Fleurish Folk

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Welcome to #WeekofWonders -a place for all of you (also on x)-providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts,photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets.
Week 58: #fairytales (Snow Queen etc….)

An original mixed media artwork of dandelions. Created on mulberry paper and board, using acrylic paints and copper leaf.

Dandelion flowers were considered a "shepherd's clock" because they reliably open in the morning and close in the evening or during cloudy, rainy weather. They also symbolise the sun (yellow flower), moon (seed ball), and stars (seeds).
Art my own.

#ArtAdventCalendar #MixedMediaArt #Folklore

The Greene Knight Enters the Hall of Camelot during the Christmas Feast. - English fairy tales, by Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946; Rhys, Grace Little, 1865-1929 - Illustration ca 1913, Public domain

Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas

The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862) Public domain

In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday

🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)

A deer and a fox are lovingly and protectively embraced under the leaves by a human to protect them from hunters.

Dear Animals ~ All humans are not the same. #love #nature

Adorable #nature #gnomes idea for Yule. 💚

Belted Kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon, female (left), male (right) By Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Public domain ca, 1910 - 1914

The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology

Well isn't that's an odd (racist) thing to say because Trump said borders were just imaginary 'artificial' lines, at least when referring to the Canada-US border.

Irony is that SOB Miller is nothing but an artificial being, with no soul whatsoever.

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language

If you see this, QTP with a gif of your favorite wild animal 🌿

Uhtceare 1. A familiar pre-dawn sort of anxiety, when one is lying awake and worrying, “Whenever I suffer from uhtceare, I’m lying there worrying about what effect the sleep deprivation is having on my job performance!”

Landscape painting of storm.

‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.

A pink Ball Dahlia which has a perfectly rounded bloom with tightly rolled petals that form a sphere.

🌱 #flowersonFriday
As we head to the darkest part of the year, a reminder that spring and summer will return. I am lucky that I have endless pictures of flowers and gardens that I can look at. Hope this one brings you some joy.

#FindsFriday

National Museum of #Wales ( Cardiff ). Crescentic bronze plaque with triskele decoration, from Llyn Cerrig Bach lake deposit ( 200 BC - 100 AD).

#Archaeology #History #artwork

‘The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy
(formerly called ‘Hecate’)’, c.1795
William Blake
#Witchsky

The image shows a tree stump covered in green moss in the middle of a forest. Inside the hollow of the stump is a small handcrafted scene: two handmade figurines, resembling elves or Wichtel. One of the figures has a pointed red hat, a beard, and a knitted scarf, and is sitting on the edge of the stump. The other figure appears smaller, with light wool hair and simple clothing, placed inside the hollow. Around them are tiny accessories such as small logs, branches, and moss that create a miniature house. The natural light of the forest softly illuminates the scene, giving it a magical and cozy feel.

Magical and cozy, these small, handcrafted Wichtel scenes appear in the forests of Stuttgart during winter.
#LandscapePhotography #Wichtel #Folklore #MiniScenes #Culture #Goblins

Andrea Kowch, contemporary US painter #WomensArt #Thanksgiving

George Cruikshank - The Fairy Ring, ca 1855 - Public domain

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather!

🪄 The Fairies, William Allingham
🎨 The Fairy Ring, George Cruikshank
#FolkloreSunday #Fairytales

Two ghostly portals - the left at Lilleshall, #Shropshire, the other at Malmesbury, #Gloucestershire. Their #ghosts are just a few of my fellow Ghost Monks pottering about, but since the photos were scanned from 'Abbeys', the 1925 book by M R James, I felt they were worth posting for #PhantomsFriday

A black and white photo of a translucent figure appearing to hover above and between a seated elderly couple.

A particularly striking example of early 20th Century spirit photography.

#PhantomsFriday

Thanks! via Wikipedia. 😊

The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862) Public domain

In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday

🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)

Open wrought iron gates leading down a tree-lined driveway

In the early twentieth century there were a number of sightings of a ghost on the road from Shipston to Stratford nr the gates of Alscot Park. On one occasion a man saw it walk in front of his car and thru the park wall.
#PhantomsFriday

Call for Papers: Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance – Canadian Literature

Deadline: June 1, 2026

csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525* Abstract. Late medieval Coventry attracted so many in-migrating singlewomen that it might have seemed a city of women — for every ten women, only seven men

From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525”

by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Caladrius- Jacob Meydenbach - Hortus Sanitatis, ca 1491

The Caladrius was a #bird who'd stand at the end of a sick person's bed. 🛌 If the bird met a patient's gaze, it would inhale any illness, rise to the sun burning that sickness away, & the patient would heal. But, if the bird averted its gaze, the patient would not recover. 🪶 #Mythology #Folklore

Weisgerber, Albert, 1878-1915, illustrator, ca 1910

The tale of the boy who went out to learn what fear was is a #fairytale from the Brothers Grimm. On the first night of his adventure, giant #blackcats visit him to play cards, & he keeps them at bay when they attack. 🐾 #Caturday #cats #art

Belted Kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon, female (left), male (right) By Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Public domain ca, 1910 - 1914

The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology

A collage of a jade plant (Crassula ovata). The main image shows the full plant in a small metal pot with a heart decoration, and the two smaller images show close-ups of its thick, oval, glossy green leaves against a plain background.

What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore

Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince