Karen - Wall Flower Studio
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Bookish #gardening Crone - likes spiders & snakes 😼 #cats 🐾 #folklore #myth #amwriting 🇨🇦 Canada wallflowerstudiogarden.com
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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
The Little House Turns
"Little house, move
On your crooked legs free;
Turn your back to the wood,
And your front door to me."
📖 Book of Polish #Fairytales, ca 1920
#art #faeries #cottagecore
"Little house, move
On your crooked legs free;
Turn your back to the wood,
And your front door to me."
📖 Book of Polish #Fairytales, ca 1920
#art #faeries #cottagecore
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Little House Turns
"Little house, move
On your crooked legs free;
Turn your back to the wood,
And your front door to me."
📖 Book of Polish #Fairytales, ca 1920
#art #faeries #cottagecore
"Little house, move
On your crooked legs free;
Turn your back to the wood,
And your front door to me."
📖 Book of Polish #Fairytales, ca 1920
#art #faeries #cottagecore
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable
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King Winter travels to Sweden with the North Wind. An ancient covenant decrees that he shall not spread snow prior to the eleventh lunar cycle of the year. But in his impatience to lock the land in ice, he can arrive early - and blames his mistiming on his clock being frozen
#LegendaryWednesday
#LegendaryWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
King Winter travels to Sweden with the North Wind. An ancient covenant decrees that he shall not spread snow prior to the eleventh lunar cycle of the year. But in his impatience to lock the land in ice, he can arrive early - and blames his mistiming on his clock being frozen
#LegendaryWednesday
#LegendaryWednesday
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Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic... #Folklore
Four of Europe's most fascinating pre-Christian winter festivals
Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic... #Folklore
"They saw that the cottage was made of bread and cakes."
- Hansel and Gretel and other stories, ca 1921
✍️ Hans Christian Andersen 🎨 Kay Nielsen
#art #fairytales #witchcore #food 🪄 🍞 🍰
- Hansel and Gretel and other stories, ca 1921
✍️ Hans Christian Andersen 🎨 Kay Nielsen
#art #fairytales #witchcore #food 🪄 🍞 🍰
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"They saw that the cottage was made of bread and cakes."
- Hansel and Gretel and other stories, ca 1921
✍️ Hans Christian Andersen 🎨 Kay Nielsen
#art #fairytales #witchcore #food 🪄 🍞 🍰
- Hansel and Gretel and other stories, ca 1921
✍️ Hans Christian Andersen 🎨 Kay Nielsen
#art #fairytales #witchcore #food 🪄 🍞 🍰
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Terrific article on the #Venus figurines, and why they are not actually "Venus" figurines, via Max Dashú.
www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/not...
www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/not...
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Terrific article on the #Venus figurines, and why they are not actually "Venus" figurines, via Max Dashú.
www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/not...
www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/not...
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“Eventually, Everything Connects.”
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore.
Shot With: iPhone 12 Pro Max.
#Trees.
#Sunsets.
#Photography.
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore.
Shot With: iPhone 12 Pro Max.
#Trees.
#Sunsets.
#Photography.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Eventually, Everything Connects.”
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore.
Shot With: iPhone 12 Pro Max.
#Trees.
#Sunsets.
#Photography.
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore.
Shot With: iPhone 12 Pro Max.
#Trees.
#Sunsets.
#Photography.
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Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things, 1869 by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born English, 1823–1903)
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things, 1869 by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born English, 1823–1903)
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by Edward Gorey
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
by Edward Gorey
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Serbia: Possibly Home to Europe’s First Domestic Cats
(Interesting read for fellow feline fans.)
#cats 🐾 🐱
cogniarchae.com/2025/08/12/s...
(Interesting read for fellow feline fans.)
#cats 🐾 🐱
cogniarchae.com/2025/08/12/s...
Serbia: Home to Europe’s First Domestic Cats - COGNIARCHAE
Recent research suggests that Serbia, alongside Cyprus, was one of the very first places in Europe to host domesticated cats. Neolithic figurines from the Vinča culture may even represent the oldest d...
cogniarchae.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Serbia: Possibly Home to Europe’s First Domestic Cats
(Interesting read for fellow feline fans.)
#cats 🐾 🐱
cogniarchae.com/2025/08/12/s...
(Interesting read for fellow feline fans.)
#cats 🐾 🐱
cogniarchae.com/2025/08/12/s...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
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Had a mooch to the wonderful Christmas tree festival at St Mary’s church, Warwick. Below 👇 are trees in the Beauchamp chapel.
&
Tree decorated by volunteers at Priory Books, the second-hand book shop at Warwickshire County Record Office.
#FolkloreSunday
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Tree decorated by volunteers at Priory Books, the second-hand book shop at Warwickshire County Record Office.
#FolkloreSunday
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Had a mooch to the wonderful Christmas tree festival at St Mary’s church, Warwick. Below 👇 are trees in the Beauchamp chapel.
&
Tree decorated by volunteers at Priory Books, the second-hand book shop at Warwickshire County Record Office.
#FolkloreSunday
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Tree decorated by volunteers at Priory Books, the second-hand book shop at Warwickshire County Record Office.
#FolkloreSunday
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Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas
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I remain convinced that no one has tackled Merlin as well as Mary Stewart did with her Crystal Cave / Hollow Hills / Last Enchanter trilogy, published in the 1970s. It remains a classic, and is beautifully written. #BookSky #Arthurian #Merlin
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I remain convinced that no one has tackled Merlin as well as Mary Stewart did with her Crystal Cave / Hollow Hills / Last Enchanter trilogy, published in the 1970s. It remains a classic, and is beautifully written. #BookSky #Arthurian #Merlin
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Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
In the mythology and pseudo-history of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, Princess Scota and her husband Goídel Glas and their followers were the progenitors of the Gaelic people.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
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The Middle English term elferingewort ("elf-ring"), is said to be "a ring caused by elves' dancing". Similarly, Scandinavian lore states #fairy rings are burned into the ground by the dancing elves, & we humans might want to avoid them!
🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art
🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Middle English term elferingewort ("elf-ring"), is said to be "a ring caused by elves' dancing". Similarly, Scandinavian lore states #fairy rings are burned into the ground by the dancing elves, & we humans might want to avoid them!
🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art
🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art
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The legend of the White Hare (Cornish) speaks of the lost spirit of a maiden. With a broken heart & a soul which cannot rest, she appears as a white #hare, invisible to others except her faithless lover, who she follows always, haunting him until he meets his end. 🐇 #FolkloreSunday #folksky
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The legend of the White Hare (Cornish) speaks of the lost spirit of a maiden. With a broken heart & a soul which cannot rest, she appears as a white #hare, invisible to others except her faithless lover, who she follows always, haunting him until he meets his end. 🐇 #FolkloreSunday #folksky
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a light Halloween adjacent read
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dan...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dan...
A Brief History of the 'Danse Macabre'
Skeletons have been dancing people to their graves since at least 1424.
www.atlasobscura.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
a light Halloween adjacent read
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dan...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dan...
Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas