Dr Craig Buchanan JP FSAScotさんのイラストまとめ

The Celtic Tree of Life is one of the most enduring symbols of renewal, embodying as it does the life drawn from the ground, only to be returned to it, in a self-sustaining cycle. @FolkloreThurs

Melusine, the daughter of a Scots king and a water nymph, was cursed by her mother to live with a serpent's tail for the lower half of her body, but nonetheless found a knight named Raymondin who was happy to marry her and ask no questions in the name of love. #FolkloreThursday

An end-of-year gift to myself - Folio Society editions of Andrew Lang’s Yellow, Red, and Pink Fairy Books, to sit alongside the Blue and the Green volumes I picked up last week. Fitting additions for the last #FairyTaleTuesday of the year. 2019 - Ye ende. 📚🧚‍♀️

Another early gift this #FairytaleTuesday courtesy of @Claire_B3007 - the Folio Society edition of Andrew Lang’s “Green Fairy Book” to match yesterday’s “Blue.” A beautifully crafted volume to add to my growing collection. 🧚‍♀️

In Scottish folklore, Cailleach Bheur, the Queen of Winter, is also a creation deity, credited with making the mountains of the Highlands with her magic hammer. A one-eyed giantess with white hair and blue skin, Ben Nevis was her mountain throne. #FolkloreThursday

Regarless of the underlying politics, Alston's cartoon in today's @westaustralian will bring a smile to the face of many an historian, I suspect.

Come on @JohnBirmingham - a foul-mouthed 700-year-old Scotsman? I'm not a day over 502, however it looks! Mind, none of us are getting any younger waiting for the h/b copies of 'The Cruel Stars' to land in Perth, eh laddie?

@Claire_B3007 and I have spent the last few days working on our PhDs. She’s just starting hers; I’m editing prior to submission. That means she’s trying to *find* words, I’m trying to *cut* them. In an ideal world, she could take my spares, and save me killing my babies. 🤪

All right people, gather round and close your eyes for what may be the world's largest game of 'Pin the Tail on the Prime Minister' #LibSpill