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"Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off." (Neil Gaiman)

🎨 Alex Dos Diaz

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2023-04-04

"Come with me into the woods where Spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible."
~ Mary Oliver

Winter being followed by Spring ~ Margaret Tarrant

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2023-04-02

"Oh, look!" whispered the boy; "there goes a horse-a white horse - the devil must be riding that - how can a horse get to Jevers Island?" (Theodor Storm)

🎨 Helen Plester

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2023-03-29

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence …

Franz Kafka / The Silence of the Sirens

Howard Pyle

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2023-03-29

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave” (Mary Shelley)

🎨 John Bauer

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2023-03-28

'The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might,' by Courtney Weber

The Morrigan ('phantom queen' or 'great queen') is famous for being a goddess of war, witchcraft, death, protection and retribution.

🎨 Magdalena Kaczan

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2023-03-28

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin (art by Heikala)

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2023-03-28

- According to Celtic beliefs, hawthorns are sacred and magical and must never be picked as they guard the entrance to the faerie world.

Only exception is Beltane when ribbons of hawthorns can be used as an offering in exchange for a wish.

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2023-03-26

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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2023-03-25

"So when at last the Angel of the drink Of Darkness finds you by the river-brink,
And, proffering his Cup, invites your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff it—do not shrink." (Omar Khayyam)

🎨 Edmund Dulac

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2023-03-23

Some flower fairies of the trees for Here are Sycamore, Ash, Silver Birch & Elm.

Illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker. Flower Fairies of the Trees was first published on January 1 1940.

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2023-03-22

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows


🎨Clint G Young

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2023-03-22

"Turn each of your thoughts into a bird
And let them fly to the other world.
One is an owl, one is a falcon, one is a crow.
Each one is different from the others
But they are all the same in silence." (Rumi)

🎨 CappuccinoMP3

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2023-03-20

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
~ Robertson Davies
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🎨Limduey

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2023-03-18

One of two drawings for a Savage's gondola, in the shape of a sea monster with gremlins on the front and back; undated, possibly late 19th century.

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2023-03-18

Happy St. Patrick’s Day🍀

Sharing some leprechaun images from my beloved and worn copy of FAERIES by Brian Froud and Alan Lee that I’ve had since I was 12.

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2023-03-17

The harp, symbol of is said to have been invented by the goddess of music, inspiration & dreams, Cana Cludhmor, after she realised the wind on a beach drifting through a whale’s skeleton created beautiful music.

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2023-03-17

The nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb was a true story. In 1815, nine-year-old Mary Sawyer had a little lamb that followed her to the one-room schoolhouse, Redstone.

Fellow student, John Roulstone, wrote the famous poem about the event for Mary.

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2023-03-17

When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.

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2023-03-16

'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