Thank you for your delectable posts, dear Bibliophiles. See you next week on #BookologyThursday art by Inga Moore

Join #BookologyThursday today as we celebrate our theme: ✨FOODS, FEASTS & FESTIVALS✨ in literature, art, and lore. art by Chris Dunn

A conspiracy of ravens. art by Tristan Elwell

A crow can recall every route it has ever taken... crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck, deliverers of trinkets and treasures, tireless in all ways, more loyal than any other man or beast. ~Alice Hoffman

Queen of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596) is a character lifted from traditional folklore. William Shakespeare borrowed the name 'Titania' from the mythological daughters of Titans in Ovid's Metamorphoses. art by Arthur Rackham (1908) #FairyTaleTuesday

We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars. ~Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy (1308-1320)

I’d like to apply for the job of Bookshop Cat. art by Emily Paquin

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way. ~Nichiren Daishonin

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way. ~Nichiren Daishonin

When a frog appears on your doorstep after a rain, it is believed to represent good luck and prosperity. Some say it is a sign of a new family member soon to arrive in your home. #Folklore

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost. ~Daphne du Maurier #PhantomsFriday #Bookchatweekly

"Snapdragon. - Drawn By C. Keene. The room was darkened, and around the flaming dish stood a merry group snatching forth blazing raisins with shouts of boisterous merriment." The Illustrated London News 25.12.1858. #FolkloreThursday #Snapdragon #Christmas #Games #1850s

Now this is a gift book for the season 🙌✨ #Folklore #BookologyThursday

And shortly thereafter ...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot art by Marc Potts #BookologyThursday

And soon this court I call for a Christmas game, Since it is Yuletide and the New Year and all these brave men are here. ~Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Forþy I craue in þis court a Crystemas gomen, For hit is Ȝol and Nwe Ȝer, and here ar ȝep mony. (Middle English)🍃 #FolkloreThursday

Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨ Join us today for coffee or tea as we explore the theme: ✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨ art by Eeva Nikunen

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ~P.G. Wodehouse Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme: ✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨

#BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this Thursday🎉

Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂 BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow. art by Timothy Adam Matthews

When a hare crosses your path repeat this phrase to avoid misfortune~ "Hare before, Trouble behind: Change ye, Cross, and free me." British Folklore (1875) #FolkloreSunday art by Amanda Clark

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits. ~Alfred Tennyson The White Owl William James Webbe (1853-1878)

Tiles by William De Morgan (1839-1917) English tile designer, potter and novelist. A designer for Morris & Co. (1875–1940) #ArtsandCraftsMovement

De fabelen van La Fontaine, 1900. archive.org/details/Font...

'A Walk in Autumn' - Miyagawa Shuntei, 1898. 🍁 #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost. ~E.M. Forster art by John Atkinson Grimshaw #PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

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

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

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

Pan's Labyrinth by Santiago Caruso for #WyrdWednesday

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. 
 ~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: 🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉 in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

Hello, dear Bibliophiles🍂 Happy Richard Scarry Autumn Days!✨

Current read. Fascinating. Death in Early America by Margaret Coffin The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning.

If anyone needs me, I’m here in the enchanted forest brewing Dragonwell tea, baking Crone scones, and casting spells of kindness.✨

Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for everyone who needs one✨

Washington Irving's Headless Horseman, the terror Sleepy Hollow, was said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier, decapitated by a canon ball in the Revolutionary War. At night, the phantom horseman was often seen in the graveyard, searching for his lost head. #BookChatWeekly #folklore

What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens art by Tetyana Erhart #BookologyThursday

Thank you for your incredible posts, dear Bibliophiles! Wishing you a lovely evening. See you next week on #BookologyThursday art by Dee Nickerson🐈‍⬛✨

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods. ~William Wordsworth, Nutting art by Frank Dicksee (1923) #PhantomFriday #GrimLitFriday

What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens art by Tetyana Erhart #BookologyThursday

"But I like the animals better than the 'best people'," said the Doctor. ~H. Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle Join us today to explore our #BookologyThursday theme: 🦜Pets: The Bizarre to the Beloved🦜✨ In literature, myth, folklore, and art.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France Join us for our #BookologyThursday theme: ✨Pets: The Bizarre to the Beloved✨ In literature, myth, folklore, and art.

So you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others? ~Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) from a note to the actress Ellen Terry art by Vasilisa Koverzneva #bookchatweekly #lewiscarroll

Peter Klúcik illustration for an unpublished version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1990) #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

Sunbeam #Carcarana #Argentina 16.9.1876. "As the #locusts passed between us & the sun they completely obscured the light..got into one's hair & clothes, & gave one the creeps all over. I am sure I shall often dream of them for some time to come..I have however secured some fine specimens.." #Brassey

New exhibit of Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She did amazing still life paintings that included #invertebrates, and was famous in her lifetime yet hardly known today. Check out the amazing samples online 🪲🎨 www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...

Here's some recent artwork for #kidlitartpostcard day, I'm an author and illustrator currently querying agents and open for freelance. Check out my website, johnlechner.com 🐝 #kidlitart

Two great anthologists meet in my copy of 'Vampire Stories' (1992) by Richard Dalby. It's his presentation copy to Hugh Lamb. Dalby writes: 'For Hugh. 18 blood-sucking tales, ancient and modern, including a rare Nesbit. All fond wishes, Richard." Lovely. (Also, see my post below) #BookChatWeekly