Nifty Buckles Folklore

#BookologyThursday 📚 Pan, the goat-footed god of shepherds & wild places, pipes haunting tunes in shady groves while chasing nymphs through sun-dappled meadows. He guards flocks & embodies carefree, musical rural bliss—fertility, nature's gentle wild side, a pastoral escape.
#BookChatWeeklyy 📖🫖🐈

#BookologyThursday 📚 #Arcadia ✨
📖 The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593)
by Sir Philip Sidney

Written for his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Arcadia helped shape the English novel—blending romance, adventure, and pastoral idyll.

#BookologyThursday 📚 #IDYLLICIDYLS Pan, the goat-footed god of shepherds & wild places, pipes haunting tunes in shady groves while chasing nymphs through sun-dappled meadows. He guards flocks & embodies that carefree, musical rural bliss fertility, nature's wild gentle side.
#BookChatWeekly 📖🫖🐈

YouTube video by patokaman The BEATLES "Birthday" song

#HappybirthdayPisces! ♓️
To all those Pisces having a Birthday Today and this Month! Happy Birthday! 🥳🎉🎂 Mine is today! 😜
youtu.be/MjF1bG5LUcs

#BookologyThursday📚🍀🐇🧙
Sneak Peek! 👀
Pages from my upcoming book:

"March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares, & Witches Folklore."
A Spring Coloring Book 🍀🌷

by Nifty Buckles

Launching Soon. 🚢

You can pre-Order on my Shop page.
niftybucklesfolklore.fun/march-madnes...
#BookchatWeekly

#MythologyMonday 📚
A timeless folklore treasure: "Grimm’s Fairy Tales,"by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm—gathered from the whispers of old German hearths and shadowed woods. 🌲🌳
From Hansel & Gretel to Rumpelstiltskin, these tales brim with folklore, magic morals. #GrimmTales
sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm-...

#MythologyMonday 🧙‍♂️📚
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth began with The Hobbit (1937), leading into The Lord of the Rings trilogy—an epic of courage, friendship, and the battle against darkness.
A cornerstone of modern fantasy.
#LOTR #Tolkien #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖🐈

This #MythologyMonday 🧹🐈‍⬛
A great read! Willow Winsham's newest gem,
"The Story of Witches: Folklore, History and Superstition."
(Batsford, 2025), weaves myth, legend, trials & modern magic.
#Witchlore #FolkloreThursday #BookChatWeekly
Buy it here: willowwinsham.com/books/#witch...

"Folklore of Scotland" by Stephen G. Rae Elf and fairie; brownie and goblin kin; faerie animals; demons or land and sea; giants, ogre and hairy folk; wolf man and werewolf; from the Beast of Buchan to the Gorbals Vampire

📢 coming soon :-

"Folklore of Scotland"
by Stephen G. Rae

Elf and fairie; brownie and goblin kin; faerie animals; demons or land and sea; giants, ogre and hairy folk; wolf man and werewolf; from the Beast of Buchan to the Gorbals Vampire
folklorepress.co.uk

#folklore #scotland #books

A monkey (I'm assuming) hanging onto the wall of Llangadwaldr Church on Anglesey.
#monkey #monkeys #churches #medieval #medievalsky #Anglesey #YnysMon

"The Eye finds... the Hearte chusyth... the Hand binds... But Death ceasyth". Joseph Crawhall.
#Death #woodcut #gothic #chapbook #Victorian @chriswoodyard.bsky.social

A cluster of irises, with pale purple petals, and vivid yellow stamens.

Greek myths attribute the iris to Hera, along with the pomegranate, poppy, dittany, and white lily. In 1879, Miss Carruthers noted that all these flowers were later transferred to the Virgin Mary.

In Mrs Burke's 1867 Illustrated Language of Flowers dictionary, the iris meant 'message'!

Our new episode out the history and folklore of Montgomeryshire is OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🖤

#marchfirst 🌞 #whiterabbit🐰🐇🐰
Welcome March 1st!
According to British folklore, say "White Rabbit," 3X upon rising, for good luck on each First day of a new month.
🐰🐰🐰
#superstition

🎨 John Tenniel (original 1865 illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

Must post something Welsh today, of course. Here are some fairies (Y Tylwyth Teg, Bendith y Mamau etc) shopping at a market in South Wales. An illustration from 'British Goblins' by Wirt Sikes (1880).
#Wales #fairy #faerie #fairies #folklore

#MarchReads #writingcommunity #vss365
#SundayReads #GrannyMagicChocolates
As February fades and March begins, treat yourself to a little magic 🍫✨
My book, "Granny Magic Chocolates," is now available in paperback on amazon.ca 🇨🇦

www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GQK8WFF...

A whole lot of “this war is illegal” and “he can’t do that” posts today, completely ignoring the fact that laws that aren’t enforced aren’t actually laws at all.

Congressional inaction is Congressional permission.

I hope they are safe!

Saturday = Loki's day in some Norse pagan traditions. Folk etymology links Old Norse "Laugardagr" (wash day) to Loki/Loðurr, making it the trickster god's perfect chaotic day.
#Saturday #Loki #Norselore

In Canada we played 'Red Rover' and 'Simon Says,' in the backyard with the neighbourhood children.

#BookWormSat 📚
In Norse mythology, Loki is the ultimate trickster god—shapeshifting mischief-maker, father of monsters, and chaos-bringer who outwits gods and giants alike, often for fun or revenge.
#Loki #Trickster #Shapeshifter #Norsemythology

#BookWormSat 📚 🦊
In Japanese folklore, the Kitsune is the sly fox spirit trickster—shapeshifting into humans, creating illusions, possessing people, and leading travelers astray with cunning pranks or vengeful deceptions.
#Tricksters #Kitsune 🦊 #Japanesefolklore

🎨 Iren Horrors

#BookWormSat
In Celtic folklore, the crow is sacred to the Morrígan, goddess of war and fate. She shapeshifts into a crow to perch on battlefields, foretelling death, sowing chaos, and reveling in the carnage #trickster of doom and prophecy.

Scupture of the Morrigan with her crows by Forest Rogers

Each new day is a new ladder of possibilities. Keep climbing!

Hope every writer out there is finding the time to write, painters to paint, makers to make, and that the light is making a comeback against the dark.

The first daffodil is out in our garden.

Change for the better. 🖤

#WyrdWednesday

Sorry for your loss @signemaene.com of your beautiful feline friend. 😿

Photo of dear Frodo, a beautiful, well-whiskered tuxedo cat, looking a little roguish perched on a shelf.

Tomorrow, our theme for #BookWormSat will be mischief-makers, rogues and antiheroes in literature to mark the incredibly sad and untimely passing of @signemaene.com’s beloved Frodo. He was much loved. We hope you’ll join us to honour this mischievous and charismatic, impressively whiskered soul. 1/2

Neil Sedaka, songwriter and hitmaker over multiple generations, dies at 86 - NewsBreak The chipper melodicist was also known for a catalog of '70s hits hits including "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Laughter in the Rain."

RIP...Neil Sedaka! 🙏🏽❤️🌹💐🕯

Neil Sedaka, songwriter and hitmaker over multiple generations, dies at 86
Source: Los Angeles
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You're welcome dear! 😊