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@theasraidance.bsky.social
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Rivka
@theasraidance.bsky.social
· Nov 8
'When the last colours of the day
Have from their burning ebbed away,
About that ruin, cold and lone,
The cricket shrills from stone to stone;
And scattering o'er its darkened green,
Bands of fairies may be seen.'
~Walter de la Mare
🎨John Anster Fitzgerald
Have from their burning ebbed away,
About that ruin, cold and lone,
The cricket shrills from stone to stone;
And scattering o'er its darkened green,
Bands of fairies may be seen.'
~Walter de la Mare
🎨John Anster Fitzgerald
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When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
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November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
'Fruit the Fairies steal away,
Never comes again.'
by Florence Harrison
From 'Elfin Song' 1912
#BookWormSat
Never comes again.'
by Florence Harrison
From 'Elfin Song' 1912
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
'Fruit the Fairies steal away,
Never comes again.'
by Florence Harrison
From 'Elfin Song' 1912
#BookWormSat
Never comes again.'
by Florence Harrison
From 'Elfin Song' 1912
#BookWormSat
'Afar from our lawn and our levee,
O sister of sorrowful gaze!
Where the roses in scarlet are heavy
And dream of the end of their days,
You move in another dominion
And hang o'er the historied stone:
Unpruned in your beautiful pinion
Who wander and whisper alone.'
~W.B.Yeats
#BookWormSat
O sister of sorrowful gaze!
Where the roses in scarlet are heavy
And dream of the end of their days,
You move in another dominion
And hang o'er the historied stone:
Unpruned in your beautiful pinion
Who wander and whisper alone.'
~W.B.Yeats
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
'Afar from our lawn and our levee,
O sister of sorrowful gaze!
Where the roses in scarlet are heavy
And dream of the end of their days,
You move in another dominion
And hang o'er the historied stone:
Unpruned in your beautiful pinion
Who wander and whisper alone.'
~W.B.Yeats
#BookWormSat
O sister of sorrowful gaze!
Where the roses in scarlet are heavy
And dream of the end of their days,
You move in another dominion
And hang o'er the historied stone:
Unpruned in your beautiful pinion
Who wander and whisper alone.'
~W.B.Yeats
#BookWormSat
‘All Souls’ Day’
by Witold Pruszkowski
by Witold Pruszkowski
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
‘All Souls’ Day’
by Witold Pruszkowski
by Witold Pruszkowski
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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HALLOWEEN FAIRIES - by yours truly
Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children
theconversation.com/fairies-were...
Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children
theconversation.com/fairies-were...
Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children
The ‘Disneyfication’ of fairies has helped us forget their darker origins.
theconversation.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
HALLOWEEN FAIRIES - by yours truly
Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children
theconversation.com/fairies-were...
Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children
theconversation.com/fairies-were...
🍂November
by Theodore Robinson
by Theodore Robinson
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🍂November
by Theodore Robinson
by Theodore Robinson
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'There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples'
~William Shakespeare
🎨'Ophelia' by Friedrich Heyser
#BookWormSat
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples'
~William Shakespeare
🎨'Ophelia' by Friedrich Heyser
#BookWormSat
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
'There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples'
~William Shakespeare
🎨'Ophelia' by Friedrich Heyser
#BookWormSat
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples'
~William Shakespeare
🎨'Ophelia' by Friedrich Heyser
#BookWormSat
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
'The Witch'
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration from 'Fairyland'
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration from 'Fairyland'
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
'The Witch'
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration from 'Fairyland'
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration from 'Fairyland'
'I am but a shadow, come from the meadow
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'
From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'
From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
'I am but a shadow, come from the meadow
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'
From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'
From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
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Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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According to some Flemish folktales, the surest way to meet a werewolf was to walk the country roads after dark. More often than not, a robber wearing a wolf mask would appear from behind the trees and demand your possessions.
🎨Carmen Saldaña
#WyrdWednesday
🎨Carmen Saldaña
#WyrdWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
According to some Flemish folktales, the surest way to meet a werewolf was to walk the country roads after dark. More often than not, a robber wearing a wolf mask would appear from behind the trees and demand your possessions.
🎨Carmen Saldaña
#WyrdWednesday
🎨Carmen Saldaña
#WyrdWednesday
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Daughter of Titan and Oceanid, Circe is the most prominent sorceress of Greek myth. She is able to transfigure men into pigs and women into monsters, and able to purify transgressions, such as Jason and her kin Medea's murder of Medea's brother #LegendaryWednesday
🖼️: Waterhouse
🖼️: Waterhouse
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Daughter of Titan and Oceanid, Circe is the most prominent sorceress of Greek myth. She is able to transfigure men into pigs and women into monsters, and able to purify transgressions, such as Jason and her kin Medea's murder of Medea's brother #LegendaryWednesday
🖼️: Waterhouse
🖼️: Waterhouse
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
'The Green Masque' by Oswald Birley
A portrait of his wife Rhoda in costume for the Venice Carnival, 1922.
#WyrdWednesday
A portrait of his wife Rhoda in costume for the Venice Carnival, 1922.
#WyrdWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'The Green Masque' by Oswald Birley
A portrait of his wife Rhoda in costume for the Venice Carnival, 1922.
#WyrdWednesday
A portrait of his wife Rhoda in costume for the Venice Carnival, 1922.
#WyrdWednesday
'Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.'
~Adelaide Crapsey
🎨Sulamith Wülfing
#BookwormSat
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.'
~Adelaide Crapsey
🎨Sulamith Wülfing
#BookwormSat
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
'Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.'
~Adelaide Crapsey
🎨Sulamith Wülfing
#BookwormSat
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.'
~Adelaide Crapsey
🎨Sulamith Wülfing
#BookwormSat
🍂Autumn
by Stanislaus S. Longley
by Stanislaus S. Longley
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🍂Autumn
by Stanislaus S. Longley
by Stanislaus S. Longley
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The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Rivka
October 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM