We be *Tylwyth Teg* - the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk. *Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed* Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-Kinsmen. Magick is our way." Horton Deakins 🎨Thomas Henry Thomas

#BookWormSat 🧹 Did you know that #Brownies also known come from Scottish folklore? These charming household hobgoblins are known for their helpfulness, tackling chores when no one is watching. Leave out some milk or cream and they may lend a hand around your home. 🧹 🎨 Arthur Rackham circa 1917.

#BookWormSat 🧚‍♀️⚰️ Discovered in 1836 near Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s mysterious #FairyCoffins remain an enigma. Thirteen tiny coffins with carved figures lie hidden beneath the earth—mystery surrounds them. They’re not linked to fairy rites; rumors suggest witchcraft and secret gatherings on the hill.

#BookwormSat 🧚‍♀️🐈 Autumn is the time when the veil thins, #Cats can see throught it. Cats were thought to be able to see through the magical illusions, or "glamour," of the Fae. This allowed them to discern a Fairy's true form, making them natural protectors against deceitful or malicious spirits.

Come away, human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - WB Yeats #BookWormSat

“On the way back from the 1937 Labour Party Conference at Brighton – we had stopped to eat sandwiches & talk about George Lansbury – I happened to notice a hobyah type of fairy just going away.” —A casual reference to seeing fairies in Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 memoir ALL CHANGE HERE #BookWormSat 1/3

1/3 Fairies, Francis Ledwidge Maiden-poet, come with me To the heaped up cairn of Maeve, And there we’ll dance a fairy dance Upon a fairy’s grave. 🎨Henry Meynell Rheam redbubble.com/people/forgo... #BookwormSat #fairytale #folklore #poetry #fairies #bookchatweekly #art #gifts #wallart #literature

“I remember…chatting up a demon in a crypt bar…I asked ‘what’s the one place you fear more then anyplace else?’ I could hear a tremble on his lips when he said - ‘Faerie’ From Constantine: The Hell Blazer - Ming Doyle&James Tynion IV 🖼️ = Riley Rossmo #BookWormSat

For grandpa who thought the Nixie would get me 😉 “As he walked over the dam…the first rays of the sun burst forth…he caught sight of a beautiful woman rising slowly out of the water…he realized that this was the Nixie of the millpond.” From Brothers Grimm 3rd edition #BookWormSat 🖼️ Dora Wheeler

A final one for #BookWormSat which I just had to repost. The debut of the Cottingley Fairies as presented to the world by Arthur Conan Doyle in the December 1920 edition of The Strand. The editor calls two girls being clever with scissors and a camera 'An Epoch-Making Event'. So glad I own this!

🧚 @racheldeering.bsky.social Keeping an eye on #BookWormSat from enchanted woods. There are definitely some little folk hereabouts.

1/4 "The Faeries" by #Irish poet William Allingham "They stole little Bridget For seven years long; When she came down again Her friends were all gone. redbubble.com/people/forgo... #BookWormSat #fairytales #fairies #art #homedecor #poetry #bookchatweekly #giftidea #poetry

1/3 A Midsummer Night's Dream Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere redbubble.com/shop/ap/3534... #BookwormSat #art #poetry #gifts #fairies #literature #bookchatweekly

“What are ye, little mannie? And where are ye going?” “Not of the race of Adam,” said the creature; “the People of Peace shall never more be seen in Scotland.” —The fairies’ farewell to Scotland, at Eathie, in Cromarty, c.1780. From Hugh Miller’s THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (1841) #BookWormSat #folklore

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet. Judy Allen, Fantasy Encyclopedia #BookWormSat

‘Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands!’ ~ J M Barrie. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat 🖼️ Arthur Rackham

A gorgeous #illustration by W Heath Robinson for an uncredited #fairy story called 'Jack Or The Golden Snuff Box' [The Strand, 1915]. WHR is mainly remembered for his comic drawings, often featuring bizarre and ramshackle inventions, but as this shows, he was an exceptional illustrator. #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat Gnomes (1976 Dutch/1977 English) written by Wil Huygen and beautifully illustrated throughout by Rien Poortvliet. A fascinating field guide to gnomes and similar beings. One of my childhood favorites.

it takes more than relative size to be considered one of the faire folk, but it does provide a metaphor for why they have special skills of their own #bookwormsat #booksky The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson. 1956, cover art by Mitchell Hooks.

#BookWormSat The closing poem of Flower Fables (1854) by Louisa May Alcott. This text is from an 1898 reprint as part of the Altemus' Young People's Library. I don't have a definite credit for the art.

the fairies are thought to be ”small,” maybe others are simply large. #bookwormsat #booksky The Microscopic Ones by Leo Brett. 1960, cover art by Ed Valigursky.

"A Piskey’s laugh is a gay little laugh, and as unfettered as the song of a lark, and anybody hearing it is bound to feel happy and gay, no matter how wisht he happens to be before." -Enys Tregarthen, ‘The Little Cake-bird’ from ‘North Cornwall Fairies and Legends’ #BookWormSat 🎨: Johnny Gruelle

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” ✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring #BookWormSat

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.” ✍️William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet #BookWormSat

“These Siths or Fairies… are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel… somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud” Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds #BookWormSat #C17 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...

Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs Waltz in time take a glimpse Fairies hide the forest wit Mushrooms fly, agarics hit William O'Brien, Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems #BookWormSat 🎨Doreen Baxter

If I could find a higher tree Farther and farther I should see … To where the roads on either hand Lead onward into fairy land Robert Louis Stevenson Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat

🍂🤍🍂"It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children." 📖J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

'Yes, the fairies still abide here.' - L.M. Montgomery 🎨Anna Billing #BookWormSat

“Betty happened to look up from the book she was reading and saw a queer little man, rather like a gnome, walking quietly through the trees. On his back he carried a large empty sack.” ~ A Cat in Fairyland, The Enid Blyton Fairy Folk Story Book (1966). #BookWormSat

'And this is but another proof that the Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.' Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist #BookwormSat (fairies and the little folk) 💙📚 🎨 Sophie Dumont

‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.'~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Janka Latečková

‘And suddenly several wights appeared with the right child and placed it on the stove, and took their own fellow away with them.’ 📚Brothers Grimm, The Wights, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815 Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995 #BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo

‘Let me out! Let me out!’ 📚Brothers Grimm, The Genie in the Glass, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815 Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995 #BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo

#BookWormSat ❛❛ Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. ❜❜ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

‘ “But I will tell you a riddle first” he said, “if you can solve it, you’ll be free and not in my power anymore.”’ 📚Brothers Grimm, The Devil and His Grandmother, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815 Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995 #BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo

#BookWormSat [And we fairies, that do run ...] "... From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house: I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door." A Midsummer Night's Dream 🎨Alice Woodward

‘When wishing still did some good…’ 📚Brothers Grimm, The Frog King from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815 Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995 #BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo

"On a winter tree you see the snow white as her neck & face; her eyes sparkled. Perfect in size & shape her forehead, dark brows. Her hair was curly...She took the Knight to Avalon, that beautiful island". The fairy queen chooses Sir Lanval as lover in a medieval lai by Marie of France #BookWormSat

“The Cluricaun pointed to a big boliaun, and, says he, 'Dig under that boliaun, and you'll get the great crock all full of guineas'. But Tom in his hurry had never minded bringing a spade.” ~ The Field of Boliauns (c.1870–1900), Thomas Crofton Croker. #BookWormSat