The most common legend about King Arthur's fate is that he sleeps in Avalon. However, there is a Cornish legend that Arthur has been reincarnated as a raven who watches over Britain until he is most needed. Thus, for a long time it was taboo to kill a raven in Cornwall. #FolkloreSunday

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup 📖 The Predicament by William Boyd 📖 The Killer Question by Janice Hallett 📖 The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman 📖 59 Minutes by Holly Seddon 📖 Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes #BookchatWeekly #SundayBookChoices

6:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 1995, Omnibus 2 (of 2) 📻 “The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux” abridged by Andrew Simpson & read by Jack Klaff #GastonLeroux's novel🎥 was first published in 1909. 📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookchatWeekly

"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!'" - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" (Act 2, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #BookChatWeekly

Current read. Fascinating. Death in Early America by Margaret Coffin The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning.

'one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.' – Melville, Moby Dick

"Something swept with a terrific, rushing noise about the little camp and seemed to surround it entirely in a single moment of time. Defago turned to the woods behind, and with the same stumbling motion that had brought him - was gone." - Algernon Blackwood, 'The Wendigo' #Blackwood #fantasy

CALLING SHAPES & BECKONING SHADOWS Rackham's folkloric fairy trees (1914) are unsettling and windblown calling forth the shadows to celebrate impending darkness as the winter months approach #FolkloreSunday

"Low by the wall is my odourless flower, So pure, so controlled, not a fume is above her, That poet or bee should delay there and hover; For she is a silence, and therefore I love her." - from 'The Japanese Anemone' by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920). #poetry #flowers

“We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.” 📖 “Black Beauty” ~ Anna Sewell, 1877 #BookchatWeekly 🎥 “Black Beauty”, 1971 2pm TODAY @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.” 📖 “Black Beauty” ~ Anna Sewell, 1877 #BookchatWeekly 🎥 “Black Beauty”, 1971 2pm TODAY @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

4pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 Take Four Books, Graham Norton Bafta Award-winning broadcaster and novelist Graham Norton discusses his fifth novel📖, Frankie, and the three books that inspired its creation. #BookchatWeekly

Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for everyone who needs one✨

Excited to reveal I have a piece on the vampire's lost reflection in this issue on The Mirror. The artwork looks fantastic, and I can't wait to read the other contributions.

GHOST APPLES The uncanny name for when freezing rain settles on the fruit & ices over creating a frozen coating. The apple defrosts before the ice does & the rotting apple falls out of the bottom leaving its gothic icy 'ghost' behind! #FolkyFriday

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Book titles that summarize my life these days: I'm Busy & I Want To Read ALL The Books. 😁 🦋My Unofficial Guide To Bluesky: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl... I'm Debbie Ridpath Ohi, 🇨🇦 #KidLit author & illustrator. More about me & my work at DebbieOhi.com. What I'm working on: @work.debbieohi.com

🤍🌹🤍"Speak low, if you speak love." 🦋Much Ado About Nothing. #ShakespeareSunday

'I wandered with dear Autumn as far as I could go, and in the end, I didn't leave. I kept her in my soul.' ~Angie Weiland-Crosby

I loved "John Carter." Few science fiction action movies have such unique aesthetic, such imaginative fighting scenes, such energy, such poetic language. When the movie bombed, I realized just how out of sync I am with all other sci-fi fans.

• Wendell Berry •

Shelter somebody, and accept that sometimes you need somebody to shelter you. 🌱

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Insane haul today at the library book sale - seven books for seven dollars ... the librarian told us they had been donated and the donor worried that the books were too niche to sell ... I've been searching for some of these for AGES 🤓

Eothen #Montreal #Canada 21.9.1872. "...we had the Lachine Rapids to shoot...the water twirled & boiled in innumerable whirlpools & as our bow was pointed towards a huge rock, destruction seemed inevitable...she took two successive leaps of six feet down over the ledges of rock..." #Brassey #1870s

🖤🐦‍⬛🖤Ravens are said to carry messages between the Otherworld and mortal realms. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

Griffin, Martin Schongauer, ca. 1435–1491 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith, publicity photo for Guy Hamilton's "Evil Under The Sun", 1982 #AgathaChristie

UPDATE: Have heard from the rider his name is ‘Old Master Bucca’

The slight gust of wind you feel in woodland is the brush of a passing angel's wing

above and below… it is impossible to count the stars #GreenSat #haikusaturday #shahai #moss #haiku #haikuchallenge 📷 my iPhone

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.” 📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851 #BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat 🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956 4:10pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed 10,000 years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” -E.O. Wilson www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1461... #BookwormSat #art #bookchatweekly #illustration

6:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2008, omnibus of 📻 “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” Paul Theroux’s 2008 travel book📖 abridged by Doreen Estall and read by Stuart Milligan 📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookchatWeekly

7pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR Agatha Christie: An Unfinished Portrait Arena Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author #AgathaChristie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhood that influenced her writing. #BookchatWeekly

Washington Irving's Headless Horseman, the terror Sleepy Hollow, was said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier, decapitated by a canon ball in the Revolutionary War. At night, the phantom horseman was often seen in the graveyard, searching for his lost head. #BookChatWeekly #folklore

“Nothing is more painful than to be prevented by our physical, our animal nature from being of service to reason.” 📖 “The Magic Mountain” ~ Thomas Mann, 1924 #BookchatWeekly #BoookwormSat 📻 “The Magic Mountain” Ep 3 of 3 3pm on @BBCRadio4

Fantastic Four Cover A Day: The Fantastic Four #41 (Release Date: May 11, 1965. Cover Date: August 1, 1965.) Writer: Stan Lee Penciller: Jack Kirby Featuring: Frightful Four (Thing joins) #FantasticFour

7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 1995, Ep 10 (of 10) 📻 “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” - “Fate” Gaston Leroux's 1909 novel📖 abridged by Andrew Simpson Read by Jack Klaff 📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2011, Ep 5 (of 10) of Drama 📻 “THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL” -“Matrimony” directed by David Hunter Anne Brontë’s 1848 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce 🌟 Robert Lonsdale, Hattie Morahan, Leo Bill, Samuel Bridger, Carolyn Pickles #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

8:35pm TODAY on @pbsuk.bsky.social The 2021 Documentary 📺 “Agatha Christie's England” directed by Toby Roebuck Retracing #AgathaChristie's footsteps across England, exploring some of the real places that inspired her fictional works. #BookchatWeekly

In 1869, Punch magazine caricatured fashionable Victorian ladies as mutating into wasps and beetles — "Mr. Punch's Designs after Nature. Might not Wasp-Waisted Young Ladies adopt this Costume with Advantage?" #WyrdWednesday

“If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.” 📖 “All The King’s Men” ~ Robert Penn Warren, 1946 #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday 🎥 “All The King’s Men”, 1949 2:45pm TODAY on @Film4

“The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole. 📖 “The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893 #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday 📺 “A Good Read” with Mike Read 2:15pm @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

4:05pm TODAY on @pbsuk.bsky.social Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple To mark the 100th anniversary of #AgathaChristie's first novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, this documentary looks at her life & ten of her most famous books. #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

#BookologyThursday 📚🐦‍⬛👑 #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖 #Pets #Cronus 🐦‍⬛ King Cronus My murder of crows dives with cheer, King Cronus, all chatty, draws near! He swipes sourdough bread, which is new, Talks treats till I'm red, Kindly sharing his crumbs with his crew! 🕊️🍞 — Nifty Buckles Folklore

Thank you for your incredible posts, dear Bibliophiles! Wishing you a lovely evening. See you next week on #BookologyThursday art by Dee Nickerson🐈‍⬛✨

"He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars." - T. H. White, "The Sword in the Stone" 🎨Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix #BookologyThursday

Shakespeare’s witches summon “Graymalkin” and “Paddock,” a cat and a toad, as if pets themselves were co-conspirators in fate. The line between companion and familiar vanishes in a puff of smoke. #BookologyThursday Art: Ocean's Bridge