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Marie/LittleBirdOfParadise @canarylittle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Pivoine, a Forest Spirit 🌿 This little beauty is handmade and is a unique and original textile artwork designed to be perfectly imperfect and beautifully strange. Available littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/les-... #UKGiftAM #art #dollcreation #shopindie #bsnm

A textile artwork featuring a doll with pink painted eyes, bunny like ears, two wings, an arm and a mermaid tail.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Mother's Day 🌞✨🌱 Here are a selection of Mother themed pieces from my archives, enjoy! #mothersday #mothernature #motherearth #mothergoddess #divinemother

A selection of Mother themed textile art dolls

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 14/03/2026

All kinds of horse-shaped water spirits frolic in freshwater pools across Northern Europe once they are ice-free. They all have one thing in common: Being malevolent to their spiritual core. We meet one In our 14th #darkspringtide story, a Glashtin from the Isle of Man - read their story below.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026

“Fire Down on the Labrador” 🎨 David Blackwood (1980)

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I want to go see them!! 😍

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Ready for the weekend like:

Medieval woman with rocks, scythe and serrated knife in mouth

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Malachite Goddess xphaiea.bigcartel.com #goddess #ancientegypt #art

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Morning sunrise, the clouds were so pink!

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Talismans for the Malachite Field In Ancient Egyptian mythology the Malachite Field was the term to refer to the land of the afterlife, a verdant and fertile realm of peace and resurrection. #ancientegypt #egyptian #talisman #magick #esoteric

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Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked door. The fear is for what is still to be lost. ~Joan Didion 🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm 39yrs old and still regularly have nightmares about turning in my A-level art coursework on time 😟

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A little marginalia. Dragonlet, Book of Hours, Paris c.1410.

Little red dragon with blue horns and golden wings, surrounded by gold foliage, illustration from illuminated MS.

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Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Sea Monster by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1881) #BookologyThursday

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

SPRING SENTINELS 🌱🌞 Two new characters inspired by the coming of Spring, emerging new growth and bulbs flowering. Made from reclaimed/recycled materials. xphaiea.bigcartel.com Thanks for all the love and comments on these two! #xphaiea #textileartist #artdolls #magick #spring

Spring themed art doll with bulb head in green and yellow hues

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Fairy Flower, William Nicholson. #FaerieFriday

Fairy appearing from yellow flower on dark background, rabbit looking up. Illustration. From The Velveteen Rabbit.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/02/2026

Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A Witch in the Swamp by Paul Ranson, 1897

A figure in black/dark purple, with a staff, walks a path through a landscape under a blue sky. Oil painting in brown, vibrant yellows, greens, blues and russet.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 24/02/2026

'The players in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance' John Benjamin Stone, ca. 1900

group of men in fancy dress... a lot of them have antlers one has a hobby horse

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🍄‍🟫Zulgina🍄(Ditch Lily) @zulgina.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge that neurodivergence and mental illness deserves grace, while also acknowledging that you are not obligated to accept hurtful treatment. As a neurodivergent and mentally ill person, I understand that I don’t get a free pass to hurt people.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It’s the feast day of Saint Milburga(d. OTD in 727). Abbess of Wenlock Priory She could create springs of water, make barley grow and persuade geese not to eat the crops in Shropshire. Raging torrents would also appear to stop men from molesting her. Here she is persuading some Shropshire geese.

St Milburga in nun-like robes, gestures at some geese to persuade them to eat the crops elsewhere.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New things are coming hopefully along with some better weather 🌞 #collageart #embroideryart #handembroidery

Two hand collaged cards of magical flowers and a hand embroidered human faced vegetable

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#FolkloreThursday In Japanese folklore, eating the flesh of a ningyo, or mermaid, grants eternal life and youth. It was also said that Ningyo blood will cure any wound. Boxwood ningyo netsuke, Tadayoshi, 19th century collections.mfa.org/objects/19902

Japanese carved brown wood image of a mermaid with sleeked back hair streaming behind her and a hand on her scaly tail.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can't help thinking this is the sort of thing a 12th-century chronicler would record as an unheard-of prodigy, just before something really bad happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland

The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Lichen, Lecanora epibryon. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends Lichen is approximately 5cm long.

Photo of a crustose lichen on tree bark. The lichen is light green-grey with numerous brown discs that have white rims (the apothecia). The lichen is roughly oval in shape, with pointed ends.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Roman roof fitting depicting a female spirit #roman #yorkmuseum #archaeology

Roman roof fitting depicting a cruse shaped head

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

LEGENDS OF ICELAND Jón Árnason 1962 Frontispiece by J. B. Zwecker for edition translated George E. J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon 1864 #wyrdwednesday #illustration

An etching in black and white on sepia background. Six icycle-framed screens depicting different (rather horrific) stories, with the text LEGENDS OF ICELAND in the middle and a skull at the bottom.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Centaurs, dragons, and snail shell houses — just a few of the otherworldly marvels depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript (BnF, Français 22971) illustrated by Robert Testard. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s…

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026

“Owls are howling, loons are crying. Ghosts haunt the land. Ghosts haunt the sea, moaning and sighing, weeping and keening.” (From “Svartedauden”, Black Death - 🎨&✍🏻 Theodor Kittelsen, 1900) #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

Theodor Kittelsen’s Svartedauden (1900): The personified plague - A skeleta, crone-like figure passes through a desolate village, mountains looming like tombstones

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026

Maximilian Liebenwein "The Libyan Princess" (c 1900) Part of an AustrianArt Nouveau-inspired series of prints illustrating the Legend of St George. #goldenageofillustration

A princess, crowned and cloaked in ermine, sits in quiet contemplation beside a slumbering chameleon-like dragon, its scales glinting like emerald ice, as winter’s breath and silent owls bear witness to Maximilian Liebenwein’s dream of St. George’s legend.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

How it feels to be alive currently:

medieval illustration of Croesus being rained on by a cloud

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

'She sobbed on, knowing herself in hopeless conflict with the vastness of death and oblivion, a tiny spark of warmth and life fighting vainly against the dark engulfing it; the perishable spark, struggling against inevitable extinction. For the black god was all death and nothingness...' C.L. Moore

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