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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 5h

#SpooktoberReads 🐱 Malai guards my hardcover at Moneybaggs Manor. Some roses steal the show. This one steals suitors. 🌹 Wickedly Delicious: a Gothic Victorian dark comedy and a Monsterous Rose with an appetite! amazon.com/dp/B0HG32N91T #Gothtober #DarkComedy #Caturday

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 11h

#BookWormSat 💀🌳 Rural literature takes a sinister turn in Canadian author David Demchuk’s "The Bone Mother." 📖🕯️ Three villages on the Ukrainian–Romanian border shelter the last creatures of Eastern European folklore. Country life with teeth.🦷 #RuralLiterature #FolkHorror

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 12h

#BookWormSat follows the red roads of Avonlea. 📖🍁 Anne of Green Gables brings rural PEI to life: orchards, school paths, neighbourly gossip, and a girl who finds poetry in familiar fields. The countryside, seen through wonder. 🌳 1908 cover by George Fort Gibbs. #RuralLiterature #AnneofGreenGables

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 16h

‘Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.’ ~ Emily Brontë. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a rural #BookWormSat

Hans Thoma (1839–1924), Autumn Tree, Wiesenthal (c 1862-63) painting.
Autumn birch, landscape in background.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 16h

"The hidden roots escape my thoughts, I love but what I see. A tree has lovely limbs, I know, Both large and strong, down under earth; But all my thoughts are in the boughs, That give the green leaves birth." - W H Davies, 'Earth Love' (Photo by me) #BookWormSat #poetry

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16h

‘We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry day O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away The ancient pulpit trees and the play’ ~ John Clare #BookWormSat

🖼️ Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), The Weald of Kent (c 1833-4)
Autumn scene from hillside with tree overlooking sprawling countryside below, painting.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.' -Stijn Streuvels Tomorrow #BookWormSat is travelling to the country with the theme Rural Literature. Do travel with us! :-)

Art by Emile Ballue. Artwork of a man walking in the woods

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfHalloween 🐺 Day 2: Werewolves! In Eu folklore, curses, magical ointments or wolfskin belts may turn humans into wolves. A full moon wasn’t always needed! Read more on my Wordpress Blog and Listen to my PODCAST niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2022/09/02/w... #Gothtober

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfHalloween 🎃 Day 1: Vampire Pumpkins Balkan folklore tells of pumpkins & watermelons becoming vampires if kept too long. They might tremble, roll about or make strange noises after dark. 🧛🎃 Not terribly dangerous, but wonderfully spooky! #Gothtober #RomaniFolklore

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fancy some Tynemouth legends in your day? I'm chatting about exactly that on the Whisht Lads podcast! northeastfolkloresociety.podbean.com/e/tynemouthp...

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome October, paintings by Edith Holden, Edwardian naturalist.

Two books open at a kingfisher paint if and a fly agarics

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃 Welcome to the Spooktacular Month! 👻🍂 October 1st is here! According to old British folklore, say “White Rabbit” 3 x upon waking on the first day of a new month to bring good luck. 🐰🐰🐰 WHITE RABBIT! WHITE RABBIT! WHITE RABBIT! #31DaysOfHalloween begins TODAY! Only 30 days until Halloween! 👻🦇🎃

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1972, The Beachcombers debuted on CBC. Filmed in Gibsons, BC, it aired for 350 episodes and 18 seasons. It played a large role in building Vancouver's film industry. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/lU7ei4o

Relic and Nick in a small motorboat at sea. Relic is wearing suspenders and looks concerned while Nick steadies the engine as both stare toward the camera.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🎃🍁Ca On the Bay of Quinte, the old lantern changed its skin. Irish & Scottish settlers brought the turnip lantern; here, the pumpkin replaced the turnip. 🎃 In 1886, Kingston Daily News printed an early North American report of a pumpkin jack-o’-lantern. Same flame. New fruit. 🕯️🍂

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday 🐉 High in mountains & shadowy caves, ancient #wyrms slithered: scaled, venomous & wingless. From Germanic lore, the wyrm was a great serpent or dragon, haunting tales from Beowulf to Tolkien’s Smaug. Before dragons breathed fire, there were wyrms. 🐲 🎨by illustrator John Bauer, 1911.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday 🪶⚡ In many Indigenous traditions of the Plains, Pacific Northwest & Great Lakes, the mighty #Thunderbird commands the skies. Its wings bring thunder, its eyes flash lightning, and it battles great water serpents. A powerful bringer of storms & rain. 🌩️ 🎨 Darkriddle1 on DeviantArt.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday 🦖🦕 Yabba-Dabba-Doo! The Flintstones premiered 30 Sept 1960, bringing dinosaurs into the modern Stone Age! Bedrock had Dino, the Flintstones’ lovable Snorkasaurus, while the Rubbles had Hoppy, their hopping Hopparoo. 66 years later, these supermodern saurians still rock! 🪨🦴📺

🎨 © Hanna-Barbera / Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sex appeal combined with monsters formed the key attraction for "One Million Years B.C.," the 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey and Raquel Welch and John Richardson. #WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

"St George and the Pterodactyl" 🎨 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1873) #WyrdWednesday

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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration?” - Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea #WyrdWednesday 🎨 by Jonathan Burton

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday A missionary meets a primordial monster down a mine in Mexico. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/creatur...

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Creature Feature: The Mexican Mine Monster - Haunted Ohio Books

Creature Feature: The Mexican Mine Monster

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 30/09/2026

Modern historians have suggested that dragons were proven to premodern populations by none other than unearthed fossilized dinosaur bones. Given how close modern dragons look to these bones it is entirely possible, though dragon truthers would very much disagree. #WyrdWednesday

$An in-tact T-Rex skull and jaw, fossilized with fracture lines on the snout and occipital areas.$

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jurassic Park begins with a mosquito trapped in amber preserving dinosaur blood. Real scientists have recovered extraordinary ancient material from fossils, but usable dinosaur DNA hasn't survived tens of millions of years. Sadly, your amber necklace cannot make a velociraptor. #WyrdWednesday

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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `After several adventures Maelduin an his men sighted an island that had a fence of stone around it. 1/6

John D. Batten creator QS-P170,Q13385323, The Monster of The Feats from The book of wonder voyages - page 100 inset, public domain

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 30/09/2026

The White River Monster, or Whitey, may be the stuff of Ozark tall tales, but it's also perhaps North America's most friendly river monster. Often described as a giant fish, eel, gar, or dinosaur style sea monster, Whitey is defensive of fish, so be careful. #WyrdWednesday

Whitey as depicted by an unknown artist, here breaking a ship called the Juno using the ridges on its back. It here is a massive fish-looking animal with spikes for teeth, two of which are coming out of the front like horns.

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Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Lyminster there’s a pond known as knucker hole. It is said to be bottomless. If you dive in you’ll land in Australia. It’s home to a water creature, the knucker. #wyrdwednesday

Knucker depicted in the church window at Lyminster

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Irish tradition, ravens belonged comfortably at the borders of the Otherworld. One tale tells of three supernatural ravens that emerged every Samhain, carrying away 3 children from a síd until the warrior Caoilte slew them. Ravens and crows also haunt the tales of the Morrígan and Badb. 🐦‍⬛🕯️

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday 🎃 🕯️🐈‍⬛ North America Appalachian folklore says to light a candle inside your carved Jack-o'-lantern on Halloween night to scare away evil demons, ghosts, goblins and creatures of the night. #SpookySeason 👻 #FairyTaleFlash ✨ #AppalachianFolklore 🎨 MeadowMercantile on Etsy

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yabba-Dabba-Doo, you Wyrdlings! Since the Flintstones premiered on 30 September 1960, it’s: “Modern Stone-Ages: Dinotopias, Lost Worlds & supermodern Saurians!” for this week’s #WyrdWednesday! Come, tell tales of odd places harbouring giant lizards, thawed up icemen & why brontos suddenly appear!

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SpookySunday 👻🍲🍂 Something spooky is simmering in my kitchen! I made a hearty Irish beef stew with stout, tender beef, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, mushrooms & peas. 🍺🥕🥔 Perfect comfort food for a crisp autumn Sunday... though apparently I have a ghost waiting for a bowl. 👻😂

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SpookySunday 🍲👻 In Irish tradition, the hearth was the heart of the home, a place of food, warmth & storytelling. And beware the unexpected stranger at the door! 🚪 Warm an autumn night with Guinness Beef Stew. 🍺🍂☘️ Recipe: cookingwithwineblog.com/guinness-bee...

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summerghost @asummerghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

"When a witch wished to take on the form of a hare she said: 'I sall goe intill ane haire, With sorrow, and sych, and meikle caire; And I sall goe in the Divellis nam, Ay quhill I com hom againe.'" (Margaret Murray "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe") 🎨 Tamsin Abbott #bookwormsat

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Goodnight. From Weird Tales, September 1941.

Five birds perched on a branch in a tree silhouetted against a full moon, illustration.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

“Géricault allowed me tо see hіs Raft оf Medusa while he wаs still working оn it. Іt made sо tremendous аn impression оn me thаt when I came оut оf the studio I started running lіke а madman" (Eugène Delacroix) Théodore Géricault was born #otd 1791 🎨 "Le Radeau de la Méduse" (1818–1819)

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Author Stephenson & Kitbrick Stop-mo. @authorstephenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you have a Kona Hybrid, bookmark this blog post in case you ever get a flat battery. RAC talked me through this and it worked. bit.ly/4aMY0FG

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HALLOWEEN HAUNTS IS NOW ON AMAZON! 🎃👻 (8.5 x 11 inch Paperback.) Celibrate Spooky Season with creatures, legends & lore in my new adult coloring book. 🦇 🖤 - 26 haunting coloring pages, with folklore woven into the shadows. 🎃 Get a copy today! 🛍️ or scan the QR code amazon.ca/dp/B0HKZSG5B7

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇📚 In Margery Williams’ *The Velveteen Rabbit* (1922), a stuffed rabbit longs to become Real. The Skin Horse tells him that becoming Real happens when a child truly loves you, a bit of literary magic that has endured for over a century. 🐰❤️✨

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
Williams, Margery
Published by George H. Doran, 1922

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇📚 Beware the ghostly Spook Rabbit! 🕯️🐇👻 In Pennsylvania urban legend, this spectral rabbit frustrates hunters, sends hounds fleeing and vanishes mysteriously into the night. 🌙 #Ghosts #SpookRabbit #UrbanLegend 🐇👻 🎨 Ima Gleason

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BookWormSat 📖🐇 🐇 “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” The White Rabbit hurries Alice toward Wonderland, following a path from the ordinary into curiosity, mystery & enchantment. ✨ 🎨 John Tenniel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇📚 🌙 #WitchHares #Shapeshifters In Irish folklore, witches were said to shapeshift into hares. Tales tell of mysterious hares stealing milk from cows, only to flee home and be discovered again in human form. 🧙‍♀️ ~ National Folklore Collection of Ireland, Dúchas.ie

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass" - John Keats, 'The Eve Of St Agnes' (Painting by Bruno Liljefors, 1905) #BookWormSat #Keats #poetry #hare

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.....Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down #BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Of all of the beasts in the world, I'm the best! On land, and on sea...even up in the sky No animal lives who is better than I!" Rabbit in 'The Big Brag' by Dr. Seuss (1958) #InternationalRabbitDay #BookwormSat

Line drawing by Dr Seuss of a rabbit lazing on his back on top of some mounds of earth

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