Kerria

#owlishmonday #bookchatweekly #classiclitmonday

Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

~T.S. Eliot
🎨Tuesday Ridell

The Destruction of Leviathan
by Gustave Doré (1865)

The Festival of the Toadstool Dance
by Annie Stegg

The Albanian Alps go by the rather auspicious name of "Accursed Mountains" and, naturally, such a place is populated with all kinds of spirits in local lore.

We meet one in our 8th #darkspringtide tale today, a Vila Planinka, and, oh boy, can she hold a grudge!

Read her story below!

🎨 Nielsen

#bookchatweekly #booksky #illustration

Among its many magical uses, the hag stone is known for protecting homes from evil spirits, pigs from swine-fever, milk from turning sour, and sailors from witches clinging to their ships.

art by Lily Seika Jones
#PhantomsFriday

Bluebells in West Woods
from The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, born #OTD (1859)

🎨Chris Dunn

“Hare before, trouble behind:
change ye, cross, and free me.”

When a hare crosses your path, whisper this phrase to avoid misfortune.

British Folklore (1875)
🎨Maggie Vandewalle #Folklore

According to Scottish folklore, hedgehogs were associated with wisdom, protection, and magic. In English folklore, hedgehogs were believed to be witches' familiars or even shape-shifting witches.

🎨Lily Seika Jones #Folklore

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~C.S. Lewis
🎨Jane Crowther

I’ll be first in line to see the film.

#bookchatweekly

The Ghost of Greystone Grange
by A.A. Beckett (1878)

🎨B. Frost #PhantomsFriday

Have you stopped to consider that's why I'm laughing?

Good advice.

🎨Drazen Kozjan
#PhantomsFriday #morbidmarch

Illustration of a man huddled up in a dressing gown. The caption reads: 'Seen anything spooky?'

"Seen anything spooky?" Well, you will tomorrow for lo, tis #PhantomsFriday - the feed for all things ghostly. #Ghost posts on #folklore, art, literature, popular culture, #haunted locations... all contributions using the hashtag will be welcome.
#artsky #booksky #BookChatWeekly #poetry

#bookchatweekly

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

~ Emily Brontë
🎨Kinko White #PhantomsFriday

Sometimes, the only way out is to go all the way through to the end.

🎨 Armine

Here, where the world is quiet;
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
In doubtful dreams of dreams.

~Algernon Charles Swinburne
🎨 Marie Egner #BookologyThursday

Katarína Vavrová

word(s) of the day:

"What fresh hell is this?"

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[Dorothy Parker]

“I am unbody’d by thy books, and thee,
and in thy papers finde my extasie.”

Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1531)

🎨 Giuseppe Arcimboldo “The Librarian” (c 1570)

#WorldBookDay #booksky

Today is St Piran's Day, feast day of the patron of tin miners and of Cornwall herself.

So, we go out west and hear a story of Jan Tregeagle, Cornwall’s own Faust, who rose from doing penance for his sins in Dozmary Pool, with hellhounds on his trail.

Read our 5th #darkspringtide below

🎨 Minns

Thank you for your bucolic posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday

art by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1767)

Forsooth! To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion.

In 19th century England rectangular livestock paintings were commissioned by prosperous farmers to showcase their wealth and status. The same artistic distortion would also be applied to pigs and sheep.

#BookologyThursday

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Yes! Also in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, on a skull.