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Greetings, dear Bibliophiles! Apologies for the recent absence. I’ve just committed to an adventurous project that will require a 3 month hiatus from #BookologyThursday. #BookChatWeekly resumes next week. Thank you for your understanding, and looking forward to seeing you here!
Ogre is a French word, linked to the Etruscan god Orcus. These legendary giants are famous for their unfortunate cannibalistic tendencies, foul body-odor, rotten teeth, and rancid halitosis. They dwell in deep forests and mucky swamps.
#FolkloreThursday #BookologyThursday
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Today on #BookologyThursday 🪿
Welcome to #BookologyThursday
Join us today as we explore our theme:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
Odd slang, Silly Archaic Insults,
Onomatopoeia, and Unusual Etymologies
in literature, art, and lore.
There was an Owl lived in an oak, Whiskey, Whaskey, Weedle;
And all the words he ever spoke Were Fiddle, Faddle, Feedle.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1877)
art by Lily Seika Jones
#BookologyThursday
Kerria retweeted
Welcome to #BookologyThursday
Join us today as we explore our theme:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
Odd slang, Silly Archaic Insults,
Onomatopoeia, and Unusual Etymologies
in literature, art, and lore.
Look what arrived in the mail just in time for #FolkloreThursday
Willow Winsham’s latest book!
Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines
Can’t wait to read it!
The Scroobious Pip looked gaily round
And sang these words with a chirpy sound:
Snippetty Whip; Whippetty Snip;—
My only name is the Scroobious Pip.
~Edward Lear's (1872) unfinished poem, completed in (1968) by Ogden Nash #BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday
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’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Join us this #BookologyThursday our theme:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
in literature, art, and lore.
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Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.
~Claudia Bakker #FairytaleTuesday
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Mystical owl, bringer of dreams, seer of truth, ancient symbol of renewal and messenger from the underworld.
#MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday
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In dandelion season, when the Lilliputian lions spread magic at our feet, weave the magical golden flowers into your wedding bouquet for good luck, drink dandelion tea for psychic dreams and blow the seeds into the wind to make your wish come true.
🎨P. Cavallini (1259-1330)
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The Medieval Physiologus (Greek: Φυσιολόγος) is a 2nd cent. Alexandrian text, of unknown authorship, which tells us much of what we know today about Unicorns. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash @AmandaBergloff @fairytaleflash @FairyTale_Tues @Kerria @BookologyCat @BookChatWeekly
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The squirrel is often seen as a harbinger of winter and used in winter solstice celebrations as a symbol of resilience. Some cultures equate the squirrel’s arrival with the return of longer days and the promise of spring.
#FolkloreSunday
‘Then the unicorns came out of the sea.'
from ‘The Last Unicorn' by Peter S. Beagle
by Lily Seika Jones #FairyTaleTuesday
Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.
~Claudia Bakker #FairytaleTuesday