#FairytaleTuesday ✨ #Earthday 🌎
Early Innu families carried the beloved Tea Doll — a soft doll stuffed with loose black tea as a precious gift for long journeys.
When the tea ran low, children refilled it wit sweetgrass.
A cup of tea becomes a small ceremony of gratitude to the Earth spirits. 🌎☕️🙏

🎨Joan Reive holding her quilt “Lake Vistas #2”. It comes directly from the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) website, where the quilt was featured in their global exhibition My Corner of the World. 📸Bob House is a photographer known for documenting Canadian quilt artists and their work.

#FairyTaleTuesday #EarthDay
At 12, I walked the frozen Bay of Quinte on thick ice!
High up sits sacred Onokenoga “Lake of the Gods”
Mohawk lore says its waters hold 3 Sisters spirits
I’ve known local artist Joan Reive for years. “Lake Vistas” quilt captures light & spirit of the Bay of Quinte

Photo of the 1883 second Empire Mansion, Glanmore House taken by Jeffrey Kerplunking.

#WorldHeritageDay & #BookWormSat: Glanmore National Historic Site—ornate, historic, and quietly haunted. Whispers of Harriet Phillips, unseen footsteps, and shadowy figures keep this Belleville landmark steeped in folklore.
Link to my #GlanmoreHouse blog niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/g...

Photo by John Sylvester

The image is a promotional photograph for Green Gables Heritage Place, a Parks Canada site in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, which inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel Anne of Green Gables.

For #WorldHeritageDay & #BookWormSat: Green Gables Heritage Place, PEI—where Anne of Green Gables first bloomed and Avonlea still feels just around the bend. I’ve returned time and again; the charm never fades.

Photo of 18th century, Fort Luisbourg located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Canada. Photo credit Parks Canada.

#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay
Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton NS
18th-century French fortress (reconstructed); site of sieges in Anglo-French wars; local ghost folklore (White Lady on ramparts, sorrowful French soldier). Visited every summer as a child; my dad, a #WW2 Navy Veteran, loved it!

The illustration depicts Bogrod, a goblin bank teller from Gringotts Wizarding Bank in the Harry Potter series.

#Bookologythursday 📚
Gobbledygook — language so bloated with jargon it forgets to mean anything 🌀📜

✨ Coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick, who compared it to a turkey’s pompous gobble 🦃
He even banned it in a memo!

In Harry Potter, Gobbledegook is the goblins’ tongue or language.

🎨 "High Diddle Diddle" illustrated by Frederick Richardson for the Holland edition of Mother Goose (1915)

#BookologyThursday 📚
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle, 🐈🎻
The cow jumped over the moon; 🐄🌛
The little dog laughed 🐶
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon. 🍽️

A classic piece of English nonsense verse, printed c.1765 in Mother Goose’s Melody, with roots possibly older.

#BookologyThursday 📚
Elflock — A tangled lock of hair (or horse’s mane) blamed on fairies who knot it overnight 🧚‍♀️🐎 In folklore, combing it out risks bad luck 🍀
#BookChatWeekly 📖🐈
#ElfLock 🧝‍♀️ #ShakespeareSunday 🎭

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Thank you for participating in today's #WyrdWednesday, dear Wyrdlings!

The fun is only beginning! Do participate again tomorrow and be sure to also tag our friends at #BookologyThursday for a repost.

We hope you are enjoying our bookish collab of "Absurd words, nonsense poems, and nursery rhymes."

#Humptydumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Never named an egg in the rhyme itself— It started as a riddle! #Nurseryrhymes #Absurdwords
#WyrdWednesday #Bookologythursday

Abracadabra used in a Warner Brothers cartoon on Bugs Bunny

Abracadabra! In the 2nd century, Romans wore it on triangular amulets to banish fevers — written smaller each line until only “A” remained, fading the sickness away. #Abracadabra
#WyrdWednesday🕸️ #BookologyThursday 📖🐈

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The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871

#Jabberwacky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…

271 years after Dr Johnson’s Dictionary, Lewis Carroll proved nonsense can be its own kind of magic, gifting us “chortle,” “vorpal,” and “Bandersnatch.”

Link to poem www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/an...

#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday

the 1950 Disney animated film Cinderella. The artwork was created by a team of animators at Walt Disney Animation Studio

Words were never just sounds, they were spells in disguise🪄
From Wyrd, where speech could shape fate, to secret charm words of nonsense syllables, such as Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! Folk belief held that rhythm carried power when said with intention and focus.
#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings,

271 years ago #OnThisDay, Dr Johnson published his famous dictionary & even if “aardvark” was left out, #BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday team up, take the opportunity & give you:

“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”

as this week’s joined topic!

#SpeakingofDogs 🐶 ##NationalDogDay
These wonderful dogs are searching for loving homes, including a few tender-hearted seniors hoping to spend their twilight years by someone’s side. 🐩
speakingofdogs.com/available-do...
Photo of Riku a Senior dog who needs a caring human friend in his twilight years

R-The Reverend Abraham Fleming penned in 1577, the description of Black Shuck in his brochure termed, ‘A Straunge and Terrible Wunder.’ (Old English)

#BookWormSat #NationalPetDay 🐾
The chilling folklore of Black Shuck, East Anglia’s legendary spectral hound! Massive black dog with fiery red or green eyes roams Norfolk & Suffolk roads. Sixteenth-century omen of death. In 1577 Bungay church, it burst in, killed 2, left scorch marks still visible.

🎨Sir John Tenniel circa 1910.

#BookWormSat
“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” asked Alice.
“You must be,” purred the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

— Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 🍄✨
Slip down the rabbit hole and curl up with a clever literary cat today… if you dare. 🐱📖 #Caturday

‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world: it's really the weight of a hemisphere, not a light burden.’ ~ Christina Rossetti Illustration of wombat at top.

‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world…’ ~ Rossetti

For National Pet Day, #BookWormSat will walk the dogs and curl up with the cats of literature. And the horses, mice, rabbits, rats, birds, wombats…

Painting title: Sleeping Jeppe. Artwork of a tabby cat sleeping outside in the spring sun.

'You are lord of a place bounded like a dream.'
-To a Cat, Jorge Luis Borges.

🎨Bruno Liljefors
#BookWormSat

Woman in white and gold, red and black gown with long, curly red hair, little green slippers, lies back on a chair, a parrot perches, wings out on her hand, she is in a Moroccan style room with a small table with tea beside here, tiles, red rug, hookah, painting.

‘She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who kept a parrot.’ ~ Mark Twain 🦜 #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh or The Legend of the Parrot, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, c.1865.

Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 1825.

Art of an Faery Changeling by John Kenn Mortensen

#PhantomFriday 🧌
Fairies steal a healthy baby, leave a shrivelled substitute. Mother boils water in eggshells. Substitute snaps: “I’m fifteen hundred years in the world, and I never saw a brewery of eggshells before!” It vanishes. Real child returns.
#FairyFriday 🧚‍♂️

A Korean tiger painting from the 19th century, artist unknown. A tiger with massive yellow eyes stares at the viewer as three cubs crawl all over it, the sun high above a tree but in such color compared to the rest it looks almost like a sinister red moon. The cubs are notable in that one of them is a leopard cub, not a tiger cub, and the two tiger cubs are very interested in this fact, which does not disturb the Mama tiger: she is more concerned with you.

Found in China and Korea, a Chang (倀) is a ghost that lures others to their doom. A common version found in both regions is a hunter killed by the same tiger he was hunting: now, he appears to people and lures them into the woods of the waiting tiger. #PhantomsFriday

Art by Francis Mosley to accompany a tale by M. R. James. Two figures watch a carriage ride by. Leafless trees, dark, and full moon.

The bloedkoets (blood carriage) was said to be a ghostly carriage from Flemish folklore that was often seen in the streets of Aalst. According to the tales, masked men walked beside it and abducted children. The blood that the carriage collected was sent to Paris.

#PhantomsFriday

Etching of two skeletal figures dressing 18th century dress sat in a shady glade beneath an ominous marble statue

Illustration for “Der Tor und der Tod” ("The Fool and Death") by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1924, by Fritz Silberbauer

#PhantomsFriday

A black-and-white engraving titled 'A GHOST STORY'. A group of women a gathered downstair by the fireplace to listen an old woman tell a story. They are a bit startled as someone is just about to come downstair, yawning. In the upper right corner is depicted the story being told: looks like a woman standing infront of a painting, out of which stretches out an arm to pull her in.

'A Ghost Story'

#illustration from Harper's Weekly, December 1881

#PhantomsFriday

“For, though they claim to be exempt
From pride, they treat a Phantom
As something quite beneath contempt—
Just as no Turkey ever dreamt
Of noticing a Bantam.”

(Lewis Carroll “Rhyme? and Reason?”)

🎨  Arthur B. Frost

#Phantomsfriday

My photo of two of the megaliths composing the West Kennet Long Barrow, with the great mound of Silbury Hill in the background.

There are no burials in Silbury Hill, at Avebury, #Wiltshire, but that hasn't stopped a #legend being created about a King Sil (or Zel) being interred there and who now rides his phantom horse round it while wearing golden armour. Meanwhile, at nearby West Kennet Long Barrow: [1/2
#PhantomsFriday

🎨Oisín and Niamh travelling to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910)

#BookologyThursday 📚
Memorable places in folklore: Tír na nÓg—the Irish Land of Youth, where no one ages and sorrow cannot follow beyond the western sea. 🌿✨
A realm of beauty, music & feasting.

“There is a country where all things are fair.”

— W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
#BookChatweekly

🎨 'Silbury Hill, 'by Paul Nash circa 1922.

#BookologyThursday 📚🧚‍♀️🌄
Memorable places in folklore: beneath the hills of Ireland, Scotland, and England lie the fairy mounds—sí and sìthean—hollow places of earth and stone where the Aos Sí dwell, hidden from mortal sight. 🌄🧚‍♀️

🎨 'Silbury Hill, 'by Paul Nash circa 1922.
#BookChatWeekly