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‘Yet often, in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their arms round each other, and rise to the surface, in a row…’
—Hans Christian Andersen
🎨 Annie Stegg 🧜♀️
#MermaidMonday #Fairytales
‘There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own…’
—Angela Carter
🎨 Susan Seddon Boulet
#BookwormSat
In Roman mythology it was said that the noble & white caladrius was a bird that lived in the king’s palace & could absorb & banish illness from a sick person ✨
#FaustianFriday #Superstitiology
‘Did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ 🖤
—Andrew Barton Paterson
🎨 April White
#ofdarkandmacabre
#Gothicspring
#Superstitiology
‘I have gone out, possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night’
—Anne Sexton
🎨 O’Malley
#WyrdWednesday
#ofdarkandmacabre
#Superstitiology
I hope your evening is a relaxing one for you —you all work so hard. Here’s a cozy scene I love to post & it fits UK World Book Day, too. I’ll reply to your notes soon. Have a cozy night, all you lovely ones 🥰📚❤️
(Art by Deborah Hocking) #WorldBookDay
Adults are just obsolete children…’
—Theodor Geisel
aka Dr. Seuss (1904-91)
#BookChatWeekly
Hi, everybody —I think we’re all looking forward to spring. And so here’s a robin to keep an eye out for us & to cheer us on today. I’m a bit nervous about my work today, but coffee will help lol. Hugs to you all 🤗💚
(Art by Lucy Grossmith)
‘The Princess on the Glass Hill’ is a beautiful & lesser known Norwegian fairy tale collected by Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. I love the illustrations that were done for it over the years #FairyTaleTuesday