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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Owl’s Ghost Story 🎨 Louis Wain (1890)
- 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
- 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
- art by Beidi (Betty) Guo
- 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
- “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
- art by Troy Howell #WyrdWednesday
- 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
- 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.
- art by Tristan Elwell
- 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
- 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.
- art by Ruth Sanderson Njörðr and Skaði by Wilhelm Carl Fredrik von Saltza (1893)
- 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)
- I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room. ~Jean Rhys art by Nom Kinnear King #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
- The Lady Ghost Adelaide Claxton (1876) #PhantomsFriday
- Do I dare to eat a peach? ~T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683) #BookologyThursday
- The peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise as it floated along. ~Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach #BookologyThursday
