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Mary B
@beesincampanula.bsky.social
I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
Pinned
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
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...night herons but other wild birds like ducks and pheasants may also become this yokai.
🎨1 & 4. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
2. pandorasboxisopen, tumblr
3. Toriyama Sekien
5. Onibi (Wakan Sansai Zue)
6. ShotaKotake
7. 'Night Heron' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910.
#JapaneseArt
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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...water, generally preferring locations where they can hide among thick reeds. This phenomenon was first recorded by Toriyama Sekien in his Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) which depicted a night heron with a mysteriously illuminated body. Aosagibi are mostly transformed...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Onibi are ghost lights formed by the spirits of dead humans or animals. Although they look beautiful, they have been known to lure people and suck out their life force until they die. Hidama are one type of onibi that can manifest in the shape of birds. Aosagibi live near rivers and bodies of...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words. I've been feeling quite disheartened lately and so these words really mean a lot, especially coming from you. 💙
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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So lovely! I appreciate Japanese tales of transformation. It’s a common thread among many older cultures.

Comparitively, in the US… I reckon the biggest dream is to become a Social Influencer.
In #JapaneseFolklore there is a belief that when animals and birds reach advanced age they can transform into #yokai. Aosagibi (blue heron fire) is a phenomenon that occurs when an elderly night heron develops supernatural qualities. Over time the heron's feathers begin to...
#LegendaryWednesday
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November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act!

I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway

You can buy prints on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/listing/4345...
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Lovely specimen of an Aberrant ammonite (Didymoceras cheyenense) unearthed in an unspecified portion of the former Western Interior Seaway
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Grey wagtail, Canary Islands.
#birds
#plants
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Exeter, 2019

#streetphotography
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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'The fading leaves are glad to die'
-Sara Teasdale

🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The river carves the land. Collects its gossip, hears all its spirited stories. Blends them into its own song. Witches listen to this fluid singing of place, gathers omens as they float by. She runs with the river and absorbs its wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A Shag nesting on the edge of the Cornish coast!

#UKWildlife #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OnTheEdge #Ornithology #Photography #BirdPhotography
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Hookland Unexplained Team (HUT) have made a career of turning up to places where a bloke coming back from the pub has seen a movement in the hedge and assumed it’s a Star Wraith or a Harrow Hound. You journalists have enabled them in scaring the populace because bullshit sells papers. - #DICallaghan
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Showcasing China Court🪷
Our epic novel by Rumer Godden, set in Cornwall and spanning five generations of one very dramatic family. A new Manderley Press edition, brought to life beautifully with an intro by Linda Grant and a front cover by Emily Maude
manderleypress.com/shop/p/chinacourt
#booksky
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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This stunning head is part of a life-sized, free-standing sculpture and exemplifies an idealized portrayal of a ruler. This head has been attributed to Pharaoh Amasis (570-526 BC), who ascended to the throne through a military revolt. His rule then brought a new era of peace to the country.

📷 me
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November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Hume's Leaf Warbler was showing and calling well at Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory.
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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If I told you about my day, you would not believe me. Here is a moulting heron instead.

#UKWildlife #Birds #GreyHeron #ornithology #Photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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25th November 2025 13.37
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM