# folklorethursday gothicbugs insectweek21 fire fairytaletuesday


The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥

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2021-06-24

Of course bookworms (Gothic & other sorts) are insects - they're the larvae of moths or various kinds of beetle - so we're delighted you'll be devouring our bug book. Thanks so much for your support.

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2021-06-24

THE LOUSE AND THE FLEA: A Grimm tale ('Household Tales' [1812]), a flea mourns the loss of his spouse, the louse. His grief causes inanimate objects to cry as well, until a spring overflows killing him. (Illus: Arthur Rackham, 1909)

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2021-06-08

In Beatrix Potter's 'Mrs. Tittlemouse' she tries to keep her house tidy but insect intruders keep making a mess. The other insects are shooed away but when she tries to pull out the bee nest they buzz fiercely at her and force her to flee!

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2021-05-19