Allegory of the month January by Gaspar Camps ✨Happy New Year✨

Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).

In ancient Greece, many believed that shooting stars were souls of the dead soaring to the heavens. It was said that if you wished upon the star, the soul would grant your wish. ‘L'étoile filante’ by J.J. Grandville (1849) #wyrdwednesday

'The moonlight fades from flower and tree, And the stars dim one by one; The tale is told, the song is sung, And the Fairy feast is done.' ~Louisa May Alcott ('Fairy Song') 🎨 Dorothy Lathrop #WyrdWednesday

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Nadine Looks into the Future while Holding on to the Past

#Caturday A beautiful illustration from 'The Tomten & The Fox' by Swedish artist, Harald Wiberg (1908-1986)

We wander winter afternoons where the light is too weak to keep the ghosts at bay. Stumble onto paths that can only be haunted. Each footstep scuffs up stories, scuffs up spirits. We walk and leave a wake of whispers. – #DAKilroy, 1982

‘The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow. And the storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat 🖼️ Pekka Halonen

In the rush of early morning, When the red burns through the gray, And the wintry world lies waiting For the glory of the day Louisa May Alcott Lisa Graa Jensen #BookWormSat

Illustration by Charles Robinson 'The Remarkable Rocket', From 'Tales by Oscar Wilde', 1913.

🎄Viggo Johansen

On #christmaseve leave your windows unlatched a little, not enough for snow or weather to drift inside, but enough to show hospitality to wandering blessings. #Folklore

✨Art by Margaret Tarrant

The bell rings at the top of the mountain by Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi

22 Dec: Evergreen and often in bloom at #Christmas, rosemary is woven into wreaths and garlands as a symbol of hope, fertility, and remembrance. In old custom, the wassail cup was sometimes made from rosemary wood, and stirred with a fragrant sprig before being shared. #folklore

❄️Winter by William Holbrook Beard #OwlishMonday

Paul Evans - Winter Dusk. Acrylic on canvas.

The witch is a threshold creature. Wood's tangled border, shore's salt-line blur. For at the feral edges of the land her magic is mighty. The fluid boundary of the marsh offers reflected nephomantic glimpses, a rush of whispered wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Due to a lack of opponents, Maude soon found that she had become a collector of snowballs.

🕯️'Crown of Light' by Sulamith Wülfing

❄️Art by Margaret Tarrant

Santa Claus by Arthur Rackham #LegendaryWednesday

Illustration by Hablot K. Brown From 'A Peep at the Pixies' by Anna Eliza Bray, 1854. #WyrdWednesday

When Genevieve feels overwhelmed, she goes to the forest and plays her triangle for the trees.

'On the bat's back I do fly' 🦇Ariel by Louis Rhead #BookologyThursday

Skating by Moonlight by Ronald Lampitt

Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights #BookWormSat Art- Robert McGinnis

migration

When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

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

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

‘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