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The Wild Hunt already saddles up & ghostly steeds chomp at their bits. Friday next is Midwinter and the "Rauhnächte" (rough nights) fall on Northern Europe. Time for the wild huntsmen to ride across the night skies. #WINTER tales for #folklorethursday - https://t.co/hyLRAD6GCc
"Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!"
#OnThisDay 260 years ago, William Blake was born at 28 Broad Street in Soho, London. Read more on https://t.co/zQBfYaJDiD
Trafalgar Campaign ends #otd 1805 with Battle of Cape Ortegal & 4 French battleships captured that escaped Nelson https://t.co/YKBSksSIGz
Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) A Loaf Of Bread, The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam (1909) https://t.co/Fq8hUsXKaS #dulac #a… https://t.co/NltkiYWEtu
#folklorethursday #Rome #otd - “mundus patet”: annual opening of the underworld gates on Forum Romanum https://t.co/x2DDQAti0Z
The man who made Napoleon miss his destiny in the East - Sir Sidney Smith, b. #otd 1764 https://t.co/yn0vvHkcuD
Father of the Trolls Norwegian Artist Theodor Kittelsen, b. #OTD 1857 for #Folklorethursday https://t.co/XrcxVGz2vt
"A biography that reads like an adventure novel" British naval hero Sir Edward Pellew b. #OTD 1757 https://t.co/diJBYPVkaf
The White Gold from Dresden - Johann Böttger, b. #OTD 1719, Alchemy and the Discovery of European Porcelain https://t.co/rKlzRMs5x6
#FolkloreThursday Hiberno-Scottish warrior poet Ossian, James MacPherson and an enormously influential epic hoax https://t.co/5o6pTk76YY