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Nifty Buckles Folklore
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Valerie Hopkins (pen name Nifty Buckles). Author of myth & architect of The Darwind5 VAWT brand. Site: https://niftybucklesfolklore.fun
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"Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles

Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles.
When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day!
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#BookwormSat
The goddess Venus sends her son Cupid to punish mortal Psyche for her beauty but Cupid falls for her instead, defying his mother’s command. Their tale reminds us that gods and mortals alike can suffer; when jealousy poisons the heart, only love and trust can bind & redeem — the soul.
February 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
#BookwormSat 📚 #ValentinesDay 💝
On Valentine’s Eve, run the churchyard 12 times at midnight.
Get it right, and your destined love drifts toward you — pale and waiting.
Stumble once… and what follows may not leave.

#SuperstitionSat 🪦🐈‍⬛
#ValentinesFolklore 💕👻

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February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
#BookwormSat 📚 #valentinesDay
Welsh lovespoons hand-carved from a single piece of wood, a suitor’s proof of love and skill (recorded as early as 1667).Hearts for love, chains for forever, caged balls for hoped-for children, locks & keys for held hearts, bells for marriage, dragons for protection.
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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‘Love loves to love love.’ ~
James Joyce, Ulysses.

This #BookWormSat is Valentine’s Day so we will welcome all aspects of love in literature for the day. Bring us romance or the unrequited, bring us star-crossed lovers or your favourite anti-Valentine. ♥️

🖼️ Marie Spartali Stillman
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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‘Who in this world has never glimpsed Love's face?
Who has not yearned, who has not joined the chase?’ ~ Vitsentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos, transl. Theodore Stephanides.
#BookWormSat ❤️🩷❤️‍🩹💔
🖼️ Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou
February 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Happy #ValentinesDay 💝 #BookWormSat 📖
Featured by Shehanne Moore & the cheeky Hamster Dudes!
We talked about my New Ebook,Granny Magic Chocolates — a cozy Appalachianfolk magic, healing hearts one truffle at a time. Read the interview + grab your copy: shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/o...
On Valentine’s Day, some very special chocolates.
SHEY—–.Enough….. Valerie Hopkins, pen name Nifty Buckles. What gave you the idea? Nifty Buckles. The pen name ‘Nifty Buckles’ came to me as a child when I began tap da…
shehannemoore.wordpress.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
#PhantomFriday 🐈‍⬛✨ #FridaytheThirteenth 🐈‍⬛
Happy Friday the 13th! 🐈‍⬛✨
The black cat was revered long before it was feared.
Friday the 13th merely inherited the myth.
Shadows don’t equal misfortune. 🐈‍⬛✨

Photo of the late horror actor, Vincent Price & Phantom.
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Happy Friday the 13th! 🐈‍⬛✨
The black cat was revered long before it was feared.
Friday the 13th merely inherited the myth.
Shadows don’t equal misfortune. 🐈‍⬛✨

Photo of the late horror actor, Vincent Price & Phantom.
February 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday 💕 #ValentinesDay 💘

Before chocolate, there were roses. 🌹
Sacred to Venus. Crowned by Sappho.

Red whispers devotion.
Pink breathes tenderness.
White guards dreams.

From altar bloom to velvet box —
desire, still blooming. 💘🍫
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday 💍🏺
February baby before the 19th?
You’re Aquarius ♒ — the rebel visionary of the zodiac.
Amethyst = clarity + calm + soulmate energy
Violet = loyalty
Iris = wisdom. Primrose = fresh starts
Pro tip: Slip a violet under your pillow & set your intention…
Happy Birthday! 🎉
February 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
#MythologyMonday 🦉
The owl soars as a symbol of piercing wisdom and veiled secrets in Roman lore. Sacred to Minerva (Roman counterpart to Greek Athena), goddess of wisdom, strategy, justice, victory, commerce, weaving, and protector of artisans, the owl—known as the Owl of Minerva or Owl of Pallas.
February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
#MythologyMonday 🦉
The Meaning: The juxtaposition of the serious, devotional text about the necessity of God's involvement in human endeavors with the absurd, satirical image of animals in clerical roles is typical of medieval humor.
#OwlishMonday 🦉
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
#Caturday 😺🌿
Old Polish legend: A mother cat wept as her kittens drowned chasing butterflies.
Kind willows dipped their branches, saving the tiny paws that clung tight.
Ever since, each spring pussy willows bloom with soft, fuzzy 'catkin' buds where those kittens gripped!
#PussyWillowLore 🌿🐈
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
#BookWormSat Celebrating Dickens' birthday with The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) a tale of gentle Little Nell & her grandfather fleeing debt through Victorian shadows.
“There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings which are only struck by accident." — Master Humphrey
February 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM
#BookWormSat Celebrating Charles Dickens' birthday with his gripping 1837–1839 masterpiece, Oliver Twist—a timeless tale of poverty, resilience, and the dark underbelly of Victorian London. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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‘You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.’ ~
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. #BookwormSat
February 7, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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‘A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other’

📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities📷 Cover of Serial Vol.5, 1859

#BookWormSat
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.’ ~ Dickens, Great Expectations.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a Dickensian #BookWormSat
February 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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“… a little straw hat trimmed with cherry-coloured ribbons, and worn the merest trifle on one side-just enough in short to make it the wickedest and most provoking head-dress that ever malicious milliner devised.”

(Charles Dickens “Barnaby Rudge”)

🎨 W.P. Frith “Dolly Varden” (1842)

#bookwormsat
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Hearts confined with cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged.

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Anselm Feuerbach #BookWormSat
February 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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“The bare idea!”, Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom! ~ Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.
#BookWormSat
February 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’ ~ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of Charles Dickens with a day of wholly Dickens, more Dickens with a side of Dickens. Join us.
February 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
#PhantomFriday 👻
On Valentine's Eve in old English folklore, run around a church 12x at midnight—if done right, the phantom of your future lover appears as a ghost.
Miss it, and who knows what spirit shows up instead?
#SuperstitionSat 🪦🐈‍⬛
#ValentinesFolklore 💕👻

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February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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“7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers”
Tom Metcalfe
Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...
7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers — Live Science
The discovery of a deer skull headdress and tools made from antlers at the site of a New Stone Age farming village suggests that hunter-gathers were sharing ideas with the newcomers.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The Fairy Butterfly's Flight
There once was a fairy so spry,
With wings like a butterfly high.
She flitted through glades,
In flower-strewn shades,
Carrying souls to the sky.

In meadows where moonlight would gleam,
She'd whisper of transformation's dream.

A flutter bug supreme!
©2026 Nifty Buckles
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM