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Day 3 of voting @australia.theguardian.com Tawny's can be cute, for a not-an-owl, but POwlets have that cuteness factor in multiples!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A sepia-toned photo of a woman in profile, wearing an elaborate traditional outfit adorned with fringe, feathers, and a necklace made of animal teeth, with her hair styled in loose waves.

Pauline Johnson was one of Canada's most beloved poets.
Her poems focused on her duel English-Mohawk heritage, which were reflected in her stage shows.
Celebrated for her work, she remains an important literary figure in our history.
This is her story.

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A large wooden barrel with a carved figure of a man wearing a red shirt and white apron, holding a hand to his mouth as if shouting, stands outdoors. The scene features a clear blue sky with scattered clouds, green trees, and three flagpoles with flags, including a Canadian flag. A signpost nearby reads "Legend of the Dungarvon Whooper," detailing a 19th-century tale of a young cook named Ryan who was murdered in a lumber camp near the Dungarvon River, followed by eerie whooping sounds and screams heard for years. The photo includes a link to a website about the legend.

If you visit the Miramichi River Valley in New Brunswick, you are entering the region known for one of the most famous bits of folklore in Canadian history...The Dungarvon Whooper.
While the Whooper is said to be long gone, the legend remains.
This is the story!

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A landscape scene looking over a river with full moon in the sky.

'Autumn Moon at Ishiyama Temple' from the series 'Eight Views of Omi' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857.
#FullMoon #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

Vulnerable, highly valuable, and unique collections stolen #HeritageCrime affects not just museums but the people they serve

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff | Museums | The Guardian share.google/uJVOjezPHAEP...

🎃UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 7🎃

Today’s small portion of the potentially paranormal is Case 7: The Ghosts of Bosworth👻

Thanks Susan for this creepy, thought-provoking story. What - or who - did she see that day? And where did they go?

Send your questions and theories to uncanny@bbc.co.uk!

Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled worker visas Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body

Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: this is what Labour’s tightening of skilled worker visas will mean in practice for Scottish farmers, report by Joanna Partridge

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Worth your time watching

Bats Under a Full Moon
by Ohara Koson, ca. 1910

Bright red and yellow colored virginia creeper climbing up a wall around a dark blue gate

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
John Burroughs

Good morning - have a bright and colorful day everyone!

#autumn #fall
#nature #ColorADay

Black Rabbit of Inlé, inspired by figure from Watership Down. The artwork features a black rabbit in mid-leap, with a tattered, pale banner wrapped around its body. The banner reads "THE BLACK RABBIT OF INLÉ." The rabbit is shown against a textured, light-colored background with scattered twig-like elements.

🖼️ Rob Bridges
‘Now, as you all know, the Black Rabbit of Inle is fear and everlasting darkness. He is a rabbit, but he is that cold bad dream from which we can only entreat the Lord Frith to save us today and tomorrow’ ~ Watership Down, Richard Adams.

"Autumn weighs upon me
but tomorrow will come
and I will miss tonight." Buson Yosa

(image: autumn evening, Shotei Takahashi )

"among thousands
of singing insects, one
singing out of tune" Takajo Mitsuhashi

(image: Koson Ohara)

"hazy moon --
bumping into
a small pine" Chiyo-ni
(image: Kaii Higashiyama)

"The moon in the water;
Broken and broken again,
Still it is there" Choshu (trans. R.H.Blyth)

(moonlit night, Hasui Kawase)

It’s been lovely to be back @liveveryplay.bsky.social for the Uncanny tour.

#TBT talking about a potentially paranormal experience with Raquel, a duty manager at the theatre 👻😱

Apparently a figure in a red dress likes gallery seats A1 and A5 - so if they are your seats tonight, let me know!!! 👻

Welcome to The Possession Files - a three-part Halloween series investigating real historical accounts of alleged possession. These aren’t tales of spinning ... The Possession Files: The Devils Girl

For October @eerieedinburgh.bsky.social is bringing us a series of chilling and thought provoking stories of possession.
The first fantastic episode is out now.

youtu.be/zUt1lpMSrDU?...

🎃UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 5🎃

Today’s small plate of spookiness is Case 5: Rio the Poodle 🐩

What on earth did Elizabeth witness in that park?

Send your questions and theories on the case to uncanny@bbc.co.uk! There will be a brand new case dropping every day until #Halloween!!👻

👻🎃 UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 6 🎃👻

Are you enjoying counting down the days until #Halloween? Today’s bijou bite of the bizarre is Case 6: The Blanket Seal 🛌

What happened in that university hall of residence room?

Send your questions and theories on the case to uncanny@bbc.co.uk!

I met not one, not two, but three doppelgangers in Liverpool!

Strong effort - I was very impressed! 🤣👻😱

Portrait-Icon of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu zu), 17th century, by Tosa Mitsuoki. Murasaki Shikibu appears poised to begin writing her tale, pausing as if in mid-thought. Her head tilts away from her desk, while her trancelike stare is directed slightly upward, toward the calligraphy sheets in the upper portion of the painting. The inscriptions list the four stages of Tendai Buddhist contemplation (shimon) that Murasaki was said to have mastered, along with two of her waka (thirty-one-syllable poems) that speak to life’s impermanence (mujōkan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji#/media/File:Tosa_Mitsuoki%E2%80%94Portrait_of_Murasaki_Shikibu.jpg

A Lost Chapter Of The World’s First Novel Discovered In A Japanese Home

It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.

By Natasha Ishak

allthatsinteresting.com/tale-of-genj...

The Tale Of Genji at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

#books

Disabled man faces losing his business after DWP cut his Access to Work support

Josh Wintersgill’s Access to Work grant has been slashed by 80%. If his appeal isn’t accepted, he might have to close his business.

Seven Things to Look for in Medieval Manuscripts - Medievalists.net A guide to some of the interesting things you can look for in these manuscripts from the Middle Ages.

Seven Things to Look for in Medieval Manuscripts www.medievalists.net/2023/10/seve... #medievalmanuscripts

Waxing gibbous moon (almost full!) above silhouettes of two trees

✨ Almost full! ✨

Lavender haze on Wednesday 💜✨🎶

JFC!

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A "fairy ring" of toadstools

I'm just about to step inside this "fairy ring", so if you don't hear from me for a few hundred years...

Painting of a town at night with an owl swooping down on a group of rats who are scattering in terror Artist unknown but published on page 733 of German journal Die Gartenlaube in 1879

"What moved the pale, raptorial owl
Then, to squall above the level
Of streetlights and wires, its wall to wall
Wingspread in control

Of the ferrying currents, belly
Dense-feathered, fearfully soft to
Look upon? Rats' teeth gut the city
Shaken by owl cry."

Sylvia Plath #OwlishMonday