@charliecreed.bsky.social
Writer from Bristol. The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore, published 23 October 2025 by @eandtbooks.bsky.social https://eandtbooks.com/books/the-cats-tales/
Very happy to be speaking about cats and fairy tales at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday as part of 'Hodge the Cat Presents Stories of Cats'
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#cats #catsofbluesky #fairytales #folklore @eandtbooks.bsky.social
Very happy to be speaking about cats and fairy tales at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday as part of 'Hodge the Cat Presents Stories of Cats'
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/hod...
#cats #catsofbluesky #fairytales #folklore @eandtbooks.bsky.social
A beautiful grey kitten
Baby Wolfie
#cat #cats #catsofbluesky #Caturday
Medieval illustration of a cat king holding a sceptre and wearing a crown, with three other cats bowing before it on grassy landscape.
I don’t know where this is from. I know that it’s a tile made with a medieval illustration. #Caturday
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An old-fashioned illustration depicts a coven of witches gathered under leafless trees at night. The witches wear pointed hats and tattered cloaks, some flying on broomsticks, while others creep across the ground with crooked postures. Black cats climb the branches and stalk the ground, adding to the eerie scene. A thin crescent moon hangs faintly in the sky above, casting a pale glow over the gathering.
That’s all from me, @crystalponti.bsky.social. Thanks for conjuring up such spine-tingling #FolkloreThursday posts! After a short break, @shanonsinn.bsky.social will rise from the folklore crypt to keep the chills alive. Don’t ghost us… the best scares are still to come! 🦇
Art: Rackham
Very happy to say I'll be at The Haunted Bookshop (Bristol) talking about The Cat's Tales on Monday 20 October. Please come along!
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#cats #fairytales #folklore #bristol @eandtbooks.bsky.social
The cover of 'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' by Charlie Creed, featuring an illustration of a black cat. Beneath is the text, 'A beautifully illustrated collection of feline folktales'.
'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' … 40 magical cat stories from around the world. Published 23 October
eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca...
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore #caturday
The cover of 'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' by Charlie Creed, featuring an illustration of a black cat. Beneath is the text, 'A beautifully illustrated collection of feline folktales'.
'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' … 40 magical cat stories from around the world. Published 23 October
eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca...
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore #caturday
Pierre Bonnard - Le Chat Blanc, 1894
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Portrait of his cat, Jeppe, (1884) by Swedish artist, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939)
Hope without camouflage.
‘Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript appears never to have been copied or circulated, nor to have been known to anybody except the people who owned it.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
book cover a fox and birb all togged up nicely.
fox and birb dining. they have a frog waiter
fox and raven in a tree,the raven has something shiny in its beak
grasshoppers with a guitar and a basket of sticks. I'm sure a pedant will correct me and say these are crickets not grasshoppers.
De fabelen van La Fontaine, 1900.
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The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by Charlie Creed. An illustration of a black cat on a cream background.
The endpapers of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by Charlie Creed. A series of black-and-white illustrations of cats
So excited to get an advance copy of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore.
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by Charlie Creed. An illustration of a black cat on a cream background.
The endpapers of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by Charlie Creed. A series of black-and-white illustrations of cats
So excited to get an advance copy of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore.
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca...
20.09.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Oh, how strange! Thank you for letting me know
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That's wonderful, thank you!
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'The Cat's Tales: Feline fairy tales and folklore' by Charlie Creed. "From heroic helpers to malicious beasts … discover a fantastical collection of cat tales from around the world."
'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' … 40 fantastical stories from around the world, all about cats
eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca...
#caturday #cats #fairytales #folklore
A grey kitten in a toy a pushchair
Baby Wolfie
#caturday #cats
'The Cat's Tales: Feline fairy tales and folklore' by Charlie Creed. "From heroic helpers to malicious beasts … discover a fantastical collection of cat tales from around the world."
'The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore' … 40 fantastical stories from around the world, all about cats
eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca...
#caturday #cats #fairytales #folklore
🎨"Acorn Fairy" Artist: Cicely Mary Barker circa 1918.
#FolkyFriday channels Norse & British lore!
#Acorns on windowsills were believed to ward off lightning a nod to Thor Norse god of thunder, whose sacred Oak shielded him in storms. Nordic homes honored this, while Fairies are said to live in Oaks & wear acorn hats! 🌰
🌰 #AcornCharms #FairyFriday 🧚♀
Shakespeare’s witches summon “Graymalkin” and “Paddock,” a cat and a toad, as if pets themselves were co-conspirators in fate. The line between companion and familiar vanishes in a puff of smoke. #BookologyThursday
Art: Ocean's Bridge
The pharaohs kept cats not as mere pets but as divine guardians. Bastet, the cat goddess, blurred house and temple, protector and companion. Ancient art shows lap cats honored like royalty. As they should be! #BookologyThursday
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Four illustrations of crows.
Crows as depicted by illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
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Green man
Green man - unfired
#art #ceramics #figurativeart #figurativesculpture #folklore #greenman #rebirth
A grey cat lying on colourful wrapping paper
Crafting
#cats
An illustration of a cat loafing atop a box-shaped stone tomb, surrounded by trees.
Cat atop a tomb, Charles Antoine Coypel, etching, 1714–52, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain #Caturday #art #ArtHistory
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A beautiful grey cat dozing in the sun
Saturday morning lie in
#Caturday #cats
A portrait of a man wearing a black hat and nursing a tortoiseshell cat.
'Portrait of Sakuma Shokan with a Cat' from the series 'Kokka Review' - Kano Tanyu, printed in the 1930s.
#Caturday #JapaneseArt
Ink drawing of cat snoozing among display boxes of candy.
Ink drawing of cat snoozing on checkout counter.
Ink drawing of cat blending into tiles in front of bodega doorway.
Ink drawing of cat sitting among paperwork on bodega counter.
I find cats weirdly difficult to draw (they’re complex and mysterious, as is their right of course) so I’ve been doing little warmup thumbnails using @bodegacats.bsky.social as reference.
Each one of these is about 2 and a half inches tall.
