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Researching women in #folklore & comparative #myth INFJ 🇨🇦 owned by 3 cats 🌸 #amwriting * No DM's thx

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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
From the medieval ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ - 13th century, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 229, f. 326r @MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor #medieval #manuscripts
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Mama Doubleyoo 🍁🇨🇦 #NastyCanadianWoman🏒💪 @mamadoubleyoo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nature-killing, sound polluting #DataCenters & oil piplines - @mark-carney.bsky.social you've guaranteed Libs won't EARN my #VOTE in the next elxn. You're selling Canadians, my sons & grandkids future out - the #Environment be damned! You might as well be a CONservative. So much for #ElbowsUP!😒
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Send a Letter: Demand Transparency from AI Data Centres Alberta and Canada have stated that multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres will not be subject to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) this is irresponsible & unacceptable! #AbPoli #AbLeg #NoGasForAI #CdnPoli #Climate
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Send a Letter: Demand Transparency from AI Data Centres - Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta and Canada have stated that multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres will not be subject to Environmental Impact...
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Prior to being elected prime minister, Carney dubbed climate change “an existential threat.” This week, he... greased the skids for a suite of LNG projects and a new million barrel-per-day oil pipeline to the West Coast. @chrishatch.bsky.social mailchi.mp/nationalobse... #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Screen shot of article with title "Carney's case for more carbon" and an image of Carney on youtube with the caption I want to be clear on this point. The changes we have made will meant that our emissions will
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Brookfield’s website boasts of “owning the backbone of the global economy.” By keeping his shares while PM, Carney could have a conflict on nearly every major policy decision affecting energy, transportation & infrastructure, including airport privatization www.thestar.com/politics/fed... #cdnpoli
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Mark Carney sidelined from at least 17 government deliberations because of corporate conflicts
The revelation is contained in letters that the Privy Council Office sent to a parliamentary committee that probed the ‘screens’ that Carney set up last year to protect himself from conflicts of inter...
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albertagirl67 🇨🇦🇺🇦👊🐧🔥 @albertagirl67.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Time to acknowledge we do not have a Capitalist Free Enterprise economic system. It is Corporate Socialism & has pretty well always been. What is now called the Epstein Class was smarter in the past as they would at least throw some bread crumbs our way after taking our bread #cdnpoli #abpoli
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 04/07/2026
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
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Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"
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Knowledge Network @knowledge.ca · 27/04/2026
Journey around the planet as spring awakens the natural world, bringing with it a blossoming of new life and new challenges. Wild Spring Watch free on knowledge.ca #knowledgenetwork #springvibes #animals #blossoming #wildlife #nature #babyanimals #wildspring
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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In my native Ayrshire and adopted Cumbrian dialects, 'tod' is fox. In lore, fox carries a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it more: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk art: Spry Fox by Maryana Kniazevych #FairytaleTuesday
In my native Ayrshire and adopted Cumbrian dialects, 'tod' is fox. In lore, fox carries a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it

more: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae
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art: Spry Fox by Maryana Kniazevych #FairytaleTuesday
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Legend tells that the cunning fox, wishing to move more quietly, turned to the mischievous fairy folk for help. They fashioned a flower of soft, bell-shaped blooms to slip over his paws, muffling each step. From this, it is said, foxgloves took their name. #FairytaleTuesday
Close-up of vivid pink foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) in bloom, their bell-shaped flowers speckled within and beaded with raindrops; a tall central spike rises against a softly blurred background of purple and green garden flowers.
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Wild Urban Priestess @wildurbanpriestess.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
May 3rd - A Journey with Goddess. Maia - one of the Pleiades and Greek goddess of growth. Maia is associated with springtime, fertility, the fruitful flourishing of life. She lives in the mountains, far from people. The older I get, the more this seems like a great life choice 😉 #WitchSky
Artwork of Maia, greek goddess of growth. Her brown hair is pinned up. She has light pink and coral coloured flowers in her hair. Artwork of pink.roses is on the background
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Country Farm Arthur Lismer 1916
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Karen Sloan @karsloan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A little patch of blue in the garden is a welcome site! 💙 Scottish folklore states that b/c they're a favourite flower of the fairies it's bad luck to pick bluebells & take them indoors. #fairy #folklore #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardensky
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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
off I fly 🦉🔥🧹
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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A witch ghost for #PhantomsFriday what with it just having been #WalpurgisNacht The ghost of Betty, a reputed witch, was reported to sit on the churchyard wall of St Gregory’s, Tredington, smoking a pipe. In life, she would sit on top of a willow tree in Honington slowly putting on her stockings
Side view of St Gregory's church, Tredington complete with massive spire which can be seen for miles around
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Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Excellent essay by Allan Johnson exploring mail-order occultism in the early 20th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...
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Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotte...
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Hilary R Sparkes @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Dandelion clocks looking like an army of spirit orbs.
Field full of dandelions and flecked with buttercups
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Reporters Without Borders release the 2026 World Press Freedom Index The U.S. didn’t make the top 50 & dropped under +ru^^p 1. Norway 2. Netherlands 3. Estonia 4. Denmark 5. Sweden 6. Finland 7. Ireland 8. Switzerland 9. Luxembourg 10. Portugal 14. Germany 18. UK & 20. Canada rsf.org/en/index
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Index
RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“This fascinating and formidably well-researched book has completely changed my view of fairies.” Thank you to Ian Bradley for this terrific review of ‘Fairies: A History’ in @churchtimes.bsky.social: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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Book review: Fairies: A history by Francis Young
Ian Bradley revises his understanding of fairies
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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Late Spring reading sorted: The Green Issue of @helleborezine.bsky.social
Hellebore Green Issue on black starry background with glass bauble toadstool tealight holder.
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Hagazussa in Glasgow @hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Philippe Vachier's tarot from 1639, republished by Yves Renaud of Tarot de Marseille Heritage. Oldest surviving complete tarot from Marseille. Notable for its use of purple colour, instead of the dark blue popular later, which we are more familiar with today #TarotTuesday #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
From left to right, the Moon card, 2 of Cups (with the cartier's inscription), and the Queen of Cups The Knight of CupsThe card backs with a black on white cruciform design, the Tower, Temperance, Chariot, and 9 of Cups cards
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"The Book of Divination", a Lubok print from the collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895). See more highlights from the collection here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d…
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺
Close-up of a hedgehog figurine. It is glazed in a bright blue, its eyes are black. The glaze is chipped in many places but remains mostly intact.
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
#SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday #Neolithic owl-faced idol 4300-4000 BC from chamber tomb excavated 1968 in Arnesano near Lecce, Puglia. 🏺 It has similarities w examples found in Cyprus + in Crete. Buried w ceramics associated w cult of Diana. in MArTA - Taranto arch museum #ancientbluesky
A statuette in off-white Lecce stone with an owl mask (eyes and beak), a chevron immediately below and the lower part of the body tapering to a rounded stub. 
It's smallish: height 35 cm. maximum width 17 cm. and maximum thickness 9 cm
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Karen Sloan @karsloan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sing a song of May-time. Sing a song of Spring. Flowers are in their beauty. Birds are on the wing. 🎨 Queen Guinevere's Maying, John Collier, ca 1900 #Spring #MayDay #flowers #poem
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Frederick Church, 'The Witch's Daughter' (1881) #OwlishMonday #owl #witch #witchcraft #illustration #oldillustrations #artsky
A young woman in a long green gown sits on a crescent moon beside a moon. They regard each other apparently with affection while grey and white clouds swirl around them.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Saw first orange-tipped butterfly of the year yesterday. It was enjoying the beautiful dandelions in my wilded garden (along with peacock butterflies, bumblebees, hoverflies, and assorted small shiny beetles) #butterflies #wilding
My wilded garden filled with gorgeous dandelions
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Major news! A long-lost episode of one of my all-time favourite series West Country Tales from 1982 has just re-emerged onto Youtube!! The channel has also posted the rest of the 1st season, with promises of the 2nd to follow, and they're all in great quality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLC...
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WESTCOUNTRY TALES S1E1 - The Sabbatical
YouTube video by 5PY Heritage
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #StandingStoneSunday 📷 June, 2023
Stone with channel as if formed by flowing blood.
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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
More Japanese weeping cherry tree pics #photography #nature #bloomscrolling #cherryblossom
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm grateful to Alex Hughes (of the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' project) for this thoughtful review of 'Fairies: A History' www.opengravesopenminds.com/reviews/revi...
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Review: Francis Young, Fairies: A History (by Alex Hughes)
Alex Hughes is a member of the OGOM Project and a doctoral student in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. His PhD focuses on the various depictions of fairies in literature and popular c…
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Marcus Aurelius, born on this day in the year 121 into a war-torn world without democracy, sanitation, and science, on how to live through difficult times www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/19/m...
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
Richard Brooks photographed the three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a local church one evening in July after staking out the site most evenings over a three week period. Anglia News on 23 February 2010.  http://www.richard-brooks.co.uk/3BarnOwls.html
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FediBoard Food @fediboard-food.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
insidehalton.com · Mike Pearson The Orangeville Butter Tart Festival returns on April 25 with an array of butter tarts and other sweet desserts. Ontario butter tart connoisseurs in … #buttertart #festival #dessert #food #ontario #orangeville
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Massive butter tart festival returns to this Ontario town this weekend
insidehalton.com · Mike Pearson Get ready for the Orangeville Butter Tart Festival on April 25. Check out vendor lists, ticket prices, and a schedule of other 2026 Ontario butter tart fests.
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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#BlueskyClassics 🏺 Published today: papyrus excerpt of Iliad's Catalogue of Ships discovered in the abdomen of a mummy. www.beauxarts.com/grand-format...
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Langues en or, extrait de l'Iliade retrouvé dans l'abdomen d'une momie : de rares découvertes effectuées en Égypte
Une équipe d'archéologues, fouillant la nécropole d’Oxyrhynque, a retrouvé dans une momie un fragment de papyrus contenant un extrait du texte du poète grec Homère.
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Karen Sloan @karsloan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Why Abbey Gardens should be on your road-trip list this year, a 300 acre former gravel pit now transformed into a community hub. 🐾 #MyHaliburtonHighlands #Ontario #nature #tourism #comewander torontolife.com/culture/why-...
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Why Abbey Gardens should be on your road-trip list - Toronto Life
A desolate 300-acre gravel pit in the Haliburton Highlands has been turned into a community hub
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Hagazussa in Glasgow @hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"There was an old woman who rode on a broom, With a heigh, gee-ho, gee-humble; And she took her old cat behind for a groom, With a bumble, bumble, bumble." Illustration from Gems from Mother Goose, 1899 (page 22), public domain. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/inter... #WitchSky #art #illustration
A woman with a small, pointed witch's hat is flying on a broom. She is wearing 18th-century clothing (a skirt and waistcoat with half-length, frilly sleeves), louis-heeled shoes, and a cloak. A black cat with a fuzzed-out tail sits on the bristles behind her. She turns her head to the side to look at him.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Earth's Dream by Erté
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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
SG̱ang Gwaay, a Pacific island off the coast of Canada, hosted thriving matrilineal communities of the Haida people and their ancestors for 10,000 years. The art and architecture there still inspires! archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2026/off-the-grid/sgang-gwaay-british-columbia-canada/
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It’s Grackle season. ✨
Lots of dark blue headed birds.
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Karen Sloan @karsloan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Seeing crocuses blooming is a lovely sight after such a long winter, & just in time for #EarthDay, too. 🌱🐾 #MotherNature #Ontario #bloomscrolling #flowers #plantsky
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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Kittens & daffodils 🎨 by Daniel Merlin, ca 1925 (Zwei Kätzchen vor einer Vase mit Narzissen) #flowers #cats #earthday 💐
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Born Under a Wandering Star @ballbob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Archaeologists discover perfectly circular ancient Egyptian temple that may have been used for sacred water rituals
The temple included a network of water infrastructure, revealing the importance of the ancient city and the Nile.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 21/04/2026
Happy birthday Rome! According to Roman tradition, Romulus founded the city #OnThisDay in 753 BC. Here's a mosaic of Romulus's early years being raised by a wolf (who had a great smile) #BeforeTheyWereFamous 📷 @followinghadrian.bsky.social / CC BY-SA 2.0 🏺 #Archaeology
Mosaic depicting a wolf with what appears to be a large grin on its face. Two children (Romulus and Remus) stand underneath the wolf.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Damn right. youtu.be/nXbHOUeFe8s?...
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Cat visits the library so often, he now has his own library card
YouTube video by CTV News
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Karen Sloan @karsloan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Birding Your Way to Well-Being | Psychology Today 🐦 #birdwatching #birdsky #mindfulness www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
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Birding Your Way to Well-Being
Reduce stress, boost attention, and find transcendence.
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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
An elm tree on the roadside between Bidford-on-Avon and Wixford was known as the St George’s Elm as he was believed to be buried under it. The elm had grown from a stake driven through the saint’s body. If the bark was cut, his blood would seep from the fissure. #FolkloreSunday
Cross made from blackthorn spikes with "blood" splattered over the centre.
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David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
St George is sometimes associated with the colour green, vegetation and fertility. This links to the dragon, as these beasts were blamed for making land barren by obstructing or poisoning water sources. #MythologyMonday #folklore #mythology #history
A mounted St George thrusts his lance into the mouth of a green dragon in a landscape of parched fields as a medieval lady looks on.
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Folklore tells that the bluebell’s scent induces a deep, dreamless sleep. Its former botanical name, Endymion non-scriptus, recalls the tale of Endymion, the youth beloved of the moon goddess Selene, whom she lulled into an eternal slumber to preserve his youth. #FolkloreSunday
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