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Author, Nifty Buckles (pen name: Valerie Hopkins) invites you into a magical world of folklore where Dragons & Gnomes reign!

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In time for the holidays!
Get ready for cozy chaos with "Yule Mischief Makers"
a delightful new #ebook packed with cheeky sprites, snowy pranks, and heartwarming holiday magic!
🎁 Grab your copy now and let the Yule shenanigans begin!
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As we're now on the approach, I thought a little bit of practical Christmas folklore was in order. Today, it's what to include in your Christmas wreath...🎄🌿☃️🎁 #HouseholdLore #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Christmas #Booksky #Witchsky #Herbsky #FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly
December 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Our 15th #yulefolklore tale takes us to Central Europe where we meet a West Slavic winter spirit.

A gift-giver, too, but, much like Virgil’s Danaans – beware those bearing gifts!

Read what happened in the link below.

🎨 Alphonse Mucha
December 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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‘The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.’ ~
Charles Baudelaire
#BookWormSat
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
#BookWormSat 📚
Dan Brown's Angels & Demons (2000) – the ultimate clash of science vs. faith!
Robert Langdon races through Rome decoding Illuminati symbols to stop an antimatter bomb at the Vatican.
Perfect #angels 👼 vs. #demons 😈 thriller!
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#BookwormSat 📚 👼
The Little Prince, a philosophical novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, tells of a young prince exploring planets and meeting adults embodying vanity, greed, and routine. Seen as an angelic, innocent figure.
Published in 1943, it’s a timeless tale of innocence & insight.
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#BookwormSat 📚
The Archangel Michael defeating Satan, 1635 by Guido Reni, is a Baroque masterpiece showing angelic might, with Michael as a graceful Roman soldier pinning a contorted, dark Satan beneath his foot, symbolizing triumph over evil famously housed in Rome's Santa Maria della Concezione.
December 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#BookwormSat 📚
"The Devil's Walk", was not written by William Wordsworth alone, but was a collaborative satirical ballad co-written by Samuel T. Coleridge & Robert Southey. Published in 1799 in the Morning Post under the title "The Devil's Thoughts".
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The Devil's Walk. A Ballad - The Devil's Walk. A Ballad Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#BookwormSat
Detail from André Orsel’s 1832 painting "Good and Evil" — Lucifer tempting a woman, symbolizing the battle between good and evil. 🎨👹

🎨Good and Evil: The #Devil Tempting a Young Woman), created in 1832 by the French artist André Jacques Victor Orsel.
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#BookwormSat 📚
"The Devil and Tom Walker" is a short story by Washington Irving published in 1824 as part of his collection Tales of a Traveller. It's a retelling of the Faust legend, set in colonial Massachusetts around 1727, it features a man named Tom Walker who makes a deal with the devil.
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#BookwormSat
On St. Michaelmas (29 Sept), the #DEVIL was cast from Heaven, landing furious in the brambles—and spitting on the berries. 😈
Pick after Old Michaelmas (11 Oct), and risk bad luck or worse. Beware the devil’s curse! 🚫🤒
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"The one principle of Hell is: bring back food or be food yourself."

- C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters'
(Illustration is by Cruikshank for a story from 'The Ingoldsby Legends'. I admit it's a rather over-literal interpretation of the text!)
#BookWormSat #CSLewis #devil #devils
December 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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'I know not how, but shuddering as I slept,
I dreamed a banished angel to me crept'
-George Meredith

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat.

🎨Joseph Middeleer
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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‘What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?’ ~ Woland in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.

For this #BookWormSat we will cherish the angels of literature and relish its devils. Join us. 😇 😈
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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“From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.”

(Milton)

🎨 Gustave Doré

#bookwormsat
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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'But always on that angel brow
Rests such a shade of deep despair,
As nought divine could ever know.'
-Emily Brontë

🎨Alfred Stevens
#BookWormSat
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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‘From his brimstone bed at break of day
A walking the Devil is gone,
To visit his little snug farm of the earth
And see how his stock went on.’ ~ The Devil’s Thoughts ~ Coleridge. #BookWormSat
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌿 #FolkyFriday explores the magical #WishingChairs of Ireland and England! From Bundoran’s legendary seat where wishes are said to come true, to the basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway, these ancient stones are believed to grant wishes if approached with respect. Make a silent wish, tap twice.🍀
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Buddies, what a cracking #FolkyFriday! Thank you so much! 🖤

We won't be back next week as we have another commitment BUT on Friday 19th our theme will be "Legendary Endings and Midwinter Lore" ahead of the Winter Solstice.

Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares then, on 19/11, 10am-6pm UK time!
a white deer stands in a forest with a crescent moon in the sky
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December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#FolkloreThursday
In Russia & Slavic lands, Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) 🎅❄️ and his enchanting granddaughter Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden) 🎀☃️ bring #gifts on New Year’s Eve, slipping them silently under the sparkling yolka tree 🌲✨ while children sleep. #Slavicfolklore ❄️
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#FolkloreThursday 🎄
On January 5th, Epiphany Eve in Italy! 🇮🇹✨ The kind old witch, #Befana, soars across rooftops on her trusty broomstick, 🧹🏠 bringing joy and surprises. Good children wake up to stockings filled with sweets, toys & gifts, while naughty ones might find coal or a garlic bulb. 🧄
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#FolkloreThursday
In time for the holidays!
Get ready for cozy chaos with "Yule Mischief Makers"
a delightful new #ebook packed with cheeky sprites, snowy pranks, and heartwarming holiday magic!
🎁 Grab your copy now and let the Yule shenanigans begin!
niftybucklesfolklore.fun/yule-mischie...
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
On #BookologyThursday, explore the Christmas pudding’s lucky sixpence! Dating back to 14th-century Twelfth Night cakes with hidden peas or beans, the tradition evolved into embedding a silver sixpence.
Finding the coin meant good fortune!
December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#FolkloreThursday
Greece's #Kallikantzaroi are mischievous underground #goblins emerging during the 12 days of Christmas.
Born from a human mother on #Christmas Day, they torment humans until Epiphany waters banish them.
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#FolkloreThursday
From the heart of Vatnajökull glacier emerges Skessan í Vatnajökli, the mighty she-troll giantess of Iceland! Her skin, a white blue glacier ice, is veins of glowing lava and volcanic ash, embodying the land of fire and ice 🌋❄️.
🌌🗻 #IcelandicTrolls
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#FolkloreThursday 🎄
Starting December 11, one mischievous Yule Lad arrives each evening for 13 magical nights. 🌙✨
These jolly visitors sneak into homes to leave treats in children’s shoes — fluffy pancakes, creamy yogurt, meat or surprises… but beware!
Naughty kids might get a potato 🥔 instead!
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM