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Art by Arthur Wilde Parsons. Painting of a witch with a pointy hat flying through the night on a broomstick. Full moon. Cloudy, purple sky.

In a Flemish folktale, a fearless man once thought he could chase away witches with a cudgel. The witches had other plans.

Read the story here 👇
signe.substack.com/p/the-night-...

The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders

If the world of witches speaks to you, and if you have ever wanted to help give a voice to forgotten witches... see the link! :-)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

Artwork of six cats staring at something or someone in the night. There's a dog or wolf behind them with bared teeth. Black with yellow eyes. Night.

According to a Flemish folktale, a man was walking his two dogs at night when all of a sudden he saw a cat. He threw a stick at the cat because he suspected the animal was a witch. Five minutes later, he found himself surrounded by hundreds of cats who threw mud at him.

🎨 Boris Groh
#WyrdWednesday

Image with the title of the book: The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders. Also the text: Back us on Kickstarter. Image shows the bookcover in both Ebook and paperback form. Book cover is a dark black and white cover with a witch staring at a field. There is a dog, crow, frog, butterfly and other animals around her. Moon and trees.

The Witches are here! 🖤 We are so excited to announce that The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Flanders is now live on Kickstarter!

The short story collection features thirteen stories inspired by Flemish witch lore with illustrations by @prairiebones.bsky.social.

🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙

Wyrdlings!
We have a special announcement today. Our dear friend @signemaene.com has collaborated with Wyrd Mother
@prairiebones.bsky.social and launched a Kickstarter campaign for their newest book of short stories! Link posted below⬇️

Our topic for tomorrow's #WyrdWednesday will be:
🖤WITCHES🖤

Artwork of a woman covering her face with both of her hands (peekaboo). Nails painted red. Butterflies with skull faces surround her.

'Fancy returns, and now she thinks of bones
And grinning skulls, and corruptible death
Wrapp'd in his shroud; and now fancies she hears
Deep sighs, and sees pale sickly ghosts gliding.'
-William Blake

🎨Stephen Mackey
#PhantomsFriday

Illustration of a black cat who doesn't seem to be very amused. The cat is sitting on a tree branch. Black and yellow colours.

'as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.'
-Black Cat, Rainer Maria Rilke

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat

Artwork of a hare running across a field. Night sky. Stars.

'In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright'
-Walter de la Mare

🎨Lucy Grossmith
#BookWormSat

A drawin in warm and light tones of The Folk at the Rootwood. Fritti (an orange tabby with a star shaped spot on his forehead) is lying in the foreground amongst red Flowers. He is bathing in rays of yellow light beaming through the canopy. Light green trees form the backdrop while a scattering of cat silhouettes is sitting amonst them. A purple haze in the upper quadrant adds a mystic tone.

“But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.”
― Tad Williams, Tailchaser's Song

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday
🎨At the Rootwood by Stephanie Law

They are the keepers of the sacred words 'Ni', 'Peng', and 'Neee-Wom'

Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoom Boing!

Ni!

Picture of a tuxedo cat in the garden. He looks quite puzzled.

Frodo's first adventure in his new garden! No rings were destroyed yet.

Picture of a tuxedo cat in the garden. Grass, trees, and a white sky in the background.

He is feeling majestic after his first day in the garden.

Picture of my hand holding a black book with an illustration of an owl. Title: The Witches of Flemish Folklore, Companion to Flemish Folktales Retold by Signe Maene. Also, on the picture, my hand holding the book and a green bush in the sunlight in the background.

Just a reminder that this exists.

Title: Autumn. Artwork of a woman walking in a forest, autumn leaves all around her. Her brown hair blowing in the wind. She doesn't seem to enjoy her walk.

'We stand among the fallen leaves
In our own autumn day--
And, tott'ring on with feeble steps,
Pursue our cheerless way.'
-Caroline Norton

🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

Painting of a woman in what seems to be a white nightdress with a squirrel on her shoulder

The Squirrel by James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923).

Art by Gabriel Ferrier. Melancholic woman in a white dress holding flowers looking down. Dark background.

'Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colours to all.'
-Mary Shelley

A poem of mine 👇

Loki, the tuxedo cat, lying on the ground with his belly showing.

Perfect little floofball. 🤍🖤

Cat posed with Mexican serape, SMU Central University Libraries: The image is a portrait of a tabby cat, likely an ambrotype or a reproduction of one, presented within an ornate, oval, gilded frame. The cat is positioned on a striped blanket, a Mexican serape, and is looking directly at the viewer. The photograph dates back to around 1862-1868.

Hello Saturday. #Caturday

A statuette of a Nommo from Mali.

The Nommo are primordial ancestor spirits in the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, Africa. The Nommo are said to be hermaphroditic, amphibious, fish-like people who came from the sky to bring great wisdom. Modern myths have the Nommo coming from a planet orbiting the star Sirius.
#WyrdWednesday

Dagon approves this message.

Painting of The Lady of Shalott weaving. She wears a white dress and sits on a chest. White flowers and a book on the floor. Background of a wealthy medieval house. She looks despondently.

'She knows not what the curse may be;
Therefore she weaveth steadily,
Therefore no other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨John Melhuish Strudwick

Drawing of Abdul Alhazred, writing the Al-Azif, presumably aided by an avatar of Volgna-Gath . The Mad Arab is lying on the ground, his back resting against a pillow, while the monstrosity, shapeshifted into a semblance of the human form is standing next to him. Done in earthen tones. The title 'abdul alhazred writing the Necronomicon' is written in printed font in the lower left of the picture.

I learned of the spells that cause men illness, the plague, blindness, insanity, and even death. I learned of the various classes of demons and evil gods that exist, and of the old legends concerning the Ancient Ones.
#wyrdwednesday
🎨"Abdul Alhazred writing the Necronomicon" drawing by Robert Bloch

I feel seen. 🌛🖤🌜

Yesssss, he's very sneky!

Painting of a dead woman dressed in white holding a cross. Candlelit room, mysterious atmosphere. Theresa was said to have suffered from stigmata.

St. Theresa Morl by Gabriel Von Max (1868)

Detail of the gold collar found at Ålleberg in Falköping, Västergötland 🇸🇪 dating to the Migration Period.

#vanishingpoint