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Comparative #myth, classics, researching women in #fairytales & #folklore 🌸 🇨🇦 #amwriting. #factsmatter #INFJ * No DM's thx.

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · Apr 22

The etymology of the feminine word "Hag" suggests its earlier meaning meant "diviner or soothsayer". In N. European paganism *Hægtesse may have meant a "magic woman with prophetic & oracular power".

🪄 * hagatusjon, Hexe, haghetisse, & hagzusa.

🎨 Marie Abrams Lawson, ca 1937
#Witchsky #myth #pagan

"Poisonous Leaves" 🍃🍂 🦇 From 'Leaves, Their Place in Life and Legend' by Vernon Quinn, 1937 🎨 #Illustration by Marie Abrams Lawson

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6h

"In my own travels around Quebec as a teenager, one such story reached me: the tale of a woman who was caged and hanged for witchcraft, only for her ghost to haunt the island every Samhain eve." - Adrian Deveau

niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...

#samhain #halloween #folklore #quebec #envhum

Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary

Folklore is embedded in the heart of Quebecois culture.

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 14h

Not much self-reflection from the far-right.

Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 14h

And she did this without the use of commas!

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Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 19h

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 14h

🪄💗 Love it, thanks!

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d

Francesca Wade examines how Gertrude Stein’s “desire to wring every ounce of meaning from a limited set of words” made the expatriate writer famous in her own country.

Inventing Gertrude Stein, Literary Cubist

Near the beginning of The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein breaks off abruptly to address her reader—“but truly,” she adds, “I never feel it that there ever can be for me any such a creature, no…

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 1d

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever - Witches teach us how to push back - and raise hell - in the face of authoritarianism. #Witchsky
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Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever - Reactor

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism.

reactormag.com

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

A Promenade Through the Sky 🦇 🦉
by French artist J. J. Grandville, ca 1847
#art #fantasy #dreams

A Promenade Through the Sky
Artist - J. J. Grandville, ca 1847
From Le Magasin pittoresque

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24d

From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 2d

12,000-Year-Old Carving Found in Turkey.
archaeology.org/news/2025/10...

News - 12,000-Year-Old Carving Found in Turkey - Archaeology Magazine

ŞANLIURFA, TURKEY—A T-shaped pillar carved with a face on its upper section has been discovered […]

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

Worth a try! 🌝

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 5d

Some Warwickshire moon lore:
When the first moon of each lunar month appears, men should bow to it 9 times and women curtsey 9 times. This ritual was believed to bring good luck.
#FolkloreSunday

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

Chilling.

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to going online with the Conscious Café this coming Monday 13th to talk about the weird and wonderful aspects of stones … leylines, legends, energies, ghosts and more! Hope you can join! ❤️🪨❤️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/explore-the-magic-and-mystery-of-the-stones-tickets-1555943431689#

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

Hitler's Brown Shirts, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Trump's ICE. All cut from the same cloth. #fascism

Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

I guess the gop doesn't like cosplay.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 6d

"Light as the moon’s path over the sea
the run of the hare over the land"

Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares'
🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor

#BookWormSat
@asls.org.uk

The poem is featured in 'A Secret History of Rhubarb' (Glasgow: Mariscat, 2004) Of her poem, Crowe writes: "I have tried always to keep faith with the creature itself, bearing in mind its behaviour in the wild as well as the mythic, magical values it has acquired in human consciousness over the millennia" 🎨 Linocut showing both stages of 'the run of the hare'. Brown hare on a grassy background. (1936–2022). Gillmor produced many natural history illustrations, among his other artistic works, over a long and successful career

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing an inspirational lecture by Terri Windling:
"The Power of Story: re-creating the world through fantasy":(Glasgow, Fantasy Symposium, May 2019) #fantasy #fairytale #amwriting ✍️ via: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTi0...

Terri Windling, "The Power of Story: re-creating the world through fantasy", Glasgow, 10 May 2019

YouTube video by Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 7d

@theprofrog.bsky.social calls John Blair’s Killing the Dead “authoritative and compelling” in the October issue of @historytoday.com. Learn more about this “fascinating history” here: hubs.ly/Q03M4M2F0.

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World by John Blair

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8d

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 7d

🍂💛🍂Rivendell - by Alan Lee
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10d

The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse....

A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD.

📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺

A light-brown pottery vessel decorated with a stylized face that resembles Shaun the Sheep, with a braided pattern around the rim.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9d

Folk faith knows the hop as plant of luck, a thing to be slipped into a sleep pillow. The witch knows it as a sower of bitterness. A fuel for breakup spells, cock-drooping sorceries. We have its secret names, how to use its claws in our bindings. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 9d

All of the above, under the umbrella of greed.

Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 9d

I just donated. 🙂