Nifty Buckles Folklore
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Nifty Buckles, the pen name of Valerie Hopkins, is a Canadian multi-genre author inspired by folklore, seasonal traditions, folk magic, and the natural world. Please no DMs.
#WyrdWednesday 🌼💀 March with the spirits for Día de los Muertos, Nov. 1–2! Marigolds are believed to guide returning souls home, while colourful calaveras remind us that life and death dance together. A Mexican tradition of remembrance of ancestors & family #DayoftheDead 💀🏵️ #MexicanFestival
#WyrdWednesday In ancient Mexica belief, death began a journey. To reach Mictlán, realm of the dead, the soul faced a long passage through the underworld. At its first river, a xoloitzcuintli dog could help the dead cross the waters. Even beyond death, the dog remained a companion. #Mexicanlore
#WyrdWednesday 🌺Frida Kahlo painted a México alive with myth, earth and spirit. July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954, aged 47. 🌺🇲🇽 In The Love Embrace, ancient Xólotl enters her cosmic world; in Diego on My Mind, Frida appears crowned in the magnificent Tehuana resplandor.🌙🐕🌺 #FridaKahlo #MexicanArt
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🔎📚 Happy Birthday to the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie! 🎂🕵️♀️ (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), From, 'And Then There Were None,' her most popular and best-selling mystery, to Poirot and Miss Marple, her ingenious tales still keep readers guessing. 🔍✨
Wyrdlings! Grito de Dolores rang out to kick off Mexican Independence on 16 September 1810 and, accordingly, we give you: “A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!” As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Ven, siéntate, cuenta una historia, of the old days and of modern México!
#FairyTaletuesday 🧙♀️🍂🧹 The Little Witch of Autumn Leaves 🍁🍂 🎃 #FairyTaleFlash ✨#AutumnLeaves 🍂 🧹 #TheLittleWitch 🧙♀️
Step inside Moneybaggs Manor, where a Victorian séance promises messages from beyond. But in Wickedly Delicious, predicting what happens next may be the psychic’s greatest challenge. 🌹😈 📚 Wickedly Delicious: A Dark Comedy by Nifty Buckles Paperback: amazon.ca/dp/B0HFKWW9VQ
#MythologyMonday 🫖🍵🌿 Celtic tradition kept tasseography—reading fortunes in the leaves left at the bottom of the cup—as a quiet craft passed down by the hearth. The same kettles held older brews: nettle for protection, yarrow for healing. The leaves settle. The pattern speaks.
#MythologyMonday 🪞🕯️ On Halloween night, Victorian fortune-seekers gazed into mirrors by candlelight, hoping to glimpse the face of a future husband. But folklore offered a darker possibility: instead of a sweetheart, the mirror might reveal a skull, an omen of death. 💀
🔮 The spirits have spoken... and so has the parrot! 🦜👻 Step inside Moneybaggs Manor for Victorian manners, murderous secrets, supernatural mayhem, and one very hungry rose. 📚 Wickedly Delicious: A Dark Comedy by Nifty Buckles Paperback: amazon.ca/dp/B0HFKWW9VQ #WickedlyDelicious
‘I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.’ ~ Shirley Jackson. #SpookySunday
🌿🦌 Tonight is the Eve of Roodmas. Holy Rood Day falls Sept. 14, an old British autumn marker. In Scottish lore, dry red deer foretold fair harvest weather. And tomorrow? Beware going a-nutting... the Devil may be doing the same. 🌰😈 #SpookySunday #Roodmas #UKFolklorre
🕯️❤️ Today would have been my son Scott’s 38th birthday. I’m remembering the Wonderful little boy who came into my life 38 years ago and the man he grew to be. Sending all my love across the veil. Happy Birthday, Scotty. ❤️ Forever loved. Forever my son.
#Caturday 😺🌹📖 WICKEDLY DELICIOUS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Gothic dark comedy of manners, monsters & murderous flora.🎩 🌹📖 Paperback: amazon.ca/dp/B0HFKWW9VQ 🌹eBook: www.niftybucklesfolklore.fun/wickedly-del...
#FairyFriday 🧚♀️🌾 In Irish harvest lore, the last standing sheaf was called the Cailleach, the Old Woman. In one tradition, it was left standing for the “wee fellows” before being cut and kept for the year. #IrishFolklore #HarvestLore #Cailleach 🎨 Natasa Ilincic
Willy Pogany, from '44 Turkish Folk Tales', 1913. #folktale #Turkey #Turkish #WillyPogany #Pogany #illustration
‘In Celtic rituals, these physical locations were often combined with temporal liminality (such as at dawn, dusk, or during seasonal transitions) to heighten the experience of the sacred and open participants to transformation.’ #Folklore forest-healing.co.uk/articles/thi...
🛸👽 Happy X-Files Day!🔦 On September 10, 1993, FBI Agents Mulder and Scully began chasing the unexplained, unbelievable and downright weird. "I never missed an episode!" 👽🛸💜 33 years later… "THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE!" 🛸👽 #XFilesDay #TheXFiles #90sTV #poculture #Mulder #Scully #UFOs #Aliens
In the 1920s Charlie Stamp, a wildfowler on Canvey Island, #Essex, told of his encounter with what may have been the ghost of a #Viking, judging by his description of it. "I've lost me ship, mate," it told him. "I'm a lost man." Then this 'rum owd feller' wandered away into the marsh. #WyrdWednesday
FENRIR the most infamous of the many #wolves in NORSE mythology; son of the god Loki and the female giant Angrboda. It is Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok 🎨John Bauer #WyrdWednesday
Need to waterproof your Cape or Plaid? Hers a recipe for a waterproofing substance ‘Illustrated recipe book of Katherine Jane Ellice, 1846-1859’ from Rain exhibition at the ever fabulous @natlibscot.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday Naglfar — the Ragnarök ship built from the nails of the dead. Clip the dying’s nails, or you help her launch. Loki at the helm. Attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier tradition, in the Prose Edda. #NorseMyths #Naglfar 🎨 Art by Faile35 on Deviant Art
