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Thank you for your kind notes! #BookologyThursday will be returning on November 13th! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!
Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

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

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See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨
Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨

art by Charles Lepec (1874)
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Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨

art by Charles Lepec (1874)
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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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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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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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Prince Charming and the wooing of La Belle

La Belle et la Bête

Felix de Gray, 1926
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#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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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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"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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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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🐉✨ 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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#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 📖🫖
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#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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Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

~ C.S. Lewis
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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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“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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#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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“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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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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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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#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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