Nifty Buckles Folklore

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain 🎃🐈‍⬛
My new e-book Samhain's Veil, Folklore, Poetry, and the Spirit of the Dark Season is out today on my new site niftybucklesfolklore.fun

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain 🎃🐈‍⬛

The veil is thin tonight. Be safe! 🖤
#PhantomsFriday

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

It's Halloween, Flanders' witches are joyously cackling while dancing to strange, wild music in the woods.

Our project has just reached 80% funding! Thank you so much! 🖤🌙🖤

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Painting by William Ladd Taylor. Title: The Old Clock on the Stairs. A woman who looks as if she might be a ghost is walking down the stairs. White dress and veil. Two figures with flowers behind her on top of the stairs.

'When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti

Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.

#FolkyFriday #BookWormSat
and friends! 🎃🧡🍂
Wishing You All a Happy #Halloween and blessed #Samhain
TODAY is the BIG LAUNCH of my NEW Site and my two NEW Books: SAMHAIN'S VEIL, AND For Children A Fun Poem ──THE SPOOKY DAY OF SKIP MACDOUGALL 👻🐩👦
Check them out here...
niftybucklesfolklore.fun

📷 Birgit Krippner

#MythologyMonday ✨🖤
'Māori Tā Moko', New Zealand’s sacred #tattoo art! 🇳🇿🖋️

Etched on face or body, each unique design weaves identity, status, & ancestry, rooted in creation myths. 🌿🌏

Tied to Rūaumoko, the god of earthquakes 🌋, tā moko marks transformation and spiritual legacy.
#MaoriTaMoko

🎨 Ellen Louise

#MythologyMonday ✨🖤
Let’s unravel the enigmatic #tattoos of the #Picts the legendary "Painted People" of ancient Scotland! 🏴‍☠️🖌️

In folklore, their intricate body art—etched with iron needles or dyed with woad—was more than mere decoration; it was a sacred pact with Celtic gods.

#NationalBlackCatDay 🖤🐾🐈‍⬛
In Irish folklore, black cats are believed to be guardians of the faery realm, with some legends saying that gazing into their eyes can reveal the secrets of the otherworld. ✨🧚‍♀

🎨 Ryan Conners of KilkennyCat Art.

#BookwormSat
In Eastern European folktales (like Romanian pricolici myths), #werewolves are the ultimate wedding crashers! 🌌 They steal the bride mid-vows and vanish into the forest leaving grooms in despair. Their shape-shifting comes from dark pacts: cursed wolfskin belts, amulets, or spells.

#BookwormSat Witches, rabbits, and brooms in folklore 🌕🧹
Witches riding brooms symbolize mystical power and travel between worlds. #Rabbits, linked to fertility, moon phases, and rebirth, also hold magical significance.

#BookwormSat 1728: The "Casket Girls" arrived in New Orleans, young French women with cassette-shaped trunks ⚰️. Lore twists darkly—some say they were #vampires, sealed in sunlight-proof coffins 🧛‍♀️⚰️, fueling bloodlust tales in the French Quarter 🩸. #CasketGirls #NOLA

🎨Margaryta Yermolayeva

#BookwormSat
In folklore, #Blackcats were both feared and revered—seen as protectors against evil or as witches’ familiars, capable of crossing boundaries between worlds 🔮Their mysterious presence continues to stir tales of magic, and the unseen forces that dance through the night. #Caturday

📷 Liam Carroll

#BookwormSat
During the ancient Celtic festival of #Samhain (over 2,000 years ago), the veil between worlds grew thin, and spirits roamed freely. People wore #MASKS and costumes made from animal skins and heads, disguising themselves as beasts 🐺👻 to fool malevolent spirits and protect themselves.

#BookwormSat
Janet Douglas, The Grey Lady of Glamis Castle 🏰✨
Burned for witchcraft in 1537, Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis, is said to haunt the castle’s chapel, forever kneeling in prayer .
Wronged by King James V’s revenge, her ghostly figure also lingers in the Clock Tower.

#BookWormSat
Mary Shelley’s Gothic legacy was #Frankenstein (1818). 🧌
Beyond a “monster,” her Creature is a shapeshifter, blurring life and death. A symbol of loneliness, prejudice, and unchecked ambition.
Her creature’s reflection: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..." 😔👼

poem by ©2025 NIfty Bucles Folkore. All Rights Reserved.

#BookwormSat
Halloween Pumpkin Dance 🎃💃🌕
Under the moon's golden gleam so bright,
Witches whirl 'round a Jack o' Lantern's light.
Brooms in the air, spells in their song, 🧹🎶
Cauldrons a-bubbling all night long.
Whimsical witches in a spooky prance, Join in at the Halloween pumpkin dance!"🧙‍♀️💃

#BookwormSat
Witch Balls In 18th-centuryEngland & New England tales, these iridescent glass spheres were hung in windows for home protection from Witchcraft, bad fortune and to entice wandering witches, evil spirits or ghosts to enter & become eternally snared inside the #Witchballs 🔮

Old photo of wooden staircase.

‘Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!’ #BookWormSat ~ Mearns

The Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel cover with a double image of Tim Curry.

“Where will we go?” said Janet. “We're in the middle of nowhere.” Brad wonders, “Didn't we pass a castle down the road a few miles back? Maybe they have a telephone I could use.” ~ The Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel (1980), Jim Sherman.
#BookWormSat

Witch on broomstick over town at night, others in flight in distance, painting.

‘Mother of beetles, only unclench your hand:
I’ll fly through the candle’s mouth like a singeless moth.’ Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath.

Tomorrow, we celebrate all the ghosts, ghouls, monsters, vampires, bats, witches of literature ~ all are welcome for this spectral #BookWormSat 🦇

Philip Pullman’s final Book of Dust is a masterpiece for all eternity Powerful, profound and utterly unforgettable: The Rose Field gives us a stunning trilogy conclusion

Philip Pullman’s final Book of Dust is a masterpiece for all eternity

Powerful, profound and utterly unforgettable: 📖 “The Rose Field” gives us a stunning trilogy conclusion

#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat

a man in a dark room with the words i burn my decency for someone else 's future ALT: a man in a dark room with the words i burn my decency for someone else 's future

Hi all! Absolutely stretched to our limits so we're going to have to call time on #FolkyFriday for the next couple of weeks. 🖤

We'll launch the ol' girl up again on November 7th though, with the theme of "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!"

Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares then!

Happy #NationalHorrorMovieDay! 🍁👻🧟‍♂️🎃🧡
A very Happy Birthday to the legendary Sam Raimi! 🎂

👻 The creator of 'The Evil Dead,' brought horror to life and set the stage for countless chilling classics—perfect for the #HalloweenCountdown! 🎃 #TheEvilDead 🧟‍♂️🩸🪚

An early 19th century engraving. A man in bed is regarding a skeletal gentleman sitting on a chair. The caption reads 'Can you give me possession at once?'

#phantomsfriday tomorrow and it would be great if a few more followers of a #FolkloreThursday disposition would care to join in with some ghostlore. In addition, ghostly art, literature, poetry, info on haunted sites (and more) are always welcome. Perhaps take a peek at @phantomsfriday.bsky.social.

Collage featuring an illustration by Maginel Wright Enright of fairies tending daisylike flowers with golden centres, beside photographs of a yellow marigold, a buttercup with an insect, and several white daisies with yellow hearts, all glowing with sunlight.

Long ago the fairies played too long catching sunbeams. When night fell, they hid them in their flower cradles and slept. By dawn, the beams had spilled out, turning some flowers gold – the buttercup and the marigold – and leaving a golden heart in all the rest. #FolkloreThursday

📷 Snow Leopard Cub, by gnagel / Getty Images

This #FolkloreThursday let's honor #InternationalSnowLeopardDay, the "Ghost of the Mountains" from Himalayan folklore!
These elusive guardians absorb sins from past lives—killing one transfers those sins to you, a sacred deterrent. 🙏
In Tibetan myths, they symbolize strength and prosperity.

#BookwormSat 📚🍂
In Celtic harvest traditions, carved gourds—precursors to pumpkins—shone as protective lanterns during #Samhain, warding off mischievous Fae and spirits as the veil thinned.🕯️

🎃 These glowing talismans guided the good and kept tricksters at bay.
#Autumn 🍂🎃

#BookwormSat 📙 #Caturday 😸 🧣
Autumn Kitty Sneeze

A cat family, scarves bright and red,
Frolicked where Autumn leaves spread.
A blustery breeze
Made the kitten sneeze—
But they grabbed her scarf, not her head!

— Nifty Buckles Folklore 🍁

🎨 by Cindy Schmidt

Ghost tea art by — Serenitame

#BookwormSat 👻🫖🍂 #Autumn
Ghosts in my teapot, a spooky sight,
Float out with a whispering flight.
They drift and they glide,
With secrets to hide,
Vanishing into Autumn's brisk night.

— Nifty Buckles Folklore 🍁

#GhostTea 👻🫖

🎨 Serenitame

#BookwormSat 🎃
“In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black, and towering. It stirred not, but seemed gathered up in the gloom, like some gigantic monster ready to spring upon the traveller.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow