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Mystery and Folklore. TBA: Folkish Podcast. KerriaSeabrooke.com Host: #BookChatWeekly & #BookologyThursday #SCBWI #SINC IMDB: bit.ly/3ZXjiu1
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- One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~C.S. Lewis 🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)
- Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. ~Dale Chihuly 🎨 Mervyn Peake (1944)
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- Black winter truffles are harvested in the wild during winter and summer using specially trained pigs and dogs to locate them. Ancient Romans believed truffles were imbued with aphrodisiacal powers, though in the Middle Ages, they were said to be sinful. 🎨 Alexandre Decamps (1876)
- Reposted by KerriaThe Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll. Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril. 🎨 Serge Lassus
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- Cauldrons have been used for rituals and food preparation since the Bronze Age for cooking, laundering clothes, bathing, brewing beer, medicines and rituals. The symbol of the cauldron, represents rebirth and continuous abundance. George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
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- Reposted by Kerria“Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.” (Francis Bacon) 🎨 Evvie "Evvin" Marin #bookologythursday
- Reposted by KerriaCrows (and ravens) are deeply connected to the Mabinogion, primarily through Brân the Blessed, whose name means "Blessed Crow" or "Raven," a giant king from the Second Branch whose severed head guards Britain, linking him to the legend of the Tower of London's ravens. #BookologyThursday #Folklore
- The Owl’s Ghost Story 🎨 Louis Wain (1890)
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- Reposted by Kerria“Therefore, all the spirits and demons have one half from man below, and the other half from the angels of the supernal realm.” (Zohar 3:76b-77a) 🎨 Mike Mignola #phantomsfriday
- Reposted by Kerria'The Haunted Armoury' #illustration by Percy Macquoid 1881 #PhantomsFriday
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- Reposted by Kerria'Frozen like a thing of stone I sit in thy shadow – but not alone.' 🖋️‘A Silent Wood’ 🎨'The Haunted Wood' Art and poem by Elizabeth Siddal #PhantomsFriday
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- Reposted by Kerria"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!” (Edgar Allan Poe) 🎨 Gustave Doré #phantomsfriday
- Ghost stories and Phantom Fancies (1858) The British Library #PhantomsFriday
- ‘The Earl of Surrey was suddenly startled by a blue phosphoric light.’ Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894) #PhantomsFriday
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- Reposted by KerriaJulie had been looking over Perdita's bookshelves with natural envy. – Richard Le Gallienne, An Old Country House, 1902 #BookologyThursday
- Reposted by Kerria“It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree.” (Coleridge) 🎨 Elisabeth Shippen-Green #bookologythursday
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- Reposted by KerriaBetsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. Maud Hart Lovelace Winslow Homer #BookologyThursday
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- The Lüneburg Manuscript (1440-50) references a piper leading 130 children out of Hamelin. While not the act of a magic rat-catcher as depicted by the Grimm brothers in ‘Der Rattenfänger von Hameln’ there was a real-life tragic event that occurred in 1284. #BookologyThursday
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- Detail from the Scheibler Armorial, an armorial manuscript from the 15th to 17th centuries. Named for the baronial Scheibler family of Hülhoven in the Rhineland. #BookologyThursday
- Reposted by KerriaWhile Mortals Sleep. #Art © Colin Woolfe
- Reposted by KerriaGood talk, @cwreeve.bsky.social! Wyrd Mother @wunderkammertales.bsky.social here to continue the dialogue with you Wyrdlings - come, sit down, share more #wyrdwednesday stories!
- “This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,”whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. ~Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
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- Reposted by Kerria“Be of good cheer! I am not wild! Soft shall you sleep within my arms!” (Matthias Claudius “Death and the Maiden”) 🎨Sara Sheil
- The Enchanted Forest by Elaine Bailey
- There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it. ~Clarissa Pinkola Estés Women Who Run With the Wolves art by Brin Kennedy
- A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest… because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. ~Terry Pratchett
- art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #legendarywednesday #bookchatweekly
- The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot–snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump–and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb. ~Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly ‘Rikki Tikki Tavi the mongoose and cobra’ by Charles Maurice Detmold for The Jungle Book, 1902 (Pollard Collection)
- “I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him. ~C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia art by Justin Sweet #WyrdWednesday
- #bookchatweekly Justin Sweet’s concept artwork for The Chronicles of Narnia
- Reposted by Kerria“Stretched across the upper part of the doorway was a big spiderweb, and hanging from the top of the web, head down was a large grey spider… She had eight legs, and she was waving one of them at Wilbur in friendly greeting. 'See me now?' she asked." (E.B. White) #wyrdwednesday
- There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. ~Amanda Gorman art by Hannah Willow✨
- One of the greatest taboos in graveyard etiquette is counting graves, it considered an invitation for ghosts to follow you home and will shorten your days on earth. When passing a graveyard it is wise to hold your breath to prevent accidental inhalation of a wandering spirit.
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- Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. ~Umberto Eco art by Amanda Clark
- Reposted by Kerria“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.” (Plutarch) 🎨 Theo van Hoytema #owlishmonday
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- Reposted by KerriaToday is Plough Monday, the day when work begins anew after Yuletide has ended on Epiphany in the previous week. But some find, traditions are a bit... too much. Read our "Plough Monday" #winterfolklore story below 🎨 Clare Leighton
- The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake (1819-1920) #PhantomsFriday
- Skadi was born a frost-giant and became the Norse goddess of winter through her marriage to the sea god, Njoror. She is associated with bowhunting, skiing, mountains, and snowshoes. A hunter, archer, and skier, she is often depicted with a shield, bow, and skis.
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- Reposted by Kerria“Once in his life may a man send his Soul away, but he who receiveth back his Soul must keep it with him for ever, and this is his punishment and his reward.” (Oscar Wilde “The Fisherman and his Soul”) 🎨 Jane Kupr #booksky
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- Sleek, faery creature, Strange freak of Nature That through the twilight comes and goes, Could we the mystery Of thy life's history Resolve, and learn what no man knows. ~Samuel Waddington (1902) art by Tuesday Riddell
- In Finnish mythology, the Aurora Borealis is created by the Arctic Fox. The cold night sky is illuminated by flying sparks from the tail of the fox as it gallops across the snow-covered mountains. art by Sophie Basilevitch
- The steps are a blanched slope, Up which, with feeble hope, A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin; And we take him in. ~Thomas Hardy art by Albert Dumouchel (1969)
- Reposted by KerriaThe Carmentalia, celebrated on this day in ancient Rome, are one of those forgotten holidays of forgotten deities or are they... not quite forgotten? So we go to Italy today, where it all began, and maybe we have a chance to ask the Cumean Sibyl how it ends, in our 5th #winterfolklore tale below
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