Naps on stolen blankies are the best naps #Caturday

Love teaching this creative writing workshop on using traditions, customs and the ritual year to make your work pop! It’s perfect for anyone stuck in a writing rut or who just wants to add a little shine to their work. 23 July at Waterstones Horsham, link in bio for tickets! 🎉 #Amwriting #Folklore

TONIGHT! This week, drop in for this FREE, fun reading and find your favorite new book! All you have to do is register below: Strong Women - Strange Worlds share.google/FZcb3bDO31pI... See you there! #SWSWQR

A woodcut showing a rain of frogs in Scandanavia. From 'Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon,' one of the first modern books about strange phenomenon, published in 1557. #WyrdWednesday

Happy Wednesday

"A cloud with a round top and flat base carries rainfall on its face." 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3364... #WyrdWednesday #art #vintage #illustration #folklore #decor #fairytale #superstition #weather #gifts

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." - Hermann Hesse 🎨 Julia Tar

“St Swithun's day if thou be fair For forty days 'twill rain nae mare” and with this grim forecast for St Swithun’s day falling on #WyrdWednesday this year, we give you: “Wyrd Weather” as this week’s topic. Come, let’s talk about the weather, you Wyrdlings!

Whatever people do when they come under that pressure, that’s who they are.

Think she's embarrassed squirrel friend heard me call her the cutest baby in the whole wide world #Caturday

"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kissed each other.” 🌹 Shakespeare Richard III., Act: iv. Sc. 3 #BookWormSat Illustration by Walter Crane (Free link to illustrated text) www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...

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#PhantomsFriday tomorrow, when the theme will be GHOSTS! Please join us for more manifestations of ghostly lore, legend, yarns, art, culture and cool stuff from the archives. I'm thinking of changing this to a SpookySunday. Better for me because no buses run and I'm stuck in the house. Also...

Not so much #ThickTrunkTuesday as Thick Trunkses! Multi trunked tree in an ancient northern woodland

Inordinately proud all the plants are still alive even though I only started my indoor garden two days ago ☺️🌿☀️

Hope you have an Enchanted #Caturday

Will always be one of my favorite exhibits 💕

Cool little guy 🍄☺️

“Die römische Ruine von Schönbrunn” (Roman ruin of Schönbrunn) 🎨 Carl Moll (1891)

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

"A goblin must have helped: a glow-worm could not find its mate; it set the trouble in motion. It was the elder-tree: Midsummer Eve!" (Wagner) 🎨 Tuesday Riddell #WyrdWednesday

Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.

🌿Summer by Walter Crane

Flaming June, Frederic Leighton, 1895.

The next major milestone for the hatchlings is day 23, which is when the plover monitoring group considers them fully fledged whether or not they have actually begun to fly. Before that, the birds will begin to look up to the sky for predators, relying less on their parents each day.

Happy Solstice ☀️🏵️

Four-leaf clovers grow where fairies tread... I'll seek a four-leafed Clover In all the Fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaf, Oh, how I'll weave my spells! --S. Lover-- Artwork: Clovers by Raphael Kirchner #BookWormSat

Shhh ... nobody tell her this is not a vicious, intimidating pose #Caturday

It is prudent to tickle a newborn's nose with pepper as soon as possible—for babies aren't safe from the fairies until after their first sneeze. #FolkloreThursday Art: Brian Froud

Amaranth, meaning never fading, was a sacred flower to the Greeks & Romans who considered the long lived blossom a representation of immortality, often using it to honor heroes at their funerals. 🖼️Greek Girls on the Shore by Joaquín Sorolla #FolkloreThursday

Happy 11th Birthday to #FolkloreThursday! Today we invite you to share your favourite #folklore with us. Folk generally know I- @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social love things with toadstools, it must stem from my favourite childhood jumper, so here are some good luck fly agaric from a favourite book…

My favorite legend, shapeshifting Swan Maidens are masters of air, land, & water. After being tricked into marriage by partners thieving their wings, if reunited with the stolen property, they don’t offer sappy forgiveness-they fly off, I imagine with an elegant “Later, losers.” #FolkloreThursday

Join us tomorrow and post your favourite folklore to the hashtag to celebrate #FolkloreThursday 11th birthday and the grand finale of the @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social

One of my favorite books as a kid Round Trip by Ann Jonas, you read it through, then flipped it over and continued the story ... #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! Off we go on M.C. Escher’s birthday to “Wander around in Enigmas: Illusions, Impossibilities, Infinity” A Möbius strip of a #WyrdWednesday topic – share your tales of things that are not what they seem, distort and disappear into nowhere!

Morning. Three swans in flight, David Lloyd Evans.

#Caturday Contentment Just imagine how warm she is to pet right now ☀️☺️

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon series you love

I ❤️ this app getdailyart.com/en/25578/rac...

Goodnight. Swan Lake Ballerinas, Alison Jay.

The wait is over! We hope you missed us as much as we missed you! #opeaghost #podcast #paranormal #newepuside #monday

Bees that primarily feast on rhododendron flowers (poisonous to people) are said to produce "mad honey" which can produce hallucinations along with loss of vision, balance, or consciousness in humans who consume it. #FolkloreSunday 🎨collections.mfa.org/objects/261977

Toad flax, Linaria genistifolia, & Yellow toad flax Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs), is associated with fairy enchantment. Magically, it is used for protection & warding off evil. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1806... #art #FolkloreSunday #folklore #flowers #illustration #vintage #Spring

#Caturday Profile: Charlotte Dislikes 😾 ----------- *Loud Talkers *Waiting for brushies *Vacuuming Likes 😻 ------------ *Squishy treats *Fuzzy blankies *Movies where people get eaten

Scandinavian witches were accused of making "milk hares" (or cats!) out of hair, wood et. al. Once the creature was constructed, the witches trained them to steal milk by sucking it from neighboring animals and returning home to spit it in the witch's bucket. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Wendy Andrew

A favorite sport of the witch is to transform into a rabbit/hare and tease would-be-hunters with a tiring, irksome chase, ending in frustrated exhaustion for them, refreshment & mirth for the witch. #FolkloreThursday Illustration: Young Hare by Durer

A swallow symbolizes a safe journey home—why their images are such popular pendants and tattoos for travelers, especailly sailors. #folklorethursday Artist: John Bauer

Must've been intense birdy tea this #Caturday 🐦☕

Niki De Saint Phalle, Untitled (Nana, Fountain Figure), 1999 #womensart #summer