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Signe Maene
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Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
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The witches of Flanders are everywhere. Their tales may be forgotten, their voices unheard, but they are anything but quiet.

Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday
View of Oudenaarde in Winter, Edmond Van de Vyvere (1880-1950).
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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🖼 Woodland floor with Snowdrops, Josef Lauer, C19th.
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

(Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Rovina Kai
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
'The Fairy dropped her shimmering garment, drew back the branches, and a moment after was hidden within their depths.'
-The Garden of Paradise, Andersen.

🎨Edmund Dulac
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Winter Woodcock, Archibald Thorburn, 1916.
January 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Moonlight in Winter, Louis Douzette (1834-1924).
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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“The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable.” 

(Philip Pullman)

🎨 Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen

#wintersky
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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'Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone'

– Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, 1816

#art by László Mednyánszky
#poetry #booksky #gothic
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Foxgloves are said to grow where the fae gather, but famously foxgloves do not bloom in winter.

Or do they?

Let's join Mair the Witch in our 7th #winterfolklore tale, go to a place where Cheshire and Gwynedd meet and have a closer look.

Read Mair's story below.

🎨 Le Rolland
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Winter Music, Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946).
January 12, 2026 at 10:32 AM
A Milkmaid on Ice Skates by a Sledge, Henri van Seben (1825-1913)
January 12, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Wall hanging (detail) of Blossoming Tree (or Blütenbaum) created by Hermann Obrist around 1895. The work was executed by Berthe Ruchet.
January 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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“Once in his life may a man send his Soul away, but he who receiveth back his Soul must keep it with him for ever, and this is his punishment and his reward.”

(Oscar Wilde “The Fisherman and his Soul”)

🎨 Jane Kupr

#booksky
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Garden fresco in the dining room of the villa of Livia at Prima Porta outside Rome.
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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Today is Plough Monday, the day when work begins anew after Yuletide has ended on Epiphany in the previous week.

But some find, traditions are a bit... too much.

Read our "Plough Monday" #winterfolklore story below

🎨 Clare Leighton
January 12, 2026 at 6:15 AM
The Saint Martin church in Beauvechain. ❄️🤍❄️
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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‘By the grey woods,—by the swamp   
Where the toad and the newt encamp,—   
By the dismal tarns and pools
   Where dwell the Ghouls’ ~ Poe for #BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”

(Angela Carter “The Lady of the House of Love”)

🎨 Igor Karash

#bookwormsat
January 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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'I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things;
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.
I know this house isn't haunted, and I wish it were, I do;
For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two.'
~Joyce Kilmer

🎨G. M. de L'Aubiniere
#BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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"The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection.”

(Daphne du Maurier)

🎨 Ferdinand Knab

#bookwormsat
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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"They see no light and dwell in darkness,
they are clothed like birds in wings for garments,
and dust has gathered on the door and the bolt."

Extract from Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld #BookwormSat

🎨 'Babylon Fallen' by Gustave Doré, 1866
January 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
'Flowers may open, buds may blossom,
Bud and flower alike are vain;
Her days shall pass like a mournful story in
care and tears and pain.'
-Emily Brontë

🎨Gabriel Ferrier
#BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM
'...and I fall into melancholies of honey and roses which are none the less melancholy.'
-George Sand

🎨Kenneth Frazier
#BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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“Between the foot of the bed and the closet door, I saw a person in my room. The person was a woman, standing looking at me, with a knife in her hand. It does no credit to my courage to confess it— but the truth IS the truth."

(Wilkie Collins)
 
🎨 Edward Gorey
 
#phantomsfriday
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Blow on, wild wind, thy solemn voice,
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.'
-Anne Brontë

@signemaene.com welcomes you to a sad and bleak #BookWormSat! And on that note, Happy belated New Year!

🎨J. W. Waterhouse
January 10, 2026 at 9:50 AM