#BookWormSat 📚🍀 Journey into the heroic heart of Irish mythology with The Hound of Ulster ⚔️ A retelling of the legendary Cú Chulainn, the fierce warrior of the Ulster Cycle whose battles, prophecies, and tragic fate helped shape Celtic legend. Heroic, haunting, and steeped in ancient lore 🖤✨

#BookWormSat 📚🍀 Celebrating A. Roland Holst’s birthday and his retelling of Deirdre and the Sons of Usna🖤 From Irish Celtic mythology’s Ulster Cycle, Deirdre’s tragic tale of prophecy, forbidden love, exile & betrayal became known as Deirdre of the Sorrows 💔✨

‘On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires are lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the fairies are at their gayest, and sometime steal away beautiful mortals to be their brides.’ ~ W.B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales… @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of #BookWormSat

‘Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.’ ~ W.B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish. #BookWormSat

#BookwormSat The Cauldron is one of the great recurring symbols of Celtic mythology. Irish myth gives us the 'Coir Ansic' that never runs empty, while Welsh myth has cauldrons that give life to the dead, grant the gift of poetic inspiration, or feed only the brave leaving the cowardly hungry. 1/2

"They, with their wild music as of winds blowing in the reeds, seemed to me the very inmost voice of Celtic sadness, and of Celtic longing for infinite things the world has never seen." -The Celtic Twilight W.B. Yeats #BookWormSat

'I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.' ~W.B. Yeats 🎨'The Silver Apples of the Moon' Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh #BookWormSat

"Be silent for as long as you like," said Rhiannon. "Never has a man been more stupid than you have been." From 'Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed', the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Rhiannon is a powerful Otherworld figure; Pwyll, prince of Dyfed, her suitor 🎨 Alan Lee (1982) #BookWormSat

'She became the most beautiful child of wind and sorrow. Her hair was as waving fire in the wind; her movements like a swan on the waves, a deer over the hills.' Tomorrow, #BookWormSat, celebrates A. Roland Holst's birthday and his story, Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach, with Celtic mythology.

It’s #WorldGothDay 🦇 The Strzyga 🩸 In Polish folklore, a woman born with t2 hearts or double rows of teeth was feared as cursed. After death, she could rise as a winged night predator, hunting the living and feeding on them. To stop her? Decapitation, with the head buried far from the body.

#WorldGothDay Scandinavian nightmare fuel: The Myling 👻 In Nordic folklore, abandoned or slain children return as restless spirits, crying for travelers to carry them to sacred ground. ⚰️ But beware… lift one, and it grows heavier with every step, crushing you beneath grief, terror, or madness. 🌫️

#BookChatWeekly ✨ Wander into an enchanted woodland of fairies, folklore, and forest friends... 🌙🦊🍄 Midsummer Fairies & Forest Friends Coloring Book is blooming soon, filled with magical fairies, woodland creatures, folklore-inspired charm, and midsummer wonder. #Midsummer #Fairies #Folklore

On #FollowFriday/#ff thanks for sharing my posts @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social @ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social @justalurkerlurking.bsky.social @stuwolfie.bsky.social @ularkanojo.bsky.social @mireia3112.bsky.social @niftybuckles.bsky.social @gladwefoundaway.bsky.social @valkyriekaren.bsky.social 🙏

#WyrdWednesday #WorldGothDay “Once upon a midnight dreary…” In bleak December, a grieving scholar is haunted not by ghosts, but by sorrow, shadows, & a raven perched above the door whispering one word: Nevermore Read the whole poem here: t.co/1XUcq2Ds4x #EdgarAllanPoe #TheRaven 🎨David G. Forés

🌼 Tea in hand. Garden nearby. Pen at the ready. Petals & Poetry Journal is your little sanctuary for flower notes, poetry, seasonal reflections, garden memories, and blooming ideas. A place where words grow as beautifully as petals. 🖋️ #GardenJournal #PetalsandPoetry 🛍https://amazon.ca/dp/B0GZZXXNBL

This #WyrdWednesday, with #WorldGothDay near, the #Grotesques & #Gargoyles of #NotreDame murmur through the Paris wind 🖤🌙 “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” 🦇 For centuries, these Gothic stone guardians have watched, warded, and dreamed… Le Stryge still waits 🏰✨

Wyrdlings! With #WyrdWednesday falling on the eve of the Eve of #WorldGothDay, we give you: “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” as this week’s topic! Bring us historic dark tunes, sing us murder ballads and dance like Ms Addams!

Arguably one of the most "Goth Freindly" trad folk songs is 'The Twa Corbies' A Scots language song about two chatty carrion crows discussing the life and death of their next meal, a fallen Knight on a medieval battlefield. #WyrdWednesday youtu.be/sYfNgOuQ2Bo?...

#ShakespeareSunday 🎭 Ophelia: “There’s ROSEMARY, that’s for REMEMBRANCE.” 🌿☕️ Pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts... – Hamlet Act IV, Scene 5 Plant it by your door to ward off evil spirits. 🌿🚪👻 A herb of love, loyalty & protection. 📸 jcomp

#HappyVictoriaDay Weekend, Canada! 🍁 ✨ Folklore tells us that the May Weekend opens summer’s gate, when the Green Man stirs in leaf and branch 🌿 and Lady May dances through gardens in bloom 🌸. (Keep Your Pets safely, indoors as they may be frightened of the fireworks" Noise.) 🎇🐶🙀

Rosings Cottage Darcy and Elizabeth explore a hidden garden at Rosings Park, but can’t find their way out again. Together, they discover what lies beyond the hedgerows. #MrDarcy #Regency #Romance #PrideAndPrejudice #Romancelandia #eBooks #Books 📚💙 mybook.to/RosingsCottage

#BookwormSat 🦢 #Swans 🦢 In The Children of Lir, the swans symbolize more than enchantment, they embody endurance, exile, & the soul’s journey through sorrow. Though changed by curse, the children never lose themselves, their bond surviving 900 yrs of storm. 🌊 #ChildrenofLir

#BookWormSat 🪿🍁 Canadian geese are more than loud sky honkers, they carry centuries of folklore 🪶 Roman legend says sacred geese saved a city with their cries, Norse tales linked them to Valkyries ⚔️❄️, and German folklore says Frau Holle shook goose feathers to make snow ☁️ #CanadianGeese #Goose

#BookWormSat 📚 Blue jays In Native American tales, are clever tricksters like Coyote 🦊, while Southern African American legends call them the “devil’s messenger,” hauling twigs to hell every Friday 🔥🌑 Some say you never see one on Fridays… because they’re busy fueling the underworld 👀🔥📖 #BlueJay

#BookwormSat 🌾 Didukh (Ukraine, Poland, Belarus): brought indoors on Christmas/Yule Eve, set in the holy corner to shelter ancestral souls through the cold until Epiphany. Why birds? Because in winter, the dead were believed to take wing. Feeding birds = feeding ancestors 🎨 Johann Siegwald Dah

#BookwormSat 📖 In Appalachian folklore, low-flying crows signal coming illness. A crow calling three times over a house foretells death. 🐦‍⬛Crows singing before other birds means rain. 🎨 Vincent van Gogh – Wheatfield with Crows (1890)

‘The agony 
Grew. 
Crow 
Grinned 
Crying: 'This is my Creation,' 
Flying the black flag of himself.’ ~ Crow Blacker than ever ~ Hughes. The moral of this story is never say you’re going to do the #BookWormSat post when you’re in hospital and don’t know what day it is. Anyway, the theme is birds. 🐦

‘Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting…’ ~ Mary Oliver And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for an ornithological #BookWormSat 🪶

📚✨ #BookologyThursday “Married when the year is new, he'll be loving, kind & true... Marry in the month of May, and you’ll surely rue the day.” Old folklore warned May was the unluckiest month to wed 🌿🔥 🤺May was the month of Revolutions.

Wyrdlings! With amber-chronicling, myth-processing classic fantasy author Riger Zelazny’s 89th birthday falling on a #WyrdWednesday, we give you: “Old wine in a new bottle: Ancient myths that inspired modern stories!” as this week’s topic – come, join us and tell them!

🐍✨ #FairyTaleTuesday In French & European lore, Melusine’s split serpent tail symbolized her dual nature, mortal and otherworldly, while also representing feminine power, fertility, mystery, and abundance 🌊 A magical water spirit caught between worlds. #Melusine #FairyTaleflash 🧜‍♀️

Ride the waves of #FairyTaleTuesday with Walter Crane’s "Neptune's Horses" (1892) 🌊🐎 Ever notice how crashing surf looks like galloping stallions? Folklore calls them "white horses," a metaphor for the untamed, White Caps of the sea. In myth 🔱 🎨 "Neptune's Horses," by Walter Crane circa 1892

#BookWormSat 🐊 “Never smile at a crocodile… don’t be taken in by his welcome grin” 🐊⏰ In "Peter Pan", the ticking croc is more than comic menace, he symbolizes time itself, forever chasing Captain Hook and the fear of growing older. From Sobek to Neverland, crocodiles endure in myth. #Crocodiles 🐊

#BookWormSat 🧜‍♀️ #Mermaids Morgens, Welsh water spirits without fish tails, haunted rivers and seas, luring mortals to watery doom. Called Mari-Morgans, they echo the lost Breton city of Ys and may share roots with Morgan le Fay and the Lady of the Lake. 🌊🧜✨ #Welsh #WaterSpirits 🎨 Maria Hayes

#BookWormSat 🧝‍♀️👩‍🦰 🧚‍♀️ #ElfLock Elflock ✨ In folklore, tangled hair or a horse’s mane was blamed on #fairies knotting it overnight. Beware untangling it, for bad luck might follow. Even William Shakespeare mentioned elflocks in Romeo and Juliet, through Mercutio’s wild Queen Mab tale. 📚🧚

#BookWormSat 🧚‍♀️🌷 In English folklore, Tulip Fairies vanished when a farmer destroyed their scarlet blooms for crops. Yet each full moon, red tulips return upon one old woman’s grave, a quiet tribute to a mother’s love and lingering magic. 🌷 #Fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🎨 Cicely Mary Barker

A Tinker, damsel? Shakespeare, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMAN, 3.5 #BookWormSat #PeterPan #Tinkerbell

"When good King Arthur ruled in ancient days (A king every Briton loves to praise) This was a land brim-full of fairy folk. [...] But no one now sees fairies any more. For now the saintly charity and prayer Of holy friar seem to have purged the air." - Chaucer, The Wife Of Bath's Tale #BookWormSat

'I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.' Tomorrow, #BookWormSat celebrates J. M. Barrie's birthday with the theme Fairies, Pirates, Mermaids, and Crocodiles! Do join us, but be wary of the crocs! 🐊

🌸 Petals & Poetry Garden Journal by Nifty Buckles is now available on Amazon Canada! 📖✨ A whimsical garden journal filled with poetry, flower lore & inspiration for dreamers, writers & nature lovers. 🌿🐦‍⬛ #MothersDay #Gifts Petals & Poetry Garden Journal on Amazon Canada www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GZZXXNBL

Mother’s Day isn’t simple for everyone. 🌲 My blog explores the Devouring Mother archetype through folklore, #psychology memory & dark fairytale imagery. Some children weren’t protected from the wolves. Some were raised by them. 🐺🕯️ #MothersDay #FairyTale niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/t...

#WyrdWednesday 🕯️🐇 Motherhood sometimes looks less like crowns and halos... and more like a quiet nun protecting a giant rabbit from extinction. Gentleness can be its own kind of magic. 🌿 #SavingGiantRabbits 🐰❤️ #Mothering #Motherhood

#WyrdWednesday 🌙🕯️ Frigg, wise queen of the Norse gods, ruled hearth, #motherhood marriage, and fate itself. She spun the clouds on her jeweled spindle and foresaw every destiny, yet kept silent to shield those she loved. Even Friday bears her name... Frigg’s Day. 🧵🔥 #Frigg #Frigga #NorseMythology

#WyrdWednesday 🕯️👑 Lady Macbeth from Macbeth remains one of literature’s most haunting mothers. “I have given suck…” (Act 1, Scene 7) reveals the ghost of motherhood beneath her ruthless ambition. Even crowned queen, she can't escape blood, guilt, or the darkness. 🩸🌙 #MothersDay #LadyMacBeth

#WyrdWednesday 🕯️ My mother was a strange blend of Hyacinth Bucket from Keeping Up Appearances and Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie. ☕🎭👻 All smarmy charm and impossible standards, like Carol Burnett descending the stairs wearing the curtains as a dress.😜👗 #MothersDay 💐✨ RIP Lola 🤍

Wyrdlings! For the birthday of Sigmund the Great and what with Mother’s Day right around the corner, the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday give you: “Your Mum! Weird Mothers from Grendel’s old lady to Mrs Bates” as this week’s topic – lay down, make yourself comfortable and tell us all about them 👻

#MythologyMonday 🌌🐴 Pegasus, the winged horse of legend 🪽 Born from Medusa’s blood after Perseus’ victory ⚔️, he soared the heavens 🌠 Tamed by Bellerophon to defeat the Chimera 🔥🐉 Honored by Zeus as the Pegasus constellation ✨ A symbol of freedom & inspiration 🌌 #CelestialMyths #Pegasus

#MythologyMonday 🌌 #Maythe4th ✨ In Sumerian mythology, the “Gates of the Gods” were shimmering celestial #portals ✨🚪 linking Earth to the heavens. These divine doorways allowed gods to journey between realms 🌠, symbolizing cosmic connection, sacred travel, and bridge between mortals & divine.

#MythologyMonday 🌌 May the Fourth Be With You ⭐ George Lucas shaped "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope." 1977 & its 1976 novel 📖 as a modern myth via Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. Farm boy ➝ hero 🌵⚔️ Faces the shadow 🌑 Restores balance 🌠 Old myths… new galaxy ✨ #StarWars #Heroes #MayThe4th

🌿✨ May the 4th be with you ✨🌿 Petals & Poetry Garden Journal is coming soon 🌸📖 Where nature meets imagination and every page feels like a quiet walk among the stars. Stay tuned… your next creative adventure is almost here. 🌙🌿 #MayThe4th