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Tom Cherry • Bedfordshire, UK Textile artist inspired by folklore, myth, magic and the macabre ✨🌞 https://xphaiea.bigcartel.com/

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 20h

today's mood:

Photo shows a crazed looking vintage goat toy

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks Matthew! 💜

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 1d

𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗜

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Water fairies that dwell in freshwater ponds or lakes, Asrai are said to swim to the surface to bathe in the moonlight once every hundred years.

#creepycute #goblincore #halloween #dolls

Handmade art doll of an ASRAI (water fairy) in pink and blue colours.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! 💜

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 5d

𝗝𝗘𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝘄’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗡 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗧𝗛 is a Glaswegian ghoul - believed to have prowled around Glasgow Green in the early 1800's on 'beetle feet', is said to have captured badly behaved children and then devoured them with the frenzied gnashing of her iron teeth.

#scottishfolklore #31daysofhalloween #horrordolls

Photo of a handmade textile art doll, in green and purple colours, ragged and creepy!

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 5d

𝗙𝗔𝗗 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡 is the personification of the 'yellow plague' or ' yellow pestilence' that devastated Wales in the 540s, said to be a hideous hag with yellowed hair and teeth who was enveloped in a poisonous miasma.

#britishfolklore #welshfolklore #goblincore #witchsky #31daysofhalloween

Art doll of Fad Felen the personification of the 'yellow plague'

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 6d

Another patch from 2018, this one is based on a woodcut of a man extracting a toadstone

#britishfolklore #toadstone #witchsky

Handmade felt patch depicting a woodcut style man extracting a toadstone

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 7d

Looks amazing!

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 7d

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch from 2018

#britishfolklore #mummifiedcat #protectioncharms #witchsky

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch made with felt

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8d

Hello Tuesday.
Dust cover for Brian Wildsmith’s Blue Bird.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 9d

Spotted in the window of an antique shop #whoisshe

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 10d

Roots of Entanglement, 2016, by Esther Sarto

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10d

Goodnight.
🖼️ From In Berkshire Fields, Walter King Stone, 1920.

Large owl perched on the stump of a tree in forest setting at night, illustration.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 11d

Remarkable German biologist, philosopher and artist Ernst Haeckel

Phaeodaria from Kunstformen der Natur
(Art Forms of Nature), c.1899 - 1901)

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 16d

Hahakigami (broom spirits) are a type of #yokai that occur once a broom has reached a very old age and is transformed into (or possessed by) a spirit, known as tsukumogami. Because brooms were used in ritual purifications, they can become powerful magical charms.
#MythologyMonday
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Illustration of a broom that appears to be sweeping by itself.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10d

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Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture.

There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 11d

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 12d

Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin - Reactor

A gripping tale about a woman determined to hold on to what she wants.

reactormag.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17d

Disabled people aren’t “less than”.

It’s not a moral failing.

Most people will experience disability at some point.

It’s a minority group you can join at any time.

We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion.

There’s no social justice without disability justice.