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"Witches' Night" is nigh!
May Eve (April 30) is Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgis Night) across Northern and Central Europe. Known as the "other Halloween", it's a time when witches and evil spirits take to the skies for a little mischief...
🎨 Bernard Zuber
#Walpurgisnacht #MayDay

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
🎨 Maggie Vandewalle
#FairyTaleTuesday

Happy Autumn Equinox!
Day and night will be roughly equal length today, then the nights will draw in.
The leaves will fall, the air will chill, and the land will be bathed in a golden glow.
Dig out the pumpkins, it's witching season!
🍂🎃
#autumnequinox #wednesdaythought #Autumn

Today is the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist, which commemorates the saint's martyrdom as depicted in these brutal "before and after" paintings by Caravaggio.
#Art: "The Beheading of SJTB" (1608, Valletta) "Salome with the Head of SJTB" (1610, London) #SundayThoughts

The Kiss of Death: This marble sculpture can be found above a grave in Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona. Created in 1930 by Jaume Barba, some believe it inspired Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal."

So... if today is the Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year - that means the days will get shorter tomorrow.
The nights will draw in, there's 93 days until the autumn equinox and 132 days until Halloween. Winter is coming.
Too soon? 🎃
#SummerSolstice2021 #mondaythoughts

Welsh landscape painter Sir Kyffin Williams - the "defining artist of Wales during the 20th century" - was born in Llangefni, Anglesey #OnThisDay in 1918.

#Art: "Farmers on the Carneddau" (National Museum Wales)/ "Way to the Cottages" (National Library of Wales)

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
Art: Maggie Vandewalle
#FolkloreThursday #NationalPetsMonth

Whitby Harbour By Moonlight, 1870
#Art: John Atkinson Grimshaw

"Pembrokeshire witches were accustomed to go to sea in egg-shells, because their foremothers came from Flanders by the same means. The Flemings were credited with having imported a 'new breed of witches,' who were a terror to West Wales."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
#FolkloreThursday