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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat🐇🧹🧙‍♀️
✨🌙 In folklore, witches riding brooms through the night are symbols of magic and mystery. Rabbits, quick and elusive, often accompany them as familiars—guardians of lunar magic and transformation.
🧙‍♀️🐇Together, they embody the wild, mystical spirit of the witching hour. 🐇🧹 #Rabbitlore

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat! 📚
🐴 In Eastern European folklore, the Silver Horse appears during October’s harvest festivals—an emblem of renewal and transformation. Guiding a young hero through changing seasons and into the spirit realm, it embodies the magic of transition.
#Horselore

(📖 Source: Karp, G., 2008)

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

#BookwormSat 📚
Join Winnie the Pooh, the honey-loving bear, on timeless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood! A.A. Milne’s classic, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), teaches us friendship & simplicity.

'Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.' ❤️🐻🐷 #WinnieThePooh #Bear #Animals

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 4d

‘The badger grunting on his woodland track
With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black
Roots in the bushes and the woods, and makes
A great high burrow in the ferns and brakes.’ ~ John Clare
And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a #WorldAnimalDay #BookWormSat

🖼️ Newton Smith Fielding, 1821.
Badger in rural landscape with ruins, illlustration.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 5d

‘I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.’ ~ Lewis Carroll

For World Animal Day tomorrow, #BookWormSat will roar, growl, bark, oink, miaow, neigh and bleat its way through the animals of literature. Do join us.

🖼️ Tenniel
An illustration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring the Cheshire Cat's disembodied head floating above the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, and other characters.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 5d

#Caturdayeve 🐈‍⬛🧛‍♂️ #Caturday 🙀
In Transylvanian folklore, a cat jumping over a corpse could turn into a bloodthirsty vampire! 🧛‍♂️

Saturday-born folks in Bulgaria might spot these elusive vampire cats or Werecats prowling the night.

Celebrate #CaturdayEve with these mystical feline tales! 🐾

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Belzée 🏳️‍⚧️ Studio HeroQueer @sheroqueer.com · 5d

Improving on clothes painting

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! That's Awesome!

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 6d

In folklore, candles flickering oddly were said to mean a ghost was nearby. If the flame guttered without draft, it was a spirit answering unspoken questions. #folklorethursday

Art: Ben Young

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 6d

That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🔥🎃🌙

Today's theme was folklore of Ghosts, Monsters, and All Things Spooky! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you the best Spooktober ever 🍁

1883 Bernard Gillam - Gambling with death

A detail from a colour magazine or newspaper illustration. A man in a top hat is smoking a cigar while seated at a table. A skeletal ghost-like figure in white robes is rolling dice from a cup and standing over the man while pointing to the table, which is shaped like a coffin.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 7d

Today's the day! Our hosts will share your Ghosts, Monsters and All Things Spooky folklore posts at the following times BST:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
Don't forget to include the hashtag! #FolkloreThursday
Image: Paul Hermans via wikimedia commons

Three carved pumpkins in a row, the two end ones are large with a small one in between.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 6d

#FolkloreThursday 🧙‍♀️✨
Witch Bottles from the 16th century were charms filled with nails, tissue, and urine to send curses back to witches and protect homes across Europe and America! 🚪🧪 Born during the Reformation, they were taken seriously and used for magic and protection. 🌿🔮
#BookologyThursday 📚

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · 6d

Songbirds soon to leave
While Juncos are arriving
Seasons trade their songs

#whistpr #Songbird #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #Cycles #BlueskyPhotography #Birds #Birding #Bluebirds #EasternBluebird #Nature #Wildlife #ImageAndVerse

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 8d

#FairyTaleTuesday 🏡 #FairyTaleFlash
“Hansel and Gretel“ a German fairy tale collected by the Grimm brothers, published in 1812.

In the enchanted forest , Hansel & Gretel find a candy-clad cottage . The witch’s oven burns with malice , but Gretel’s wit prevails. #HanselandGretel

🎨 Arthur Rackham

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 8d

On #FairyTaleTuesday, we revisit the classic tale: ✨
📖 Rooted in folklore, the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 story celebrates resilience and empowerment — where Rapunzel, once trapped, becomes the queen of her own fate within the Castle’s walls. 🏰 #Castle #Rapunzel
#FairyTaleFlash

🎨 Madelyn MacLeod

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 8d

#FairyTaleTuesday 🏡 #FairyTaleFlash 💀
Baba Yaga’s Cottage dances on chicken legs in a moonlit glade . 🌕🏡
Her pestle steers a mortar through shadows, weaving curses .
A brave girl seeks her aid, dodging skulls’ fiery gaze . 💀
Wit wins her freedom. 🦉
#Slavicfolklore 🧙‍♀️ #BabaYaga 🏡💀🎃

🎨 James Schultz

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Mythology Monday ✨ @mythologymonday.thefolklore.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Hello again, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: WAR. Which myths feature a person, event, or object related to war and battle? Write out your story and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. If joining from #bluesky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can […]

[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

Roman marble statue of Mars, the God of War. He wears full armour, an impressively crested helmet with a sphinx and wings atop his head. A gorgoneion, the head of Medusa, adorns his breast plate.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 9d

#MythologyMonday ⚔️🐦‍⬛ #War
The Morrígan, Irish triple goddess of War, Fate, and Sovereignty, wields fierce power in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. As a hooded Crow, she sways battles, foretelling doom or victory for Ulster’s warriors. A land’s guardian,of Ireland's fate.
#IrishFolklore #Morrigan 🐦‍⬛ #Crows

Statue of 'The Morrigan,' by Forest Rogers

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 9d

This #MythologyMonday the theme is on #War
Meet Fenrir, the ferocious Wolf of Norse myth, born of Loki and giantess Angrboða. Destined to spark Ragnarök’s apocalyptic war, he’ll devour Odin, the sun, and the moon.
Týr’s brave sacrifice binds him—for now.
#NorseMyths #Tyr #Fenrir #Ragnarok

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 11d

#BookWormSat 📘
Marking the first public railway (1825) with E.M. Forster’s evocative lines from 'Howards End' (1910):
"London was beginning to illuminate herself... it was the hour of a change, and all the rails led to the station."
#OnThisDay #RailwayAnniversary 🚂

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 11d

#BookWormSat #Trains 🚂
✨ Celebrating the first public railway (1825) with Émile Zola’s words from La Bête Humaine (1890):
"The railway, a living beast, panting and snorting, eating up the distance, carrying with it the fate of men."
#OnThisDay #RailwayHistory 🚂

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 11d

All aboard for #BookWormSat! 🚂 On this day in 1825, the first public railway began its journey. As Agatha Christie said:
"Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers—in fact, to see life."
#OnThisDay #RailwayAnniversary

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 11d

#BookWormSat #Trains 🚂
Sept 27, 2025: 200th anniv of Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1st steam-powered public line!

Lit's thrill of rails:"To and from the heart of this great change... conquering engines rumbled."

—Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son (1848)

🎨 J. M. W. Turner circa 1844

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 13d

Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work, or, advancing smoothly to their journey's end, and gliding like tame dragons…’ ~ Dickens, Dombey and Son.
This #BookWormSat commemorates the first public railway of the same date in 1825. Do travel with us. 🚂

Impressionist painting, "Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare," - depicts a bustling scene within the Gare Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris, focusing on the arrival of a steam train from Normandy.
The painting prominently features billowing steam and smoke from the locomotives, which fill the vaulted iron and glass structure of the station, creating a hazy, atmospheric effect.
Two locomotives are visible in the foreground, enveloped in steam, surrounded by crowds of passengers likely waiting to board or disembark.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 11d

‘The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.’ ~ Ezra Pound.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here on the railways for #BookWormSat

Hans Baluschek: City railway station painting. Night scene, steam, smoke, lights.

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