Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
Very superstitious by @willowwinsham.bsky.social has been on my reading list for quite some time, so I was very happy to find this beautiful book in the wild! 🐈⬛🐾 The lovely illustrations and mini-chapters make it the perfect companion to pick up during breaks!
Hi everyone, except for hosting #BookWormSat, I'm not that much online here because I live in the world of Flanders’ folklore witches atm. ✍️ I'm also still trying to cope with the loss of my beloved cat and spending a lot of time in nature, which helps with grieving and writing. 🌳🌸
‘But he calls down a blessing on the blossom of the may, Because it comes in beauty, and in beauty blows away.’ ~ Yeats, Red Hanrahan’s Curse. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Charles Caryl Coleman, 1889.
“So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd.” 🌺 The Mabinogion #BookWormSat
'Moon Foxes' - in celebration of today's full moon here are three moon foxes basking in the light of a full moon's glow 🦊🌀🌕 #FoxMoon #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay
"Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will." Poet & polymath Novalis was born #otd 1772. 🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "The Dreamer" (1835)
O! I can feel the cold earth upon me—the daisies growing over me—O for this quiet—it will be my first. – John Keats on his deathbed in 1812, as reported by his friend Joseph Severn. #bookwormsat
Third German Art - Trade Exhibition from Dresden May to Oct 1906.
The spring comes... 'O’er woods where May her gorgeous drapery flings, And meads washed fragrant by their laughing springs. Fresh are new opened flowers, untouched and free From the bold rifling of the amorous bee.' -John Clare @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 🪻🌼
'Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year.' -Robert Frost Tomorrow, #BookWormSat celebrates Beltane with the theme flowers. Join us! 🌸🌼🪻 🎨Anna Billing
"The wind howls and surges. Hear the voices on the heights? Far away, and then nearby? Yes, a furious magic song Sweeps the mountain, all along!" (Goethe) 🎨 Albert Zimmermann #walpurgisnight
Say "White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!" on the first of the month for good luck! 🎨 Higuchi Yuko
'A darling Mouse it is:— Part hope not likely to take wing, Part memory, part anything You please. Venus-cum-Iris Mouse From shifting tides set safe apart, In no mere bottle, in my heart …' -Christina Rossetti 🎨Dick Twinney #BookWormSat
"Gestumblindi said: "Who are the twain that on ten feet run? three eyes they have, but only one tail. Alright guess now this riddle, Heithrek!" Heithrek said: "Good is thy riddle, Gestumblindi, and guessed it is: that is Odin riding on Sleipnir." (Heiðreks gátur) 🎨 John Bauer #bookwormsat
‘We lived beneath the mat, Warm and snug and fat, But one woe, and that Was the cat! To our joys a clog, In our eyes a fog, On our hearts a log Was the dog! When the cat's away, Then the mice will play…’ ~ Lewis Carroll. 1/2 #BookWormSat
‘She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who kept a parrot.’ ~ Mark Twain 🦜 #BookWormSat 🖼️ The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh or The Legend of the Parrot, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, c.1865.
He mounted on a chariot and tamed with the bit the horses of Diomedes, that greedily champed their bloody food at gory mangers with unbridled jaws, devouring with hideous joy the flesh of men. – Euripides, Herakles #bookwormsat #art 'Diomedes Devoured by His Horses' by Gustave Moreau 1866
'You are lord of a place bounded like a dream.' -To a Cat, Jorge Luis Borges. 🎨Bruno Liljefors #BookWormSat
'Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright— Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.' -T. S. Eliot @signemaene.com and Jellicle cats everywhere welcome you to #BookWormSat! 🎨Edward Gorey
#BookWormSat "The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off ..." Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden 🎨Inga Moore
The Reverend Julian Graves (dec.) never learned how to end things. And so he returns to St Bride’s library every April to write poetry. Since more than 300 years. Read his story below in our 42nd #darkspringtide tale. 🎨 Mike Mignola
The bloedkoets (blood carriage) was said to be a ghostly carriage from Flemish folklore that was often seen in the streets of Aalst. According to the tales, masked men walked beside it and abducted children. The blood that the carriage collected was sent to Paris. #PhantomsFriday
