P J Richards
@pj-richards.bsky.social
🪶Artist & Author🦄occasional Unicorn 🏹novels: folkloric-fantasy DEEPER OLDER DARKER🌿& 🌿official Robin of Sherwood adventure WOLVES OF WINTER🌿🌗On a mission to bring magick into the mundane world 💚Love Yews🌿#ReEnchantmentIsResistance
🪶🔮🪶'Medea' - by Evelyn De Morgan. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
🌊🖤🌊"...the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea." 📖Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood. #BookWormSat #Eisteddfod
🍂✨🍂'Dancing with the Fairies' - illustration by Arthur Rackham for 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens' by J. M. Barrie. #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
🪻🏰🪻I shall be away for the next few days, living in the mystical Glastonbury Abbey ruins! 💚Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!💚
🌳💜🌳'Fair Helena' - by Arthur Rackham for A Midsummer Night's Dream. 🍃"Oh have you forgotten all that? All of our childhood school days, our childhood innocence?" #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
🌊🫧🌊"The shining potion glistening in her hand." Art by Edmund Dulac - for 'The Little Mermaid' by Hans Christian Andersen. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday
💫💚💫"Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society." 📖William Makepeace Thackeray. #BookWormSat
🪽🌊🪽'Ulysses and the Sirens' - by John William Waterhouse.
🌧️⚖️☀️"St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair." #WeatherFolklore
🦢🌩️🦢An old belief claimed that swans' eggs would only hatch during a storm - the thunder and lightning was said to crack their shells, freeing the chicks. #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday
🐝💛🐝In Celtic myth, honeybees were said to fly between the mortal world and the heavens, bringing messages from the gods. #MythologyMonday
🏵️🗝️🏵️Sleeping on a pillow stuffed with marigold flowers was believed to inspire prophetic dreams. #FolkloreSunday
🪻💜🪻"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips & the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses & with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night." 🌙A Midsummer Night’s Dream. #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday
🔥🪄🔥The Magic Circle - by John William Waterhouse. #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
🍀🧵🍀Repairing clothes whilst wearing them was said to court misfortune - the mender would risk making enemies or falling into poverty. #FolkloreSunday
🪽🐎🪽"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it..." 👑Henry V #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare
❔😺❔"'Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat." 📖Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland. #BookWormSat #Caturday
🍃🏞️🍃"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can..." 📖J.R.R. Tolkien #FairyTaleTuesday
🛡️🦌🛡️In Arthurian myth, a White Stag - seen as a messenger from the Otherworld - would appear from the forest to lead the knights on a spiritual quest. #MythologyMonday
⛅️⚖️☁️An old Cornish belief claimed that the sun would never shine upon a perjuror - or even if it did, they would not be able to feel its warmth or see its light. #FolkloreSunday
