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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · Mar 21

According to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a #Crone is the "one who sees far, looks into the spaces between the worlds, can literally see what is coming, what has been, what is now, what underlies, & what stands behind many things." 🪄 🧙‍♀️ #Fairytales #archetype #Witchsky

Archetypical appearance of a crone. Old Woman Seen from Behind,
by Vincent van Gogh. ca 1882

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d

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 · 9d

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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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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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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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1d

Žemyna, the Lithuanian goddess of the Earth, embodies all living things that grow from her soil. Oaks, lindens, and spruces are sacred to her, and in their highest branches, it is said, the secret of life itself is hidden. #FolkloreThursday #trees #nature

Collage showing three sacred trees linked to the Lithuanian earth goddess Žemyna: the oak, linden, and spruce. Images include mature trees, acorns, linden blossoms, and spruce saplings, symbolising strength, renewal, and the life hidden in their highest branches.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than reading Fahrenheit 451 for the nteenth time, why not branch out into some Critical #Folklore Studies? And just so you know I’m not just trolling for book sales, this one happens to be available to read for FREE tinyurl.com/33sdvvdz

#BannedBooksWeek

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 22h

My pleasure, Terri. You're so welcome!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13d

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/

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

Thank you for sharing, Rosalind! 💐 This lecture in particular inspired me to begin (again) writing the fantasy & #fairytale images forever swirling around in my head. Grateful to the enchanting as you say, Terri Windling. ☺️

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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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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 18d

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie (turn on sound).

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 8d

Our next online talk

FAIRIES, WITCH BOTTLES AND AZAZEL: British Grimoires and their Significance to the Study of Folklore

Saturday 18 October, 7:30pm
£5 plus booking fee

bit.ly/flaevents

All profits support our charity.

Ticket includes talk, Q&A and recording of the event

Our next online talk is now booking.

On Saturday 18th October, we will be hosting a talk via Zoom on the subject of British Grimoires and their significance to folklore.

Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee) via our EventBrite page and include a Q&A with the presenter, Daniel Harms, and access to a recording of the talk afterwards.

All profits support our charitable work. To book, please visit

bit.ly/flaevents

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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · Apr 7

You need to be open and receptive to "The Note"! Our latest episode is on Hope Mirrlees' classic, unclassifiable LUD-IN-THE-MIST, and the sometimes-suppressed history of women's fantasy, with theatre & faerie scholar Marita Arvaniti.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/04/07/a...

A Meal of Thorns 21 – LUD-IN-THE-MIST with Marita Arvaniti

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Marita ArvanitiTitle: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope MirrleesHost: …

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s piece (1/3) reflects on Tolkien’s constructions of childhood, esp. the Elves as perfect children, and what happens when they re-experience childhood after reincarnation.
dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/constructi...
#TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @tolkiensociety.org

Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (1): Childhood and the Elves

Childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium

dimitrafimi.substack.com

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 8d

'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

A fox dancing on hind legs with a leaf on its head.

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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 7d

Bronze statue of the Goddess Fortuna, c. 1st century CE, Pompeii

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neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social · 16d

The labyrinth is a symbol of the soul’s journey through darkness to rebirth.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9d

October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 9d

Watch... he's going to start wearing a military uniform soon with badges & medals plastered from head to toe.

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sueinthehighlands.bsky.social @sueinthehighlands.bsky.social · 11d

All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness.

All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom.

By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

- Mary Oliver

Looking up through the trees into the stars, with night camera vision.

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 9d

A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish. #justsayin' 😉

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 10d

We're looking forward to attending the talk by Professor Debbie Felton, 'Fairy Tales: Their Ancient Origins,' on Sunday 12 October 2025, 20:00-21:30 GMT, online (Zoom). details: www.gossamerwight.com/events/

#events #fairytales #folklore #esoteric #medusa #ethnography #ancientworld

Image credit: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Abduction of Psyche (1895).

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 9d

Hello October 🍂

Autumn Fairy 🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, ca 1916
#fairytales #autumn #October

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 10d

Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales - A fascinating lecture with Jack Zipes, from the exhibition "The Wonderful World Before #Disney". Via the Weisman Art Museum.
#Mythsky #Fairytales
www.youtube.com/watch?v=khX9...

Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales | Lecture with Jack Zipes

YouTube video by Weisman Art Museum

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 12d

To hear an owl hoot near one's house is one of the myriad of bad luck omens associated with Warwickshire's flora and fauna.

I love owls so it's a shame they don't have a better rep in folklore.
📷 by me

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