Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀
@tlrose
Witchy Artist 🧹✨ Independent Scholar 📜 Has a really cute cat 🐈⬛
Ah, the butterfly, Even when chased, it never has the air of being in a hurry. (Translated Japanese hokku, author unknown) #BookWormSat 🎨Kōtarō Migishi
Several times a bridge was built where the ferry is; but the bridge was each time carried away by a flood. No common bridge can resist the current there when the river rises. 📜 Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn #BookWormSat 🖌️Hiroshi Yoshida
Beautiful, secluded dragonfly-watching spot I discovered, and fawn my niece/nephew helped reunite w/it's mother--Hope your day gets better 🫂
Think she's embarrassed squirrel friend heard me call her the cutest baby in the whole wide world #Caturday
"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kissed each other.” 🌹 Shakespeare Richard III., Act: iv. Sc. 3 #BookWormSat Illustration by Walter Crane (Free link to illustrated text) www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...
She's doing really well!! I made her a hidey hole in one of the closets but she only used it for a couple of days. She is however very suspicious of the ceiling fan 🤣
Inordinately proud all the plants are still alive even though I only started my indoor garden two days ago ☺️🌿☀️
Four-leaf clovers grow where fairies tread... I'll seek a four-leafed Clover In all the Fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaf, Oh, how I'll weave my spells! --S. Lover-- Artwork: Clovers by Raphael Kirchner #BookWormSat
Shhh ... nobody tell her this is not a vicious, intimidating pose #Caturday
It is prudent to tickle a newborn's nose with pepper as soon as possible—for babies aren't safe from the fairies until after their first sneeze. #FolkloreThursday Art: Brian Froud
Amaranth, meaning never fading, was a sacred flower to the Greeks & Romans who considered the long lived blossom a representation of immortality, often using it to honor heroes at their funerals. 🖼️Greek Girls on the Shore by Joaquín Sorolla #FolkloreThursday
My favorite legend, shapeshifting Swan Maidens are masters of air, land, & water. After being tricked into marriage by partners thieving their wings, if reunited with the stolen property, they don’t offer sappy forgiveness-they fly off, I imagine with an elegant “Later, losers.” #FolkloreThursday
One of my favorite books as a kid Round Trip by Ann Jonas, you read it through, then flipped it over and continued the story ... #WyrdWednesday
#Caturday Contentment Just imagine how warm she is to pet right now ☀️☺️
Bees that primarily feast on rhododendron flowers (poisonous to people) are said to produce "mad honey" which can produce hallucinations along with loss of vision, balance, or consciousness in humans who consume it. #FolkloreSunday 🎨collections.mfa.org/objects/261977
Charlotte is doing the cat version of this right now and agrees that it is the correct reaction 😄
#Caturday Profile: Charlotte Dislikes 😾 ----------- *Loud Talkers *Waiting for brushies *Vacuuming Likes 😻 ------------ *Squishy treats *Fuzzy blankies *Movies where people get eaten
Scandinavian witches were accused of making "milk hares" (or cats!) out of hair, wood et. al. Once the creature was constructed, the witches trained them to steal milk by sucking it from neighboring animals and returning home to spit it in the witch's bucket. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Wendy Andrew
A favorite sport of the witch is to transform into a rabbit/hare and tease would-be-hunters with a tiring, irksome chase, ending in frustrated exhaustion for them, refreshment & mirth for the witch. #FolkloreThursday Illustration: Young Hare by Durer
A swallow symbolizes a safe journey home—why their images are such popular pendants and tattoos for travelers, especailly sailors. #folklorethursday Artist: John Bauer