📚🐦‍⬛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 @hecazerin and @Kerria. Info about the book here: https://t.co/KEa2TlozXk

Flemish Folklore Giveaway: books by @MaeneSigne ! To enter: sign up for my newsletter at https://t.co/G9jbjSGQCB, follow me, like this post, AND comment by telling me what animal you'd most like to shape-shift into. Giveaway closes 9/22, Central US. Sorry--US entries only.

“Now, my spiders and I endlessly weave the lace that adorns the trees without ever being disturbed, and the spiders whisper to those who stare at the trees: don't go into the woods, don't go into the woods. The sorceress's eyes are pretty, but dead.” ― Signe Maene, Flemish

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Cate Zeederberg whose owl graces the cover and to @DeeringRachel for editing these pages. Also check out Cate's The Naughty Witch series and Rachel's mesmerising poetry collections Crown Of Eggshell and In the Shadow of Gods.🖤

🧹🧙‍♀️SURPRISE 🧙‍♀️🧹 It’s no secret that witches and their darkly enchanting ways often occupy my thoughts, so it’s probably no surprise that I felt compelled to write a tiny non-fiction book about the figures who so often haunt my mind! Out on Amazon now: https://t.co/znLCU4j88D

This one took me a little while to track down, but I'm excited about it! I wonder if I should wait until closer to Halloween to read it? 🤔 @MaeneSigne #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading

'Flemish Folktales Retold is a delightful and atmospheric introduction to the dark and oftentimes quite unsettling world of Flemish folklore.' -@LissaSloan, author of Glass and Feathers. Thrilled with this lovely review of Flemish Folktales Retold:

Flemish Folktales Retold by @MaeneSigne is a delicious, dark, and spooky taste of Flanders and its folklore! My review is here: https://t.co/sNkEQPFR04 #CateZeederberg @Kerria

Just a reminder that Flemish Folktales Retold is also available in other places where books are sold! ☺️ If you would like to meet some ghosts, witches, devils and other unearthly beings who scream in the mist, there's more info here:

According to a Flemish folktale cats lived in rabbit holes in the woods. They were shapeshifting witches. At night, they left the rabbit holes and danced around the trees. Other stories mention processions of cats going into the woods to dance. 🎨Kelsey Short #FolkloreThursday

Why is it a bad idea to point at the stars? and what happens if you count them past 99? I discuss the answer to these and other star-related superstitions in this episode of the fabulous @SaltMirrorsCats podcast, perfect for today's #FolkloreThursday theme!

'Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills, and fire made solid in the flinty stone, thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble, fire that fills the breathless hour that lives in fire alone.' -Christopher Brennan 🎨Joseph Tomanek #BookologyThursday

"First you will raise the island of the Sirens, those creatures who spellbind any man alive, whoever comes their way. Whoever draws too close, off guard, and catches the Sirens’ voices in the air – no sailing home for him..." - Homer, The Odyssey #folklorethursday

Happy Lammas! I dug out my post/episode about Lammas lore to mark the occasion! Find out more about its lore, Lammas fairs, and home protection practices! #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/XUdAskOoqF

Art by Gustave Dore

A Flemish folktale says you can sometimes hear the Helse Jacht or Hellish Hunt riding through the sky. One of these beings sings, another plays a mysterious instrument, and the third one whines. It's thought they were ghosts who did evil deeds during life. #WyrdWednesday

Seeing Flemish Folktales Retold displayed in a shop window is quite emotional for me. ☺️ Als je in Brugge bent het boek is in de Brugse Boekhandel verkrijgbaar voor €14,99 samen met veel andere fantastische titels!

According to a Flemish folktale a woman who was thought to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. It's said she scared her neighbours by giving them enchanted apples that would dance during the night. 🎨Alla Tsank #FairyTaleTuesday