🍃💙🍂"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime." 📖W. H. Auden. #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

Wyrdlings! Spring is closing in fast as we prepare our wyrd & wynderful sacre du printemps and give you: “New Hopes, New Beginnings & Renewals!” as this week’s #Wyrdwednesday topic – come, tell us tales of discoveries, of strange revivals and the proverbial rising from the ashes!

The journey homeward to habitual self! A mad pursuing of the fog-born elf, Whose flitting lantern, through rude nettle-briar, Cheats us into a swamp, into a fire. ~John Keats (died #OTD 1821) 🎨Arthur Rackham Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1912)

“… Helga rushed out of bed, grabbed a shield, and held it up, thus saving the old man from impending death…” (After Saxo Grammaticus, “Gesta Danorum”) 🎨 Louis Moe “Helga defends Starkad” (1898) #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration

This #BookologyThursday

Join us this week as #BookologyThursday explores: 🌊 What Lies Beneath 🌊 Creatures, treasures, and monsters that lurk in the depths in literature, art, and lore. art by Sebastian Giacobino

Is #RichardScarry still a thing with little kids these days? I had, IIRC, three of his big books as a kid and loved them. I think about those books from time to time and just ordered my favorite of them from Amazon. So glad the books are still available. Any Richard Scarry fans here?

I've decided to post more vintage crime stuff from my magazine collection. So here's the cover of the March 1938 edition of The Strand Magazine featuring Dorothy L Sayers' immortal detective Lord Peter Wimsy. The story inside is the classic The Haunted Policeman #DorothLSayers #detectives #detection

I just started this compilation which looks excellent #ghoststories #MRJames #ArthurMachen #ArthurConanDoyle #JohnBuchan #AlgernonBlackwood #MargeryLawrence #RoseMacaulay #AlanWace #DorothyQuick #supernatural #ghosts #hauntings #PhantomsFriday

Weird picture of the day: Augusto Roma 'La Vittoriosa', 1915. If I'm right about the design on its gown, this is also suitable for #OwlishMonday. #weird #weirdart #ItalianArt #artsky #Gothic

Rise and Shine!! Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

#PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek THE SNOWBALL FIGHT by Beth Ferry; illus. by Tom Lichtenheld ( @clarionbooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social ): "In this exuberant picture book, Lichtenheld’s spirited illustrations play effortlessly off Ferry’s verses." www.hbook.com/story/review...

Frontispiece for Francis Lawrence Bickley's  "The Adventures of Harlequin" by John Austen, 1923. #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration

Welcome to #WeekofWonders -a place for all of you (also on x) - providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts, photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets. Week 70: #favourite_recipe

'The Midnight Passage,' by Annie Stegg Gerard

Thanks to funding from the Scottish government, ASL is offering free class sets of Donald S. Murray’s play SEQUAMUR – a set text for Higher English – to secondary schools in Scotland. See our website for details: @educationscotland.bsky.social @qualifications.gov.scot asls.org.uk/publications...

Good day, dear Bibliophiles! Wishing you a bit of Monday magic✨ 🎨Robin Kaplan

In Wales, if you want a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin who cleans your home) to live with you, then leave out a cup of cream each night (better yet, a cup of ale). However, bwcas hate teetotalers. If you refuse to drink alcohol, they may kick you or throw plates. 🎨Brian Froud #FolkloreSunday

Weird picture of the day: 'Interior With Mythical Creatures' by Cornelis Saftleven, 1600s. #weird #weirdart #sorcery #magick #mythology #demons #goat #1600s

“Balders bålfærd” Baldur’s Pyre, Louis Moe, 1898 #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration

As I Walked Out One Evening W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam).... youtu.be/HIaAkKPJn_M #poetry #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

#BookChatWeekly „Article 8 It is decreed that the greatest pain always was and always will be inability to bestow love to the one loved and to know that water gives the plant the miracle of the flower.“ ✍️Tiago de Mello, Statutes of Man

1/6 Witch Burning In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks. A thicket of shadows is a poor coat. I inhabit The wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here: I am the dartboard for witches. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3360... #BookwormSat #bookchatweekly #poetry #art #wallart

This alcoholic Oxford drop-out was ‘the best British novelist alive’. And you’ve probably never heard of him Feted by Auden and Woolf alike, Henry Green wrote nine extraordinary novels before retreating into obscurity #BookwormSat #BookchatWeekly

The best debut novelists of 2026 Featuring a GP, a teacher, a former zoologist and a pair of poets, The Observer’s list of rising stars reveals the eight names to watch this year #BookwormSat #BookchatWeekly observer.co.uk/culture/book... #BookwormSat #BookchatWeekly

This one is just for @hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social: a spread from the February 1936 edition of The Strand Magazine. #HughWalpole #Walpole #BookChatWeekly #booksy #1930s

🪶🤍🪶"He wore a metal and bone charm, the first talisman he had found and still his favourite. It was a tiny, lodestone-filled skull of a swallow, the fine beak gilded, two polished silver orbs shining from its eye sockets." 📖Deeper Older Darker. #MythologyMonday #BookChatWeekly #BookSky💙📚💙

"What a long night! I will not change my Horse with any.... When I bestride him, I Soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth Sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his Hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes." - William Shakespeare, "Henry V" (Act 3, Scene 7) #ShakespeareSunday

I don’t think I’ve ever been to Birmingham, as it happens…

Today is the final day for The Animation Experience at Conservation Station, but there's no need to be too gloomy. A similar drawing class is expected to open later this year at Disney's Hollywood Studios while Bluey experiences will arrive at this corner of Disney's Animal Kingdom over the summer.

Sorrow remembers us when day is done. It sits in its old chair gently rocking and singing tenderly in the evening… —Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done” published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

The Japanese monster Gashadokuro is created from the skeletons of those who have died en masse without receiving a proper burial, such as soldiers on a battlefield. It roams the countryside, biting the heads off solitary travelers to drink their blood. #MythologyMonday

Norse god Thor has a chariot pulled by goats, who he occasionally roasts, eats, and resurrects. When he shares this meal with a peasant family, a child breaks a leg bone to suck out the marrow, causing the goat to limp after resurrection. Furious, Thor claims the children as slaves. #MythologyMonday

A Kenyan story tells of a pregnant woman whose husband rubbed a magic ointment on her teeth to make them rich, turning them into elephant ivory. The pain was such that when he tried again she refused and fled, and their son became the first elephant. #MythologyMonday 🖼️ E Kato

Sunbeam, Yellow Sea 23.2.1877. "Another pleasant day. The wind dropped, fires were lighted, and at 4.30pm we proceeded under steam. Soon after seven, whilst we were at dinner, the table gave sudden lurch, which was followed by the sound of rain on the deck above." #Brassey #Travel #History #1870s

For #OwlishMonday a pair of skating, snack bearing, seventeenth century owls

"The Owls are Silent" 🎨 Louis Moe (c 1900) #owlishmonday #goldenageofillustration

🪵✨Happy #PinocchioDay ! In The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, the wooden puppet echoes old folklore: crafted figures brought to life, like golems or enchanted dolls, where truth shapes fate. His growing nose? A timeless warning—lies leave their mark, for all to see.

One of the most common ways to curse someone is to use their teeth: take a tooth and you have a direct connection to their bones, so medieval European thought went, and thus witches sought teeth. Folklorists suggest this may be the origins of the tooth fairy. #MythologyMonday

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Dun walked on through the night till he saw a fire that was shining from a large house, and when he went in he saw a crowd of men, and they fighting. 1/5

Many mythic creatures are identified by their teeth. Fangs signal predation and the boundary between human and beast. #MythologyMonday Art: Gian Bernal

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning ring with raised gothic letters reading "In Memory of" or "In Memoriam". The bezel is black enamel set with an amethyst. Engraved: "John Earl of Upper Ossory Ob. Feb 1818, aet 72" www.fellows.co.uk

Good day, dear Bibliophiles! 🎨Lee Jung Eun #BookChatWeekly

#BookologyThursday Indomitable Spirits Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne Shirley snaps back: 'You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,' said Anne reproachfully. 'People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.' #AnneofGreenGables 👩‍🦰🌿 #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖🐈

#BookologyThursday "The Ouzel [of Cilgwri] said, 'When first I came hither, there was a smith's anvil here, and as for me I was a young bird. No work has been done on it save whilst my beak was thereon every evening. Today there is not so much of it as a nut not worn away.'" The Mabinogion

“There is something mysteriously attractive in all that nixies do. Under the quiet water there may lie hidden so much that is sweet or terrible! The fishes, who may know somewhat thereof, are ever mute; or do they keep silence because they are cunning?” (Heine)   #folklorethursday #bookologythursday

#BookologyThursday 📚🦄 Medieval lore—echoed in the Physiologus—claimed a unicorn’s horn could purify poison. When a serpent tainted a lake, the unicorn touched the waters, cleansing them so all creatures could safely drink. #EcoUnicorn #Unicorns 🎨 Remedios Varo

“The waves eventually devour Both sailor and boat, I believe; A deed which with her singing, Lorelei did achieve” In 1824, Heine’s “Lore-Ley” established the Rhine siren sitting singing on her rock, combing her hair & luring boatmen to their watery grave #folklorethursday #bookologythursday

I caught a glimpse of someone standing. A woman. That woman. She was looking directly toward me. The Woman in Black Susan Hill Nick Tankard #BookologyThursday