There are some things that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
~Alice Hoffman
art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
‘Tis dandelion season, when the Lilliputian lions spread magic at our feet. Weave the golden flowers into your wedding bouquet to bring luck, drink dandelion tea for psychic dreams and blow the seeds into the wind to make your wish come true.✨
art by Cavallini #folklore
To my absolute astonishment the librarian walked up to me and asked if I wanted a library card. When she handed me the card, she handed me the world.
~Gary Paulsen
art by Liselotte Ericsson
#bookchatweekly
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
~William Butler Yeats
art by Florence Harrison (1877–1955) #bookchatweekly
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind
Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,
Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,
Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
~Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1921) #bookchatweekly
Balder (ᛒᛅᛚᛏᚱ [ˈbɑldz̠]), Norse god of joy, light, and summer sun. He is known for being friendly, attractive, and impervious to harm, though mistletoe proved to be his Achilles’ heel. ✨
In Norse Mythology, the Norns, Urd, Skuld, and Verthandi are a trio that decide the fates (wyrd) of people.
art by Johan Egerkrans
#mythologymonday#31daysofhaunting
Mist is a valkyrie from Norse mythology. As a psychopomp, she rides through the sky and and over water to guide the souls of slain warriors to the halls of Valhalla.
art by E. R. Hughes (1851-1914)
#mythologymonday
The Cat That Walked By Himself
by Rudyard Kipling
First published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, collected in Just So Stories (1902), illustrated by the author.
#bookchatweekly
What Was I Scared Of?
The strange Dr. Seuss story about a haunted pair of pants that floats around at night, terrifying innocent bystanders.
#WyrdWednesday#bookchatweekly
Music I love–but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse this pensive heart of mine– As that we hear on Christmas morn, Upon the wintry breezes borne.
~Anne Brontë
Music on Christmas Morning #FaustianFriday#bookchatweekly
And soon this court I call for a Christmas game, Since it is Yuletide and the New Year and all these brave men are here.
~Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Forþy I craue in þis court a Crystemas gomen, For hit is Ȝol and Nwe Ȝer, and here ar ȝep mony. (Middle English)
art by FaQy
Dear superstitionists,
We are delighted to showcase you the authors that contributed to our zine.
We are exploring our Short Story submissions, and today's featured writer is @kerria.bsky.social. Find out more at www.kerriadseabrooke.com
Zine available here: ko-fi.com/saltmirrorsc...
“ …the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper. Hallo! A great deal of steam!” ~Dickens
(Our figgy pudding is boiling after yesterday’s Stir-up Sunday, using the @TastingHistory1 recipe!)
The second episode of The Salt & Mirrors & Cats Podcast is here!
Listen to a short interview with author @signemaene.com and her short story The Haunted, read by Chris Gregory from Alternative Stories.
Produced and presented by @kerria.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/4VFm...
Hi everyone,
I'm very pleased that you can now listen to my story The Haunted! 👻
With a very special thank you to @kerria.bsky.social for producing these wonderful episodes and Chris from Alternative Stories for a hauntingly beautiful reading!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4VFm...
The second episode of The Salt & Mirrors & Cats Podcast is here!
Listen to a short interview with author @signemaene.com and her short story The Haunted, read by Chris Gregory from Alternative Stories.
Produced and presented by @kerria.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/4VFm...
