Happy #ChineseNewYear ! 😺🪙 The Maneki-neko beckons prosperity. Today marks Lunar New Year: Year of the Fire Horse, galloping in energy, boldness & fortune! SIGN UP ON MY SITE and Grab your FREE e-guide, "10 Folklore Ways to Attract Wealth & Prosperity niftybucklesfolklore.fun/free-folklor...

#MythologyMonday 🕸️✨ In Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, the spider becomes a fate-weaver. Like the Norns of old, Charlotte spins destiny into her web—words as spells, silk as salvation. A barnyard tale, yet steeped in ancient myth: that language itself can alter the threads of life. 🐖🕷️ #Charlottesweb

#MythologyMonday ✨ #Dragonflies shimmer between worlds. In Japanese lore they were emblems of courage & victory; in parts of Europe they were called “devil’s darning needles,” feared yet fascinating. Born in water, rising to air, they embody transformation, illusion & the magic of midsummer light. 💫

#MythologyMonday In Celtic #Buglore, a ladybug with fewer than 7 spots foretold a plentiful harvest 🌾🍀 If one lands on you, luck follows—but harm it and misfortune stirs. In Norse lands, the “Lady” may once have echoed Freyja—goddess of love & fertility. 🐞✨ #Ladybugs

To win a copy of Bring Me Love by our pal @icysedgwick.bsky.social as heard on today's Valentine Magic special, follow us both then comment on this post with your favourite romantic gesture from across history, mythology or folklore! 🖤 #valentinesday #folklore #bringmelove #lovemagic #competition

I've just posted the February paid episode of Fabulous Folklore, exploring the Roman festival of Parentalia, offering devotion to the family dead! It's on Substack and Patreon... open.substack.com/pub/fabulous...

#NationalFlagofCanadaDay 61 years of our bold 🍁 rising strong. We celebrate resilience & unity, & our hearts are with Tumbler Ridge B.C. —holding the families of the 6 precious children & educator lost too soon. 💔🙏

#Catlore 🐈‍⬛ Viking ships carried Norwegian Forest Cats as fearless mousers, guarding grain from rodents and helping prevent plagues. Their cousins? The mighty Maine Coon in America. And the old lore whispers: 'When you gaze into a Norwegian cat's eyes, you may catch a glimpse of the fairy world.'

#BookwormSat The goddess Venus sends her son Cupid to punish mortal Psyche for her beauty but Cupid falls for her instead, defying his mother’s command. Their tale reminds us that gods and mortals alike can suffer; when jealousy poisons the heart, only love and trust can bind & redeem — the soul.

#BookwormSat 📚 #ValentinesDay 💝 On Valentine’s Eve, run the churchyard 12 times at midnight. Get it right, and your destined love drifts toward you — pale and waiting. Stumble once… and what follows may not leave. #SuperstitionSat 🪦🐈‍⬛ #ValentinesFolklore 💕👻 Gif: #NiftyBucklesFolklore

#BookwormSat 📚 #valentinesDay Welsh lovespoons hand-carved from a single piece of wood, a suitor’s proof of love and skill (recorded as early as 1667).Hearts for love, chains for forever, caged balls for hoped-for children, locks & keys for held hearts, bells for marriage, dragons for protection.

‘Love loves to love love.’ ~ James Joyce, Ulysses. This #BookWormSat is Valentine’s Day so we will welcome all aspects of love in literature for the day. Bring us romance or the unrequited, bring us star-crossed lovers or your favourite anti-Valentine. ♥️ 🖼️ Marie Spartali Stillman

‘Who in this world has never glimpsed Love's face? Who has not yearned, who has not joined the chase?’ ~ Vitsentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos, transl. Theodore Stephanides. #BookWormSat ❤️🩷❤️‍🩹💔 🖼️ Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou

Happy #ValentinesDay 💝 #BookWormSat 📖 Featured by Shehanne Moore & the cheeky Hamster Dudes! We talked about my New Ebook,Granny Magic Chocolates — a cozy Appalachianfolk magic, healing hearts one truffle at a time. Read the interview + grab your copy: shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/o...

#PhantomFriday 🐈‍⬛✨ #FridaytheThirteenth 🐈‍⬛

Happy Friday the 13th! 🐈‍⬛✨ The black cat was revered long before it was feared. Friday the 13th merely inherited the myth. Shadows don’t equal misfortune. 🐈‍⬛✨ Photo of the late horror actor, Vincent Price & Phantom.

#FairyTaleTuesday 💕 #ValentinesDay 💘 Before chocolate, there were roses. 🌹 Sacred to Venus. Crowned by Sappho. Red whispers devotion. Pink breathes tenderness. White guards dreams. From altar bloom to velvet box — desire, still blooming. 💘🍫

#FairyTaleTuesday 💍🏺 February baby before the 19th? You’re Aquarius ♒ — the rebel visionary of the zodiac. Amethyst = clarity + calm + soulmate energy Violet = loyalty Iris = wisdom. Primrose = fresh starts Pro tip: Slip a violet under your pillow & set your intention… Happy Birthday! 🎉

#MythologyMonday 🦉 The owl soars as a symbol of piercing wisdom and veiled secrets in Roman lore. Sacred to Minerva (Roman counterpart to Greek Athena), goddess of wisdom, strategy, justice, victory, commerce, weaving, and protector of artisans, the owl—known as the Owl of Minerva or Owl of Pallas.

#MythologyMonday 🦉 The Meaning: The juxtaposition of the serious, devotional text about the necessity of God's involvement in human endeavors with the absurd, satirical image of animals in clerical roles is typical of medieval humor. #OwlishMonday 🦉

#Caturday 😺🌿 Old Polish legend: A mother cat wept as her kittens drowned chasing butterflies. Kind willows dipped their branches, saving the tiny paws that clung tight. Ever since, each spring pussy willows bloom with soft, fuzzy 'catkin' buds where those kittens gripped! #PussyWillowLore 🌿🐈

#BookWormSat Celebrating Dickens' birthday with The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) a tale of gentle Little Nell & her grandfather fleeing debt through Victorian shadows. “There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings which are only struck by accident." — Master Humphrey

#BookWormSat Celebrating Charles Dickens' birthday with his gripping 1837–1839 masterpiece, Oliver Twist—a timeless tale of poverty, resilience, and the dark underbelly of Victorian London. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

‘You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.’ ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. #BookwormSat

‘A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other’ 📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities📷 Cover of Serial Vol.5, 1859 #BookWormSat

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.’ ~ Dickens, Great Expectations. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a Dickensian #BookWormSat

“… a little straw hat trimmed with cherry-coloured ribbons, and worn the merest trifle on one side-just enough in short to make it the wickedest and most provoking head-dress that ever malicious milliner devised.” (Charles Dickens “Barnaby Rudge”) 🎨 W.P. Frith “Dolly Varden” (1842) #bookwormsat

Hearts confined with cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged. David Copperfield Charles Dickens Anselm Feuerbach #BookWormSat

“The bare idea!”, Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom! ~ Great Expectations, Charles Dickens. #BookWormSat

‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’ ~ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of Charles Dickens with a day of wholly Dickens, more Dickens with a side of Dickens. Join us.

#PhantomFriday 👻 On Valentine's Eve in old English folklore, run around a church 12x at midnight—if done right, the phantom of your future lover appears as a ghost. Miss it, and who knows what spirit shows up instead? #SuperstitionSat 🪦🐈‍⬛ #ValentinesFolklore 💕👻 Gif: #NiftyBucklesFolklore

“7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers” Tom Metcalfe Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...

The Fairy Butterfly's Flight There once was a fairy so spry, With wings like a butterfly high. She flitted through glades, In flower-strewn shades, Carrying souls to the sky. In meadows where moonlight would gleam, She'd whisper of transformation's dream. A flutter bug supreme! ©2026 Nifty Buckles

#FolkloreThursday 🌼🫖 Primroses, those gentle golden heralds of #Spring, spin a luminous web of lore around rebirth & regrowth. In British tradition, the pale "first roses" unlock fairy realms. 🧚‍♀️ Welsh healers steeped petals into warming teas to chase away chills and restore vigor. #PrimroseTea 🌼

Today is #WesternMonarchDay 🦋 These incredible butterflies have plummeted by over 90% since the 1990s. They’re not just beautiful—they’re vital pollinators making an epic 3,000-mile journey each year. Let’s act: ✅ Plant native milkweed ✅ Avoid pesticides ✅ Support conservation Every garden helps!

“Barely Spring, a colourful complexion of the moon and a plum blossom” (Basho) 🎨 Ohara Koson #snowmoon #ukiyoe

#WyrdWednesday 🐉🔥 The Muckle Mester Stoorworm, darkest dragon in all folklore — yawns the Baltic Sea into being, scatters teeth as Orkney & Faroe isles. Its liver crashes as burning Héla volcano; one breath poisons half Scotland. Once slain, its blood clots into peat that still burns today #Dragons

#WyrdWednesday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📖 Across Welsh hills and Germanic forests, the European dragon takes wing: fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding sentinel of chaos. 🔥🐲 #Dragons Winged terror, emblem of primordial fury—yet its legend still scorches our tales today. E. Nesbit’s The Book of Dragons (1900).

#WyrdWednesday 🦕🦘 In Bedrock, prehistory never quite ends—dinosaurs linger as loyal pets, tails wagging like dogs across the aeons. Dino the Snorkasaurus bounds with pure joyful chaos, while Hoppy the Hopparoo (kangaroo-dino hybrid?) leaps in to save the day.

My New EBook is Available Today! "Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles. When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day! Website: www.niftybucklesfolklore.fun Payhip: payhip.com/b/qk7FL

#MythologyMonday 🧚‍♀️🌳 In Irish lore, lone hawthorn trees (fairy thorns) are sacred homes of the Aos Sí portals to the Otherworld. Cut one? Invite illness, misfortune, or fairy wrath—roads rerouted & farmers spared them for centuries! 🛣️ At Beltane, gather blossoms for fertility & protection. 💮

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An interesting report on the role of bookshops in the community. Focused on Wales but can equally apply to England, Wales, Ireland 📚📚📚🌞 www.booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...

#imbolc 🔥☕️ As we welcome the first signs of spring at Imbolc, let's raise a mug to Brigid, the goddess of fire, poetry, and healing. Her festival marks the awakening of the Earth. s. What better way to honor her than with the warmth of hot chocolate on this #NationalHotChocolateDay ☕️🍫🔥 #brigid

February weather. #Folklore When the cat lies in the sun in February.She will creep behind the stove in March. Of all the months of the year
Curse a fair February. If it thunders in February,it will frost in April. If February give much snow,
A fine summer it doth foreshow.

The February issue of "Cumbria and Lakeland Walker' magazine is out now It includes my regular article on Cumbrian folklore, and this month I explore the more unusual folk remedies, including rusty nails, slugs and nettles

Poetry here 💖 ebook and print 👍🏽 www.amazon.com/Songs-Depths...

Happy February 1st, 2026! 🐰🗣️ Dive into this charming old UK folklore superstition: Upon waking on the first of each month, before saying anything else, utter White Rabbit, 3X aloud. This old verbal charm recorded im 1909 in English journals invites good luck, protection, all month long.

#BookWormSat 📚🧙‍♀️🕷️ In Marlon James' Moon Witch, Spider King — Sogolon's fierce, centuries-spanning tale of survival, revenge & magic in an African-inspired world. Griot-like voice, raw storytelling, & clashing perspectives that reframe truth. Feels like epic legend spoken by firelight! 🗣️🔥

#BookWormSat ancient Welsh gem: The Mabinogion — oral tales passed down by storytellers before medieval scribes wrote them. Spotlight: Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr — princess's marriage sparks war; her giant brother Brân fights on, his severed head guards Britain as a speaking talisman 🎨 Talia Took