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Onemorething on ABC Tales, Twitter @deeringrachel Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. 🖤 literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally linktr.ee/rachel_deering

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I don’t know, it’s very sad.

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🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

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🐈 #Caturday

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‘Yes,’ said Frog, reaching for a cookie, ‘we need willpower.’

‘What is willpower?’ asked Toad.’ ~ Arnold Lobel for #BookWormSat

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William Kilburn, C18th.

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Book Cover of the Day:

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Saturday plans: French postcard, 1913.

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🖼️ Tunnicliffe

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Morning. 🖼️ Janie Olsen

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Illustration for Fairy Circus, Dorothy Lathrop.

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In a Flemish folktale a father locked up his daughter in a tower because she wanted to marry someone he disapproved of. He eventually drowned her. The sun set the tower on fire. Since then, the father could only hear his daughter's cries in the river. He went mad.

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Flemish Folktales Retold surrounded by the magical owls who are the dear companions of one of the witches in the book. 🦉🖤

Info with places where the book is available here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...

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‘Charlie…desperately wanted something more than…cabbage soup. The one thing he longed for more than anything else was…CHOCOLATE.’ ~ Roald Dahl.

This #BookWormSat coincides with #WorldChocolateDay and so we will eat, I mean, celebrate the sweet treats of literature.

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Playing a very little violin for all the Tories who lost their seat.

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What have you done to my bed, and no, you can’t vote for Larry, that’s not how it works. #GE24

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I didn’t even notice, so obvious when you pointed them out! Never mind. 🙄 Thank you though! 🖤

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*sigh* The original. I wish I’d paid more attention.

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Oh yes!!! I will have to look for the original, this must be a tinkered with version. My fault as I can’t remember where I saved it from. Will find the original later when I have a minute.

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'You must suffer me to go my own dark way.' -Robert Louis Stevenson 🎨Ryan Mutter

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Enter the long forgotten world of Flemish folktales and dance on a dark tune with spirits who live in the wind, monsters who lurk in rivers, ghosts, devils, witches, and other unearthly creatures...

Info about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...

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Happy Thursday. Happy General Election Day. #Elections2024
Pierre de Hangest, Les Omelies Saint Grégoire pape, Bruges c. 1470.
BL, Royal 15 D V, fol.

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A Flemish folktale says a will-o'-the-wisp hovered over the place where a treasure was buried. The light was thought to be the soul of the person to whom this treasure belonged. Nobody dared to go there for it was said the will-o'-the-wisp would break your neck. 🎨Hermann Hendrich

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Hello lovely people, to celebrate Flemish Folktales Retold's release, I have recorded a video with a reading of one of the stories.

Hares are said to be shapeshifting witches and the message is to stay away from them, but sometimes, the hares meet the right person.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Swf...

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