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bookologythursday.bsky.social @bookologythursday.bsky.social · Sep 26

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · Sep 26

Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨

art by Charles Lepec (1874)

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you for your kind notes! #BookologyThursday will be returning on November 13th! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · Sep 30

Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

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

art by Timothy Adam Matthews

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bookologythursday.bsky.social @bookologythursday.bsky.social · Sep 26

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · Sep 26

Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨

art by Charles Lepec (1874)

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · Sep 26

Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨

art by Charles Lepec (1874)

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · Sep 25

Modern storytellers reimagine dragon treasure in new forms. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea, the greatest treasure a dragon guards is language itself, the true names of things. To master words is to master the world. #BookologyThursday

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Maud Burnett McInerney @maudmci.bsky.social · Sep 25

In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread.

Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · Sep 25

Fairy tales sometimes soften the dragon into helper. In Eastern Europe, tales tell of three-headed dragons who, when defeated or befriended, gift the hero with magical objects: flying carpets, crowns, golden apples. #BookologyThursday

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · Sep 25

Prince Charming and the wooing of La Belle

La Belle et la Bête

Felix de Gray, 1926
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · Sep 25

For an enchanting evening, head over to #BookologyThursday @bookcat.bsky.social

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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 25

#bookologythursday #celtic: `Martin’s Stane is a 6th-7th century Pictish stone recording the tale of Martin and the Dundee Dragon. While the stone has undergone some weathering in its many years, the shape of the fearsome beast and the hero on horseback can […]

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Val Vannet, Martin's Stone - geograph.org.uk - 14993, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · Sep 25

The “wyrm” of Anglo-Saxon poetry was not just monster but metaphor. A coiled, glimmering dragon curled around treasure symbolized greed itself. Wealth that consumes the one who covets it. #BookologyThursday

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · Sep 25

"Woe to the red dragon, for his banishment hasteneth on. His lurking holes shall be seized by the white dragon, which signifies the Saxons whom you invited over; but the red denotes the British nation, which shall be oppressed by the white."
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Medieval illustration of the white dragon defeating the red dragon.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · Sep 25

#BookologyThursday 📚🐉
Dragons leap off the pages in J.K. Rowling’s #HarryPotter: from Norbert(a) in Philosopher’s Stone (1997) to the Triwizard Tournament’s beasts in Goblet of Fire (2000) & the Gringotts guardian in Deathly Hallows (2007) #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

🎨 Norbert (a) by Alex Radfield

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · Sep 25

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🐉✨ In folklore and spiritual traditions worldwide, the Dragon often symbolizes the inner beast—our fears, passions, and transformative power. Embracing the Dragon within us can lead to growth, wisdom, and self-discovery. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · Sep 25

#BookologyThursday 📚 #WelshDragon 🐉
🐉✨ Dive into the legend of the Welsh Dragon—an enduring symbol of strength, resilience, and national pride.
From ancient folklore in the Mabinogion to the vibrant flag of Wales, this fiery creature embodies centuries of myth and identity. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

Welsh Dragon at Welsh National Park
- public domain

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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 25

#bookologythursday: `To this very day, people in the area of Owenreagh say they feel fear when they cross certain parts of Lough Foyle, and the odd tides and disturbances in the water's currents defy explanation. When the river Owenreagh floods, they say it is […]

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Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · Sep 25

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

~ C.S. Lewis
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · Sep 25

In art, Renaissance painters loved dragons as symbols of sin vanquished. Saint George spears the beast while maidens kneel. The dragon’s death is the triumph of virtue over vice, treasure of the soul over glittering lies. #BookologyThursday

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · Sep 25

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”

📖 “Jane Eyre” ~ Charlotte Brontë, 1847

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📺 “Jane Eyre”, 1997
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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 25

#bookologythursday #celtic: "The Death of Fráech" is a poem from The Book of the Dean of Lismore In this story Medb, Queen of Connacht, who has been described as fair haired and beautiful, is jealous of Fráech’s love for Findabair. Findabair is said to be her […]

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Fraoch Eilean, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · Sep 25

2/2 ...such as oft essay at hour of morn
on the road-of-sails their ruthless quest, --
and sea-snakes and monsters.
-Beowulf (Old English)

🎨Arthur Rackham
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Leviathan by Arthur Rackham - A Midsummer Night's Dream Please look in my shop for more from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · Sep 25

1/2 ...The band sat down,
and watched on the water worm-like things,
sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep,
and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness --

🎨Gustave Dore
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The Destruction of Leviathan - Gustave Dore by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

The Destruction of Leviathan - Gustave Dore

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Sep 25

“heroes, unfairly armed with flame-resisting armour […] were encouraged by certain underground elements & against the wishes & interests of the bulk of the population, to interfere between princess & dragon”

—The dragon Uggi teaches history in Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT
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heroes, unfairly armed with flame-resisting armour and unpleasant lances, were encouraged by certain underground elements and against the wishes and interests of the bulk of the population, to interfere between princess and dragon. Occasionally this resulted in tragedies, as in the case of the good dragon who was killed by the man George, or of the dragon so cruelly done to death by Perseus when about to make the acquaintance of Andromeda. It could be verified that no princess was ever asked whether she wanted to be rescued and carried off by a dragon-slayer to a fate (no doubt) worse than death. Sometimes, too, a dragon was murdered in cold blood, as happened quite recently to the dragon Fafnir, an uncle of Gauk's and a Master Dragon, who was rudely awakened and brutally stabbed by a young man called Siegfried, who, however, came to no good end himself.

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neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social · Sep 25

In the West, dragons are greedy hoarders of gold. In the East, they are honorable guardians of cosmic treasures.

Could their shared origin have embodied both traits?

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BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · Sep 25

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit was a childhood favorite of C. S. Lewis and an influence on his Narnia books.

He once mentioned to a friend that he wanted his book to be "in the tradition of E. Nesbit."

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neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 25

#bookologythursday #celtic: `When Saint Patrick banished the serpents from Ireland, there was at least one who was overlooked, perhaps because he slumbered or was abroad himself, and that one was called Lig na Paiste, or the “Last Great Reptile”. Soon after […]

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Lig na Baste, Giants Causeway Visitor Centre, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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