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Arts and Magic. Folklore and Fairy Tales. Poetry and Prose. History and Nature. Music and Film. The cosy and the uncanny. The weird and the whimsical.
Happy "Owl Day"!🦉🙌 the horned owl's opinion- every day is long 木兎は不断日永と思ふ哉 -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1807. Trans. David Lanoue. #OwlAwarenessDay #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #owls #フクロウ #Japan #ukiyoe #浮世絵
Malcolm Bucknall (British, born 1935) Midsummer Night's Dream, 2021 Oil on panel 20 × 16 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Garden Birds, 1967)
Christine Silver as Titania 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 📷by Bassano Ltd, 1913
'The Dream' by John Anster 'Fairy' Fitzgerald (1819-1906) An eminent illustrator of faeries who worked from imagination rather than literary sources. His paintings have a hallucinatory quality in which sleep is a portal to the otherworldly.
'My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose' ~Dylan Thomas 🎨Herbert James Draper #BookWormSat
The wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social have signed copies of 'Hookland Fragments Volume One' with a free Right To Reside card back in stock if you want to buy from one of my favourite bookshops. www.treadwells-london.com/product-page...
Hookland Fragments Volume One - David Southwell | Treadwells
Discover the Fortean mysteries and folkloric history of Hookland, England's lost county. Created by David Southwell and documented extensively on social media for many years, the fictional Hookland ha...
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"Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet - O Mole, I am afraid!" - Kenneth Grahame Rat & Mole humbled before the Piper at the Gates of Dawn. That ancient "panic" where overwhelming awe meets the raw heartbeat of the wild. IO Pan! #WyrdWednesday #WitchSky
'Her Chariot ready straight is made' Illustration by Thomas Maybank (1906) Frontispiece, 'Nymphidia, the Court of Faerie' by Michael Drayton, first published in 1627.
Illustration by Florence Harrison for Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition' "We are trees which have shed their leaves." #PhantomsFriday
There are paths around White Leaf where shadows move against the sun, dance to something other than the breeze. Paths where you risk walking out of time's normal flow. Mystically aligned say the ley hunters. Faery-bordered say the locals. A statistical anomaly for missing persons say the police.
Illustration by Mervyn Peake 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There' by Lewis Carroll "Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through." #BookWormSat
When the land sighs with the heat, releases shimmering visions, the witch knows the places of spiritual shade. Knows where to find cool, green communion. For the song of the land will always lead her to where she needs to be. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkWitchFriday
Yorkshire artist Atkinson Grimshaw's atmospheric nocturnes have graced many a ghost book (and #PhantomsFriday post). His home city of #Leeds is very haunted - its Town Hall, Courthouse, a library, a museum and two theatres are all said to have their ghosts. And in #Scarborough [Cont: #art #landscape
#PhantomsFriday A rather dreamy apparition. Jaroslav Spillar. 1898. According to folklorist William Hazlitt, ghosts are more visible the closer they are to their grave.
