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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 10h

Well, he's not much of a singer, so...

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 10h

And he sure as hell isn't making 'merica great, either.

Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 10h

Bette Midler... Fabulous as ever. 🌹

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 11h

Romancing the Gothic: Online Talk Series - #Gothic, Horror, #Folklore & the Supernatural
🪄 Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2025
#amwriting #booksky #submissions
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

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Obscurious Daily @obscuriousdaily.com · 16h

Across old churches and timbered houses, strange carvings wait just above eye level. Circles loop endlessly, letters twist, and dark teardrops burn spots on the beams. From the 1500s to the 1700s, they were made to hold back what prowled at the edge of the light. #History #Folklore

A collage of nine photographs showing carved circular daisy wheel designs etched into stone and wood. Each pattern overlaps in delicate lines, forming interlocking petals and geometric shapes once used as apotropaic marks to ward off harm.

A diagram displaying nine symbolic designs, including runic shapes, a five-pointed star, the Chi-Rho monogram, double-V Marian symbols, daisy wheels, grids, and spirals. These represent common apotropaic marks and protective emblems found on historic buildings.

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 4d

The Hyldemoer (“Elder-mother”) is a wood-nymph or dryad who lives in #Elder trees. Her spirit is said to #haunt or torment people who cut down or build from elder wood without asking her permission first. 🌳

#Folklore #Fairytales #trees #Samhain #Halloween

“The Elder Mother Tree” ca 1932, by Arthur Rackham
(cropped) Public domain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 1d

Circe, renowned for her knowledge of potions & herbs, transforms her enemies, (& those who offend her) into animals. 🐖 The best known example is from Homer's Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island on the way back from the Trojan War & she changes most of his crew into swine. 🪄 🐷 #FairytaleTuesday

"Circea" in Boccaccio's c. 1365 De Claris Mulieribus, a catalogue of famous women, from a 1474 edition
Circe and Odysseus (Ulixes) in a book illustration in Giovanni Boccaccio's book De claris mulieribus , caption of the German translation reads Hie nach volget der kurcz sin von etlichen frowen / von denen johannes boccacius in latin beschriben hat, vnd doctor hainricus stainhöwel getütschet. The book in Latin language offering biographies of famous women was written between 1360 and 1374. It was translated into the German language by Heinrich Steinhöwel, that printed by Johannes Zainer, Ulm, 1474.

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Duosuma @duosuma.com · 1d

Belladonna's Garden Literary Magazine is open to submissions for Winter 2026 Issue 2. #CallforSubmissions

Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: Belladonna's Garden Literary Magazine

Belladonna's Garden Literary Magazine is open to submissions for Winter 2026 Issue 2. #CallforSubmissions

duotrope.com

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Asleep at the Will @asleepatthewill.bsky.social · 2d

#Jung #CollectiveShadow

The Economy of Authoritarianism: Supply-and-Demand Between King and Collective

Is authoritarianism simply a political misstep? We’ll examine the psychic ‘supply and demand’ chain: how the Shadow King’s neurotic fear of weakness meets the Collective voi…

asleepatthewill.com

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 16h

Analysis of ancient birch bark tar from Neolithic settlements shows it was used for toolmaking, pottery repair, and chewing, preserving DNA that offers insights into daily life and diet. doi.org/g96xtk

Sticky secrets: What ancient chewing gum is telling us about Neolithic communities

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago.

phys.org

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Maya Kailani, MS 🌺🌊🌿 @oceandaze.bsky.social · 3d

Where the trees whisper, shadows grow crisper. #Spooktober #Spooktacular #SpookySeason

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Pattern-chaser @pattern-chaser.bsky.social · 19h

"So the next time you hear the screech of an owl outside your bedroom window or glimpse the wings of a bat flapping over your garden, pause to think about the omens of our wild country – and how their stories might yet continue."

#British #folklore is wonderful.

theconversation.com/the-medieval...

The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars

Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.

theconversation.com

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 18h

Poor maga.. Cry me a river. 🎻

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 21h

Folklore connects hares and bluebells, particularly in Scottish and Irish myths, where the flowers are called harebells. Witches were believed to use the flowers' sap to transform into hares, and then hide among the blooms.
Art my own.

#WyrdWednesday #WitchSky #Folklore #MHHSBD

An original artwork of hare sitting amongst bluebells. Created using watercolours on heavy paper.

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 19h

Yes! I really enjoyed it. Thanks!

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 1d

Circe, renowned for her knowledge of potions & herbs, transforms her enemies, (& those who offend her) into animals. 🐖 The best known example is from Homer's Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island on the way back from the Trojan War & she changes most of his crew into swine. 🪄 🐷 #FairytaleTuesday

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Mina Stillwater @minastillwater.bsky.social · 1d

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Sumerian lore, Lilitu” [aka Lilith] is a winged demon-goddess w/clawed feet as an owl; the first & most feared of vampires. Lilith first appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh inhabiting the Huluppu tree.

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 2d

"A banana republic with better branding". 👍 Well said. Great post. Thanks for sharing.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 10d

The Infamous Sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian Legend

"Morgan le Fay is the infamous sorceress in the Arthurian legends, but how did this strong and bewitching female character emerge?"

www.thecollector.com/morgan-le-fa...

Books by Thomas Malory at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

The Passing of Arthur by Daniel Maclise "This intensely beautiful design shows the moment when the wounded Arthur is taken to Avalon by three queens. One leans over him in a tender gesture that is partly sexual and in part motherly. Though near death, the King is shown as a gigantic, heroic figure, almost too large to be contained in the boat. Maclise emphasises the notion of healing by rhyming a series of curving lines: the prow of the vessel, the sail above it and the domed apex all suggest a womb-like space in which Arthur will be reborn. These ‘feminine’ forms contrast markedly with the phallic symbolism of Excalibur in the first illustration for ‘Morte D’Arthur’, showing the start of his reign. The contrast of light and dark, death and life, further suggests the hero’s position, tenuously between his passing and his return. This was one of the most successful illustrations from the ‘Moxon Tennyson’, and was reprinted in several contemporary publications." - https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/maclise/17.html

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 4d

Once upon a time, many stories, fables & fairy tales began with the words, 'once upon a time'. 🪄 #fairytales #folksky #amwriting Via the @parisreview.bsky.social
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05...

“Once Upon a Time” and Other Formulaic Folktale Flourishes by Anthony Madrid

May 23, 2018 – We take the phrase “once upon a time” for granted, but if you think about it, it’s quite oddball English. Upon a time—? That’s just a strange

www.theparisreview.org

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely Luna. 🐾 🐈‍⬛ 💞

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Karen - Wall Flower Studio @karsloan.bsky.social · 3d

"Open sesame" is the #magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (One Thousand and One Nights), which opens the mouth of a cave where the forty thieves hid the treasure. 🪄 #FolkloreSunday #fairytales #Folklore

Stories from the Arabian nights - Laurence Housman
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, ca 1911 - Public Domain

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing, Thomas. 🙂

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 5d

"In my own travels around Quebec as a teenager, one such story reached me: the tale of a woman who was caged and hanged for witchcraft, only for her ghost to haunt the island every Samhain eve." - Adrian Deveau

niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...

#samhain #halloween #folklore #quebec #envhum

Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary

Folklore is embedded in the heart of Quebecois culture.

niche-canada.org

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 5d

Not much self-reflection from the far-right.