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Nifty Buckles Folklore
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Author, Nifty Buckles (pen name: Valerie Hopkins) invites you into a magical world of folklore where Dragons & Gnomes reign!

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#FolkloreSunday 🎄👻
In Victorian England, it was tradition to gather by the fire on Christmas Eve & tell ghost stories Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the most famous survivor of this custom
Telling “winter tales” until midnight was believed to keep evil spirits at bay while the Saviour was born.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#FolkloreSunday 🌅🥚
The 12 Night Eggnog — When the Sun Thickens
In Norway, Denmark, & north Germany, the richest drink was made from eggs.
Prepared in late Nov. it was sealed and hidden. Over 12 nights, it thickened. On Yule a spoon stood straight proof the sun had begun to rise again! #eggnog
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Folkloresunday Celebrate the #Julebocken
Swedish folklore's festive Yule Goat! 🐐🎄
Traditionally made from straw, it symbolizes good luck and the spirit of Christmas. Often seen as a decoration or a gift-bringer, the Julebocken is a beloved holiday icon that dates back centuries. #YuleGoat #Gävle
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dec 5–6: Austria’s winter duo! ❄️🎅

St. Nicholas brings nuts 🥜 and Lebkuchen 🍪 for the nice kids, while #Krampus horned and chained—warns the naughty with birch rods 🪝🌿.

Families enjoy mulled Glühwein 🍷, smoked sausages 🌭, and sweet Lebkuchen hearts ❤️, sharing a darkly festive holiday tradition!
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#rememberinglovedones 🙏❤️
Remembering My son Scotty, He passed a way 3 years ago. He will always be the sunshine of my life.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#BookWormSat 📚
Growing up, Lyra in Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" trilogy explored magical worlds filled with daemons, witches, and Arctic myths. Her journey, inspired by fairy tale motifs, shaped her view of storytelling and folklore. #HisDarkMaterials #TheGoldenCompass 🧭🐻‍❄️
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#BookwormSat
Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Red Shoes" (1845) is a dark fairy tale about vanity and temptation. A girl named Karen obsession with a beautiful red pair leads to cursed dancing and a tragic ending. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés notes that the vibrant red reflects life and sacrifice.
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#BookwormSat
Growing up, Hansel and Gretel, collected by the Grimm Brothers and published in 1812—is one of my favorite fairy tale. Siblings in the enchanted forest, finding a Gingerbread cottage & outsmarting a hungry witch. A story of courage and cleverness. #HanselandGretel

🎨 Arthur Rackham
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#BookwormSat
🎉 Happy 127th Birthday, C.S. Lewis! 🎂
Born on this day in 1898 in Belfast, he's the mind behind #Narnia, Mere Christianity, and the Screwtape Letters.
A Tolkien friend, Oxford & Cambridge don, and one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th century. #OTD
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#FolkyFriday 🏔️
Exploring the captivating tale of Skessan í Vatnajökli, the giantess of Iceland's largest glacier! 🏔️
This powerful figure embodies the wild, untamed beauty of nature in a land sculpted by fire and ice. A legend that reminds us of the awe-inspiring forces at play in #Iceland!
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#FolkyFriday ❄️🌿
Meet #Bera, the Queen of Winter and the #Cailleach, the blue-faced winter hag from Samhain to Beltane. Each Imbolc, she washes her plaid in the Gulf of Corryvreckan, turning the land frosty. She freezes the earth with her staff and turns to stone on Beltane.

🎨 Natasa Ilincic
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#FolkyFriday
Holda (Frau Holle & Perchta) is an ancient Germanic goddess of winter, snow, and spinning. She shakes her featherbed to bring snow and rewards diligent girls with gold. During Rauhnächte, she appears as grim Perchta—punishing unfinished spinning or dirty houses with a belly slit & straw
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Americans!

Have a gobbley good Day! 🦃🌞

#HappyThanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#BookologyThursday 📚
Explore Alpine folklore: #Krampus, Santa’s shadow, punishes the naughty with chains, whips, and his sack.
Originating before Christianity, he’s a winter demon tied to Christmas traditions. 👹🎄#BookChatWeekly 📖🫖
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎄✨ It’s #BookologyThursday! 🎄✨
It’s #Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale, 'The Nutcracker & The Mouse King'
—a magical holiday classic of wonder, bravery, and dreams coming true, published this year! 🌟🎁❄️ #HolidayMagic #TimelessTale #BookChatweekly 📖🫖
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#BookologyThursday 📚
❄️✨ Dive into the enchanting world of the Snow Queen, where loyalty, love, and magic conquer even the coldest hearts. A timeless fairytale of bravery and wonder! #SnowQueen #FairytaleMagic #ClassicStories #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

🎨Rudolf Koivu
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#MythologyMonday
Frigg (or Frigga), Odin’s wise queen, is the Norse goddess of hearth, home, marriage & motherhood. Keeper of domestic fire, she spins clouds on her jeweled spindle and knows every fate—yet stays silent to protect those she loves. Friday is named after her Frigg’s Day.
#Frigg
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#MythologyMonday 🕷️🔥 In Cherokee legend, when the world was cold and dark, the animals sent many to steal fire from the sun. All failed—until Grandmother Spider wove a clay pot, spun a web-line across the sky, slipped in unseen, caught a burning coal, and carried warmth home to humanity.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#MythologyMonday 🔥💀 #BabaYaga
In Slavic tales, Baba Yaga’s hut is ringed by a fence of human bones topped with skulls—whose empty eyes blaze with magical fire at night Some say she kindles those flames herself to light the forest for lost travelers to lure them to their doom. 💀

🎨Nifty Buckles
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
November is the darkest month, with longer nights, falling clocks, and whispers on the wind.
Perfect for "The Spooky Day of Skip MacDougall"
a spooky children’s tale about a curious boy, his apricot poodle Ginger and the friendliest ghost.

Available Now! niftybucklesfolklore.fun/the-spooky-d...
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
#FolkloreSunday 🐲 🔥
The Muckle Mester Stoorworm 🐉— the darkest dragon in all folklore. So vast that its yawn carved out the Baltic Sea , and its fallen teeth became the Orkney and Faroe islands.
Its liver crashed to earth as the burning volcano Héla.
One slow breath poisoned half of Scotland.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#BooWormSat
From Alastor (1816):
“There was a Poet whose untimely tomb
No human hands with pious reverence reared,
But the charmed eddies of autumnal winds
Built o’er his mouldering bones a pyramid
Of mouldering leaves…”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich c. 1818
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#BookWormSat 🍂
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

[Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841]”
― George Eliot

🎨 Walt Curlee
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#BookWormSat 🌹

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot

🎨 Lilla Cabot Perry
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#BookwormSat 🤡

"The greatest privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — Carl Jung

🎨 Victor Nizovtsev
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM