‘All Souls’ Day’ by Witold Pruszkowski

The Stroll by Gertrude Abercrombie #Caturday

HALLOWEEN FAIRIES - by yours truly Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children theconversation.com/fairies-were...

🍂November by Theodore Robinson

The Reading Tree

'There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples' ~William Shakespeare 🎨'Ophelia' by Friedrich Heyser #BookWormSat

'The Lady Ghost' by Adelaide Claxton #PhantomsFriday

'The Witch' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Illustration from 'Fairyland'

An illustration by Hilda Boswell for #Caturday

'I am but a shadow, come from the meadow Where many lie, but no tree can stand.' From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition' Illustration by Florence Harrison #BookWormSat

Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Leaf fall

According to some Flemish folktales, the surest way to meet a werewolf was to walk the country roads after dark. More often than not, a robber wearing a wolf mask would appear from behind the trees and demand your possessions. 🎨Carmen Saldaña #WyrdWednesday

Daughter of Titan and Oceanid, Circe is the most prominent sorceress of Greek myth. She is able to transfigure men into pigs and women into monsters, and able to purify transgressions, such as Jason and her kin Medea's murder of Medea's brother #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: Waterhouse

Ceridwen by Christopher Williams #LegendaryWednesday

'The Green Masque' by Oswald Birley A portrait of his wife Rhoda in costume for the Venice Carnival, 1922. #WyrdWednesday

'Listen… With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.' ~Adelaide Crapsey 🎨Sulamith Wülfing #BookwormSat

🍂Autumn by Stanislaus S. Longley

The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

🕯️🎃🕯️Pumpkin Lanterns - by Arthur Rackham #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

'Hares and Autumn Full Moon' - Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese Edo period. #FullMoon #tsukimi #JapaneseArt

Magical creatures

Psyche and Cerberus by Edmund Dulac #WyrdWednesday

"There are no ordinary cats." ~Colette 🎨Auguste Danse #BookWormSat #Caturday

🦋 Queen Mab for #WyrdWednesday 'Her Chariot ready straight is made' Illustration by Thomas Maybank (1906) Frontispiece, 'Nymphidia, the Court of Faerie' by Michael Drayton, first published in 1627.

Illustrator Adelaide Claxton is best known for her artwork depicting ghosts and dreams, but she was also an inventor. During the 1890s, she registered several patents under her married name, Adelaide Sophia Turner, including the 'Armpit-Crutch for Bed-Rests and Chair-Backs'. #WyrdWednesday

Allegory of the month of September by Gaspar Camps

The Queen by Gertrude Abercrombie for #OwlishMonday

🌙'By thy pale beams I solitary rove, To thee my tender grief confide; Serenely sweet you gild the silent grove, My friend, my goddess, and my guide.' ~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 🎨 The Fairy of the Moon by Hermann Kaulbach #bookologythursday

Fairy Illustration by C.E.Brock #OwlishMonday

Resting in the Woods (Girl under a Tree) by John George Brown

The world was hers for the reading. ~Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623–1682) #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

Lohengrin is the Knight of the Swan, an older medieval trope incorporated into the Arthurian cycle. The son of Percival, he rides a boat driven by swans and must never be asked his name by the maiden he rescues, or he can never return. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: W. Crane

'Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott' ~Tennyson 🎨John William Waterhouse #LegendaryWednesday

"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'." ~Philip K. Dick 🎨Gerrit A. Beneker #WyrdWednesday

moon beam #joncaing #art #travelingwitch

🌿Girl and Daisies by Winslow Homer

'This forest looks the way Nightingales sound.' ~Grace Hazard Conkling 🎨The Nightingale by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #bookologythursday

In West Yorkshire #folklore, hazel trees were watched over by Churn Milk Peg, a scary, pipe-smoking faery hag. Children were warned not to gather unripe nuts, or she would give them a sharp pinch, or carry them off altogether. Her wrath protected the #harvest. #LegendaryWednesday

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a strong link between kitsune (foxes), agriculture and the worship of Inari. Inari is a kami (deity) of rice, farming, the harvest, and fertility, among other things. The worship of Inari became connected with foxes around... #LegendaryWednesday 🎨Tatsuya Kosaka 1/3

The witch walks for practicalities – field edge and hedge are pharmacy, a calendar telling the slow turn of the year in what may be seen and plucked. The witch walks for magic – treading paths as ritual conversation with the land. There are no dull navigations. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Fairytale

The Magicians #drawing #art #dream

🌿Ceres Illustration by Walter Crane From 'Flowers from Shakespeare's garden: a posy from the plays' #LegendaryWednesday

A weather rhyme for #folkyfriday 'Frogs will sing before the rain, but in the sun they’re quiet again.' 🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

✨A 'Fairy Tale Castle' for #WyrdWednesday by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1909. #WyrdWednesday

🌿'Fairies and Elves dancing with Mr. Mouse' by Dorothy P. Lathrop

'My heart is a garden of dreams Where you walk when day is done.' ~Bliss Carman 🎨Christian Schloe #BookWormSat

Poppies and Fairies From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Illustration by Arthur Rackham

Bird Telepathy