#TuesdayTrivia Trees like oak, banyan are magic, held sacred in many cultures, while being havens for unknown spirits. Celebrating the lore and lure of greenery this #springtime #earthhour #EarthDay with the supernatural sentiments of #FairytaleTuesday 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🍃 #silicasun 🌳📗💚
A depiction of a unicorn from some bestiary, artist unknown. It shows a donkey-like horse with a massive horn as long as the rest of its body.
Prior to the King James Bible unicorns were not in the Bible; many cases of oxen were replaced with unicorns, in places of metaphor or simile and when describing strength or resilience. As the unicorn was part of James' standard, it was to flatter the new king. #FairytaleTuesday
#otd 1578 Death of the youngest of the Grey sisters, Mary. She was buried in her mother's tomb at Westminster Abbey. As discovered by @leandadelisle.bsky.social in 'The Sisters Who Would Be Queen.'
Medieval manuscript image of a fox disguised in a blue habit preaching to chickens and a goose.
ge-dwol-þing, n.n: an erroneous thing, deceit. (yeh-DWOLL-thing / jɛ-ˈdwɔl-θɪŋ)
Image: Maastricht Hours; Netherlands (Maastricht), 1300-1325; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Stowe MS 17, f. 84r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
"The Legend of the Pineapple" is a Filipino folktale about a girl, Pina, who refuses to do chores, claiming she can't find the items she's told to retrieve. Her mother says, "May you grow a thousand eyes," which curses her to transform into a pineapple shrub. #FairyTaleTuesday
#ThursdayThoughts - I have another new #haiku 'mountains' published online in #litmag Spillwords 📚 Big thanks to #editor Dagmara 💐 spillwords.com/mountains/ ⛰️ #poetry #nature #silicasun 🗻📘💙
A strange light hovers over moody marshland at dusk
Whether you know them as will-o-the-wisps, corpse candles, or lantern men, following these strange lights often will lead you to your doom...
Illustration - A mirage in a marsh by C. Whymper
#FolkloreThursday
"Frankly, I thought I knew how to write, but it turned out I didn’t, and I don’t. I don’t. I get to learn it over and over and over." ~ Jo Ann Beard
Issue One is live and full of nerve!
Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more!
www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1
A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
Brachial pendulum. picture of piano keyboard
No-context archival find: the pianist's body, pictured in reduced form as a "brachial pendulum."
source: Breithaupt, "Natural Piano-technic," 1909.
"Older people talk or do other things which give employment to the brain; and only those near to the purely animal existence of childhood dance."
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/04/from...
"’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
—Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
#BookologyThursday
#SaturdaySpotlight - Thrilled to share with you my new #sciencefiction #scifi #sff #horror #genre #shortstory INTO A DRIFTING DARK which published about ten days ago in fab #litmag #literarymagazine The Piker Press 📚 Read here 📖 www.pikerpress.com/article/1175... 📘 #silicasun 🪰📘💙
Music, the neural harmonics of emotion, and how love recomposes the brain www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/04/g...
Dublin is actually a very interesting & friendly place.
Medieval illustration of two fish with small red spots. Below, a circular frame contains a similar depiction of two fish against a blue background. Surrounding text is in an old script.
Medieval illustrations of fish: the top image shows two elongated fish with spots; the bottom left has a circular design with two crossed fish; the bottom right features two blue fish in a golden circle.
It's Pisces Season! ♓🐟
Medieval artists showed Pisces as two fish, a symbol inherited from mythology and used to mark the 12th zodiac sign.
Shelfmarks:
MS. Bodl. 266, fol. 109v
MS. Rawl. D. 1220, fol. 005r
MS. Rawl. C. 117, fol. 153r
MS. Digby 46, fol. 079v
MS. Lat. liturg. e. 1, fol. 3v
These nine novels tell the stories of women who must confront the wilderness—and learn how to survive it on their own terms.
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” –Anne Lamott, 'Bird by Bird,' 1994
Happy Anne Lamott's birthday!
Read, write, dance - or clap - but definitely sing:
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A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme featuring the word “Vernalagnia,” with its pronunciation and definition: “An overwhelming romantic mood induced by Springtime; spring fever.” Below, an example sentence reads: “Those juvenescent chaps, driven half mad by vernalagnia, did occasion no small scandal at the Spring Fling Sock Hop.” The design uses ornate, Victorian-inspired typography on a parchment background. To the right, a detailed black-and-white illustration shows a young couple in medieval-style clothing reclining together in a field of flowers, evoking romance and springtime.
Vernalagnia [vur-nuh-LAG-nee-yuh]
(n.)
- An overwhelming romantic mood induced by Springtime; spring fever.
Used in a sentence:
“Those juvenescent chaps, driven half mad by vernalagnia, did occasion no small scandal at the Spring Fling Sock Hop.”
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 - 1950), Twilight on the Kiso River
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social and John Freeman consider their new anthology and the appeal of the international short story.
Photo of Mount Everest. A red arrow at the bottom points to the "Tents of Everest Base Camp, 17,600 Feet." There is also a red arrow at the Summit that is labeled: "Mount Everest 29,035 Feet."
Why The Death Zone Of Mount Everest Has Claimed The Lives Of Hundreds Of Climbers
By Genevieve Carlton
allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everes...
Books about Everest at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#mountaineering #history
Dream Vision; A Nightmare (1525), by Albrecht Dürer, who died #onthisday in 1528. The watercolour and accompanying text describe an apocalyptic dream he had on the night of 7-8th June 1525.
More art depicting #dreams here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-dr... #OTD
Digital creation to illustration the Blood-Stopping Charm from Foxfire 1: "Old-Time Remedies". Much like the blood-stopping charm, many elders believed this power could only be taught by a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, to keep the "circuit" of the magic flowing.
"Two angels come from the North,
One brought fire, one brought frost.
Out fire, in frost!"
In Foxfire 1, healers draw fire from burns by blowing on the wound & whispering this rhythmic plea. A beautiful example of Appalachian sympathetic magic! [See Alt]
#FolkMagic #Foxfire #WitchSky #WyrdWednesday
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