Parsley germinates so slowly, it was said it visited Satan nine times before appearing! If parsley is transplanted on any day other than Good Friday, a family death especially that of the gardener, was once believed to follow... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Hugo Simberg

The daisy, April’s birth flower, takes its name from the Old English “dæges ēage”, meaning “day’s eye”, for it opens with the light and closes again at dusk. Its Latin name, Bellis perennis, means “everlasting beauty”. #FolkloreThursday

In Sweden and parts of Finland, folklore holds that on the Thursday before #Easter, witches (often called påskkärringar or Easter hags) fly on broomsticks to Blåkulla Island to meet with the devil. #Folklore

Start looking for the Monarchs and their look alikes! #TheOutpost 🦋🌱🌿🚶‍♂️🌻

It was such a relief to see different people & to think of the possibility of reading novels & drinking wine again.

Dr. Catnip, a friend to felines. 🐾 🎨 Janet Scott, ca 1918 🐈 #cats #catnip #vintage #art

From making straw crosses to drawing blood. Here’s my article for ‘The Renaissance Garden Guy’ on the ways people protected themselves against bewitchment in Warwickshire. renaissancegardenguy.com/silver-blood...

Viewing vintage seed catalogue collections on the @archive.org is a lovely alternative to doomscrolling. #bloomscrolling #seeds #gardensky 💐 archive.org/search?query...

One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found an egg all yellow and glittering. He took it home and found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. The Goose & the Golden Egg Aesop Don Daily #wyrdwednesday

In Cornish folklore, mermaid purses (ray and shark egg sacs) are considered highly magical objects that, when buried on the corner of your property, will protect your family. To find a mermaid purse is said to foretell an impending financial windfall. art: Harry Clarke #WyrdWednesday

A) A silver articulated model of a praying mantis, the wings chiselled and signed under the inner wing Muneyoshi B) A silver articulated model of a cicada C) A silver articulated model of a hornet, with protracting sting. all Japan, Meiji (1868-1912)

Basil seedlings springing up in eggshells makes me particularly happy. 🌱 #herb #gardening #eggs #seeds #spring

Greetings, Myth Lovers! It's Spring in the Northern hemisphere & we're starting to see BABY ANIMALS around us. Which myths feature animal eggs, babies, or young? Write out your story & use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you Monday! #mythology […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

If you are thinking of doing some traditional egg decorating this Easter, I’d love to see the results. Tag me in your egg posts! Here’s a hand guide I came across for natural ways to dye eggs

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun, And crocus fires are kindling one by one. - Christina G. Rossetti, The First Spring Day #spring #flowers #poetry

'And the spring comes slowly up this way.' 🌷 ✍️ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel (ca 1816) 📷 by me (ca 2025 b/c garden is still snow-covered) #spring #flowers #Canada #waiting

The Bounce of Spring Emily Carr c. 1936-37

Gardening and the creative spirit – 200 years of great artists and writers on the rewards of soil and seed www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/w...

'The miserable have no other medicine But only hope' - Measure for Measure, act 3 sc. 1 #ShakespeareSunday

A-tisket, a-tasket, a kitty in a basket. #Caturday #cats 🐾

'Tyrants' fears decrease not, but grow faster than the years' - Pericles, act 1, sc.2 #BookWormSat #ShakespeareWeek #NoKings

It's said a child's #ghost haunts the guest rooms of Argylle & Bute's Drovers Inn where they've reported feeling an icy form drip water on their bed at night. Local lore says a girl drowned trying to fish her doll out of the nearby river & wanders in search of her missing toy. #PhantomsFriday

The maple sap is flowing in our trees, and we have tapped some trees and are looking forward to tasting our own maple syrup. But this red squirrel decided not to wait, and it is enjoying the sweetness of spring. #MapleSyrupSeason #Canada #Ontario #Spring #maplesyrup

Wonderful ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse! New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

The smell of thyme would sometimes mysteriously emanate from the garden of a cottage in Llanasa, North Wales, even though the herb didn't grow there. The aroma was a ghostly one, recalling he murder of two children whose bodies had been buried beneath a bed of thyme #PhantomsFriday #fingerpostfriday

Friday Finnish!! Rise and Shine!! Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 - “The Merry Aunties “ “I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

Plants which grow upwards should be planted by the waxing moon. Plants like root crops which grow downwards should be planted by the waning moon. Moon planting lore found by collector C.S. Wharton to be still current in Brailes in the 1970s. #LegendaryWednesday

Ladybirds basking in Priory Park in Saturday's sunshine #SnalllBeauties

FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday

CFP: Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. It is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR).     For complete submission guidelines, please visit the link below.

‘Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.’ ~ Hilda Doolittle. For the International Day of Forests, #BookWormSat will be getting lost in the forests of literature. Get lost with us! 🌲 🌲 🌲

From goddess to demon to everyday mother's, maidens, and crones, Kim Malinowski digs deep, unearthing her own fierce magic. @kimmalinowskipoet.bsky.social

Cristina Biaggi’s Habitations of the Great Goddess is a comprehensive examination of the tombs, temples and artifacts dedicated to the female deity of prehistory – the Great Goddess. Read more: tinyurl.com/mfzzy9hf #GreatGoddess

Norse #goddess Freyja drives a chariot pulled by two #cats, Bygul & Trjegul, who it's said symbolize fertility, wealth, & #feminine power. 🐈‍⬛ #MythologyMonday

In Swedish #folklore, Skutt the #Moose takes Princess Tuvstarr from the Dream Castle meadow to the great forest where she meets elves who take away her crown. #MythologyMonday 🫎 🎨 John Bauer - Among Gnomes and Trolls, ca 1913

That stare. 👁️ From a classical monster of ancient mythology to a symbol of feminist empowerment. La Meduse - Jean Delville, ca 1893 #Medusa #folklore #myth #archetypes

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” -Virginia Woolf

"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty; Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there." —Romeo and Juliet #ShakespeareSunday

In spring, more spiderwebs appear, due to these creatures becoming more active as they prepare for the mating season. Some folklore asserts that the more spiderwebs you see in spring, the luckier you'll be. #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #Mythology

Cats & spring flowers. 🐾 🎨 Kittens and daffodils, by Daniel Merlin, ca 1925 #art #cat #caturday #spring

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” AA Milne Winnie-the-Pooh #BookWormSat 🎨 EH Shepard #BookChatWeekly

Lots of lovely Spring blossom appearing now but don’t be tempted to bring any from fruit trees into your home as it will bring bad luck.

I love Owls but if one hoots near your house 3 times it could mean trouble. New post on my blog looks at Owls in late 19th and early 20th C Jamaican death lore #Owls #folklore natureandsupernaturalnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/o...

The Goddess and Marija Gimbutas: Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. reflects on Gimbutas’ vision of the #sacred feminine, her legacy in #feminist spirituality and archeomythology, & the enduring relevance of Old Europe as a cultural mythos. #mythsky substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Little House Turns "Little house, move On your crooked legs free; Turn your back to the wood, And your front door to me." 📖 Book of Polish #Fairytales, ca 1920 #art #faeries #cottagecore

Dulcibella and the Fairies 🎨 Hilda T. Miller (c. 1922) #Art #FairyTales #Faeries #folklore

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable

King Winter travels to Sweden with the North Wind. An ancient covenant decrees that he shall not spread snow prior to the eleventh lunar cycle of the year. But in his impatience to lock the land in ice, he can arrive early - and blames his mistiming on his clock being frozen #LegendaryWednesday