Nifty Buckles Folklore

#MythologyMonday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #WelshFolklore
Step into the shimmering veil of Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld—a hidden paradise beneath fairy mounds (sídhe) or through misty lakes. No aging, no sorrow: just endless feasting halls, eternal youth, & the Tuatha Dé Danann dwelli in timeless splendor. 🧚‍♀️🌳🌼

#MythologyMonday 🐔🍗🏡#SlavicFolklore #BabaYaga 🧙‍♀️
Deep in the Slavic woods lurks Baba Yaga's hut—no ordinary home, but a living trap on massive chicken legs!
It wanders the forest, creaking and turning to face any intruder with its door, ready to welcome... or devour.

🎨 "The Riders of the Sidhe," circa 1911 by John Duncan.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 💚✨
In the misty glens of ancient Éire, the sidhe women of the Tuatha Dé Danann wove silver threads from moonlight.
When invaders came to chain the land, these warrior-weavers cloaked their daughters in mist.
No blade could touched them. The blood remembers!

Happy #NationalCerealDay 🥣😢
RIP to cereal as KING: Old USDA pyramid crowned it with 6-11 servings at the base. New inverted food pyramid.
🌾 Grains (including sugary cereal) banished to the bottom. Protein, dairy, fats, veggies/fruits rule the top now. 👑
Breakfast of champions just got dethroned.😢🥣

Bears playing in forest, painting.

‘The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.’ ~ Frost
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very wild #BookWormSat 🦁 🦌 🐻 🐻‍❄️ 🐕 🐎
🖼️ Ivan Shishkin

Portrait of a dog, seated on a red cushion with gold embroidery, garden and sky in background. Painting.

‘How grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were just as wonderful
as the perfect moon.’ ~ The Sweetness of Dogs, Mary Oliver. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Henri van Assche, 1801.

#BookologyThursday 📚 Pan, the goat-footed god of shepherds & wild places, pipes haunting tunes in shady groves while chasing nymphs through sun-dappled meadows. He guards flocks & embodies carefree, musical rural bliss—fertility, nature's gentle wild side, a pastoral escape.
#BookChatWeeklyy 📖🫖🐈

#BookologyThursday 📚 #Arcadia ✨
📖 The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593)
by Sir Philip Sidney

Written for his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Arcadia helped shape the English novel—blending romance, adventure, and pastoral idyll.

#BookologyThursday 📚 #IDYLLICIDYLS Pan, the goat-footed god of shepherds & wild places, pipes haunting tunes in shady groves while chasing nymphs through sun-dappled meadows. He guards flocks & embodies that carefree, musical rural bliss fertility, nature's wild gentle side.
#BookChatWeekly 📖🫖🐈

The BEATLES "Birthday" song YouTube video by patokaman

#HappybirthdayPisces! ♓️
To all those Pisces having a Birthday Today and this Month! Happy Birthday! 🥳🎉🎂 Mine is today! 😜
youtu.be/MjF1bG5LUcs

#BookologyThursday📚🍀🐇🧙
Sneak Peek! 👀
Pages from my upcoming book:

"March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares, & Witches Folklore."
A Spring Coloring Book 🍀🌷

by Nifty Buckles

Launching Soon. 🚢

You can pre-Order on my Shop page.
niftybucklesfolklore.fun/march-madnes...
#BookchatWeekly

#MythologyMonday 📚
A timeless folklore treasure: "Grimm’s Fairy Tales,"by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm—gathered from the whispers of old German hearths and shadowed woods. 🌲🌳
From Hansel & Gretel to Rumpelstiltskin, these tales brim with folklore, magic morals. #GrimmTales
sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm-...

#MythologyMonday 🧙‍♂️📚
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth began with The Hobbit (1937), leading into The Lord of the Rings trilogy—an epic of courage, friendship, and the battle against darkness.
A cornerstone of modern fantasy.
#LOTR #Tolkien #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖🐈

This #MythologyMonday 🧹🐈‍⬛
A great read! Willow Winsham's newest gem,
"The Story of Witches: Folklore, History and Superstition."
(Batsford, 2025), weaves myth, legend, trials & modern magic.
#Witchlore #FolkloreThursday #BookChatWeekly
Buy it here: willowwinsham.com/books/#witch...

"Folklore of Scotland" by Stephen G. Rae Elf and fairie; brownie and goblin kin; faerie animals; demons or land and sea; giants, ogre and hairy folk; wolf man and werewolf; from the Beast of Buchan to the Gorbals Vampire

📢 coming soon :-

"Folklore of Scotland"
by Stephen G. Rae

Elf and fairie; brownie and goblin kin; faerie animals; demons or land and sea; giants, ogre and hairy folk; wolf man and werewolf; from the Beast of Buchan to the Gorbals Vampire
folklorepress.co.uk

#folklore #scotland #books

A monkey (I'm assuming) hanging onto the wall of Llangadwaldr Church on Anglesey.
#monkey #monkeys #churches #medieval #medievalsky #Anglesey #YnysMon

"The Eye finds... the Hearte chusyth... the Hand binds... But Death ceasyth". Joseph Crawhall.
#Death #woodcut #gothic #chapbook #Victorian @chriswoodyard.bsky.social

A cluster of irises, with pale purple petals, and vivid yellow stamens.

Greek myths attribute the iris to Hera, along with the pomegranate, poppy, dittany, and white lily. In 1879, Miss Carruthers noted that all these flowers were later transferred to the Virgin Mary.

In Mrs Burke's 1867 Illustrated Language of Flowers dictionary, the iris meant 'message'!

Our new episode out the history and folklore of Montgomeryshire is OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🖤

#marchfirst 🌞 #whiterabbit🐰🐇🐰
Welcome March 1st!
According to British folklore, say "White Rabbit," 3X upon rising, for good luck on each First day of a new month.
🐰🐰🐰
#superstition

🎨 John Tenniel (original 1865 illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

Must post something Welsh today, of course. Here are some fairies (Y Tylwyth Teg, Bendith y Mamau etc) shopping at a market in South Wales. An illustration from 'British Goblins' by Wirt Sikes (1880).
#Wales #fairy #faerie #fairies #folklore

#MarchReads #writingcommunity #vss365
#SundayReads #GrannyMagicChocolates
As February fades and March begins, treat yourself to a little magic 🍫✨
My book, "Granny Magic Chocolates," is now available in paperback on amazon.ca 🇨🇦

www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GQK8WFF...

A whole lot of “this war is illegal” and “he can’t do that” posts today, completely ignoring the fact that laws that aren’t enforced aren’t actually laws at all.

Congressional inaction is Congressional permission.

I hope they are safe!

Saturday = Loki's day in some Norse pagan traditions. Folk etymology links Old Norse "Laugardagr" (wash day) to Loki/Loðurr, making it the trickster god's perfect chaotic day.
#Saturday #Loki #Norselore

In Canada we played 'Red Rover' and 'Simon Says,' in the backyard with the neighbourhood children.

#BookWormSat 📚
In Norse mythology, Loki is the ultimate trickster god—shapeshifting mischief-maker, father of monsters, and chaos-bringer who outwits gods and giants alike, often for fun or revenge.
#Loki #Trickster #Shapeshifter #Norsemythology

#BookWormSat 📚 🦊
In Japanese folklore, the Kitsune is the sly fox spirit trickster—shapeshifting into humans, creating illusions, possessing people, and leading travelers astray with cunning pranks or vengeful deceptions.
#Tricksters #Kitsune 🦊 #Japanesefolklore

🎨 Iren Horrors

#BookWormSat
In Celtic folklore, the crow is sacred to the Morrígan, goddess of war and fate. She shapeshifts into a crow to perch on battlefields, foretelling death, sowing chaos, and reveling in the carnage #trickster of doom and prophecy.

Scupture of the Morrigan with her crows by Forest Rogers