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Signe Maene@signemaene.com |
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Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
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"Lie close," Laura said,
Pricking up her golden head:
"We must not look at goblin men.
We must not buy their fruits.
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry, thirsty roots?"
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting
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Signe Maene
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Signe Maene
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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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Signe Maene
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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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Rachel Deering
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Fairy in Irises, Dora Wheeler.
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BookWormSat
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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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Signe Maene
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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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'You must suffer me to go my own dark way.' -Robert Louis Stevenson 🎨Ryan Mutter
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More information about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Signe Maene
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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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Signe Maene
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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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Signe Maene
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Thank you! That means so much to me! :-) Do keep me updated, I would love to learn more about your character.
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Candace Robb Author
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Just ordered! #books #folktales
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Signe Maene
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Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy it! :-)
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Signe Maene
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Thank you, dear Rachel. 🖤
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Rachel Deering
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Everyone should know about Flemish folklore. 👇 Written beautifully and expertly.
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Signe Maene
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Thank you so much John!🖤
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Signe Maene
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📚🐦⬛Flemish Folktales Retold is OUT NOW!📚🐦⬛
Walk on Flanders's paths to murky castles where will-o'-the-wisp's hover and meet the unearthly creatures who roamed this haunted region.
With @cazerin.bsky.social and @kerria.bsky.social. Info about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Rachel Deering
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William Morris & Co.
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Signe Maene
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He always is! I'm quite sure he was giggling internally when I finally realised! 😼
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I just found out that the reason why Frodo's shoebox is torn is because he's EATING IT! 😱
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Signe Maene
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'There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea' -Elizabeth Bishop 🎨Amelia Jane Murray
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Signe Maene
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'Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?' -Lord Tennyson 🎨Vojtěch Preissig
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Rachel Deering
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‘I have experienc'd
The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst
That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb
With whisper'd Discontents the dying prayer--
I have beheld the whole of all, wherein
My Heart had any interest in this Life.’ ~ Coleridge for a very sad #BookWormSat
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Signe Maene
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It's beautiful, dear Cate. I love the rhymes so much too. 💚🧹💚
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Signe Maene
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Just want to let the world know that this children's book by @cazerin.bsky.social does not only have magical and enchanting illustrations, but also a beautifully written story. 🖤🧹
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Signe Maene
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'My life is very lonely,
My days pass heavily,
I’m weary of repining;
Wilt thou not come to me?'
-Anne Brontë
🎨Arthur Hacker
#BookWormSat
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'And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?'
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
🎨Edward Robert Hughes
#BookWormSat
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Rachel Deering
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‘Beneath this gloomy shade,
By Nature only for my sorrows made,
I'll spend this voice in cries;
In tears I'll waste these eyes…
Ah wretched youth! said I;
Ah, wretched youth! twice did I sadly cry;
Ah, wretched youth! the fields and floods reply.’ ~Abraham Cowley. #BookWormSat
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Bevan Thomas
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? ... [Even] Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred."
- Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
🎨Junji Ito
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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Rachel Deering
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Very happy about this from Buzz magazine and Man Jones: ‘0⃣6⃣ of the best new entries from the British poetry landscape of June 2024’ www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-j...
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Deering is someone who always brings us back to a higher contemplation, a true, natural, mystical and highly enigmatic nature poet’ 🤔
A review by Mab Jones of Buzz Mag Wales of 1 of the books of the summer, @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ 🤩
www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-j...
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In Flemish folktales, alvermannekes who are gnome-like creatures help farmers with their harvest if they don't have enough farmhands. In some of these tales, the farmer spies on them and the alvermannekes take revenge by burning the harvest. 🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
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BookWormSat
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‘Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.’ ~ Mary Oliver.
Tomorrow is #BookWormSat and this week we want to whimper, weep and wail over all the sadness and despair we can find in literature. Join us. #BringTissues
🖼️ E Nourse, 1883.
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Signe Maene
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I have received the loveliest package today. Thank you so much, my wonderful friend, @racheldeering.bsky.social. 🖤💫🖤
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'I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.' -W.B. Yeats 🎨John Kindborg
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A Flemish folktale says a woman wanted to marry a particular man and would have nobody else. She died unwed and returned as a ghost. The priest eventually married the ghost to the man so that she would stop haunting. 🎨John Everett Millais
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Rachel Deering
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Bonus Book Cover of the Day:
Oh, it’s mine! You can buy it here, all Amazon links included:
blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Signe Maene
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'Crowned with the helmet of great suffering,
Serene with that grand strength by martyrs shown,
When at the stake they die and make no moan,
And even as the flames leap up are heard to sing'
-Courage, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
🎨Albert von Keller
#BookWormSat
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Rachel Deering
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Midsummer Night’s Bonfire on the Beach at Skagen, Peder Severin Krøyer, 1903.
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Sometimes, the postman brings joy in a packet...
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BookWormSat
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‘when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.’ ~ Bukowski
This #BookWormSat we’re going to be brave, we’re going to be unflinching, we’re going to tackle courage in literature fearlessly. We’re ready. Are you?
🖼️ Landseer, C19th.
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Signe Maene
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Hi lovely people, I have added an article about witches and wizards in Flemish folklore.
Spoiler alert: witches are always evil while wizards are mostly good. I'm still siding with the witches. 🧙♀️
Consider supporting if you can. It helps me out so much. ko-fi.com/signemaene
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'Deep In a still cool grotto, Lit only by the memories of stars And the wide and luminous eyes Of dead poets' -Lola Ridge 🎨Gustave Courbet
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Black Bough Poetry
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'This is poetry as theophysics, rendered with the precision of a scientist and the furor of a visionary.'
Dr Chris Laoutaris on @racheldeering.bsky.social poetry collection 'In the Shadow of Gods', must-have summer reading.
blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Signe Maene
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Thank you! :-)
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Fey Earth Kickstarter launched
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I have been patiently waiting some time for this but so excited to have this wonderful collection of folklore by the amazing @signemaene.com in my library
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Signe Maene
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A Flemish folktale says there used to be a street called Sorceress Street. It was haunted by otherworldly music. There was also the ghost of a man who had promised to build a chapel but failed to do so. It was said he strangled cows. 🎨Léonard Misonne
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'It is the hour of dreaming now, With blue and ghostly gleams' -Emily Brontë 🎨Maximilian Pirner
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