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Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
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Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · Oct 15
The witches of Flanders are everywhere. Their tales may be forgotten, their voices unheard, but they are anything but quiet.

Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday
Image with the title of the book: The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders. Also the text: Back us on Kickstarter. Image shows the bookcover in both Ebook and paperback form. Book cover is a dark black and white cover with a witch staring at a field. There is a dog, crow, frog, butterfly and other animals around her. Moon and trees.
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#book #witchcraft #folklore

Today these 3 beauties arrived:

Secrets of a Sissy Boy by Carolina Dean @carolina-dean.bsky.social

Flemish Folktales Retold
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The Witches of Flemish Folklore
by Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
Photo of the cover of the book Secrets of a Sissy Boy by Carolina Dean Photo of the cover of the book Flemish Folktales Retold by Signe Maene Photo of the cover of the book The Witches of Flemish Folklore
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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'What do you want, dark ghost! Where are you going?'
-Guido Gezelle

🎨Moritz von Schwind
#PhantomsFriday
Painting title: Apparition in the Forest (from Sleeping Beauty). A woman with long brown hair, wearing a white dress, walking in the forest (though it seems like she's floating. A man wearing purple clothes is looking at her from in the plants. Which is definitely creepy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
Landscape painting of storm.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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In Flanders, it was thought that during heavy winter storms, the wailing of damned souls could be heard in the wind.

🎨Léonard Misonne
#FolkyFriday
Pictorialist photograph of three figures walking on a road during a snowstorm. Cottages. Hedges.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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🎶 I always feel like somebody's watching me 🎶
Picture of a tabby cat watching me from inside a box. Just his eyes and ears are visible.
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Two of our four cuties. At least one of them is wondering why he's being photographed for the 30th time today.
Photograph of two tuxedo cats in a cat tree.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Tiles with maritime subjects by an unknown Dutch artist (1650-1700).
Tiles which depicting ships, fish, and even a merman. Tile depicting a fish.
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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'The fading leaves are glad to die'
-Sara Teasdale

🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
Painting of a street at night. Woman in the distance. leafless trees. Light on the road. Dark, green sky.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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1/3 A Dutch folktale from just across the border with Belgium tells of a young girl haunted by her father's ghost. His pale, tormented face and pitiful cries reveal that he is trapped in purgatory.

#WyrdWednesday
Painting of souls in purgatory, people standing in flames with a big eye watching them. Attributed to António Joaquim Padrão, 1765-70.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Book of Hours
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
Red squirrel wearing a collar sat on a book, surrounded by foliage and pine cones? Marginalia.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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'I think I am quite wicked with roses — I like to gather them and smell them till they have no scent left.'
-George Eliot

🎨George Frederic Watts
#BookWormSat
Painting of a young woman with blonde hair wearing a pearl necklace and blue garment smelling red roses.
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.
Illustration of blackthorn and its dark berries. I am the seed that knows no name, I am the happenstance of germination, of endurance. I am the blackthorn, each twist and contortion, I am every layer of bark and every leaf grown and fallen, I am the nighttide of fruit, bletted or food for mistle thrush, the star-white bloom and friend of mottled pug and lonely bee. I am Winter's hope of crooked tree, I am the mistbright blossom of a Hawthorn's sister, I am the Maypole. I am the root and the unturned earth, I am the North Wind, a fence of prickles, I am the rain and the cloud it fell from, I am the worm. I am the black rod, I am a giant's cudgel, I am the pin of slumber, the wood's mother, a broken spell, I am all the tales you tell about me, I am an old wound, healed.
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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‘Is not this a true autumn day?…The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay…Delicious autumn!’ ~ George Eliot
For George Eliot’s birthday, this #BookWormSat roams the rural in literature. Come with us!
🖼️ Vincent Van Gogh
Autumn walkers, painting.
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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'Yes, the fairies still abide here.'
- L.M. Montgomery

🎨Anna Billing
#BookWormSat
Painting of the moon shining through the trees. Green field with small white flowers, mist.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.'~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Janka Latečková
Artwork depicting two Elven figures from the Vanyar, a clan of Elves from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. A figure stands on the left, clad in light-colored robes and a helmet. This figure holds a spear and a shield. A second figure on the right, also in flowing robes, holds a sheathed sword. Both figures have long, flowing hair which. Between the two figures is a stylized, intertwined tree motif. The tree's roots extend downwards into a blue, wave-like pattern. The figures and the tree are framed within a large circular border featuring intricate, swirling knotwork designs.
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Some pictures of the enchanting woods in Bellevaux (Bouillon). There must be fairies there.
Picture of a path in the forest. Moody sky. Colourful autumn leaves. Picture of the trees, green moss. Picture of a forest view. Colourful. Picture of a green path in the forest.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats

This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
Richard Doyle ~ illustration of fairy riding a moth.
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Great new review from the lovely @raindegrey.bsky.social. Very grateful.
Haunting, Elegant, Memorable Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2025 Format: Paperback GET THIS BOOK! Haunting, mythic, incredibly well-written, memorable, deep woods, old legends. Treat yourself to a worthy addition to the bookshelf. You won't regret it. Reviewer’s photo of my book, In the Shadow of Gods.
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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'And Arthur rowed across and took it--rich
With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt,
Bewildering heart and eye--the blade so bright
That men are blinded by it...'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨John Duncan
#WyrdWednesday
Artwork title: The taking of Excalibur. Merlin rowing Arthur to the lady of the lake. She holds the sword. Tree ladies behind her. Snake in the water.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Illustration by Jeffrey Alan for 'The Sword In The Stone'.
#WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend
A young Arthur is reaching for an upright sword. On the other side of it, a crouching, red-robed Merlin is pointing a long golden staff at it. The 'stone' the sword is stuck in is actually the top of the skull of an enormous skeleton under the ground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Support this wonderful poet if you can! 🖤 Also, if you haven't read In the Shadow of Gods yet, you're missing out on some of the most beautiful lines ever written.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Lovely, lovely autumn. 🍂
Picture of a forest hollow way in autumn. Herent, Belgium.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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‘I know that I have died before—once in November.’
Anne Sexton.

Falling leaves, Olga Wisinger-Florian, 1899.
Autumn walk through woodland, painting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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WE ARE FUNDED!🖤 🐈‍⬛️🖤 Thank you so much!! 🌙
signemaene.com Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 19d
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤

Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤

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The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
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November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM