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Writer of Fantasy and Folklore. Coming soon: Folkish Podcast. Founder: #BookChatWeekly & #BookologyThursday @bookcat.bsky.social KerriaSeabrooke.com IMDB: bit.ly/3ZXjiu1

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Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · Jul 18

Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 8d

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 9d

Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.

art by Timothy Adam Matthews

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 10d

When a hare crosses your path repeat this phrase to avoid misfortune~

"Hare before, Trouble behind:
Change ye, Cross, and free me."

British Folklore (1875) #FolkloreSunday
art by Amanda Clark

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 10d

#owlishmonday #bookchatweekly

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 10d

The painting was found in the dusty attic of UK teacher, Jane Cordery and was auctioned at Christie's for close to a million dollars in 2012.

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 10d

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.

~Alfred Tennyson

The White Owl
William James Webbe (1853-1878)

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 10d

Tiles by William De Morgan (1839-1917)
English tile designer, potter and novelist. A designer for Morris & Co. (1875–1940)

#ArtsandCraftsMovement

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14d

De fabelen van La Fontaine, 1900.

archive.org/details/Font...

book cover
a fox and birb all togged up nicely.

fox and birb dining. they have a frog waiter

fox and raven in a tree,the raven has something shiny in its beak

grasshoppers with a guitar and a basket of sticks. I'm sure a pedant will correct me and say these are crickets not grasshoppers.

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 12d

I love Whistler’s comment, "I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures"

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 12d

'A Walk in Autumn' - Miyagawa Shuntei, 1898. 🍁
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Two women in traditional dress walk along a path holding an umbrella. On either side are maple trees with autumn leaves.

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 12d

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

~E.M. Forster
art by John Atkinson Grimshaw
#PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 13d

art by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 13d

Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

~ C.S. Lewis
#BookologyThursday

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 13d

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

~John Trelawney, Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated by Angel Dominguez
#BookologyThursday

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 13d

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.

~Joseph Campbell

Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨ Today we explore our theme:

🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉

in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 14d

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍂

art by Annya Marttinen

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 15d

Sending magic✨

art by Tijana Lukovic

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 15d

Pan's Labyrinth by Santiago Caruso

for #WyrdWednesday

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 15d

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
  ~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme:

🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉

in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 15d

Hello, dear Bibliophiles🍂

Happy Richard Scarry Autumn Days!✨

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 17d

#bookchatweekly

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 17d

Current read. Fascinating.

Death in Early America by Margaret Coffin
The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning.

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 17d

art by Jon Carraher

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 17d

If anyone needs me, I’m here in the enchanted forest brewing Dragonwell tea, baking Crone scones, and casting spells of kindness.✨

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 17d

art from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany by Jean Bourdichon (1503-1508)