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'Out with you upon the wild waves, children of the king!
Henceforth your cries shall be with the flocks of birds.'
-Joseph Jacobs, The Fate of the Children of Lir.

🎨P.J. Lynch

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2023-03-16

"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

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2023-03-13

Cecile Walton (1891-1956)

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2023-03-13

"Fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems.” (Angela Carter)

🎨 Mori Raito

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2023-03-11

‘Did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ 🖤
—Andrew Barton Paterson

🎨 April White


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2023-03-10

NIGHTJAR: These birds migrate to the UK in spring. Also called 'lich fowl' or corpse bird, they are nocturnal. It is said that the souls of unbaptised babies wander as nightjars until Judgement Day.
(Art: Adam Burke)

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2023-03-09

What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same.

—Andrew Michael Hurley

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2023-03-09

‘I have gone out, possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night’
—Anne Sexton

🎨 O’Malley


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2023-03-09

LILITH:
Long associated with witchcraft and vampires, Adam's first wife is often associated with owls. In some accounts, she is depicted with owl's feet.

(🖼: https://t.co/wR8dCMD7Yw)

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2023-03-09

"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing." (Bret Harte)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-03-09

The Graeae Sisters, from Greek mythology, are Deino (dread), Enyo (horror) and Pemphredo (alarm). Between them, they shared one eye and one tooth. The magical eye was imbued with wisdom, though the tooth was merely for chewing.

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2023-03-09

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The Latin phrase "omne trium perfectum" means "everything that comes in threes is perfect".

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2023-03-08

Cuckoo, how long shall I live? - "Kuckuck in Hewen, wo lang schall ik lewen"

The calls of the brood parasite do not only herald Spring, its number heard from the wood indicate how many years one has left on this Earth.

🎨 Ede

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2023-03-07

'Have the birds come back, my darling.
The birds from over the sea?'
-Alice Cary

🎨Natasha Newton

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2023-03-07

"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Leon Spilliaert

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2023-03-06

"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
(Walter de La Mare)

🎨Félix Buhot

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2023-03-06

Bringing wild thyme into the house was thought to bring death to a family member...

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2023-03-05

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at and

(gif by tigercryrocks)

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2023-03-04

Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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2023-03-04