'A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight Contented with perfume.' ~Amy Lowell 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat

The Singing Fairy by Georges Lorin

Kitten in the Sun, Thure Wallner (1888-1965).

Everyone, god and his mother might feel slightly hungover after an abundance of festivities and observances and since olden times, there are Silent Days strewn in... like today. Days you might meet a Silent One in the woods... like the one in our 41st #darkspringtide tale below. 🎨  Martin Ball

A ghost comes to tea. From 'A Book Of Ghosts' (1904) by Sabine Baring-Gould. The illustration is by D Murray Smith. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #ghoststories #BookChatWeekly

The Haunted Castle by Anton Pieck (1942) #PhantomsFriday

'Dreams of the Past, Hampton Court' by Adelaide Claxton #PhantomsFriday

"CREEP-HEDGE, sb. I have heard this word in the following riddle as the name of the hare: 'Creep-hedge, crop-thorn, Little cow with leather horn.' The answer to the riddle is 'a hare.'" 🎨Charles Tunnicliffe #wyrdwednesday

"There are no ordinary cats." ~Colette 🎨 John Collier #Caturday

The royal perfumes

Put on your Easter bonnets!

‘One woman told me…she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was an invention got up by the priest and ghosts would not be permitted to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries.’ ~ Yeats’ Celtic Twilight. #BookWormSat

'And pleasant is the fairy land, But, an eerie tale to tell, Ay at the end of seven years, We pay a tiend to hell' ~'Tam Lin', Scottish Ballad 🎨 'Fairy Land' by Gustave Doré #BookWormSat

'Will o' the Wisp' by Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf-Hartenkampf

Once, there was no dancing on Good Friday, any place they spoke German. But, as the story goes, there was a girl in the woods of Anhalt who did... Read our 34th #darkspringtide tale below. 🎨 Anne Anderson

Dust cover for Brian Wildsmith’s Blue Bird.

The Haunted House (Catherine Duke Quickened her Steps) by Howard Pyle, 1904 #PhantomsFriday

'And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott.' 🖋️Alfred, Lord Tennyson 🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw #bookologythursday

🌿April (The Green Gown) by Childe Hassam, 1920

The Wednesday before Easter is known as Spy Wednesday and there is a tree on the northern Bank of Llyn Cynwch in Gwynedd that lays an egg on every Spy Wednesday that makes you... spy. Our 32nd #darkspringtide story is an egg-shaped #WyrdWednesday tale - read it below!

The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) by Leonora Carrington, 1947 #WyrdWednesday

Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: VICTORIANA Realism, Pre-Raphaelites, the Aesthetic Movement, obsessions with death, peculiar manners, toxic beauty products, bizarre hobbies… in Victorian-era literature, art, and lore. 🎨Tissot

Incoming! Snowy Owl and a huddle of chicks 🤍🌿🌓 #AnimalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Whyn Lewis

The Palace of the Spirits, Romolo Tessari (1868-1925).

Bernice is a seventh-level fire dragon, but she was raised by cats.

The Malachite Muse by Elise Macdonald

Illustration by H. Townley Green from 'Fairy Guardians' by F. Willoughby, 1875 #OwlishMonday

moon gravity

'Titania' Illustration from “The Stratford Gallery, The Shakespeare sisterhood” by Henrietta Lee Palmer, 1859. Designed by J.J. Jenkins, engraved by C. Cook. #BookWormSat

"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her,  Dash'd all to pieces! " (“Tempest”, 1.2) 🎨 John William Waterhouse “Miranda - The Tempest” (1916) #bookwormsat #shakespeareweek

'You have witchcraft in your lips.' -Shakespeare 🎨Henrietta Rae (detail) #BookWormSat

'Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.' ~Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' 🎨John Anster Fitzgerald #BookWormSat

Dunwich, E Suffolk. In 1286 came the first of many devastating storms. Homes, churches and priories were swallowed by the sea. Of the many supernatural tales associated with the site, the most melancholy is the tale of the sailor, pacing the beach in search of his lost love. #PhantomsFriday

'The Knight and the Spectre' by Richard Doyle #PhantomsFriday

✨Tamara Natalie Madden

Good Friday and Old Lady Day rarely coincide and 25 March was the day they executed Margaret Clitherow, for harbouring Catholic priests in 1586. When the three dates align something strange happens in York's Shambles. Death and the scent of Daisies. Read more in today's #DarkSpringtide tale below

‘Come, Great Pan, and bless us all; Bless the corn and honey-bee. Bless the vine and bless the kine, Bless the vales of Arcady: Bless the nymphs that laugh and flee, God of all fertility.’ — Dion Fortune, ‘The Rite of Pan’ in ‘The Goat-Foot God’ (1936) #BookologyThursday 🎨Gustave Moreau, 1894

Witches' Tree (Nimue beguiling Merlin with enchantment) by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) From 'The Flower Book', published by his wife in 1905. #BookologyThursday

#WyrdWednesday #GothicSpring Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser

Hemlock (Ciguë) illustration by J.J. Grandville from Les Fleurs Animées (1847) #WyrdWednesday

Detail from 'Apollo et Daphne' by René-Antoine Houasse, 1677 #WyrdWednesday

'Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.' 🖋️Christina Rossetti 🎨Sydney Long

Returning with flowers

Ophelia by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

'Medusa' by Winifred Hope Thomson

Kay Nielsen: 'The Troll And The Three Princesses'. #KayNielsen #illustration #artsky #folktale #Scandinavian

"Elegant figure by a curtain" 🎨 Aubrey Beardsley for “The Studio”, 1895

'For many a minstrel’s dream had birth In the sounds of leaf and breeze; And the early oracles of earth Were the old complaining trees!' -Frances Browne 🎨William M. Timlin #BookWormSat