P J Richards
@pj-richards
🪶Artist & Author🦄occasional Unicorn 🏹novels: folkloric-fantasy DEEPER OLDER DARKER🌿& 🌿official Robin of Sherwood adventure WOLVES OF WINTER🌿🌗On a mission to bring magick into the mundane world 💚Love Yews🌿#ReEnchantmentIsResistance
💜🕊️💜"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings." 👑Richard III #ShakespeareSunday
💫💚💫"Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society." 📖William Makepeace Thackeray. #BookWormSat
🌧️⚖️☀️"St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair." #WeatherFolklore
🦢🌩️🦢An old belief claimed that swans' eggs would only hatch during a storm - the thunder and lightning was said to crack their shells, freeing the chicks. #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday
🐝💛🐝In Celtic myth, honeybees were said to fly between the mortal world and the heavens, bringing messages from the gods. #MythologyMonday
🏵️🗝️🏵️Sleeping on a pillow stuffed with marigold flowers was believed to inspire prophetic dreams. #FolkloreSunday
🪻💜🪻"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips & the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses & with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night." 🌙A Midsummer Night’s Dream. #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday
🔥🪄🔥The Magic Circle - by John William Waterhouse. #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
🌻💛🌻'Una and the Lion' - by William Bell Scott. #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreSunday
🍀🧵🍀Repairing clothes whilst wearing them was said to court misfortune - the mender would risk making enemies or falling into poverty. #FolkloreSunday
🪽🐎🪽"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it..." 👑Henry V #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare
❔😺❔"'Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat." 📖Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland. #BookWormSat #Caturday
🍃🏞️🍃"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can..." 📖J.R.R. Tolkien #FairyTaleTuesday
🛡️🦌🛡️In Arthurian myth, a White Stag - seen as a messenger from the Otherworld - would appear from the forest to lead the knights on a spiritual quest. #MythologyMonday
⛅️⚖️☁️An old Cornish belief claimed that the sun would never shine upon a perjuror - or even if it did, they would not be able to feel its warmth or see its light. #FolkloreSunday
🌳☀️🌳"Sometimes, in the course of long summer evenings, the friends would take a stroll together in the Wild Wood..." 📖Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows. #BookWormSat
🌻☀️🌻'The Sun' from the Rider-Waite tarot deck - illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. #Heatwave #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
🌿☀️🌿A Griffon finding some welcome shade in my garden... #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday
🌿☀️🌿Beware of falling asleep beneath a hawthorn tree around the Summer Solstice - when the veil between the mortal realm and the Otherworld is thin - as you risk being enchanted or stolen away by the Fae. #FolkloreSunday
🦋🌺🦋"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense." 📖Beatrix Potter. #BookWormSat #InternationalFairyDay