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Call for Papers: Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance – Canadian Literature
Deadline: June 1, 2026
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Deadline: June 1, 2026
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Call for Papers: Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance – Canadian Literature
Deadline: June 1, 2026
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
Deadline: June 1, 2026
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From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525”
by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525*
Abstract. Late medieval Coventry attracted so many in-migrating singlewomen that it might have seemed a city of women — for every ten women, only seven men
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November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525”
by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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The Caladrius was a #bird who'd stand at the end of a sick person's bed. 🛌 If the bird met a patient's gaze, it would inhale any illness, rise to the sun burning that sickness away, & the patient would heal. But, if the bird averted its gaze, the patient would not recover. 🪶 #Mythology #Folklore
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Caladrius was a #bird who'd stand at the end of a sick person's bed. 🛌 If the bird met a patient's gaze, it would inhale any illness, rise to the sun burning that sickness away, & the patient would heal. But, if the bird averted its gaze, the patient would not recover. 🪶 #Mythology #Folklore
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The tale of the boy who went out to learn what fear was is a #fairytale from the Brothers Grimm. On the first night of his adventure, giant #blackcats visit him to play cards, & he keeps them at bay when they attack. 🐾 #Caturday #cats #art
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The tale of the boy who went out to learn what fear was is a #fairytale from the Brothers Grimm. On the first night of his adventure, giant #blackcats visit him to play cards, & he keeps them at bay when they attack. 🐾 #Caturday #cats #art
The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The kingfisher, known as the "Halcyon" bird by Socrates was described as: A bird, not great, but honoured by the gods because, while making its nest, all the world shares in happy days, aka the halcyon days, that excel all others in their calm & happiness. 🪹 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #mythology
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What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore
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Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince
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The maid's asleep. The cat is stealing the dinner. The housewife seems very amused by it all, given that her dinner party upstairs is about to be ruined. By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today, in 1655.
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The maid's asleep. The cat is stealing the dinner. The housewife seems very amused by it all, given that her dinner party upstairs is about to be ruined. By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today, in 1655.
There was an owl liv'd in an oak
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
O, if men were all like that wise bird.
🦉 #LegendaryWednesday #owls #wisdom #birds
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
O, if men were all like that wise bird.
🦉 #LegendaryWednesday #owls #wisdom #birds
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
There was an owl liv'd in an oak
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
O, if men were all like that wise bird.
🦉 #LegendaryWednesday #owls #wisdom #birds
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
O, if men were all like that wise bird.
🦉 #LegendaryWednesday #owls #wisdom #birds
A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A proud heron stands in the water surrounded by a rich choice of fish, but he ignores them. 🐟 In the afternoon he rejects smaller fish as unworthy, preferring to wait for better pickings. But by the evening he is so hungry he settles for a one small, lowly snail. 🐌 #LegendaryWednesday #birds #fable
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🔥🐦⬛🔥In Native American myth, the Raven - originally a white bird - brought the gift of fire to humans, but the heat and smoke from the flaming brand it bravely carried, scorched its feathers black.
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔥🐦⬛🔥In Native American myth, the Raven - originally a white bird - brought the gift of fire to humans, but the heat and smoke from the flaming brand it bravely carried, scorched its feathers black.
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
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'People are still haunted by what happened': How history's brutal witch trials still resonate now. As most were women it’s appropriate to share on #InternationalDayForTheElimimationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
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'People are still haunted by what happened': How history's brutal witch trials still resonate now
A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'People are still haunted by what happened': How history's brutal witch trials still resonate now. As most were women it’s appropriate to share on #InternationalDayForTheElimimationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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In the #fairytale 'the Boy Who Knew what the Birds Said', a young lad learns the language of the #birds & his fate. They predict he'll be forced to leave home, win a princess & return as a king. Soon after his family expels him from his home ensuring that predicted fate occurs. 🐦 #LegendaryWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In the #fairytale 'the Boy Who Knew what the Birds Said', a young lad learns the language of the #birds & his fate. They predict he'll be forced to leave home, win a princess & return as a king. Soon after his family expels him from his home ensuring that predicted fate occurs. 🐦 #LegendaryWednesday
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#LegendaryWednesday
It can be said, without exaggeration, that Poe's poem, the Raven, is one of the most well known, powerful, and unsettling poems ever written.
Phil Rowe, the voice of Pryderi in our game, has recorded a version of the poem that is both haunting, and fierce.
It can be said, without exaggeration, that Poe's poem, the Raven, is one of the most well known, powerful, and unsettling poems ever written.
Phil Rowe, the voice of Pryderi in our game, has recorded a version of the poem that is both haunting, and fierce.
A Voice Like This BONUS EPISODE -The Raven
[audio src="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a0e3d8a-4ad8-425e-9054-f48421d2e25e.mp3"][/audio]In this special bonus episode, Phil Rowe brings Edgar Allan Poe's iconic poem, The Raven, vividly to...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#LegendaryWednesday
It can be said, without exaggeration, that Poe's poem, the Raven, is one of the most well known, powerful, and unsettling poems ever written.
Phil Rowe, the voice of Pryderi in our game, has recorded a version of the poem that is both haunting, and fierce.
It can be said, without exaggeration, that Poe's poem, the Raven, is one of the most well known, powerful, and unsettling poems ever written.
Phil Rowe, the voice of Pryderi in our game, has recorded a version of the poem that is both haunting, and fierce.
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A legend from Guam’s Chamoru people tells of a giant fish who took massive bites out of the island's coast. To stop it from eating the rest of the island, a group of clever maidens sacrificed their magic hair and used it to weave a net that would be strong enough to hold the monster. #WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A legend from Guam’s Chamoru people tells of a giant fish who took massive bites out of the island's coast. To stop it from eating the rest of the island, a group of clever maidens sacrificed their magic hair and used it to weave a net that would be strong enough to hold the monster. #WyrdWednesday
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Fresh Snow
A.J. Casson
1983
A.J. Casson
1983
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Fresh Snow
A.J. Casson
1983
A.J. Casson
1983
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My favourite piece of Warwickshire bird lore as it’s so random:
If a peacock flies to your house, a death will follow.
#LegendaryWednesday
If a peacock flies to your house, a death will follow.
#LegendaryWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My favourite piece of Warwickshire bird lore as it’s so random:
If a peacock flies to your house, a death will follow.
#LegendaryWednesday
If a peacock flies to your house, a death will follow.
#LegendaryWednesday
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November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Children of hulder-maidens are known to be great storytellers. Even the trolls come out of the forest to listen to their tales ❤️🧌
📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro...
#FairyTaleTuesday #trolls #trollseason #fairytales
📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro...
#FairyTaleTuesday #trolls #trollseason #fairytales
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Children of hulder-maidens are known to be great storytellers. Even the trolls come out of the forest to listen to their tales ❤️🧌
📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro...
#FairyTaleTuesday #trolls #trollseason #fairytales
📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro...
#FairyTaleTuesday #trolls #trollseason #fairytales
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Here's my latest dark and tragic Victorian short story. It's called, A Vampire in Ursuline Convent. It takes place in New Orleans 1875.
Sorry it took so long to write. I hope you like it. 🖤
#Victorian #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothgirl #writing #women
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Sorry it took so long to write. I hope you like it. 🖤
#Victorian #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothgirl #writing #women
medium.com/@emory.cleme...
A Vampire in Ursuline Convent
“I shall kill you — by Heaven, I swear it!” she cried, her voice hoarse with wrath and desperation. The outburst rang through the…
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May 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Here's my latest dark and tragic Victorian short story. It's called, A Vampire in Ursuline Convent. It takes place in New Orleans 1875.
Sorry it took so long to write. I hope you like it. 🖤
#Victorian #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothgirl #writing #women
medium.com/@emory.cleme...
Sorry it took so long to write. I hope you like it. 🖤
#Victorian #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothgirl #writing #women
medium.com/@emory.cleme...
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In Egyptian mythology, Goddess Seshat was the ruler of books, recorder of measurements, inventor of writing and was powerful with wisdom and knowledge.
Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek25 #folktale #egypt #myth #mythology #kidlit #kidlitart
Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek25 #folktale #egypt #myth #mythology #kidlit #kidlitart
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
In Egyptian mythology, Goddess Seshat was the ruler of books, recorder of measurements, inventor of writing and was powerful with wisdom and knowledge.
Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek25 #folktale #egypt #myth #mythology #kidlit #kidlitart
Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek25 #folktale #egypt #myth #mythology #kidlit #kidlitart
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Look out Hansel & Gretel... The Witch is watching you eat her candy house. #art #Fairytales
🎨 Herman Vogel, ca 1910
🎨 Herman Vogel, ca 1910
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Look out Hansel & Gretel... The Witch is watching you eat her candy house. #art #Fairytales
🎨 Herman Vogel, ca 1910
🎨 Herman Vogel, ca 1910
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A lovely and productive meeting with Christina at @treadwells-books.bsky.social today. We signed books while we were there, too. Do please give the team at Treadwell's a follow!
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A lovely and productive meeting with Christina at @treadwells-books.bsky.social today. We signed books while we were there, too. Do please give the team at Treadwell's a follow!
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover