#FolkloreSunday Arthurian legends tell of the magician Merlin, – prophet, bard, and warrior. The child of a mortal woman and devil incubus, he was born able to speak like an adult with knowledge beyond his years. His great skill is the power to shape shift at will. 🖼️Alan Lee.

Alfred Broge, Danish (1870-1955)

I am not always faithful, but I never get discouraged. I abandon myself into the arms of Jesus, and there I find again all that I have lost and much more besides. - St. Therese of Lisieux

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I found this in a charity shop today, it made me laugh, so I bought it 😁. It probably doesn’t mean much to those of you not from the UK 🇬🇧 but if you’re familiar with Postman Pat and Punch magazine you might appreciate this as much as I do.

#FolkloreSunday In Greek myth Circe is a sorceress skilled in the arts of witchcraft, magic & herbalism. Channeling her power using her rhabdos (wand) she has a penchant for turning her enemies and those who have displeased her (usually men) into swine. 🎨John William Waterhouse

#ShakespeareSunday The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. The Tempest Act V Scene 1. 🎨Edmund Dulac.

#LegendaryWednesday Instructing Her Dolly in the Art of Going Off Nicely to By-byes and The Lost Doll by Millicent Etheldreda Gray.

#LegendaryWednesday Marchpane, the beautiful yet cruel & manipulative porcelain doll in Rumer Godden’s The Dolls House. Consumed by envy she conspires under the guise of sweet innocence to destroy the Plantaganets the little “blended” doll family who live in the eponymous house.

#LegendaryWednesday Popular in Scandinavia, but also found in other European folklore including Tudor England, a Kitchen Witch is a homemade doll created as a good luck charm. Resembling a crone she is a practitioner of good magic to deter evil spirits and keep the kitchen safe.

A "Kern Baby" pictured in the village of Whalton, Northumberland, in 1902; a local derivative of the Corn Dollies, made at harvest time right the way across Europe, many of which were believed to be imbued with the Spirit of the Corn itself. #LegendaryWednesday @LegendaryWedne1

Mandy, a haunted doll, is kept in the Quesnel Museum in Quesnel, British Columbia. Her eyes seem to follow the movements of museum visitors, and cameras trained on her flicker. Mandy was given to the museum after her owner kept getting woken up by her crying. #LegendaryWednesday

A portrait of the artist’s daughter, 1915 - Arthur Rackham Inscribed on reverse: ‘Beryl decides to dress Arabella Stuart like the little Elizabethan lady’ #LegendaryWednesday #watercolour

💫Spooky season continues & the theme is #Dolls! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your haunted doll legends, your paper dolls, marionettes, dolly rituals, puppet festivals, & deity dolls. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫

🎨Arthur Rackham

#WyrdWednesday In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. – Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy The story of the soul’s journey towards God descending into hell, through purgatory & its eventual ascent to paradise

Jim and Hilda Bloggs' journey through life. They survived The Blitz. An atomic bomb can't be all that different ... can it? As told in Raymond Briggs' WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, first published in 1982. #WyrdWednesday #80s