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Johan
@israduscias.bsky.social
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Sporty, ADHD powered übernerd. Owned by Kali, Loki, Thor, and Frodo. And some aft mentioned Witch Queen....
Music, stories, and dance. And cats.
Spent an hour and half organising Signe Maene's socks.
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In a Flemish folktale, a fearless man once thought he could chase away witches with a cudgel. The witches had other plans.

Read the story here 👇
signe.substack.com/p/the-night-...
Art by Arthur Wilde Parsons. Painting of a witch with a pointy hat flying through the night on a broomstick. Full moon. Cloudy, purple sky.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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If the world of witches speaks to you, and if you have ever wanted to help give a voice to forgotten witches... see the link! :-)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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According to a Flemish folktale, a man was walking his two dogs at night when all of a sudden he saw a cat. He threw a stick at the cat because he suspected the animal was a witch. Five minutes later, he found himself surrounded by hundreds of cats who threw mud at him.

🎨 Boris Groh
#WyrdWednesday
Artwork of six cats staring at something or someone in the night. There's a dog or wolf behind them with bared teeth. Black with yellow eyes. Night.
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The Witches are here! 🖤 We are so excited to announce that The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Flanders is now live on Kickstarter!

The short story collection features thirteen stories inspired by Flemish witch lore with illustrations by @prairiebones.bsky.social.

🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙
Image with the title of the book: The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders. Also the text: Back us on Kickstarter. Image shows the bookcover in both Ebook and paperback form. Book cover is a dark black and white cover with a witch staring at a field. There is a dog, crow, frog, butterfly and other animals around her. Moon and trees.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Wyrdlings!
We have a special announcement today. Our dear friend @signemaene.com has collaborated with Wyrd Mother
@prairiebones.bsky.social and launched a Kickstarter campaign for their newest book of short stories! Link posted below⬇️

Our topic for tomorrow's #WyrdWednesday will be:
🖤WITCHES🖤
October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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'Fancy returns, and now she thinks of bones
And grinning skulls, and corruptible death
Wrapp'd in his shroud; and now fancies she hears
Deep sighs, and sees pale sickly ghosts gliding.'
-William Blake

🎨Stephen Mackey
#PhantomsFriday
Artwork of a woman covering her face with both of her hands (peekaboo). Nails painted red. Butterflies with skull faces surround her.
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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'as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.'
-Black Cat, Rainer Maria Rilke

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat
Illustration of a black cat who doesn't seem to be very amused. The cat is sitting on a tree branch. Black and yellow colours.
October 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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'In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright'
-Walter de la Mare

🎨Lucy Grossmith
#BookWormSat
Artwork of a hare running across a field. Night sky. Stars.
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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“But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.”
― Tad Williams, Tailchaser's Song

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday
🎨At the Rootwood by Stephanie Law
A drawin in warm and light tones of The Folk at the Rootwood. Fritti (an orange tabby with a star shaped spot on his forehead) is lying in the foreground amongst red Flowers. He is bathing in rays of yellow light beaming through the canopy. Light green trees form the backdrop while a scattering of cat silhouettes is sitting amonst them. A purple haze in the upper quadrant adds a mystic tone.
October 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Frodo's first adventure in his new garden! No rings were destroyed yet.
Picture of a tuxedo cat in the garden. He looks quite puzzled.
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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He is feeling majestic after his first day in the garden.
Picture of a tuxedo cat in the garden. Grass, trees, and a white sky in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Just a reminder that this exists.
Picture of my hand holding a black book with an illustration of an owl. Title: The Witches of Flemish Folklore, Companion to Flemish Folktales Retold by Signe Maene. Also, on the picture, my hand holding the book and a green bush in the sunlight in the background.
September 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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'We stand among the fallen leaves
In our own autumn day--
And, tott'ring on with feeble steps,
Pursue our cheerless way.'
-Caroline Norton

🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Title: Autumn. Artwork of a woman walking in a forest, autumn leaves all around her. Her brown hair blowing in the wind. She doesn't seem to enjoy her walk.
September 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The Squirrel by James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923).
Painting of a woman in what seems to be a white nightdress with a squirrel on her shoulder
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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'Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colours to all.'
-Mary Shelley
Art by Gabriel Ferrier. Melancholic woman in a white dress holding flowers looking down. Dark background.
August 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A poem of mine 👇
August 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Perfect little floofball. 🤍🖤
Loki, the tuxedo cat, lying on the ground with his belly showing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Hello Saturday. #Caturday
Cat posed with Mexican serape, SMU Central University Libraries: The image is a portrait of a tabby cat, likely an ambrotype or a reproduction of one, presented within an ornate, oval, gilded frame. The cat is positioned on a striped blanket, a Mexican serape, and is looking directly at the viewer. The photograph dates back to around 1862-1868.
August 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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The Nommo are primordial ancestor spirits in the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, Africa. The Nommo are said to be hermaphroditic, amphibious, fish-like people who came from the sky to bring great wisdom. Modern myths have the Nommo coming from a planet orbiting the star Sirius.
#WyrdWednesday
A statuette of a Nommo from Mali.
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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'She knows not what the curse may be;
Therefore she weaveth steadily,
Therefore no other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨John Melhuish Strudwick
Painting of The Lady of Shalott weaving. She wears a white dress and sits on a chest. White flowers and a book on the floor. Background of a wealthy medieval house. She looks despondently.
August 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I learned of the spells that cause men illness, the plague, blindness, insanity, and even death. I learned of the various classes of demons and evil gods that exist, and of the old legends concerning the Ancient Ones.
#wyrdwednesday
🎨"Abdul Alhazred writing the Necronomicon" drawing by Robert Bloch
Drawing of Abdul Alhazred, writing the Al-Azif, presumably aided by an avatar of Volgna-Gath . The Mad Arab is lying on the ground, his back resting against a pillow, while the monstrosity, shapeshifted into a semblance of the human form is standing next to him. Done in earthen tones. The title 'abdul alhazred writing the Necronomicon' is written in printed font in the lower left of the picture.
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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St. Theresa Morl by Gabriel Von Max (1868)
Painting of a dead woman dressed in white holding a cross. Candlelit room, mysterious atmosphere. Theresa was said to have suffered from stigmata.
August 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Detail of the gold collar found at Ålleberg in Falköping, Västergötland 🇸🇪 dating to the Migration Period.
August 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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cwreeve.bsky.social
#vanishingpoint
August 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
israduscias.bsky.social
Snek!
Tuxedo cat on a bed thinking he's a snake.
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM