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Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨ art by Charles Lepec (1874)

Modern storytellers reimagine dragon treasure in new forms. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea, the greatest treasure a dragon guards is language itself, the true names of things. To master words is to master the world. #BookologyThursday

In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread. Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk’s flight On the empty sky. #bookologyThursday

Fairy tales sometimes soften the dragon into helper. In Eastern Europe, tales tell of three-headed dragons who, when defeated or befriended, gift the hero with magical objects: flying carpets, crowns, golden apples. #BookologyThursday

Prince Charming and the wooing of La Belle La Belle et la Bête Felix de Gray, 1926 #BookologyThursday

For an enchanting evening, head over to #BookologyThursday @bookcat.bsky.social

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Martin’s Stane is a 6th-7th century Pictish stone recording the tale of Martin and the Dundee Dragon. While the stone has undergone some weathering in its many years, the shape of the fearsome beast and the hero on horseback can […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The “wyrm” of Anglo-Saxon poetry was not just monster but metaphor. A coiled, glimmering dragon curled around treasure symbolized greed itself. Wealth that consumes the one who covets it. #BookologyThursday

"Woe to the red dragon, for his banishment hasteneth on. His lurking holes shall be seized by the white dragon, which signifies the Saxons whom you invited over; but the red denotes the British nation, which shall be oppressed by the white." - Geoffrey of Monmouth #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday 📚🐉 Dragons leap off the pages in J.K. Rowling’s #HarryPotter: from Norbert(a) in Philosopher’s Stone (1997) to the Triwizard Tournament’s beasts in Goblet of Fire (2000) & the Gringotts guardian in Deathly Hallows (2007) #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖 🎨 Norbert (a) by Alex Radfield

#BookologyThursday 📚 🐉✨ In folklore and spiritual traditions worldwide, the Dragon often symbolizes the inner beast—our fears, passions, and transformative power. Embracing the Dragon within us can lead to growth, wisdom, and self-discovery. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

#BookologyThursday 📚 #WelshDragon 🐉 🐉✨ Dive into the legend of the Welsh Dragon—an enduring symbol of strength, resilience, and national pride. From ancient folklore in the Mabinogion to the vibrant flag of Wales, this fiery creature embodies centuries of myth and identity. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

#BookologyThursday: `To this very day, people in the area of Owenreagh say they feel fear when they cross certain parts of Lough Foyle, and the odd tides and disturbances in the water's currents defy explanation. When the river Owenreagh floods, they say it is […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C.S. Lewis #BookologyThursday

In art, Renaissance painters loved dragons as symbols of sin vanquished. Saint George spears the beast while maidens kneel. The dragon’s death is the triumph of virtue over vice, treasure of the soul over glittering lies. #BookologyThursday

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” 📖 “Jane Eyre” ~ Charlotte Brontë, 1847 #BookologyThursday #BookchatWeekly 📺 “Jane Eyre”, 1997 4:30pm TODAY @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "The Death of Fráech" is a poem from The Book of the Dean of Lismore In this story Medb, Queen of Connacht, who has been described as fair haired and beautiful, is jealous of Fráech’s love for Findabair. Findabair is said to be her […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

2/2 ...such as oft essay at hour of morn on the road-of-sails their ruthless quest, -- and sea-snakes and monsters. -Beowulf (Old English) 🎨Arthur Rackham www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3401... #art #vintage #illustrationart #poetry #poem #BookologyThursday #bookchatweekly #dragons #literature

1/2 ...The band sat down, and watched on the water worm-like things, sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep, and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness -- 🎨Gustave Dore www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1472... #BookologyThursday #art #vintage #illustration #literature #giftidea #bookchatweekly

“heroes, unfairly armed with flame-resisting armour […] were encouraged by certain underground elements & against the wishes & interests of the bulk of the population, to interfere between princess & dragon” —The dragon Uggi teaches history in Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT #BookologyThursday 💙📚

In the West, dragons are greedy hoarders of gold. In the East, they are honorable guardians of cosmic treasures. Could their shared origin have embodied both traits? #BookologyThursday

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit was a childhood favorite of C. S. Lewis and an influence on his Narnia books. He once mentioned to a friend that he wanted his book to be "in the tradition of E. Nesbit." #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `When Saint Patrick banished the serpents from Ireland, there was at least one who was overlooked, perhaps because he slumbered or was abroad himself, and that one was called Lig na Paiste, or the “Last Great Reptile”. Soon after […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

It's not often you see the bum-end of a #dragon. Illustration by H R Millar for 'The Seven Dragons' by Edith Nesbit (The Strand 1899). The caption: 'He Only Ate An Orphanage' is not something one would expect to see in a children's story. #BookologyThursday

A girl and her dragon for #bookologythursday Drome by John Martin Leahy. 1952, cover art also by Leahy. #booksky

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. ~John Trelawney, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated by Angel Dominguez #BookologyThursday

1/3 'The Dragon Of Grindly Grun' I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun, I breathe fire as hot as the sun. When a knight comes to fight I just toast him on sight, Like a hot crispy cinnamon bun. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1641... #BookologyThursday #art #poetry #bookchatweekly #fairytale #illustrationart

I think of this as a mature mash-up of Dragonriders of Pern, and GoT. A great read. "A dragon w/o its rider is a tragedy. A rider w/o their dragon is dead." #bookologythursday Fourth Wing by R. Yarros. 1st ed, May 2023, cover art Bree Archer and ET Stokes. #booksky

"Worsel's first mistake was merely lethal. His next proved to be positively catastrophic!" A great extension to Smith's magnum opus. #bookologythursday The Dragon Lensman by David A. Kyle. 2004, cover art by Ron Miller. #booksky

Celtic lore tells of sleeping dragons under hills, curled around ancient treasures. To disturb them was to rouse earthquakes and fire. The earth itself was imagined as dragon-haunted vault. #BookologyThursday Art: Emily Day

#BookologyThursday 1912 Mrs Dragon tells a Man-Story "I cannot spare time to tell you any more about [mankind's] curious instincts; you must read it for yourselves some day in the 'Dragon's Economical Cave-keeper,' the marketing manual, under 'Animal Foods: Apes, Men, and various Bipeds.'"

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The farmer of Pitempton lived with his nine beautiful daughters. One day, seemingly like any other, the farmer sent his eldest daughter to fetch some water from the well. As the morning turned to afternoon, the farmer grew worried […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The medieval mind imagined dragons lurking anywhere unfamiliar - even the Alps - and in a 16th century work on Africa, the beautiful engravings show the locals hunting elephants, crocodiles etc and also Romans having a crack at a dragon (I guess in North Africa) #BookologyThursday #dragon #medieval

Fairy tales often frame dragons as gatekeepers. A princess, a castle, a golden hoard - treasures of flesh and fortune that test the courage of knights and fools alike. #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday A younger brother comes to a town where a 7 headed dragon has ruined all but the greatest treasure, the princess. Flame scorches the land & the woman is about to die but animal helpers extinguish the fire. The lad beheads the beast while, by tooth & claw, the animals dispose of it

I was temptit at Pittempton Draiglit at Baldragon Stricken at Strike-Martin And kill’d at Martin’s Stane —Chambers’ POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND (1826) has a legend explaining several Angus placenames as episodes from the slaying of a dragon #BookologyThursday folklorescotland.com/martin-and-t...

Beware the darkness of dragons, Beware the stalker of dreams, Beware the talons of power and fire, Beware one who is not what she seems. Tui T. Sutherland #BookologyThursday

Medieval manuscripts often show dragons curled around gold, jewels, or chalices. To slay a dragon was never only to kill a beast. It was to wrestle with the human hunger for treasure. #BookologyThursday

The dragon from the 1958 Mugnaini-illustrated edition of 'Beowulf'. #BookologyThursday #dragon #monster #folklore #legend

What a brilliant poem to share for #BookologyThursday! 'The Hoard' is one of Tolkien's greatest explorations of the corruption caused by gold. That line, 'In his heart's furnace, the fire waned,' is so deeply melancholic and powerful.

Dragley Beck, the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. It gets it's name from the dragon that sleeps underneath it From: "Folklore of the Lake District" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #BookologyThursday #LakeDistrict art: William Stout

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" ~ John Lennon #JohnLennon #BookologyThursday art: Amy Ferguson

"There was an old dragon under grey stone; His red eyes blinked as he lay alone. His joy was dead, and his youth spent, He was knobbed and wrinkled, and his limbs bent In the long years to his gold chained; In his heart's furnace, the fire waned." - J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hoard" #BookologyThursday

Welcome to #BookologyThursday🐉✨

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. ~Joseph Campbell Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨ Today we explore our theme: 🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉 in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍂 art by Annya Marttinen

Sending magic✨ art by Tijana Lukovic