Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
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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Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
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The witches of Flanders are everywhere. Their tales may be forgotten, their voices unheard, but they are anything but quiet.
Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday
Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday
WE ARE FUNDED!🖤 🐈⬛️🖤 Thank you so much!! 🌙
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
WE ARE FUNDED!🖤 🐈⬛️🖤 Thank you so much!! 🌙
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SO CLOSE. Who wouldn't want a book that holds Flanders inside its covers, with witches wandering from page to page doing witchy things?
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
SO CLOSE. Who wouldn't want a book that holds Flanders inside its covers, with witches wandering from page to page doing witchy things?
Reposted by Signe Maene
So close now. Please keep sharing, please contribute if you can. 👇
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So close now. Please keep sharing, please contribute if you can. 👇
'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.'
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.'
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
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‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
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If you like spooky folklore then this is the kickstarter for you. The 2nd book by Flemish folklorist @signemaene.com. This is a collection of stories of witches from Flanders. It is also being illustrated by the incredible @prairiebones.bsky.social Four days left 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
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you like spooky folklore then this is the kickstarter for you. The 2nd book by Flemish folklorist @signemaene.com. This is a collection of stories of witches from Flanders. It is also being illustrated by the incredible @prairiebones.bsky.social Four days left www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle …
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Nash
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Nash
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle …
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Nash
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Nash
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Not long left now and so, so close…please keep sharing and supporting if you can. 👇
Feeling a bit under the weather today, but at the same time also so happy that we are nearly funded!
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Not long left now and so, so close…please keep sharing and supporting if you can. 👇
Reposted by Signe Maene
I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object..until the day..when we happen to pass by the tree...which forms their prison
--Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
--Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object..until the day..when we happen to pass by the tree...which forms their prison
--Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
--Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Portrait of a Daydreamer by Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Portrait of a Daydreamer by Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer.
Feeling a bit under the weather today, but at the same time also so happy that we are nearly funded!
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Feeling a bit under the weather today, but at the same time also so happy that we are nearly funded!
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
If you like witches, consider stepping into the darkness and helping us give a voice to Flanders' forgotten witches. 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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‘No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.’~ Wilfred Owen
This #BookWormSat, join us to mark Remembrance Day with war and peace in literature.
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.’~ Wilfred Owen
This #BookWormSat, join us to mark Remembrance Day with war and peace in literature.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
‘No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.’~ Wilfred Owen
This #BookWormSat, join us to mark Remembrance Day with war and peace in literature.
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.’~ Wilfred Owen
This #BookWormSat, join us to mark Remembrance Day with war and peace in literature.
Reposted by Signe Maene
Forest in Late Autumn,
Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.
Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Forest in Late Autumn,
Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.
Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.
Reposted by Signe Maene
Please share, please support if you can.
We are very close to being fully funded for this project!!
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
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
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Please share, please support if you can.
With the full moon starting to wane, you can help to keep the light shining on the Witches of Flanders by supporting our Kickstarter. We are nearly there! 🖤🧹🐈⬛
kck.st/492NqKt
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
With the full moon starting to wane, you can help to keep the light shining on the Witches of Flanders by supporting our Kickstarter. We are nearly there! 🖤🧹🐈⬛
kck.st/492NqKt
kck.st/492NqKt
Reposted by Signe Maene
We are very close to being fully funded for this project!!
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
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
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We are very close to being fully funded for this project!!
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
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This is so close to being fully funded! Please support if you can and please share regardless. 👇
2/2 The next morning, every woman in the village had burns. They were all witches.
And speaking of witches, thank you so much to everyone who has backed our Kickstarter! 🖤🧹🖤 We are now 90% funded! Consider helping us give a voice to Flanders' witches if you can. 🌙
kck.st/492NqKt
And speaking of witches, thank you so much to everyone who has backed our Kickstarter! 🖤🧹🖤 We are now 90% funded! Consider helping us give a voice to Flanders' witches if you can. 🌙
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is so close to being fully funded! Please support if you can and please share regardless. 👇
1/2 According to Flemish folktales, Die Gnydige was a witch who could shapeshift into a cat. The villagers grew tired of her gatherings to which hundreds of cats came, and burned down her den. The felines walked unharmed through the flames and chased the men away.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1/2 According to Flemish folktales, Die Gnydige was a witch who could shapeshift into a cat. The villagers grew tired of her gatherings to which hundreds of cats came, and burned down her den. The felines walked unharmed through the flames and chased the men away.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
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"When the head of a family who keeps bees, dies it is usual ...to repair to the hives, and, gently tapping them, to say:
'Bees, bees awake! Your Master is dead!
And another you must take.' (Hants - 1810)
🎨The Widow by Charles Napier Hemy (1895)
#LegendaryWednesday
'Bees, bees awake! Your Master is dead!
And another you must take.' (Hants - 1810)
🎨The Widow by Charles Napier Hemy (1895)
#LegendaryWednesday
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"When the head of a family who keeps bees, dies it is usual ...to repair to the hives, and, gently tapping them, to say:
'Bees, bees awake! Your Master is dead!
And another you must take.' (Hants - 1810)
🎨The Widow by Charles Napier Hemy (1895)
#LegendaryWednesday
'Bees, bees awake! Your Master is dead!
And another you must take.' (Hants - 1810)
🎨The Widow by Charles Napier Hemy (1895)
#LegendaryWednesday
Witch tales make up the majority of Flemish folktales. Witches are everywhere, but their voices remain unheard.
Our illustrated short story collection reimagines these tales from the perspective of these remarkable women. Help us bring this dream to life! We're nearly there! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Our illustrated short story collection reimagines these tales from the perspective of these remarkable women. Help us bring this dream to life! We're nearly there! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Witch tales make up the majority of Flemish folktales. Witches are everywhere, but their voices remain unheard.
Our illustrated short story collection reimagines these tales from the perspective of these remarkable women. Help us bring this dream to life! We're nearly there! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Our illustrated short story collection reimagines these tales from the perspective of these remarkable women. Help us bring this dream to life! We're nearly there! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Reposted by Signe Maene
Just a little extra push for this project, please contribute if you can and / or share the post! 👇
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders! 🖤
We are now 86% funded and so close! Consider helping us turn this dream project into a dark reality! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
We are now 86% funded and so close! Consider helping us turn this dream project into a dark reality! 🖤🌙🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Just a little extra push for this project, please contribute if you can and / or share the post! 👇
According to a Flemish folktale, a man called a cat 'an ugly witch.' The cat responded by biting the man. The wound didn't heal and got worse every day.
If you would like to know what Flanders's witches got up to, consider backing our Kickstarter. We are very close! 🖤🐈⬛🖤 kck.st/492NqKt
If you would like to know what Flanders's witches got up to, consider backing our Kickstarter. We are very close! 🖤🐈⬛🖤 kck.st/492NqKt
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
According to a Flemish folktale, a man called a cat 'an ugly witch.' The cat responded by biting the man. The wound didn't heal and got worse every day.
If you would like to know what Flanders's witches got up to, consider backing our Kickstarter. We are very close! 🖤🐈⬛🖤 kck.st/492NqKt
If you would like to know what Flanders's witches got up to, consider backing our Kickstarter. We are very close! 🖤🐈⬛🖤 kck.st/492NqKt