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Arts and Magic. Folklore and Fairy Tales. Poetry and Prose. History and Nature. Music and Film. The cosy and the uncanny. The weird and the whimsical.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h
🖼️ Sarah Bays
Hare amongst foliage against yellow foliage pattern background, painting.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 🎨 Laivi Põder
Artwork depicting a colourful autumn scene, with trees with autumn foliage and a cozy red cottage.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL GrantWatson
A barn owl is perched on a wall in front of a small Village at sunset  
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 11h
The Witch by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite From 'Fairyland'
Illustration to accompany the verse 'The Witch' by Annie R Rentoul. 
A witch on a broomstick is poised at the edge of a cliff, ready to fly. There are red toadstools at her feet, their colour matching her shoes and cloak. Bats circle in the sky, and in the background there are more cliffs and a glimpse of the sea.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🍂The Autumn Fairy by Margaret Clark
Art deco era illustration, Dark background, forest, a winged fairy wearing a dress decorated with autumn leaves. She carries a lantern and is accompanied by several animated leaves with legs and faces.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🌿Deer in the Forest by Ivan Generalić
Lithograph, 1956. Naïve art style. Trees, grass with flowers, a lone white deer.
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
"That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts." (Ray Bradbury "October Country", 1955) 🎨 K. L. Ricks #Spooktober
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'They Were Three Months Passing Through The Forest' by Virginia Sterrett. From 'Old French Fairy Tales by the Comtesse de Sigur', 1920. #fairytale #tortoise #turtle #illustration #art
A young woman rides on the back of a pony-sized tortoise through a woodland, stars shining in a gap in the trees.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ghost, Hester Cox.
Deer amongst trunks of trees in forest, painting.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🍂October by James Tissot
Woman in dark dress and hat, tree with autumn leaves, leaves on the ground. Painting, 1878.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack O' Lantern Illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration of three winged fairies walking through a forest under a full moon. An elf-like piper is leading the way, carrying a lantern. They're being followed by some rabbits, and some small birds and an owl in flight are also accompanying them. Ink and wash, 1916.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the only drawing (1868) made by John Everett Millais for an uncompleted project with Alfred Lord Tennyson and the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan to combine poetry, painting and music - 'The Songs of the Wrens,' by Tennyson and Sullivan came out of this idea.
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
"Faerie Folk" 🎨 Arthur Rackham, frontispiece for Julia Ellsworth Ford's "Imagina" (1914)
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is 🎨 Astrid Sheckels
Illustration depicting various woodland animals dancing in an autumn wood.
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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new perspective
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Girl with Sunflower Friedrich Fehr, 1895
A girl in a meadow wearing a long orange gown with ornate embroidery, carrying a single sunflower.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Illustration by Elizabeth Curtis 'Old Mr. Owl Writes a Book', 1923. #OwlishMonday
Illustration. Forest scene. An owl reads from a large book to a group of fairies wearing blue dresses, some of them are not paying attention. Three more owls are perched on branches to the right of the scene.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.' ~Elizabeth Goudge 🎨Charles Tunnicliffe #BookWormSat
Painting of a hare sitting in a meadow among flowers. Golden tones.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
September Evening by Robert Thegerström
Landscape with trees, houses in the distance, a glimpse of water to the right of the scene, suggesting a pond.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some gates make you wary of climbing over or opening them. You have this weird sense that crossing their threshold will deliver you somewhere else. Faery or some parallel dimension that is simultaneously familiar yet alien. My danger radar is weak, but not that weak. – #MattAdams
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
forest magic #drawing #art #ink
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✨Cinderella Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Painting, 1880. Cinderella standing against a wall beside a hearth, with  firewood gathered in her apron, a pumpkin on the floor beside her.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spirit of Autumn by Albert Pinkham Ryder
Painting, 1875. A solitary figure in a long pale dress and dark shawl in a woodland setting. Autumnal tones, browns, gold.
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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome, Autumnal Equinox. The King of Autumn greets thee.🍂
My painting of a pumpkin rider on a black horse surrounded by autumn leaves and mushrooms.
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ferdinand Knab, 'Castle Gate', 1881. #Gothic #landscape #art
Sunset shines through a tree-bordered, elaborate wrought iron gate which is then reflected in a pool of water.
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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Poludnitsa, also known as Lady Midday or the Noon Witch, is a figure in Eastern European mythology. Usually pictured as a young woman dressed in white roaming the field bounds, she assails folk working at noon, causing heatstrokes and even madness. #WyrdWednesday 🎨 by Sergei Demidov
A spectral women in white robes and a headdress made of flowers walks through a field of corn and wildflowers. She carries a scythe in one hand.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'With fair Ceres, Queen of Grain, The reaped fields we roam, roam, roam: Each country peasant, nymph, and swain, Sing their harvest home, home, home.' ~Thomas Heywood 🎨Walter Crane #WyrdWednesday
Illustration depicting the Goddess Ceres. She wears a crown of wheat and her clothes are adorned with wheat, rye and barley and a pattern of red poppies. She holds some stems of cereal in one hand and a sickle in the other. Text across the top reads 'Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees of wheat, rye, barley' Tempest, Act IV, Sc I'.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍂Autumn Leaves by Franklin Booth
Illustration, 1911. Three female figures dancing like leaves in an autumnal wind. They are dressed in long flowing orange-brown dresses with tattered hems. Below them, individual leaves are falling. Treetops are visible at the bottom of the scene.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Erskine prefers to do his calisthenics in close proximity to the sun.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a sunflower growing out of a crack in the concrete with a hamster hopping and stretching out his arms on the top. The center of the sunflower is a gas utility cover.
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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hookland will never establish diplomatic relations with Piddington.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's always room for one more plant 🎨 Kristina Kemenikova
Illustration depicting three mice, each in their own burrow filled with plants.
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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People and Landscape of Michoacán, Mexico Alfredo Zalce 1962 Mural: Palacio de Gobierno de Michoacán #WyrdWednesday
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The art of Bridget Bate Tichenor, one of several notable artists who made Mexico their home. The Surrealism Movement in Mexico for #WyrdWednesday
Painting. Landscape. A seated figure in a blue gown and hood, wearing a mask, holding up a small snake. There are open books on the ground, plus an insect and some birds eggs. Two wild-looking cats to the left of the figure.  Birdwoman II. A landscape, clouds. A figure in profile. Orange feather-like garments and a dark hat. A bird perches on her hand, two more are on the ground as well as some small frogs.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✨The Fairy King by A. Duncan Carse
Watercolour illustration. A figure in a hat, tunic and cloak walks along a cliff edge, with the sea below. A small winged creature appears to be talking in his ear, while others below him form a ring around a crown that seems to shimmer.
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
“She moorneth, waketh, wayleth, fasteth, pleyneth;” (Chaucer) 🎨 Anna and Elena Balbusso “The Franklin’s Tale” (2014)
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PINOCCHIO is frankly terrifying; he's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish, plunged alive into a boiling pot and nearly carried off by rabbit undertakers, before becoming a real boy. Illustrations by Folkyard 1914 edition #FairyTaleTuesday
Pinocchio is nearly plunged into a pot (illustration by Charles Folkyard 1914 Dent edition).
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't seem to see your posts even when you're posting often. Like I said, it happens with other accounts here too. It's a bit odd! I hope the move went well! 😊
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
High Tea by Elise Macdonald
Painting. A dark haired woman sits at a table with a teacup and some cupcakes. A goose looks at her, only its head is visible above the table. There is a bird on her shoulder, another on her head. Two smaller birds perch on the teacup.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I came to see if you'd been posting recently as I hadn't seen you on my 'home' feed for so long. I'm not sure why your posts don't show up when I'm scrolling. It seems to happen with a few other people too.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 10/09/2026
Goodnight. ‘The Fairy Circle’ Carlton Alfred Grant, 1895
fairy on a beach making a circle in the sand
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
"Fish and Moon" 🎨 Viktor Goryaev (2024)
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some trees are more than hedge anchors, landmarks in the lane. They stand out as guardians, green monarchs of their kingdoms. At twilight there is often a sense of them wishing to speak of what they have seen – whether to give a blessing or warning is hard to tell. – #DAKilroy, 1982
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
'O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?' by Jan Toorop, 1892. #SpookySunday #Symbolism #artnouveau #art
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🖼️ Vicky Yeates
Hare sat in grass next to fungi, amongst teasels, dark background, autumnal tones. Painting.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Haunting by Odilon Redon #SpookySunday
Lithograph, created 1893-1894. A ghostly female figure in a long dress. She seems to be in a dream or trance. Strange forms emerge from the darkness around her.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🎨 Edouard Léon Cortès
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'Opposite my window, The moon cuts, Clear and round, Through the plum-coloured night. She cannot light the city; It is too bright. It has white lamps, And glitters coldly. I stand in the window and watch the moon. She is thin and lustreless, But I love her.' ~Amy Lowell #BookWormSat
Painting. A woman stands by a window, looking out. There is a round table beside her with a tablecloth, set with a teapot and other bits and pieces. A small lamp gives a warm glow to an otherwise dimly lit room.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Norns by Alois Delug, 1895. #WyrdWednesday
Painting depicting the Norns as three seated women in long robes. One holds up a long thread above her head. Fiery red and yellow sky.
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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#SpookySunday Phantom Femmes by Belgium artist, Gaston Bogaert, (1918-2008) whose work had an unsettling appeal.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here at the edge of the salt marsh, all magic is brined. Clouds race the sky for the delight of being augury. Boats are warded against the songs of blue-skinned Blood Sisters, the summoning of ill winds. The mud holds its stolen treasures and even we witches walk with caution. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
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