#WitchyWednesday 🧹 Have a Wonderful Witchy Wednesday! #Petshop 🐈‍⬛🐈🐾 🎨 Peter de Sève

#WyrdWednesday 👁️ 🐦‍⬛ #NationaHammockDay Upon Hlidskjálf, Odin's magical High Seat in Ásgarðr, the Allfather could gaze across all Nine Worlds without leaving his throne. More than a place of power, it reminds us that in Norse tradition, wisdom often comes through quiet contemplation before action.

#WyrdWednesday In the quiet Catskills, Rip flees to the woods & drinks ghostly gin from the Hudson. He falls into a deep sleep… and 20 years vanish. When he wakes, the world is turned upside down: the King is gone, America is free, his wife is dead, and his children are grown. 💤 🎨 Arthur Rackham

#WyrdWednesday #RestandRelaxation In Scandinavian & German folklore, the Sandman sprinkled enchanted sand into children's eyes, bringing peaceful sleep & sweet dreams Ole Lukøje - 'Fairy tales and stories' by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrations by Hans Tegner (1853-1932) #NationalHammockDay 😴

Melusine is the mysterious water fairy of medieval French folklore, often portrayed as a beautiful woman who becomes serpent or fish-tailed from the waist down. She married on one condition: her husband must never watch her bathe. When he broke his promise, Melusine vanished forever. 🛀 #Melusine 🧜‍♀️🌊

🌊 #MythologyMonday 🐢 The Aspidochelone was a colossal sea beast of medieval legend, so vast that sailors mistook its shell for an island. Believing they had found safe land, they lit campfires... only for the creature to dive beneath the waves, dragging ships and men to their doom. #MedievalMonday

🌊 #MythologyMonday In Orkney folklore, the Finfolk were powerful sea magicians who could shapeshift into fish or humans. Feared by islanders, they were said to abduct mortals to their underwater realm of Finfolkaheem, a place of beauty and sorrow beneath the waves. 🌊 #Finfolk 🎨 Jesse Duquette

Happy National Cherry Day! 🌞🍒 Cherry trees symbolize love, good fortune & life. As a child, my sister, our South Bar neighborhood friends, and I spent summer days climbing my Grampy's cherry trees in his orchard at South Bar, Cape Breton, filling our pockets and our smiles with cherries. #CherryDay

#WyrdWednesday ☁️🌩️ #WyrdWeather Victorian folklorists wrote of Cloud-Land, where storm clouds became living giants and shadowy kingdoms spreading across the heavens. They could cloak the whole world in darkness before unleashing violent wind, rain and fire.

#WyrdWednesday 🌩️❄️ #WyrdWeather In Finnish folklore, Louhi, the witch-queen of Pohjola, commands the winds. In the Kalevala, she summons fierce storms to wreck heroes' ships and steals the Sun, plunging the world into icy darkness. #Louhi #Finnishlore🧙‍♀️ 🎨 by Nico Kochergin

#WyrdWednesday ⛈️🌬️ The Storm Witches of Rocqueberg, Jersey folklore, were said to gather at Witch Rock, summoning fierce winds & gales to protect their island from intruders. Their weather magic became a lasting symbol of nature's untamed power. Jersey Channel Islands folklore. #WyrdWeather

#WyrdWednesday ⛈️🐈 Why do we say it's "raining cats and dogs"? Ancient weather lore linked fierce storms to Odin's wild hounds, while cats were long associated with rain and witches' stormy flights. Together, these old beliefs may have inspired the curious saying. 🐩 #RainingCatsAndDogs #Weatherlore

#BookWormSat 📚🌸 The Pink Lady's Slipper, one of Ontario's most treasured wild orchids, has long been admired for its rare beauty. It's also known as, Moccasin Flowers. Folklore warned that picking one could bring bad luck, so it's best enjoyed where it blooms. 🍃💗 #Wildflowers 📷 Tom Nicholls

#BookWormSat 📚🌿 "The Herb True Love of Canada." Ontario's White Trillium symbolizes hope and woodland beauty. 🍃🤍 "A very beautiful plant... abounds both in our woods and clearings." ✒️ Catharine Parr Traill (1868) #Wildflowers #Nature #Books

#WyrdWednesday 🌊🧜‍♀️ In Newfoundland's Beachy Cove, folklore tells of two mermaid sisters. One wrecked fishermen's boats with storms, while the other guided them safely home. Half woman, half fish, they brought either fortune or doom before vanishing beneath the waves. ⚓💙

#WyrdWednesday 🌊💙 #BlueMenofMinch The Blue Men of the Minch haunt Scottish folklore as blue-skinned sea spirits lurking between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland. Passing captains had to answer their rhyming challenge. Miss a verse... and they might call up a storm! ⚓ #Sealore 🌊

#FairyTaleTuesday 🎄🐈‍⬛ "The calendar says July, but the cat says it’s time to climb the tree! 🎄 Even in the heat of summer, the allure of twinkling lights and dangling ornaments is too much for a playful hunter to resist. Who says Christmas magic is only for winter? 🐈✨ #ChristmasinJuly 🎄🐈‍⬛🏵️

#FairyTrees 🧚‍♀️🌳✨ "Every tree is a doorway if you know how to knock, and every fairy remembers the sound of someone asking permission instead of taking." - Nifty Buckles Folklore 🧚‍♀️🌳✨

#BookWormSat 📖🐇 🐇 "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" cries the White Rabbit, hurrying Alice toward Wonderland. In folklore the white rabbit often symbolizes curiosity, fate, that leads us from ordinary life into enchantment. 🎨 John Tenniel (original 1865 illustration

📚🐱 #BookWormSat "We're all mad here." "How do you know I'm mad?" asked Alice. "You must be," said the Cheshire Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll. A timeless Victorian fantasy that still charms readers today. 📖✨ #AliceinWonderland

Happy Independence Day America!🔔🇺🇸 Legend says the Liberty Bell rang on July 4, 1776, proclaiming American independence. Historians believe it more likely rang on July 8th, when the Declaration of Independence was first read publicly in Philadelphia. #I#July4th #LibertyBell 🎨 Norman Rockwell

🐕☀️ #FolkloreFriday 🐶✨ Today traditionally marks the beginning of the Dog Days of Summer. 🐕🌞 Ancient Greeks linked the blazing heat to the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, believing it brought scorching days, sudden storms, and strange happenings. ✨🐶🃏 #DogDaysofSummer #DogdaysPoker

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🐎💀 #FairyTaleTuesday Think twice before traveling after dark... In Irish folklore, the Dullahan, the Headless Horseman, rides a black horse along lonely roads, carrying his own head beneath his arm. When he stops his ghostly JOURNEY and calls a traveler's name, death is said to follow 💀 #Dullahan

🚗🌲 #FairyTaleTuesday Need a ride? In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga's enchanted hut doesn't stay put. Perched on giant chicken legs, it wanders deep through the forest, turning to face only those who know the magic words.

🦄🌿 #MythologyMonday Theme: Forest Friends 🌿🦄 In medieval European folklore, the unicorn's horn, the alicorn, was said to purify poisoned waters. . 💧✨ This enchanted Unicorn coloring page is from my Midsummer Fairies & Forest Friends coloring book. 🦄Available on Amazon 🛍️💜 amazon.ca/dp/B0H4X2BTNQ

🎶✨ #GlobalBeatlesDay 🥁🎸🎶 On this day in 1967, The Beatles shared All You Need Is Love with the world. Their music still feels a little like modern folklore: Yellow Submarines beneath the waves, walruses in strange dreamlands, and lonely hearts finding their way home through song. 💛🪲🌈

#FolkloreThursday 🐙🌊 ⚓🌊 Today is ... #DayOfTheSeafarer Old sea lore warned of monsters beneath the tide: the mighty Kraken, its vast tentacles rising to drag ships into the deep. Fair winds to all who sail the world’s wild waters. 🌙🐙 #SeaLore #Kraken

Happy World Cat Domination Day! 😺