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🇱🇧 It's pronounced SAHR-uh (she/her) 🧠 AuDHD ✍ writer 🖌occasional painter 📷 amateur wildlife photographer 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan 🔗 http://www.sarahnourwriter.com/

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · Mar 9

Greetings, #writersofbluesky! I'm the published writer of twelve short stories & three poems, currently working on a novel & a children's book series. I also write articles on film history on HubPages! Check out my site for more info www.sarahnourwriter.com

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

"Vasilisa the Beautiful" is the Russian tale of a girl abused by her stepmother, her only friend being a magic doll from her late mother. The doll helps her complete chores and later aids her when she's sent on an errand to the home of the feared witch Baba Yaga. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

The Island of the Dolls is located in the channels of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. During the 1950s, the owner of the island, Julián Santana Barrera, hung thousands of dolls on the trees to appease the spirit of a drowned girl who haunted him, crying out, "I want my doll!" #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

In the Comanche legend of the bluebonnet flower, a girl loses her parents to drought and is left with only a handmade doll to remember them by. The girl sacrifices her beloved doll to the Great Spirits to end the drought, making rain fall and bluebonnets grow. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

In the 1657 satirical French novel The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun, the narrator observes that morning dew found on grass is sucked up by the sun, so he attempts space travel by bottling the dew and using the bottles to fly. (It doesn't work.) #WyrdWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

Journey to the West is a classic 16th-century shenmo fantasy novel, a genre involving monsters and deities of Chinese myth. The first film adaptation was Cave of the Silken Web (1927), which features the heroes trapped by spider demons. #WyrdWednesday
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Cave of the Silken Web 盤絲洞 1927 with English subtitles (restored by the National Library of Norway)

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

During their Mount Everest expedition in 1975, Dougal Haston and Doug Scott befriended a ghostly “third climber” who helped them survive the journey and guided them down an uncharted path. Thanks to this encouraging presence, they reached the summit safely. #WyrdWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1d

"The Three Ravens" is an English folk ballad published in 1611. Three ravens plan to eat the corpse of a recently slain knight, but find the knight guarded by his loyal hawks and hounds. Then the knight's pregnant significant other arrives to bury him. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1d

"Baga Yaga and the Kind Young Girl" is a Russian tale about the infamous witch keeping her niece hostage in her cabin and forcing her to weave clothes. The girl generously gives scraps of food to Baba Yaga's black cat, so the grateful cat helps her escape. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1d

The term "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the Irish legends of Stingy Jack, a conniving drunk who cheats death time and again. When he eventually dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can take him, so he wanders between worlds, using a hollow turnip as a lantern. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

"Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too."

—The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

#BookWormSat

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

"Even though the bear was many times heavier than she and had enormous teeth and claws, Lassie felt no fear... Charging around a large rock outcropping... Lassie slammed into One-Eye's hind legs as the grunting bear started to slide down the hill."

—Lassie: Old One-Eye, George Elrick

#BookWormSat

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

"As the days passed and the golden lion grew, Tarzan taught it many tricks—to fetch and carry, to lie motionless in hiding... to move from point to point as he indicated, to hunt for hidden things by scent and to retrieve them."

—Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Edgar Rice Burroughs

#BookWormSat

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

Italian poet Dante Alighieri began writing his epic poem The Divine Comedy in 1300. When he died in 1321, the pages containing the final 13 cantos were missing. His son Jacopo later found them in a secret hiding spot, claiming he had a dream that his father showed him where they were. #FolkyFriday

Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

Ancient Egyptians divided dreams into three categories: demands from the gods, warnings from the gods, and those that came during dream rituals. Anyone who sought divine wisdom would go to temples to sleep on "dream beds" in the hopes of receiving guiding messages. #FolkyFriday

Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

Hippocrates, Greek physician, philosopher, and founder of modern medicine, used dream interpretation as a diagnostic tool. He believed dreams were premonitions of diseases developing within the body, and listening to dreams could prevent these illnesses from ever taking root. #FolkyFriday

Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

The first major character death on television actually happened in a 1950s family sitcom. When the lead actress stormed off the set and refused to return, producers killed off her character rather than writing a divorce into the show. #FlashbackFriday
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10 TV Milestones That Were Reached Sooner Than You Think

Recognizing 10 television milestones that were reached quicker than you think, including the first rerun, the first pregnancy, and the first interracial kiss.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

The first found-footage film came out in 1930, and filmmakers tried to pass it off as a documentary of a tribe in the Congo. However, audiences weren't fooled, as it was clearly filmed in Los Angeles and featured white actors in blackface. #FlashbackFriday
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10 Cinematic Milestones That Were Reached Sooner Than You Think

Color, sound, remakes, found footage - these are all part of the movie-going experience that we take for granted. Few realize just how far back some of these tropes and innovations go.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 5d

When her husband succumbed to morphine addiction, actress Dorothy Davenport began directing films as a means of social activism. Her controversial films took on not only addiction, but also abortion, prostitution, and domestic violence. #FlashbackFriday
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10 Influential Female Directors From the Silent Film Era

Back when the film industry was just emerging, gender restrictions hadn’t been established yet. Women could freely seize opportunities to work behind the camera.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · Dec 19

... Wait, there are actually people who debate whether the Eeveelutions are cats or dogs???

They're clearly BUNNIES.

The Eeveelutions are bunnies. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

a group of pokemon standing next to each other with one having the number 0 on it 's head

ALT: a group of pokemon standing next to each other with one having the number 0 on it 's head

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

The Woodstock Opera House is home to Elvira, the ghost of a ballerina who jumped off the bell tower when she didn't get the lead role she wanted. Sightings have been reported of her watching shows in seat DD113. Witnesses describe her as a blonde woman in a flowing white gown. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

In 1936 in Norfolk, England, photographer Hubert C. Provand allegedly captured the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall on camera. She's believed to be the ghost of an aristocrat, Lady Dorothy Walpole, who was locked up by her husband for her alleged adultery. She died of smallpox in 1726. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

The most famous ghost of Thai myth is Mae Nak Phra Khanong, a woman who dies in childbirth, along with her baby. Her husband returns from war and doesn't realize his wife and child are ghosts at first. Mae Nak kills neighbors who try to warn him he's living with ghosts. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

In the WWI-era horror film Revolt of the Zombies (1936), a priest is imprisoned due to his power to turn men into zombies. He attempts to burn a parchment with the location of his secret formula, but an army general steals it and assembles an expedition to find the formula. #WyrdWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

White Zombie (1932) was the first feature-length zombie film ever made. A young man approaches a witch doctor, played by Bela Lugosi, for a spell to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance. The woman ends up becoming a zombie slave. #WyrdWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8d

J'accuse (1919) is a French silent film about the horrors of World War I. It contains a scene in which dead soldiers rise from their graves and march back to their homes. This could be considered the first on-screen depiction of zombies in cinema history. #WyrdWednesday

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