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Book dedication

Crazy that the second #Malazan book #DeadhouseGates was written 3minutes down the road from my childhood home 🤯

Photo of two 'in progress' art dolls

Some new Folkloric Frights are on the way...

#goblincore #britishfolklore #artdolls #artsky

Photo shows a crazed looking vintage goat toy

today's mood:

Thanks Matthew! 💜

Handmade art doll of an ASRAI (water fairy) in pink and blue colours.

𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗜

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Water fairies that dwell in freshwater ponds or lakes, Asrai are said to swim to the surface to bathe in the moonlight once every hundred years.

#creepycute #goblincore #halloween #dolls

Thank you! 💜

Photo of a handmade textile art doll, in green and purple colours, ragged and creepy!

𝗝𝗘𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝘄’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗡 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗧𝗛 is a Glaswegian ghoul - believed to have prowled around Glasgow Green in the early 1800's on 'beetle feet', is said to have captured badly behaved children and then devoured them with the frenzied gnashing of her iron teeth.

#scottishfolklore #31daysofhalloween #horrordolls

Art doll of Fad Felen the personification of the 'yellow plague'

𝗙𝗔𝗗 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡 is the personification of the 'yellow plague' or ' yellow pestilence' that devastated Wales in the 540s, said to be a hideous hag with yellowed hair and teeth who was enveloped in a poisonous miasma.

#britishfolklore #welshfolklore #goblincore #witchsky #31daysofhalloween

Handmade felt patch depicting a woodcut style man extracting a toadstone

Another patch from 2018, this one is based on a woodcut of a man extracting a toadstone

#britishfolklore #toadstone #witchsky

Looks amazing!

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch made with felt

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch from 2018

#britishfolklore #mummifiedcat #protectioncharms #witchsky

The central figure is presented in profile, facing left, with a distinct, elongated silhouette. It is cloaked in a flowing, white gown or cape, adorned with subtle patterns and textures: The figure wears an elaborate headdress, possibly a crown or a decorative piece, which extends upwards and features a prominent, heart-shaped or wing-like element at the back. In its left hand, the figure holds a long, slender staff or scepter, topped with a radiant, star-like ornament that emits light.

Hello Tuesday.
Dust cover for Brian Wildsmith’s Blue Bird.

Photo of a framed painting of a crone

Spotted in the window of an antique shop #whoisshe

Roots of Entanglement, 2016, by Esther Sarto

Large owl perched on the stump of a tree in forest setting at night, illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ From In Berkshire Fields, Walter King Stone, 1920.

Remarkable German biologist, philosopher and artist Ernst Haeckel

Phaeodaria from Kunstformen der Natur
(Art Forms of Nature), c.1899 - 1901)

Illustration of a broom that appears to be sweeping by itself.

Hahakigami (broom spirits) are a type of #yokai that occur once a broom has reached a very old age and is transformed into (or possessed by) a spirit, known as tsukumogami. Because brooms were used in ritual purifications, they can become powerful magical charms.
#MythologyMonday
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Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture. There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!

😂😂😂

A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin - Reactor A gripping tale about a woman determined to hold on to what she wants.

Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

Disabled people aren’t “less than”.

It’s not a moral failing.

Most people will experience disability at some point.

It’s a minority group you can join at any time.

We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion.

There’s no social justice without disability justice.

Work in progress. Yesterday's doings.

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman head and shoulders holding a card with an oval hole to her eye

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

'UK's oldest witch' Patricia Crowther dies aged 97 She created the BBC Radio Sheffield show

'UK's oldest witch' dies in Sheffield aged 97
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Photo of a hedgehog skin

Clearly someone was ravenous! 🤯

Photo of snails and woodlice eating a windfall apple in the dark

One of my favourite photos, a midnight feast in the apple orchard!

Garden orb spider in a bramble patch

denizen of a brambly hedge

Art by • Ayami Kojima

Icon behaviour Aurie!! 🤣

Why do they always look like this?