Redcap is a murderous Goblin that lives in ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish Borders, soaking its hat in the blood of its victims, giving it that distinctive hue. "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #31DaysOfHalloween #booksky

Josef Mandl - 'Gale, Winter is Coming' (c.1903)

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

In the Middle Ages, An Apple a Day Keeps Magic in Play www.medievalists.net/2025/07/midd... #Medieval

A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney

#PhantomsFriday 'Ghost on the Stairs' by Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972)

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart

For #phantomsfriday She moves through the fair…. Painted, engraved stained glass…

Encuentro cierto parecido compositivo entre la corte feérica de Errol le Cain y el séquito de los magos del italiano Benozzo Gozzoli. Bonus track para los Sidhe de John Duncan.

"(...) Toda mi originalidad consiste, pues, en hacer vivir humanamente a unos seres inverosímiles según las leyendas de lo verosímil, poniendo, en la medida de lo posible, la lógica de lo visible al servicio de lo invisible." --Odilon Redon 🎨"El cíclope"

Take a break from doomscrolling. #birds #art #timelinecleanse #painting #kingfisher #icon #peace

#31DaysOfGraves Tag 7: Engel / Angle 🤍 Grabstätte auf dem St. Marxer Friedhof, Wien.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Maurice Sand, taken from Légendes rusticiques de George Sand, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts décoratifs, 1858. #31DaysOfHalloween

In Aesop's Fables, a thirsty crow is unable to reach the water at the bottom of a pitcher until he drops enough stones into the pitcher that the water rises. Real crows and ravens have been documented doing the same thing, both by ancient scholars and modern scientists. #FairyTaleTuesday

More concept art by Mary Blair for ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD (1949). #wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

A frankly terrifying illustration by Jan Parker of a triple-headed god/goddess from 'Witchcraft And Black Magic' by Peter Haining (1982). #31DaysOfHalloween #witchcraft #blackmagic #sorcery #BookChatWeekly

Breve aproximación/estudio para el primus Llewellyn. #ArsMagica #CasaDiedne

Tambor de lluvia, s X-XII, antiguo reino de Cham, Vietnam.

☁️🏰☁️Gormenghast castle - by Alan Lee #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

Northumberland Folktales: Dunstanburgh Castle and the Ghost of Sir Guy the Seeker

'The heavy, grey sky weighed on the world. A thick, layered fog reaching from the ground to the upper atmosphere, exerting that heavy burden like an immovable melancholy, a sadness without end. For days, everything remained dull and dark.' -Stijn Streuvels 🎨Ernst Ferdinand Oehme #BookWormSat

Secret Panel HERE 🐢 tapas.io/episode/2491229

Everyday Magic in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2021/09/ever... #Magic

🎶 "Espíritu de ansiedad, fuera, fuera, fuera, fuera..."🎶

"The Moguls give to the white owl credit for preserving Jengis Khan, the founder of their empire..." One of a hundred tales to be found in Anecdotes of Animals (1905): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905

Ballena melenuda o cabelluda, uno de los muchos monstruos marinos que habitan en las aguas del Ártico según la Carta marina de Olaus Magnus: grimoriodebestias.blogspot.com/2025/09/ball... #FolkloreThursday

Storytelling is itself a cabaret of oddities. Medieval jesters wove riddles with prophecy; troubadours sang tales of saints beside bawdy ballads. The stage was always half sacred, half strange. #WyrdWednesday Art: John Dawson Watson

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

#FolkyFriday Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge. 🎨Anon & Judith Shaw

Thesmophoria is the ancient festival of Demeter and Persephone, marking the return of Persephone to the Underworld, and held at the end of the harvest. Celebrated exclusively by women, its rites remain largely unknown. #FolkyFriday 🖼: F.D. Millett

In Celtic lore, butterflies are associated with fire: The Irish word for butterfly, dealan-dhe', also refers to the "fire of the gods" or a magical flame. This associates the insect with the bonfires of ancient festivals like Beltane. Art my own. #WyrdWednesday #Folklore

'We stand among the fallen leaves In our own autumn day-- And, tott'ring on with feeble steps, Pursue our cheerless way.' -Caroline Norton 🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

Visual development art by Carol Wyatt for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), created by Craig McCracken, Cartoon Network Studios

In Norse #mythology Mirkwood is a dark and dangerous forest that acts as a portal between worlds. It is populated with elves, dwarves and trolls. Mirkwood has influenced many authors including JRR Tolkien. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3515... #art #illustration #FolkyFriday #folklore #gifts #wallart

Windsor Great Forest is famously haunted by Herne The Hunter, a ranger during the reign of Henry VIII who, #legend has it, practised strange (pagan?) rituals under an oak tree, from which he was later found hanged. The tree sometimes appeared as a ghost, too. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore

Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down

““I want to write a novel about Silence,” he said; “the things people don’t say.”” ― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

How to Become an Evil Wizard in the Middle Ages: The Secrets of Picatrix www.medievalists.net/2025/05/evil... #magic

the secret to success

El tiempo de espinas es el que transcurre entre una realidad perdida y otra deseada, es donde las defensas carecen de sentido.

Hay veces que pisas un charco y el charco te lleva a un pozo y es más fácil ponerte a decorar el pozo que salir de él.

🪶🔮🪶The Wizard Merlin instructing young Arthur - by Alan Lee #FairyTaleTuesday