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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 7h

#FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly

"I did not fear to go to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something flapped almost angrily against the window panes."

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 16h

#FairyTaleTuesday

"Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honourable."

Jeaniene Frost
🎨Maurice Sand [Les Lubins]

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

COLUMBUS DIDN'T DISCOVER ANYTHING 1,000'S OF NATIVE NATIONS WERE ALREADY HERE

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 1d

#MythologyMonday

"Even if you give everything up and go to a distant cave away from civilization, you cannot escape from the world ..."

Muata Ashby - The Egyptian Book of the Dead
📷Lascaux Cave France

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 1d

#MythologyMonday
Only seven warriors survived the battle in which the giant Bran died - en route to the burial site of his head, they spent eighty years listening to the wisdom of Bran's decapitated head in what become known as “The Assembly of the Wondrous Head" ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#FolkloreSunday
When Dorigen vows to do "anything" to remove Brittany's "grisley rokkes blake" to ensure the safe return of her husband Arveragus' ship, Aurelius pays a magician to make them briefly disappear - in return for her becoming his lover ...
[Breton Folklore]
🎨W H Hooper & Warwick Goble

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#ShakespeareSunday

"Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part. The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further ..."

The Tempest
📷Synetic Theater

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#FolkloreSunday
Using dark arts, Merlin enabled Uther Pendragon to take on the form of Igraine's husband Gorlois. While Gorlois himself lay dying in battle, Uther seduced Igraine - the baby resulting from their liaison being King Arthur, whose upbringing Merlin oversaw ...
🎨 WT Benda & MS

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#ShakespeareSunday

"I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you."

[Exit]

"He hath been most notoriously abused."

"Pursue him and entreat him to a peace."

Twelfth Night
📷Globe Theatre - Stephen Fry [Malvolio]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#BookWormSat

"There are always Uncles at Christmas. The same Uncles ...
sat in the front parlours, without their collars, trying their new cigars, holding them out judiciously at arms’ length, returning them to their mouths, coughing ..

Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales
🎨Fritz Eichenberg

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#BookWormSat

"... they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met or whom they fought. And now she saw, and turned silent in seeing. For she had been wrong. She had said he was something he was not ..."

D H Lawrence - Odour of Chrysanthemums
🎨David Cox

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#BookWormSat

"Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child."

E M Forster - The Machine Stops
🎨Cosmos Institute

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay October 10th

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 6d

#WyrdWednesday
King Arthur's quest was in search of the magical Cauldron of Dyrnwch - folklore said that the cauldron would only boil to provide food for the brave, it would never boil for those who were cowardly.

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Jun 15

#BookWormSat
"Tri lloneit prytwen yd aetham ni idi
Nam seith ny dyrreith ogaer sidi."
[Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went into it.
Except seven none rose up from the Fortress of the Mound"]

Arthur leads 3 boatloads of men into the Underworld, from which only 7 men returned.
from Preiddeu Annwn

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 6d

#LegendaryWednesday
How to give your young child nightmares ... this doll was owned by Marjorie Cousins, the daughter of family friends during the 1910s.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful word ... perfectly describes this wonderful work of art by one of our garden arachnids this week 🕷️

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 7d

#FairyTaleTuesday
Ravens were sacred to siblings Bran and Branwen; a tame raven took messages between them when Branwen was imprisoned by her husband in Ireland. After his death and decapitation, Bran's head was taken and buried at the site of the Tower of London which still has resident ravens.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 7d

#FairyTaleTuesday
The giant gourd of Bantu folklore ... 🎃

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Feb 17

#MythologyMonday
Bantu folklore tells how a giant gourd grew so big it devoured a whole village in Usambara - apart from one pregnant woman. When grown, her son split open the gourd, releasing all the villagers, becoming a hero & great leader.
🎨Amanacer-Fiend0 [DeviantArt]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 8d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay
... the same illustrator contributed to Maud Ovazza's collection of Arthurian tales in Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde 💜

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 8d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay
La Légende de Merlin is a lovely French version of the story of shapeshifter, bard and mentor to King Arthur by Claudine
Glot with beautiful illustrations by Jean-Noël Rochut ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 8d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay #BookSky
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady is a beautiful retelling of the folk story by Selina Hastings. The illustrations - by Juan Wijngaard - are wonderful ♥️

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 9d

#ShakespeareSunday

"Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make a hazard of new fortunes here."

King John
🎨Richard Hook [Fine Art America]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 9d

#ShakespeareSunday

"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
🎨Marcello Provenzale [Galleria Borghese Rome]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 9d

#FolkloreSunday
In many cultures the full moon was believed to illuminate [spiritually] the pathway to the otherworld and thus make the connection to their ancestors much closer. Indigenous Americans saw Kokopelli in the full [and waning] moon, when his influence was greater ...
🎨K Hart

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 9d

... and when they're bored ...
🎨Maurice Sand

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