Dilston Physic Garden is such a magical place+their herbal research even finds its way into my next book~so I’m thrilled to be sharing this special afternoon in the garden in December www.botanicafabula.co.uk/shop-botanic... we will be making tiny nettle paper books and sipping elderberry tea😊💫🌲💚

Really looking forward to this workshop at Dilston Physic Garden in December, ticket price includes free entry into this beautiful unique garden, herbal tisanes and treats 💚🌲💫🍂 www.botanicafabula.co.uk/shop-botanic...

That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's theme was the "Folklore of Games and Pastimes!" This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you a week full of fun and play 🤩 19th Century circus poster

Love the innate horror of this…a terrifying rhyme that found its way in #collectedcuriosities my next book …picking up where The Time Traveller’s Herbal drifts off #folklorethursday

Hello #FolkloreThursday and thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for the last hour of Folklore fun. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social hoping you'll come play with us for the next hour Img Ring Around the Rosie by Edward Potthast

Peevers? Hopscotch? I wonder how many other names there are for that classic schoolyard game? What do other #folklorethursday fans call it?

Folklore shifts organically-but it’s also lovely to capture treasured moments+traditions~that was one of the aims of the Killin school heritage project I cocreated earlier this year~gathering memories+ games from school days of the 1960’s www.botanicafabula.co.uk/heritage-arc... #folklorethursday

Good morning lovely #folklorethursday friends, huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last playful hour and for tagging me next! This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social now IT having come in from hunting for a four leaf clover, ready for the next hour of lore around games and pastimes!

Thanks for the fabulous folklore, keep it coming! @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to the wonderful @botanicafabula.bsky.social now for more games and pastimes #FolkloreThursday! (Image: Die Schachspiele, Moritz Retzsch)

Before anyone starts telling you turnips are to hard to carve… #teamneep #halloween #botanicafabula

16 Oct is #WorldFoodDay, & THE BOTTLE IMP invites you to an all-you-can-eat literary feast of Scottish literature – from medieval health food to vegetarianism in contemporary fiction, via gender, folklore, oysters, cocktails & more! May contain nuts. 1/6 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/cook...

… @botanicafabula.bsky.social entices us into The Scots Kitchen to explore the legacy of Florence Marian McNeill’s classic cookbook in “Dreaming Bread and Flourishing Folklore” … 4/6 #folklore www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/drea...

That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🔥🎃🌙 Today's theme was folklore of Ghosts, Monsters, and All Things Spooky! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you the best Spooktober ever 🍁 1883 Bernard Gillam - Gambling with death

Hello #FolkloreThursday and thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session! This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social for the next hour of spooky folklore. Let's see if you can scare us!!! Img: Caspar David Friedrich: The Abbey in the Oakwood

Huge thanks to everyone for a truly terrifying hour of spooky #folklorethursday stories this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social off to make a tattie bogle (that's a scarecrow or 'potato ghost') handing over to @mythcrafts.bsky.social for the next haunting hour of lore!

Blackthorn trees are said to be home to the Lunasidh a terrifying race of moon worshipping fae who will attack anyone who steals their sloes unless they are harvested under a full moon #folklorethursday #halloween

I have a box of protective herbs to hand~neepy heid carved+rosemary planted by the door @botanicafabula.bsky.social here to guest host today's haunting #folklorethursday the theme is ghosts, monsters and all things spooky👻 Huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last hour lets get spooky!

That's me well and truly terrified! Thanks for the great lore, @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over now to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for the next hour of spooky #FolkloreThursday!

We're getting in the Halloween mood early! Join us this Thursday (2nd Oct) for our Ghosts, Monsters and All Things Spooky themed #FolkloreThursday!

It’s Hawthorn berry season here and that means I’m immersing these heart healing beauties in brandy, all the while taking care not to fall asleep beneath the faerie tree…🌳🧚🏼‍♂️you can discover more in the pages of my first book The Time Traveller’s Herbal www.botanicafabula.co.uk/time-travell...

#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @botanicafabula.bsky.social @mythcrafts.bsky.social @crystalponti.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social Huge thanks to everyone for a fabulous day, and we’ll see you next month! ⭐🌜🌈

Hello #FolkloreThursday and thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session! This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social for the next hour as we scan the skies and stars for folklore Img: René Magritte's Empire of Light

Thank you so much for all your beautiful lore of stars and sky for the last hour, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social flying off to watch the clouds, handing over to moonlit @mythcrafts.bsky.social to share more of your #folklorethursday magic✨

The winged horse Pegasus who found immortality as a constellation of stars~was said to favour the fruit of the sea buckthorn~incidentally traditionally used to help altitude sickness~recently backed up by science🌿💫#folklorethursday 1878 img:Pegasus edited to accord the nymphs a degree of modesty🤣

The winged horse Pegasus who found immortality as a constellation of stars, was said to favour the fruit of the sea buckthorn, incidentally a berry traditionally used to help with altitude sickness (and recently backed up by science)💚🌿💫#folklorethursday img:Pegasus+the Nymphs, Greek Mythology 1878

This fabulous cover by Joe McClaren for Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies is perfect for today's #FolkloreThursday theme! 😍

Huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for a starry hour of fabulous sky-lore, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social freefalling in from the dark sky zone to share your #FolkloreThursday stardust for the next hour🤩

@willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social now for more skies and stars themed #FolkloreThursday! 🎨Witches Flight, Goya

Hurrah! Looking forward to sharing your star lore during my guest hosting hour on @folklorethursday.bsky.social tomorrow 💚💫🌞

Unearthed the fascinating garden exhibition at @britishlibrary.bsky.social has tendrils across libraries of Britain+I’m delighted to be sharing this special Botanica Fabula Garden inspired event at Carnegie library Ayr on the 23rd of August southayrshirelibraries.eventcalendarapp.com/author-talk-...

So grateful to The Herb society Uk for this lovely review🥰📚💫🌿The whole edition is just a pleasure to read with a cool herbal drink in the garden🥰💚💫🌿🌞 #timetravellersherbal

Mugwort travelling…

Join us Thursday 3rd July for the next hosted #FolkloreThursday! Our theme is the folklore of travel, journeys and holidays and our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times (BST): 9am-1pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm 🎨Odysseus and Polyphemus, Arnold Böcklin

#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social, @willowwinsham.bsky.social, @botanicafabula.bsky.social, @mythcrafts.bsky.social, @crystalponti.bsky.social and @shanonsinn.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who took part, we'll see you next month!

Huge thanks @botanicafabula.bsky.social! @[email protected] here for the next two hours of seas and oceans themed #FolkloreThursday! (Image: Waterhouse, A Mermaid, 1900)

Huge thanks for all the magical sea lore, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social off to listen to the echo of waves said to be held in the coils of a shell, handing over to the wonderful @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the next tidal wave of #folklorethursday tellings

The drifting dunes of Forvie sands on the Aberdeenshire coast cover a village~said to have been lost in the C15th after a 9 day storm raised by three sisters who were deprived of their land by foul means~it is a favourite family beach~my mum always reminds us to listen to the dunes #folklorethursday

Waves goodbye to @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social thank you for a calm and beautiful start to the day of sea-lore, see you soon🌊 This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social floating in on a mermaid drawn raft of wrack and tang to guest host #folklorethursday for the next hour.l

Happy #FolkloreThursday! This is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social *waves* 😉 Enjoy the tales of sea monsters, mermaids, ghost ships, the mystery & dangers that define our relationship with the deep that is today's theme of #folklore of the seas & oceans.

Good morning on this salty #FolkloreThursday! This is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social opening the door to the magical otherworld of today's theme of the #folklore of the Seas and Oceans with this hagstone I recently found on the beach. Bring me all your lovely folklore please! 😊

The next hosted #FolkloreThursday is 12 June and our theme will be folklore of the seas and oceans! Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times (BST): 9am-1pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm (Image: Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801)

If you’re looking for a beautiful botanical way to mark midsummer this will be a magical symphony8hydratedstrangertrillion.culturepk.org.uk/event/midsum... #botanicafabula #herbalstorytelling #floristry

What a magical evening~so grateful for the Palace of Holyroodhouse for inviting me to create a special herbal storytelling session for their physik garden~if you didn’t make it this evening you should totally go+spend a peaceful half hour in their garden (open to public) I will definitely return 💚🌿🍸

If you’re in Edinburgh this evening there are a couple of tickets left for the Palace of Holyroodhouse🌿🍸event🌻You will be able to choose your own botanical cocktail view the garden after closing+then join me for a unique bespoke hour of herbal storytelling booking vital😊 www.rct.uk/event/firesi...

Dream laden, sleep inducing Cowslips the keys to fairyland or maybe heaven are one of the plants flourishing in the Palace of Holyroodhouse physic garden this week #folklorethursday If you’re in Edinburgh tomorrow 9th May join me there for more herbal storytelling www.rct.uk/event/firesi... 💚🌿🍸✨

#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @mythcrafts.bsky.social @botanicafabula.bsky.social @crystalponti.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social Thanks so much to everyone who took part, and we’ll see you again next month!

Hello! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, and I’ll be hosting this fabulous hour of #FolkloreThursday. Huge thanks to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting before the break! Our theme: plants, flowers, and herbs in folklore. Let’s dig into what's growing wild all around us! Image: Flower of Fairies

Thank you all so much for a fabulous hour of herb and plant lore #folklorethursday friends this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social off to find a dandelion and check the time in fairyland, but the bloomingly lovely @crystalponti.bsky.social will be back at 3.30 BST human time to share more flower lore💚🍀

The May is in full flower here in rural Scotland~one of my favourite blossoms~Hawthorn is said to mend a broken heart~lore proven in a way by herbalists+science~I explore this in my book The Time Traveller’s Herbal #folklorethursday friends may enjoy😉