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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 1d

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161–180 CE, a record of his private notes on #Stoic philosophy, where he states, 'the only way a man can be harmed by others is to allow his reaction to overpower him'. #MythologyMonday #meditations #philosophy

Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1844) by Eugène Delacroix, public domain.

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Wild walk writers

A very shiny acorn on the floor,
I'm surprised the squirrels haven't eaten it yet...
Maybe this one will grow.

#Oak

Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post using #WildWalkPrompt

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Tan. 💐

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

The Hyldemoer (“Elder-mother”) is a wood-nymph or dryad who lives in #Elder trees. Her spirit is said to #haunt or torment people who cut down or build from elder wood without asking her permission first. 🌳

#Folklore #Fairytales #trees #Samhain #Halloween

“The Elder Mother Tree” ca 1932, by Arthur Rackham
(cropped) Public domain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting for me when I got home!! Can’t wait to get stuck in!! #folklore

Cover of the book folklore by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 2d

I recently went to the press event for the opening of the new #Dark #Secrets #exhibition. Check our our #Youtube channel for a sneak peek at the entrance. #esoteric #witchcraft #folklore #WitchSky #werewolf #spiritualism #vampire #CursedDolls #seance #Crowley #tarot

youtube.com/@folklorelib...

Folklore Library

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 2d

"Open sesame" is the #magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (One Thousand and One Nights), which opens the mouth of a cave where the forty thieves hid the treasure. 🪄 #FolkloreSunday #fairytales #Folklore

Stories from the Arabian nights - Laurence Housman
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, ca 1911 - Public Domain

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked and saddened. 💐

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Losing Diane Keaton and Robert Redford in the same month is really sad. What a great career she had
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

Luna in the moss, following me on one of our many wee walks in the autumn woods last year. Missing her comforting physical presence, but somehow still feel her spirit nearby. 🐾

#BlackCats #Caturday #furbaby

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 3d

📣 New #feed announcing #Calls for Papers, Posters, Abstracts, and other contributions to #Academic Conferences, Journals, and #Scientific projects.

If you're a researcher, this is definitely worth saving. 200+ announcements in the last week alone.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#AcademicSky

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 11d

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Hilary R Sparkes @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social · 8d

I've usually seen it as a hedgerow plant but here's some low-growing Old Man's Beard at Compton Verney, Warwickshire
#WildflowerHour #fluffy

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

The Hyldemoer (“Elder-mother”) is a wood-nymph or dryad who lives in #Elder trees. Her spirit is said to #haunt or torment people who cut down or build from elder wood without asking her permission first. 🌳

#Folklore #Fairytales #trees #Samhain #Halloween

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 4d

The #folklore of the forest was used to provide protection 🧿
Recite this old Scots charm as you bind a rowan cross with seven inches of twine the colour of its deep red berries:
“Rowan tree and red thread / make the witches tine* their speed”
(*lose) #ForestFriday
📸 23 Sept, 2025 #Northumberland

A rowan tree copse in all its autumn glory

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

In 1922, Swiss painter Ernst Kreidolf wrote and illustrated Alpenblumenmärchen (Alpine Flowers Tales), a storybook about two acorn children who are swept away to far-off lands by autumn winds. Their adventures involve flower fairies and other fantastical creatures. #FolkyFriday

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

Once upon a time, many stories, fables & fairy tales began with the words, 'once upon a time'. 🪄 #fairytales #folksky #amwriting Via the @parisreview.bsky.social
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05...

“Once Upon a Time” and Other Formulaic Folktale Flourishes by Anthony Madrid

May 23, 2018 – We take the phrase “once upon a time” for granted, but if you think about it, it’s quite oddball English. Upon a time—? That’s just a strange

www.theparisreview.org

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 6d

#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi

#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky

Cropped front cover image of the full-colour Collins collector's edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. Cover illustration © Pauline Baynes.

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Sue! 🐾

Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

I always feel honoured by any animal who allows me to share even just a brief moment of time in their presence. 🦊
#wildlife #autumn #nature #fox

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) - My sweet neighbour, in Haliburton, Ontario.
Photo by me.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 4d

The woods smell amazing as the mist recedes: astringent, herbal, smoky. At the risk of sounding all wellness-woo, it feels as if I were inhaling pure mental health molecules.

Redwood trees and autumn-red poison oak undergrowth beneath cloudless blue sky.

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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 25d

Rå pulled men deeper and deeper into the woods until they lost all sense of time and place. She looked like a beautiful woman, but beneath her long hair, her back was just a tree trunk, just like all the other trees in the forest in which she lived.

#FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore #Fairy #Rå

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 9d

The Infamous Sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian Legend

"Morgan le Fay is the infamous sorceress in the Arthurian legends, but how did this strong and bewitching female character emerge?"

www.thecollector.com/morgan-le-fa...

Books by Thomas Malory at PG:

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The Passing of Arthur by Daniel Maclise "This intensely beautiful design shows the moment when the wounded Arthur is taken to Avalon by three queens. One leans over him in a tender gesture that is partly sexual and in part motherly. Though near death, the King is shown as a gigantic, heroic figure, almost too large to be contained in the boat. Maclise emphasises the notion of healing by rhyming a series of curving lines: the prow of the vessel, the sail above it and the domed apex all suggest a womb-like space in which Arthur will be reborn. These ‘feminine’ forms contrast markedly with the phallic symbolism of Excalibur in the first illustration for ‘Morte D’Arthur’, showing the start of his reign. The contrast of light and dark, death and life, further suggests the hero’s position, tenuously between his passing and his return. This was one of the most successful illustrations from the ‘Moxon Tennyson’, and was reprinted in several contemporary publications." - https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/maclise/17.html

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13d

The witch knows the turn of year through the sweet tang of apple rot carpet. She knows it in the slow striptease of hawthorn, knows it the wrinkling skin of berries. She requires no calendar but nature. Each season is sacred. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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