Shanah Tova`! Decorated with fruits & inscribed with "Good and blessed year" in Hebrew, this silk panel was created in Jerusalem in 1930. It was likely used to cover the Challah bread or other symbolic food eaten at #RoshHashanah, such as pomegranate, honey or head of fish.
ROALD DAHL: so, this book is about a chocolate factory—
PUBLISHER: and it’s magic?
DAHL: no, it murders children
PUBLISHER: …
DAHL: just *slaughters* these kids,
"She is an authority on witchcraft and magic . . . and is perhaps the only contemporary writer who is a practicing amateur witch." When Shirley Jackson's husband wrote her author bio. https://t.co/yxY48ZWQ6U
‘Reading was my first love. I really was a ferocious reader. I was already an escapist as a kid.’
We spoke to @flo_tweet about her love of reading and her new book, Useless Magic. https://t.co/RFDNui7uCN
Even with all of the science available to explain the origin of an eclipse, superstitions persist.
"You can go to any culture and you will find that an eclipse is really bad news, whether it’s the sun or the moon." https://t.co/BSCXvTPQTE