We are very close to being fully funded for this project!! There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

It's Halloween, Flanders' witches are joyously cackling while dancing to strange, wild music in the woods. Our project has just reached 80% funding! Thank you so much! 🖤🌙🖤 kck.st/492NqKt

Such a cool collab! Both podcasts are fantastic!

Please keep sharing. Please support this if book project if you can. We need this book in the world. 👇

According to a Flemish folktale, there was a woman who claimed she was afraid of nothing. One night, she went to a graveyard for she preferred to collect bones rather than pick flowers. As she reached for them, a voice suddenly spoke 'Don't touch me. Those are my bones.' #PhantomsFriday

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain 🎃🐈‍⬛ The veil is thin tonight. Be safe! 🖤 #PhantomsFriday

If you're looking for something spooky this is the perfect kickstarter for you. A collection of authentic spooky tales regarding witches from Flemish folklore collected by the incredible @signemaene.com with illustration by the amazing @prairiebones.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter! We are 45% funded and have thirteen days left. It is daunting, but every message, every share, every person who believes in these forgotten stories means so much. There's a new witchy tale here: signe.substack.com/p/the-witch-...

Wyrdlings! With Halloween looming large over us this week, it's time for our annual #WyrdWednesday Spooky Spectacular! Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙‍♀️🧟‍♂️👿

According to a Flemish folktale, people went on pilgrimages and visited monks to make a witch give up her powers. Their attempts were fruitless. She remained a witch and cursed the houses of those who had wanted to change her. If you like witches, consider backing our project kck.st/492NqKt 🌙🖤

In Flanders, people stayed away from a forest because a witch lived there in a hut made of blackberry bushes. She vanished, and so did her hut, and eventually the forest. If you would like know what became of her, there's something on Kickstarter we would love you to know about ✨ kck.st/492NqKt

Do you like witches and want to see more stories about them? Then this project is perfect for you. A wonderful collection of dark stories from Flanders that is the perfect edition for your library. But it needs you help 🧙‍♀️👻🦇🕸️✨

Guys, help a witch out I really wanna read this

This looks like it will be good

Do support this wonderful witchy folklore project 🧙🏽‍♂️ 👇

Help us turn this folklore dream into a witchy reality! Anything you can do is appreciated so much. 🖤🌙🖤 kck.st/492NqKt

This week in #WyrdWednesday we invite you to our Wyrd Masquerade ball. Let's explore lore and history behind masks, costumes and disguises!

A drabble from me for Halloween, on the theme of '13'! This is my first swing at one of these & I'm really happy with how it came out. Thanks to @ratbaglit.bsky.social for publishing it. Them rats are good folk! #Horror #Drabble #Horrorwriting ratbaglit.substack.com/p/the-hate-o...

In a Flemish folktale, a fearless man once thought he could chase away witches with a cudgel. The witches had other plans. Read the story here 👇 signe.substack.com/p/the-night-...

According to a Flemish folktale, a man was walking his two dogs at night when all of a sudden he saw a cat. He threw a stick at the cat because he suspected the animal was a witch. Five minutes later, he found himself surrounded by hundreds of cats who threw mud at him. 🎨 Boris Groh #WyrdWednesday

What better way to go through #Spooktober than dreaming of a new witchy book? I just backed "The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders" on @kickstarter.com @signemaene.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

I just backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders by @signemaene.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

I just backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders by @signemaene.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

Wyrdlings! We have a special announcement today. Our dear friend @signemaene.com has collaborated with Wyrd Mother @prairiebones.bsky.social and launched a Kickstarter campaign for their newest book of short stories! Link posted below⬇️ Our topic for tomorrow's #WyrdWednesday will be: 🖤WITCHES🖤

The Witches are here! 🖤 We are so excited to announce that The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Flanders is now live on Kickstarter! The short story collection features thirteen stories inspired by Flemish witch lore with illustrations by @prairiebones.bsky.social. 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙

Creature on a mushroom, 1850s sketch by Francis Elizabeth Wynne #FungiFriday 🍄

A Flemish folktale says people never went near the dunes at night because it was haunted. A man decided to risk it anyway and was knocked over by a ghost who appeared as a headless horse. It stomped on him so badly that he was lucky to live to tell the tale. 🎨Jaroslav Panuska #PhantomsFriday

While hiking the Dolomites, be wary of tiny, mysterious footprints. Wanderers may encounter the Mazaròl. He knows all of the secrets of butter and cheese making, but at the cost of a mortal's memories of their former life. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore Image: Anita Stizzoli

Oomancy, or egg divination, was (and still is) sometimes performed on people believed to have received the Evil Eye. The egg is passed over the person's body to absorb negative energy and then cracked to see if the energy has left the body. #BookologyThursday Art by Anton Pieck

Early Medieval bestiaries have perpetuated the myth that cranes on sentry duty for their flock will hold a rock. If they fell asleep and dropped it, they would be startled awake. During this period of time, cranes were a symbol of vigilance and loyalty. #MythologyMonday

Alice (1988) is a surrealist dark fantasy film by Czech film director Jan Švankmajer. It follows Alice as she wanders around a Wonderland full of bones, puppets, and taxidermy animals. #WyrdWednesday

Hares in folklore are sometimes considered unlucky, as they are often associated with witches. It is especially unlucky to kill a hare before dawn. A witch could take revenge on the hunter for destroying their animal body. #BookologyThursday

Soucouyants are described as female vampires in Caribbean folklore, shedding their skin by night and traveling as a ball of flame to hunt. If a person finds their skin before dawn and rubs salt and pepper on it, the Soucouyant is destroyed. #WyrdWednesday Art: Horrorpedia

Mo'o of Hawaiian legend are aquatic dragons that often appear as beautiful women, geckos, and giant lizards. In one tale, volcano goddess Pele sends her younger sister, Hi'iaka, on an errand to slay three mo'o and rescue her mortal sweetheart. #BookologyThursday Art by ArkaEdri

The gargoyles of Notre Dame Cathedral are also called "grotesques" or chimeras. They are built to resemble monstrous human-animal hybrids. Some function as water drainage, while others are purely ornamental and contribute to the imposing atmosphere of the church. #WyrdWednesday

🌿'Fairies and Elves dancing with Mr. Mouse' by Dorothy P. Lathrop

The Witch-Cat Trial of 1719 William Montgomery, a mason by trade, had his house overrun by many cats. One night, he found five cats by the fireside, and a servant told him that they were "speaking amongst themselves." #BookologyThursday

🍀🐇🍀To see a hare when setting out on a journey was believed to be a bad omen - but the danger could be countered by turning back and starting the journey again. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

In a Dutch folktale, a man cursed the sun. He never left his house and walked around with an umbrella in his home when the sun shone. When he died, his body was sealed in 3 coffins and entombed in a dark crypt. The sun got him as the crypt split open, and sunlight touched his body. #WyrdWednesday

Kitsunebi are fire orbs created by fox spirits, a sign that other yokai are nearby. Malevolent foxes sometimes create them to lure travelers off of forest paths, and also during the night parade of one hundred demons. #WyrdWednesday Hiroshige, New Year's Eve Foxfires (1857)

The Demon Hour, or Witching Hour, is the time at night between 3:00am-4:00am when demons are said to be at their most powerful. #WyrdWednesday Art: Dragan Bibin

🌿An Elfin Dance by Richard Doyle, 1870.

A collection of illustrations from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1800s) #InternationalFairyDay 🌿

During Midsummer, bonfires are lit as a symbol of renewal. One custom in Denmark is to burn witch dolls made of hay. The fire would dispel their magic and cast their spirits away to the mountains. #FolkyFriday #Midsummer P.S. Krøyer, Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen’s Beach, (1906)

"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear." - Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream #BookologyThursday

Want to meet your true love? At 12am on Midsummer Eve, run through a churchyard while spreading rose petals and chant “Rose leaves, rose leaves, rose leaves I strew, He that will love me, come after me now.” #WyrdWednesday A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gustav Doré (1870)

500,000 English Bluebells in our Ancient Woodland They are the same, but uniquely different, more so than other wildflowers It is the increasing number of bells through maturity, and the subsequent droop in the stem through weight that gives them their character & beauty

#FairyTaleTuesday "Summer Solstice" Līgo is a Latvian Midsummer celebration, people collect herbs to decorate homes and weave garlands. They bathe in the creek and sing Līgo songs in massive choirs. Watch me singing LĪGO here ↘️ youtu.be/8zt6X52njyI?...

In #ChineseMythology, in the blazing heart of the Kunlun Mountains, where fire meets the dark waters of the Weak River, a mythic ecosystem thrives. Beasts and plants endure the flames, and from their bark, fibers, or fur comes a fire-resistant cloth—a marvel of the ancient world. 1/2 🎨 -蘇俺-

Wyrdlings! Start crafting your flower crowns and join us for an early celebration of 🌸🌷Midsummer traditions and folklore🌺🌼 Get ready to dance around the maypole with us this #WyrdWednesday! See you then!