Greetings, dear Bibliophiles! Apologies for the recent absence. I’ve just committed to an adventurous project that will require a 3 month hiatus from #BookologyThursday. #BookChatWeekly resumes next week. Thank you for your understanding, and looking forward to seeing you here!

“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.” (Shakespeare “Macbeth” 4.1) 🎨 Mary Hoare (1781) #bookologythursday

#bookologythursday "Ring-a-ring o' roses" ..a pocket full of posies Atishoo, Atishoo, we all fall down.." ..a popular children's poem, referring to the plague, the posies referring to flowers used to mark the smell of sickness, and falling down representing death.. Published in 1881

"'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.' As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes." —'Tis the Voice of the Lobster, Lewis Carroll #BookologyThursday

Daggers on me toes, yes! :)))

Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth, 
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath, 
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose, 
And realio, trulio, daggers on his toes. ~Nash Thank you for your flummadiddle posts, dear Bibliophiles!

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘What was your food there?’ Emer asked. ‘The ruin of a chariot was cooked for us there,’ #Cuchulaind replied. What is the ruin of a chariot? Find the answer in the comments! Source: celt.ucc.ie/publishe... Here`s the backstory: hear-me.social/@NeuK...

“I shall go into a hare, / With sorrow and sych and meickle care; / And I shall go in the Devil's name, / Ay while I come home again”. The above chant from Isobel Gowdie is often used in #Folklore to highlight the ancient belief that women and hares are linked to the supernatural. #BookologyThursday

2pm to 4pm TODAY on @SkyArts Both episodes of #Documentary📺 “Dickens in Italy with David Harewood” The actor & writer follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens' journey through Italy's beautiful cities, examining the country's influence on the author #BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky

There was an Owl lived in an oak, Whiskey, Whaskey, Weedle; And all the words he ever spoke Were Fiddle, Faddle, Feedle. Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1877) art by Lily Seika Jones #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday

SOCKDOLAGER (n.): A knockdown blow or decisive point in an argument; a clincher #WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday

I remember this as a child 😁 #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

The Snallygaster is an American cryptid created by German immigrants in Maryland, a chimera of bird, octopi and reptile that eats chickens and children. It later spawned snollygoster, a 19th century insult for those without principle, often seeking or in power. #BookologyThursday

#bookologythursday #wyrdwednesday #celtic: ‘Which way didst thou come?’ said Emer. ‘Between the Two Mountains of the Wood,’ said #cuchulaind.` Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021.html Which road did the Hound of Ulster take? Find the answer in the comments!

we foindle and fungle, we bonkle and meigle and maxpoffle. we scotstarvit, armit, wormit, and even whifflet… —Edwin Morgan, “Canedolia: An Off-Concrete Scotch Fantasia” from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #BookologyThursday #poem #placenames www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

Though mooncalf is a rare insult today, it was common enough that Shakespeare called Caliban one. Its original meaning was a false pregnancy but it came to mean a monstrous birth or abortion, whether human or animal. #BookologyThursday 🖼️: J.N. Paton

BlueSky has been out of action all day here in the UK - at least for me - so it's good to be ostentiferous again, just as I celebrate hitting 2K followers, achieved over almost exactly a year, thanks to your support. I seem to have found my crowd! #WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday

I remember this as a child 😁 #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

Reposting because I forgot to tag #BookologyThursday, like a plum!

"There was an old woman tossed up in a basket, Seventeen times as high as the moon...." from the Third Ladybird Book of Nursery Rhymes (1967), illustration by Frank Hampson #WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday

Ogre is a French word, linked to the Etruscan god Orcus. These legendary giants are famous for their unfortunate cannibalistic tendencies, foul body-odor, rotten teeth, and rancid halitosis. They dwell in deep forests and mucky swamps. #FolkloreThursday #BookologyThursday

#bookologythursday #wyrdwednesday #celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer. ‘Not hard to tell,’ said #cuchulaind. ‘From the Cover of the Sea, …` Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021.html What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that? Find the answer in the comments!

Whales have calves, Cats have kittens, Bears have cubs, Bats have bittens* Swans have cygnets, Seals have puppies, But guppies just have little guppies. Ogden Nash *Bitten is an invented rhyme. A baby bat is a ‘pup’ Avril Haynes #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday "We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you." Jonathan Swift

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday "The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella!" Charles Bowen 🎨George Cruikshank

"I saw the Multikertwigo Standing on his head, He was looking at me sideways And this is what he said: 'Sniddle Iddle Ickle Thwack Nicki-Nacki-Noo Biddle-diddle Dicky-Dack Tickle-tockle-too!' None of this made sense to me, Maybe it does to you" ✍🏻🎨Spike Milligan #BookologyThursday

"I wished I was a flower underneath a great big tree, But then a dog would come along & shower me with wee. I wished I was a chestnut tree with lots of lovely conkers, But kids would come & nick my nuts & that would..." #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Poetry www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘The Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at Teme Mara [the Plain of Murthemne, Co. Louth, between Dundalk and the Boyne]., i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea: Silent thy hollow head […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday "I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife." Anonymous 🎨 Pieter Brueghel the Younger

#BookologyThursday 📚 Elflock — A tangled lock of hair (or horse’s mane) blamed on fairies who knot it overnight 🧚‍♀️🐎 In folklore, combing it out risks bad luck 🍀 #BookChatWeekly 📖🐈 #ElfLock 🧝‍♀️ #ShakespeareSunday 🎭

#BookologyThursday 📚 Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, 🐈🎻 The cow jumped over the moon; 🐄🌛 The little dog laughed 🐶 To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. 🍽️ A classic piece of English nonsense verse, printed c.1765 in Mother Goose’s Melody, with roots possibly older.

#Bookologythursday 📚 Gobbledygook — language so bloated with jargon it forgets to mean anything 🌀📜 ✨ Coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick, who compared it to a turkey’s pompous gobble 🦃 He even banned it in a memo! In Harry Potter, Gobbledegook is the goblins’ tongue or language.

Done and done! And also: a book review (chase it down on Goodreads if you want). www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #bookologythursday #bookchatweekly

Ostentiferous - that which brings monsters or strange sights. #WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday

"’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." —Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll #BookologyThursday

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin's lost his sleigh Kojak's lost his lollipop And he doesn't know what to say Hey* (repeat until the end of time, or until the bell goes) The Playground, 1970/80s *Other versions available #bookologythursday nonsense rhymes

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.'" —The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll #BookologyThursday

Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. Pen & Ink sketch, artist unknown. #BookologyThursday

#wyrdwednesday #bookologythursday #celtic: ‘Where did you sleep?’ said Emer. ‘We slept,’ #cuchulaind said, ‘in the house of the man who tends the cattle of the plain of Tethra.’ With whom had he found lodgings? Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021.html Find the answer in the comments!

Day 2 of our #WyrdWednesday / #BookologyThursday crossover! The theme - “Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes!” And remember, at no point in the rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg... 🎨 by Blanche Fisher Wright

Welcome to #BookologyThursday @bookcat.bsky.social here teaming up with #BookologyThursday & #WyrdWednesday for the topic: “Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes” along with: Odd slang, Silly Archaic Insults, Onomatopoeia, and Unusual Etymologies in literature, art, and lore.

“My thumb, my thumb, My elbows are two!” #wyrdwednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann

Some rhymes repeat because repetition itself creates power. In folklore, saying something again and again can turn it into something more than words. #WyrdWednesday Art: Rene Magritte

“Caraway bread Makes us dead!” #wyrdwednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Caraway_Bread

Look what arrived in the mail just in time for #FolkloreThursday Willow Winsham’s latest book! Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines Can’t wait to read it!

“There I have my wage, and now I must go away.” #wyrdwednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Little_Fodder_Man_at_Thimmendorf

Abracadabra! In the 2nd century, Romans wore it on triangular amulets to banish fevers — written smaller each line until only “A” remained, fading the sickness away. #Abracadabra #WyrdWednesday🕸️ #BookologyThursday 📖🐈 👉https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18SDshrnBQ/

#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday "Said Hamlet to Ophelia, 'I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?'" Spike Milligan 🎨Pebbled [@DeviantArt]

#Humptydumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Never named an egg in the rhyme itself— It started as a riddle! #Nurseryrhymes #Absurdwords #WyrdWednesday #Bookologythursday

Weird pictures of the day are a couple of vintage Spanish Edgar Rice Burroughs' paperbacks with cover illustrations by Prieto. (Not books I own, btw). #weird #weirdart #artsky #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly #booksky #VintagePaperbacks #EdgarRiceBurroughs