#FairyTaleTuesday 🐦‍⬛ #Crows 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. Never kill a crow—bury it wearing black if you do. 🌧️🪶 🎨Vincent van Gogh – Wheatfield with Crows (1890)

#FairyTaleTuesday 🌬️🐈🐩🌧️ Library of Congress (Everyday Mysteries): “Odin, the Norse god of storms, was often pictured with dogs and wolves, symbols of wind. Witches rode brooms during storms with black cats as signs of heavy rain. Thus, ‘raining cats and dogs’ for wind (dogs) + rain (cats).”

This was our field test of the Darwind5 VAWT. (NOT AI) youtu.be/2Fo1gTh7nJQ

#MythologyMonday – BABY ANIMALS! 🐶🦡 In the ancient hunting lore of Germany, dachshund pups (literally “badger dogs”) are born with the heart of fearless warriors. 🏹 These tiny, long-bodied sausage pups, 🐾descended from centuries of brave hunters—wiggle into dark burrows with unstoppable courage. 💖

This was our proud Harvistor team back in Picton, Ontario 2012. I branded it the 'Darwind5,'VAWT My first Wind baby! 👶 🌬💙

Wishing you all a Happy Easter! 🐰🥚 🐶💖

#BookWormSat 📚 “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” — Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy Artist: Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (1832–1883).

#BookwormSat 📚🔥 Theme: Hell & Purgatory Detail from André Orsel’s 1832 "Good and Evil": Lucifer tempts a young woman, pulling her toward hell’s flames in the battle of good vs evil. 🎨👹

#BookwormSat 📚🪽 Guido Reni’s 1635 Baroque masterpiece: Archangel Michael pins contorted Satan underfoot as graceful Roman soldier, triumphing over evil. Housed in Rome’s Santa Maria della Concezione.

'She could plunder in front of hell and return unscathed.' -Flemish proverb 🎨Pieter Bruegel the Elder #BookWormSat

'Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from hell a human soul.' -William Blake @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! Art by Eugène Delacroix.

‘There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell…’ ~ Poe, The Premature Burial. This #BookWormSat flings itself into the fires of hell in literature. Join us in purgatory for a underworldly and fiery day of hellishness.

Happy Easter 🐰🏴 to all who wear the tartan 💚—Scottish, Welsh & Irish—and to all my friends near & far—Beannachdan na Càisge! 🌸🥚✨

🥳🎃🐎 #PhantomFriday Happy Birthday Washington Irving! 243 years old. Born on this day in 1783, Irving became one of America’s earliest short story trailblazers. He’s best known for classics like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and honestly… don’t lose your head over this one. 😉 #BookChatWeekly 📖🐈🎃

#FolkloreThursday In #Spring, lilacs release a sweet, heady fragrance, believed in folklore to shield against evil spirits with their purple & white blooms. #lilacs

#HappyGoodFriday !🐰🥚✝️ On Good Friday in old England: bake hot cross buns—they never mould & protect your home from fire & ills. Skip with long ropes for luck & harvests. 🥐 No digging iron tools in the earth! ⛏️ Hang the bread for protection. 🥐✝️ #EnglishFolklore

See you next week on #BookologyThursday

Happy Easter! 🐰🌸 Meet the magical Osterhase—bringing spring, color, and folklore to life. From March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore Color the magic. Awaken the season. Shop on Amazon 🛍️ amazon.com/dp/B0GSJD6JPT

#BookologyThursday ⚰️🐇 Victorian post mortem photo. This tiny, somber 1845 daguerreotype shows a pet rabbit named Genushe, captured in a post-mortem portrait. Dressed in doll clothes and holding flowers, Genushe was memorialized after death in this rare Victorian-era memento. Photographer unknown. 🕯️🐰

#BookologyThursday 📚 🧚‍♀️🌼 In #Victorian Britain & Ireland, Fairy belief still lingered in hedgerows and hearths—iron was kept close to ward off their mischief, and whispers of changelings haunted families. Meanwhile, cunning folk offered charms and remedies to keep the unseen at bay. 🧲 #BokChatWeekly

#WitchyWednesday 🐰 Rabbits = luck Say White Rabbit 3x upon rising. April Fools’ roots? 1582 calendar shift, mischief & a hint of Chaucer. Celebrate spring magic with my coloring book March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore 🍀 🛍️ amazon.com/dp/B0GSJD6JPT #AprilFoolsDay #Book #WhiteRabbit

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#MythologyMonday ✨🐇 #Ostara Eostre, goddess of spring, walks the waking earth as playful hares leap at her side, counting enchanted eggs—symbols of rebirth and fertility. Count the eggs, a patterns of renewal. Page from March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches. 🛍️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSJD6JPT

#MythologyMonday 🌿✨ From my Amazon coloring book March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSJD6JPT Three Hares chasing in a perfect circle, form a symbol of threefold symmetry. Like the Triskele (3200 BC), iSacred #3: life cycles, fertility, and lunar magic. 🌒✨

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

📚 #BookWormSat “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1 🎭 With a final bow Puck reminds us it was all but a dream- where magic & mischief danced. #ShakespeareWeek

📚 #BookWormSat 🎭 “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” — As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 From entrances to exits, we each play our part in life’s great story. Shakespeare reminds us that every role—no matter how small—shapes the play. ✨ #ShakespeareWeek

‘(F)or the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl.’ ~ Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Sc 2. #BookWormSat #ShakespeareWeek

‘But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.’ ~ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of #BookWormSat and our Bardish foray into #ShakespeareWeek 🖼️ The Sonnet, William Mulready, 1839.

‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.’ ~ Shakespeare, Henry V. This #BookWormSat belongs to Shakespeare since it’s #ShakespeareWeek so dust off the sonnets, polish the tragedies and histories, gather the comedies and let’s celebrate The Bard.

So fabulous to see the skill of detectorists integrated into an archaeological project and with all finds going to a local museum, with no 'reward', so they can be shared and 'treasured' by everyone! Perfect! ❤️ #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

The ‘Weird Sisters’ of ‘Macbeth’ make their first appearance in the Scottish chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun, c. 1420. Because ‘weird’ has the sense of ‘fate,’ it is thought that the Weird Sisters may derive from the three Norns, Norse goddesses of Fate. #BookWormSat

#PhantomsFriday #WorldTheatreDay The true history of pepper’s ghost, 1890, Professor Pepper (John Henry) The True History of the Ghost; and All About Metempsychosis. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890 www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#Caturdayeve 🐈📚 #Bookchatweekly

#FairyFriday 🧚‍♀️🕺🍄 Fairy rings are also called elf or witches" rings. If a person steps within it they may be forced to dance till they perish or vanish through a portal. Its' dew may heal & the sprits guard its' treasure.

#PhantomFriday 👻 Along the misty edge of Deadman’s Bay in Kingston, Ontario, shadows walk where no living soul stands… On quiet nights, figures are seen drifting through the fog—gone the moment you draw near. 👻 Some believe they are the restless dead, forever tied to the water that claimed them.

The smell of thyme would sometimes mysteriously emanate from the garden of a cottage in Llanasa, North Wales, even though the herb didn't grow there. The aroma was a ghostly one, recalling he murder of two children whose bodies had been buried beneath a bed of thyme #PhantomsFriday #fingerpostfriday

"But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition. Assume your proper shapes, gormandizers, and begone to the sty!" (Nathaniel Hawthorne "Tanglewood Tales") 🎨 Edmund Dulac #bookologythursday #booksky #bookillustration

9pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR Julian Barnes: Beyond the Page Acclaimed and award-winning writer Julian Barnes talks to Katie Razzall about his literary life, preoccupation with death, why he's written his final novel & missing his readers. #BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday 📚🐦‍⬛ In Appalachian granny magic, crows were seen as wise watchers messengers between worlds. 🌐 Their caws could warn of change, while a found feather may be used for protection. A murder of crows near the home was read as a sign the veil was stirring & the unseen had noticed.

#BookologyThursday 📚 In the 15th century, witch bottles were used as protection against dark magic. Hidden/buried, they contained fingernails & urine ingredients believed to trap harmful spells. The Bellarmine “Greybeard” bottles were named after Robert Bellarmine, an era of omens & religious fear.

#BookologyThursday 📚🌿 Sassafras, used in Appalachian granny magic, was brewed as a spring tonic to cleanse body and spirit—and its roots were the original flavor of early root beer. Old mountain recipe: 2–3 pieces sassafras root + 4–6 cups water. Boil, then simmer 15–20 mins until deep red. Strain

#BookologyThursday 🔮 Orbs of Eternal Snare In 18th-century England and New England, witch balls—iridescent glass spheres—hung in windows to ward off curses and misfortune. Drawn by their shimmer, malignant spirits were believed to slip inside, becoming trapped in the tangled inner threads.

I had a bit of fun with my new logo

#WyrdWednesday 🌿✨ Foxglove rises like a row of faery bells in the woodland shade… In British and Irish folklore, these blooms were called “fairy gloves,” marking the hidden paths of the Good Folk. Beautiful—yet every petal carries its poison. Not every faery gift is meant for us. 🧚

#WyrdWednesday 🌿✨ Beneath the blooming hawthorn, the air shimmers with old magic… In Celtic folklore, these trees mark the hidden paths of the Sídhe—guardians of thresholds where our world brushes the Otherworld. Tread softly. Not every blossom welcomes you. 🍃

Wyrdlings! For Novalis’ birthday on #WyrdWednesday and in honour of his Blue Flower of Romanticism, we give you: “Mysterious, Mythical and Magical Plants” as this week’s topic. Come and share tales of mandragoras, world-ashs and all the flowers of evil you can think of!

#FairyTaleTuesday 🌿 #FairyTaleFlash ✨ March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore — an adult coloring book inspired by Celtic & European lore. 🍀 Leprechauns 🐇 Shapeshifting hares 🧙‍♀️ Witches on the spring wind Unwind, create, and awaken the season. 🌸 🛍️ amazon.com/dp/B0GSJD6JPT

#MythologyMonday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #HoundsofAnwnn In Welsh folklore, the Cŵn Annwn—hounds of Annwn—roam the Otherworld as spectral hunters. White with red ears, they're fiercely loyal to Gwyn ap Nudd, their howls haunting the mists. 🌌🐾 #WelhFolklore #FurryFriends 🎨Hounds of Anwnn art by David Martin Roberts.