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El silencio es un buen maestro. Silent listener, silent reader.
'Only name the day, and we'll fly away.' -Dorothy Parker 🎨Maggie Vandewalle
Villains that appear often in Flemish folktales are hunters. Most of these tales don't end well for the hunter as hares who are believed to be shapeshifting witches surround them and chase them away. But there are other stories that unfortunately end in tragedy. #WyrdWednesday 🎨Maggie Vandewalle
Picking blackberries (Brambling) Artist: A Buchanan, 1969
Coronal Mass Ejections 🔆 This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the activity. More on flares & coronal mass ejections: go.nasa.gov/3Naeuv9
A trickster in the folklore of Ireland, is the gean-cánach (love talker). A male faerie similar to a leprechaun, known for seducing men and women, although he is particularly fond of shepherds and milkmaids #wyrdwednesday #folklore #Ireland art: Maximilian Pirner
"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep" Me all night:
Spiders and spider webs embroidered onto US 19thc crazy quilts were thought to help to catch good luck. Spiders are also said to bring luck to weavers & spinners #folklorethursday 🕷
'Maiden with Deer' by Ethel Jackson Morris, Australian illustrator, c. 1910 #art #painting #illustration
Early cabaret sign in the form of a bat, crafted from wrought and rolled iron, carved and embossed, with green glass; French, likely 19th century with 20th-century modifications. Collection: Réunion des Musées Métropolitains, Rouen, Normandy, France. #bat #signs #craft #sculpture
Road to Nowhere. It's not autumn yet, but soon. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
