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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The mellowing days of October .... harvest, thanksgiving, community .... before the pinch of Winter falls upon us ....

autunno - Tacuinum sanitatis, ms. Latin 9333, f. 52v, 15th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since introducing the bird feeder, we've attracted some new neighbours ....

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ossie the Bull, named after Black Sabbath's Ossie Osbourne, was chuntering on a bit on Sunday ...

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Recent "Sew Civil War" series of talks and demonstrations at the Forge Mill Needless Museum, Redditch - samples of Milanese and Flemish lace on display from the 17th and 18th centuries (from the collection at the Lace Guild in Stourbridge, West Midlands) from a talk given on 'Commonwealth lace'.

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Daughter's floral gift to her Mama ❤️

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mid-Autumn Festival 🎎 celebrations this past weekend .... time out for the lions

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's an OOwlish LOOK from another antique Little OOwl #OwlishMonday

Little Owl, Copper Plate engraving, 1790's

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

" ... Meanwhile the Tortoise kept plodding on, and in time reached the goal. At last the Hare woke up with a start, and dashed on at his fastest, but only to find that the Tortoise had already won the race. Slow and steady wins the race.” 🐰 Aesop, Aesop's Fables #BookWormSat 📚Library of Congress

HARES and RABBITS the-hare-and-the-tortoise, Library of Congress

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ” 🐰 Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit #BookWormSat 🎨Beatrix Potter #InternationalRabbitDay

HARES and RABBITS - Beatrix Potter - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"One late-autumn day I opened the back door to fetch some water, and there was a young hare sat on my back step. Save for the twitching of its nose, it froze in position as if I had surprised it as if it was about to knock." 🐰Neil Ansell, Deep Country #BookWormSat 🎨Young Hare-Albrecht Durer (1502)

albrecht-durer-detail-hare-1502-albertina-museum-wien - close up of a young hare's face

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Michaelmas Daisy - 29th September is Michaelmas, the Feast Day of St Michael the defender against evil. It marks the end of harvest and the start of autumn. The flower symbolises farewell and transition. The act of giving the bloom to another represents the saying of farewell. #FolkloreThursday

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"If hedgerows produce a lot of berries it means a long hard winter." - Kathleen Hawke, "Cornish Sayings, Superstitions and Remedies" (1973) #FolkloreThursday

Wildedges - - https://www.willowwildedges.com/blog/hedgerow-harvest - cornucopia of berry fruit from the hedgerows

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2/2 September 21st is k/as "The Devil's Nutting Day". It was considered unwise to go nutting that day as you might just encounter the Devil Himself doing just that! A rhyme penned in 1709 reminds the unwary that: “The Devil as common people say, Doth go a nutting on Holy-rood day.”

Wild hazelnuts - From Wild Food UK - https://www.wildfooduk.com/wild-plants/hazel-nut/

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meon Hill in Warks, UK, is locally k/as the "Devil's Bag of Nuts". Legend has it that the hill was created when the Devil was gathering nuts. He had a great bagful when he met the Virgin Mary. He took fright, fled, dropping the bag, spilling the contents which shaped the Hill 1/2 #FolkloreThursday

Meon Hill in Warwickshire, UK - also k/as the Devil's Bag o' Nuts

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; ... ✍️W Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 #BookWormSat

Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton, 1594 by Nicholas Hilliard - the Fair Youth?

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Seek not each man to please, for that is more than God bids do: Please thou the best, and neuer care, what wicked say thereto.” ✍️ Isabella Whitney (1548—1624), "A sweet nosgay, or pleasant posye: Contayning a hundred and ten phylosophical flowers" #BookWormSat 🎨Angelica Kauffman

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. ” ⚔️Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (1407) #BookWormSat 🎨Henry Justice Ford (1902)

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ✍️ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince #BookWormSat 🎨Kiss of Judas (1304–06), fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy

Kiss of Judas (1304–06), fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2/2 and Lilith's story does not stay put but journeys to Arabia, Ethiopia, Mesopotamia etc., shape-shifting from Goddess to Demonic entity then to the Queen of Sheba herself. This is a stunning piece of storytelling and right now, I am feeling blissed out ... Website: katycawkwell.co.uk

Storyteller Katy Cawkwell in full Lilith story-flow at Beeston Tales in Nottingham - 16.9.26

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a stunning performance from storyteller Katy Cawkwell! Her new show, "Lilith, The Other Side of the Story" is not to be missed. At Beeston Tales, we were enthralled. Katy has crafted with great skill, the story of Adam's first wife into a tale of a woman who refused to be the Good Wife. 2/2

Poster of storyteller Katy Cawkwell's new show, Lilith, The Other Side of the Story - part of 2026/27 national tour

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just finished listening to an online telling of The Tower of Ash by Shonaleigh and I was spellbound! It is a poignant yet healing story that tells of a woman's journey back towards reclaiming her Self and for me was a nice way to spend a rainy Sunday evening indoors. #storytelling #Folklore

Storyteller Shonaleigh telling The Tower of Ash story

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.” ✍️Truman Capote, Summer Crossing #BookWormSat

URBAN LANDSCAPES - by te_ce_- Dresden's Bleached Sun, Instagram 2026

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo, I long for Kyoto. ✍️Matsuo Basho #BookWormSat Trans: Jane Hirshfield 🎨 Cuckoo by Shoson Ohara

URBAN LANDSCAPES - Shoson_Ohara - Cuckoo

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Against the bluster of the wee island of Hoy, we trekked across the rain-soaked earth towards the Dwarfie Stane .... #neolithic #Orkney

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Moon riding on the crest of the evening sky ....

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A circle of brightness filters through the branches of trees .... a woodland walk ..

View of a tree's canopy taken while on a woodland walk ...

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

" ...he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. Tell me you love me, he says. Tell me again. Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask it. I get to tell.” 🐾 Mary Oliver, “LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT (PERCY THREE)" #BookWormSat

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ✍️Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice #BookWormSat

Close up of the hands from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini's Wedding portrait, National Gallery

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild and menacing.” ✍️Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles #BookWormSat

DOGS - Black Shuck by Georgina Warne 2012

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.” ✍️ Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book #BookWormSat

JAPAN - Heian Court - Lady Murasaki (rival to the enchanting Sei Shonagon and author of Tales of Genji, Shining Prince)

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.” ✍️ Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm #BookWormSat

FAV BOOKS - woman-reading-vintage-drawing - Curated Karen Arnold from Public Domain Pictures.Net

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry - RIP

Poem - The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry x

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I spy with my OOne gOOd eye.... #OwlishMonday 🎨Owl - Huang Yongyu (1973)

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.” 🦇 Bram Stoker, Dracula #BookWormSat

Image - nighttime, moon in full-faced bloom; bare branches in shadow; three large bats fly into the moon's face - black and white imager

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.” 🦇Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems #BookWormSat 📷Fire Charm by Janet Loughrey #InternationalBatNight

Black Bat Flower Witchhazel by Janet Loughrey

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

you too come out, bat: all the birds amid the blossoms of this floating world kōmori mo ideyo ukiyo no hana ni tori 🦇Bashō (芭蕉: 1644-1694) #BookWormSat 🎨Takahashi Biho (1890-1930) - 1910.

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Did you know there were hundreds of little night moths crowded against the window pane to catch a glimmer of light?" ✍️Olivia Maciel, Night Moths, Vapor #BookWormSat Trans: Kelly Austin 📷 Drew Makepeace

INSECTS - MOTHS around_lamp by Drew Makepeace (BBC Wonder Monkey, 2011

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Seasonal Turning of the Year ... Autumn beckons ...the ripening of hawberries in the hedgerow 🌿

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trying to work out this Moth's identity?

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Comma Butterfly 🦋 rests on bramble leaves ...

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A fluttering of Gatekeeper Butterflies 🦋 dotted the path as we meandered to Tinkinswood Burial Chamber one hot day in July #neolithic #SouthWales

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