Not every ghost glimpsed in glass is a leering face or a weeping child. Sometimes the glass-ghost is a long cut-down tree, outline of a building reduced to rubble a century before. Unquiet time is revealed as one of the fiercest of phantoms. – #CJosiffe, 1956 #Ghosts
CAT GARGOYLES & GROTESQUES Formidable Feline #gargoyles for #Caturday#GothicSpring
Washington National Cathedral; UK cat gargoyle (Birmingham, Hisgett); winged #cat St Vitis Cathedral
FAIRY TALE SERPENTS Ferocious bat-winged serpents attack a peasant girl in this painting by Viktor Oliva (1861 – 1928), a Czech illustrator. The image is inspired by 'National Fairy Tales and Legends' by V. B. Trebizskeho (1870) #mythologymonday
I don't care how many times I'm told Stay Belows go to mud in the winter, you'd never catch me throwing stones into Egreaves Pool at any time of the year. – Richard Chard #VOH (Picture 'Place of the Stay Belows', 1982 by Hookland artist Lou Kemp)
HOARFROST resembles tiny spiky hairs; it gets its name from 'hoary' meaning white with age. It forms on small surfaces, such as wires, branches, stems & leaf edges & often resembles magical miniature snow fairies🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Today is when New Year's Eve/Hogmanay was celebrated in days of yore (I love that word, have you noticed?)
It's the day when witches become 'active' again after the boozy shenanigans of the Christmas period, so keep a weather eye on your cattle 🐄⚡️😈
#folklorethursday
@LegendaryWedne1 Hello! Just wondering the name of the person who runs this account? I always like to know who you are before I follow and share lots of things. Thank you!❤️