#WyrdWednesday "We fire the fields for harvest, The hedges swell the flame, The oak trees and the cottages From which our fathers came. We give no compensation, The earth is ours today, And if we lose on arable, The bungalows will pay ..." from The Harvest Hymn by John Betjeman

#WyrdWednesday Eastern European harvest spirit Poludnica - Lady Midday, who "died in the fields under the noonday sun" - arrives as a cloud of dust carrying a scythe. An inability to answer the riddle she sets results in violent death ... 🎨Destrukcja88 [DeviantArt] 📷in Miletin ©dahliafyodorovna

#FairyTaleTuesday "Sleep Gwenllian my heart's delight Sleep on through shivering spear and brand An apple rosy red within thy baby hand Thy pillowed cheeks a pair of roses bright Thy heart as happy day and night." by Court Bard Meilyr Brydydd about Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, now used as a lullaby

Joy Parry@joy13.bsky.social · last yr.

#FolkloreSunday With her husband absent, Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd led a 12th century rebellion at Cydweli Castle; the Maes Gwenllian spring appeared at the place of her execution, and her heroics inspired a Welsh battle cry for years to come - "Ddail Achos Gwenllian!" [Revenge for Gwenllian]

#MythologyMonday Cigar smoking, rum drinking Baron Samedi, Voodoo Spirit of the Dead is smartly dressed and always wears a bowler hat. He greets the newly dead, decides when they can cross into the afterlife and ensures that their corpses rot - so they cannot return as Zombies ... 🎨AlixBranwyn

#MythologyMonday During a 1797 French naval attack on Fishguard, hundreds of Welsh women turned out to support troops; their traditional clothing of black dresses, red shawls - and most importantly their tall beaver hats [het Gymreig] - were mistaken for military uniform - and the attack failed.

This week I came across a version of the Cantre'r Gwaelod tale with a mermaid named Morwen in Myra Evans' Casgliad o Chwedlau Newydd from 1935.

NationCymru@nation.cymru · 4d ago

The Welsh may not have dozens of mermaid legends, but the surviving stories are haunting and morally complex. The ‘môr-forwyn’ meaning ‘sea maiden’ was a supernatural being capable of rewarding kindness, punishing cruelty and reminding people that the sea demands respect ✍️ Graham Loveluck-Edwards

Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us Monday for the theme: HATS, HELMETS, CROWNS. Which myths feature this type of headwear? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 👑 🎨 pickpik #folklore #mythology @TarkabarkaHolgy […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

#ShakespeareSunday "Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." Romeo and Juliet

#ShakespeareSunday "... overcanopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight." A Midsummer Night's Dream 🎨Norman Mills

#FolkloreSunday A Little Owl which had fallen from its nest on the Acropolis in Athens, and which was being tormented by a gang of boys, was rescued by Florence Nightingale. She kept it as a pet at her home in Matlock, Derbyshire, naming it Athena, until its death in 1854. 🎨©WellcomeTrust

#ShakespeareSunday "... like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair, Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen: Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire." Venus and Adonis 📷Pipo Crea

#ShakespeareSunday "Why, that’s the lady. All the world desires her. From the four corners of the earth they come To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint." The Merchant of Venice 🎨Tomb of Huy

#SpookySunday Norwich's oldest pub, The Adam and Eve, is haunted by an unusually benign spirit. Sent to quell Kett's Rebellion, Lord Sheffield died at the pub after a fall from his horse. He is renowned for rattling tankards, ringing the bar bell and mischievously touching customers' hair ...

Ah, remember when we were in Europe? Happy times.

James Tymberlake@boisdulac.bsky.social · 3d ago

From now on, AI transparency is the law in the EU: 🙌 When you see AI-generated content, it must be labelled as such. 🙌 When you chat with a bot or virtual agent, it must make clear it’s not a human. 🙌 When AI is actively analysing you, companies must tell you.

#FolkloreSunday "I have got a new friend, the finest in the world, a tame bear. When I brought him here, they asked me what to do with him, and my reply was, 'he should sit for a fellowship.'" George Byron [1807 letter to Elizabeth Pigot] - his response to Cambridge University's ban on pet dogs

#ShakespeareSunday "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt ... ... Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness?" Measure For Measure 🎨William Holman Hunt

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @shakescenery.bsky.social - The Summer of Love!

#BookWormSat "... The three spirited horses of the Isle of Prydain Gwineu Goddwf Hir, horse of Cai; Rhuthr Eon Tuth Blaidd, the horse of Gilbert, the son of Cadgyffro; And Ceincaled, the horse of Gwalchmai ..." The Black Book of Carmarthen - from The Triad of the Horses 🎨Corrie Chiswell

#BookWormSat "[A warm-hearted, soft, affectionate disposition] ... has generally seemed to me to be a cause of weakness rather than of strength to its owner; and besides, it is very apt to hinder and stunt the development of that source of delight - the spirit of enterprise ..." Amy Dillwyn - Jill

"And Summer dreamed sadly, for she thought all was ended In her fulness of wealth that might not be amended; But this is the harvest and the gathering season, And the leaf and the blossom in the ripe fruit are blended ..." William Morris - Love Is Enough 🎨Pissarro #Lughnasadh #BookChatWeekly

#BookWormSat "The ship’s clock in the bar says half past eleven. Half past eleven is opening time. The hands of the clock have stayed still at half past eleven for fifty years. It is always opening time in the Sailors Arms." Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood

‘I have been a speckled snake on the hill, I have been a viper in Llyn. I have been a bill-hook crooked that cuts, I have been a ferocious spear With my chasuble and bowl’ ~ Taliesin Tomorrow, to mark the start of Wales’ National Eisteddfod, #BookWormSat will celebrate with Welsh literature.

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." Mahatma Gandhi

#WyrdWednesday In a Breton folktale, King Arthur takes on a Bull with Golden Horns which has been stealing grain; after a manic ride on the bull, Arthur is tossed over a cliff - only to land on top of Merlin, who had had used magic to take the bull's appearance as a joke ... 🎨Jean-Noël Rochut

#WyrdWednesday One of the 20 roof corbels at All saints church, Sharrington, Norfolk, depicts a wonderful Horned Devil ...

“In the fight to save India’s tigers, the warning bell is ringing for the final round.” Sir David Attenborough 🎨Tiger - Manafi' al-Hayawan [On the Usefulness of Animals] of Ibn Bakhtishu #InternationalTigerDay

#WyrdWednesday In Trois Frères cave in Ariège [France] amongst the Prehistoric cave art of Bison, Horses & Reindeer some 3 metres above the cave floor is the figure known as the Sorcerer - a horned figure depicted as a mixture of human and animal features. 📷The Sorcerer & Sketch by Henri Breuil

"He ate all the supper that was cooking in the saucepans... and all the food in the fridge .... and then he drank all the milk, and all the orange juice, and all Daddy’s beer, and all the water in the tap ..." Judith Kerr - The Tiger Who Came To Tea #InternationalTigerDay #BookChatWeekly

Milo at the meadow in North Elmham, Norfolk enjoying a slight respite from the heat by chasing his ball ... #TerrierTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday In Buddhism the Three Senseless Creatures each represent a flaw in humanity that causes them to act out of emotion rather than wisdom - the Monkey symbolizes Greed, the Deer Love-Sickness and the Tiger Anger and Rage ... 🎨Salvador Dali