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From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season today by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
Today on #BookologyThursday ✨
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„Als sie auf den Anhöhen gingen, wo, wie gesagt wurde, zerstreute Bäume und Gebüschgruppen standen, fielen äußerst langsam einzelne Schneeflocken.“
✍️Adalbert Stifter, Der Bergkristall
„Als sie auf den Anhöhen gingen, wo, wie gesagt wurde, zerstreute Bäume und Gebüschgruppen standen, fielen äußerst langsam einzelne Schneeflocken.“
✍️Adalbert Stifter, Der Bergkristall
a snowy forest with mountains in the background and a full moon
ALT: a snowy forest with mountains in the background and a full moon
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#bookologyThursday
„Als sie auf den Anhöhen gingen, wo, wie gesagt wurde, zerstreute Bäume und Gebüschgruppen standen, fielen äußerst langsam einzelne Schneeflocken.“
✍️Adalbert Stifter, Der Bergkristall
„Als sie auf den Anhöhen gingen, wo, wie gesagt wurde, zerstreute Bäume und Gebüschgruppen standen, fielen äußerst langsam einzelne Schneeflocken.“
✍️Adalbert Stifter, Der Bergkristall
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Messengers and envoys were sent from Medb and Ailill to Ferdiad. #Ferdiad denied them their will, and dismissed and sent back the messengers, and he went not with them, for he knew wherefore they would have him, to fight and combat with his friend, with his comrade
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November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Messengers and envoys were sent from Medb and Ailill to Ferdiad. #Ferdiad denied them their will, and dismissed and sent back the messengers, and he went not with them, for he knew wherefore they would have him, to fight and combat with his friend, with his comrade
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#bookologythursday #celtic: `The men of Erin took counsel who would be fit to send to the ford to fight and do battle with #cuchulain, to drive him off from them at the morning hour early on the morrow.
With one accord they declared that it should be #ferdiad […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
With one accord they declared that it should be #ferdiad […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: `The men of Erin took counsel who would be fit to send to the ford to fight and do battle with #cuchulain, to drive him off from them at the morning hour early on the morrow.
With one accord they declared that it should be #ferdiad […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
With one accord they declared that it should be #ferdiad […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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#BookologyThursday I love the Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and how it weaves so many figures from Russian folklore and storytelling into the trilogy.
Illumicrate special edition cover by @rudebeetle on Instagram
Fanart by Rosiethorns88 on Instagram (@rosiethorns88.bsky.social)
Illumicrate special edition cover by @rudebeetle on Instagram
Fanart by Rosiethorns88 on Instagram (@rosiethorns88.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#BookologyThursday I love the Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and how it weaves so many figures from Russian folklore and storytelling into the trilogy.
Illumicrate special edition cover by @rudebeetle on Instagram
Fanart by Rosiethorns88 on Instagram (@rosiethorns88.bsky.social)
Illumicrate special edition cover by @rudebeetle on Instagram
Fanart by Rosiethorns88 on Instagram (@rosiethorns88.bsky.social)
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Young bookworm at the window of John Smith & Son bookshop, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, 1962, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“It appeared there was to be a play or concert on Christmas Eve… I several times heard the words ‘troupe of angels’, ‘shepherds’, ‘ridiculous price’ & ‘my girls’ …”
—A biblically accurate angel interrupts a Nativity play in Muriel Spark’s “The Seraph & the Zambesi”
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
—A biblically accurate angel interrupts a Nativity play in Muriel Spark’s “The Seraph & the Zambesi”
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“It appeared there was to be a play or concert on Christmas Eve… I several times heard the words ‘troupe of angels’, ‘shepherds’, ‘ridiculous price’ & ‘my girls’ …”
—A biblically accurate angel interrupts a Nativity play in Muriel Spark’s “The Seraph & the Zambesi”
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
—A biblically accurate angel interrupts a Nativity play in Muriel Spark’s “The Seraph & the Zambesi”
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
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Today on #BookologyThursday ✨
From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season today by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today on #BookologyThursday ✨
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#bookologythursday #celtic: `The four grand provinces of Erin were side by side and against #cuchulain, from Monday before #Samain-tide to Wednesday after Spring-beginning, and without leave to work harm or vent their rage on the province of Ulster, while yet […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: `The four grand provinces of Erin were side by side and against #cuchulain, from Monday before #Samain-tide to Wednesday after Spring-beginning, and without leave to work harm or vent their rage on the province of Ulster, while yet […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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"[There] was no time now for Grandmother to tell how the trees kneel at Christmas. The family was too busy trimming the tree... They put on plastic camels. Grandmother liked those; they reminded her of Lebanon."
—The Trees Kneel at Christmas, Maud Hart Lovelace
#BookologyThursday
—The Trees Kneel at Christmas, Maud Hart Lovelace
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"[There] was no time now for Grandmother to tell how the trees kneel at Christmas. The family was too busy trimming the tree... They put on plastic camels. Grandmother liked those; they reminded her of Lebanon."
—The Trees Kneel at Christmas, Maud Hart Lovelace
#BookologyThursday
—The Trees Kneel at Christmas, Maud Hart Lovelace
#BookologyThursday
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"Years passed by, and the Fairy Ernestine did not return. The count continued to grieve. Every Christmas Eve he set up a lighted tree in the room where he had first met the Fairy, hoping in vain that she would return to him."
—The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, Frances Olcott
#BookologyThursday
—The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, Frances Olcott
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Years passed by, and the Fairy Ernestine did not return. The count continued to grieve. Every Christmas Eve he set up a lighted tree in the room where he had first met the Fairy, hoping in vain that she would return to him."
—The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, Frances Olcott
#BookologyThursday
—The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, Frances Olcott
#BookologyThursday
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"At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them... Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe."
—The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
#BookologyThursday
—The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them... Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe."
—The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
#BookologyThursday
—The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
#BookologyThursday
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"Their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung... at Yule-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"Their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung... at Yule-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
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In Druidry, the year is divided into two parts: the Dark and the Light Time, a division marked by the two Solstices
#bookologythursday #druids
art: Druids cutting the mistletoe on the sixth day of the moon, by Henri Paul Motte
#bookologythursday #druids
art: Druids cutting the mistletoe on the sixth day of the moon, by Henri Paul Motte
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In Druidry, the year is divided into two parts: the Dark and the Light Time, a division marked by the two Solstices
#bookologythursday #druids
art: Druids cutting the mistletoe on the sixth day of the moon, by Henri Paul Motte
#bookologythursday #druids
art: Druids cutting the mistletoe on the sixth day of the moon, by Henri Paul Motte
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#LancashireDay - The Holden Boggart would hang on a hedge in the shape of a rag and as people went by, would transform himself into a black dog, to terrify!
more: Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#BookologyThursday #folklore
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more: Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#BookologyThursday #folklore
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November 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#LancashireDay - The Holden Boggart would hang on a hedge in the shape of a rag and as people went by, would transform himself into a black dog, to terrify!
more: Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#BookologyThursday #folklore
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more: Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#BookologyThursday #folklore
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there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
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“The week before Christmas, when snow seemed to lie thickest, was the moment for carol-singing; and when I think back to those nights it is to the crunch of snow and to the lights of the lanterns on it”
– Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
#BookologyThursday
– Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“The week before Christmas, when snow seemed to lie thickest, was the moment for carol-singing; and when I think back to those nights it is to the crunch of snow and to the lights of the lanterns on it”
– Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
#BookologyThursday
– Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
#BookologyThursday
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Some new Christmas games as suggested by W Heath Robinson, scanned from a (rather tightly bound) 1935 Christmas edition of The Strand Magazine. They are 'Splashing The Scotch', 'Throwing The Wishbone and 'Hunting The Mince Pie'.
#BookologyThursday #HeathRobinson #humour #Christmas
#BookologyThursday #HeathRobinson #humour #Christmas
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some new Christmas games as suggested by W Heath Robinson, scanned from a (rather tightly bound) 1935 Christmas edition of The Strand Magazine. They are 'Splashing The Scotch', 'Throwing The Wishbone and 'Hunting The Mince Pie'.
#BookologyThursday #HeathRobinson #humour #Christmas
#BookologyThursday #HeathRobinson #humour #Christmas
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The four grand provinces of Erin were side by side and against #Cuchulain, from Monday before #Samain-tide to Wednesday after Spring-beginning, and without leave to work harm or vent their rage on the province of Ulster, while yet all the Ulstermen were sunk in
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The four grand provinces of Erin were side by side and against #Cuchulain, from Monday before #Samain-tide to Wednesday after Spring-beginning, and without leave to work harm or vent their rage on the province of Ulster, while yet all the Ulstermen were sunk in
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Looking for a book to read these dark winter nights? Can we recommend:
"Folklore of the Lake District"
by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#BookologyThursday #BookSky
art: Pascal Moguerou
"Folklore of the Lake District"
by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#BookologyThursday #BookSky
art: Pascal Moguerou
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looking for a book to read these dark winter nights? Can we recommend:
"Folklore of the Lake District"
by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#BookologyThursday #BookSky
art: Pascal Moguerou
"Folklore of the Lake District"
by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#BookologyThursday #BookSky
art: Pascal Moguerou
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"She fell forward, and even as she fell a hand, far colder than the snow, caught her neck. She lay struggling in the snow and as she struggled there two hands of an icy fleshless chill closed about her throat. Then she lay still."
- Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow'
#BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory
- Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow'
#BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"She fell forward, and even as she fell a hand, far colder than the snow, caught her neck. She lay struggling in the snow and as she struggled there two hands of an icy fleshless chill closed about her throat. Then she lay still."
- Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow'
#BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory
- Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow'
#BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory
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4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Thursday
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 4 #ThursdayHashtags
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 4 #ThursdayHashtags
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Thursday
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 4 #ThursdayHashtags
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 4 #ThursdayHashtags
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“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Margaret Oliphant’s Old Lady Mary — a reply to Dickens’s Christmas Carol
From the first Christmas special in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess, another old lady (from Downton Abbey, Christmas special closing Season 2, referred to below) Friends and read…
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Today on #BookologyThursday ✨
From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season today by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today on #BookologyThursday ✨
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From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season today by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season today by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Chris Dunn
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This #BookologyThursday✨
From Scrooge to Krampus to Little Women #BookologyThursday invites you to kick off the festive season this week by sharing:
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Margaryta Yermolayeva
✨FAVORITE HOLIDAY TALES✨
in literature, myth, folklore, and art.
art by Margaryta Yermolayeva
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This #BookologyThursday✨