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Daffodils were the harbinger of Spring in the distant past. It was once believed that if you looked at a daffodil and it drooped, it was an omen of death.

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2023-03-21

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our scintillating pals at and https://t.co/zw4fuNAPzk

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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

"For sometimes she comes with a hissing noise like a serpent" (Lady Jane Wilde)

Of young mothers, carried away by the fae as nurses for their offspring.

🎨 Sara Litland

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2023-03-16

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 ✨

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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

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

🎨 O’Malley


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2023-03-09

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

'Or she may be seen at night as a shrouded woman, crouched beneath the trees, lamenting with veiled face; or flying past in the moonlight, crying bitterly: and the cry of this spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth...'
-Lady Wilde

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2023-03-07

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

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(gif by tigercryrocks)

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2023-03-04

🌺🥚🌺Sussex folklore warns that the first bunch of primroses brought into the house in springtime must contain more than thirteen blooms, or your hens and geese will only lay as many eggs as there are flowers.

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2023-02-26

On the Isle of Man, it was once tradition to leave water out at night for the fairies. Failure to do so would anger them, and they would drink the blood of those sleeping in the house instead.

Sometimes they would bake the blood into a cake.

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2023-02-25

Eating fellow practitioners of the unhallowed arts at least in parts to absorb their talents is an ages old custom - Jealous Earl Heinrekr orders the heart of young Drauma-Jón brought to him for consumption to acquire his gift of divining dreams

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2023-02-22

🌿💔🌿Folklore from the Welsh border counties said that lilac trees would fall into mourning if any of their kind were cut down nearby, and would show their sorrow by not flowering in the following year.

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2023-02-03

Rind of a cheese made on the day of the Feast of Brigit from milk of a "guileless cow" fed on pearlwort protects after 12 months from the "wiles of the fairies of the mound". (Carmina Gadelica)

🎨 IrenHorrors

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2023-01-30

Snowdrops have some lovely folklore, but there are many dark superstitions about them as well. Clusters can be seen as omens of death and bringing them into your home is guaranteeing your own ill-fortune
🖼️Will Gist
📔Degenesis, NOVAK

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2023-01-30

Nachzehrer (lit "after-drainer") are a Vampire variant from the German-speaking countries with the technical advantage of not having to leave their graves to sap the strength of the living.

🎨 So Pine Nut

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2023-01-23