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Frogs & Toads! A Witchy Wednesday article.

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  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, as we are about to fall into October things are getting more spookier! Each week I shall be posting about things I associate with Halloween! This week it is the frog and the toad. A companion, a familiar, and sometimes an ingredient to some Witches despicable potion!!! Images sourced from Public Domain.  https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc Witch Feeding Her Familiars with Blood Date 1579 From A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile Hemlock Artist J. J. Grandville Date 1849 From The Flowers Personified Artist Anton Seder Date 1896 From Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v2. Tab 72 Artist Mark Catesby Date 1743 Phenakistoscope 1833 Frog rain Artist Conrad Lycosthenes Date 1557 From Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon Plate from Ernst Haeckel's visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature, p...
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Bats! A Witchy Wednesdays article.

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1884 print.  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week is the start of things which I associated with Halloween and this week its about Bats!  Having just celebrated Batman day (19th September) I have always been a fan of the comic book turned TV and film character Batman, my mind turned to my love of all things Bat related!  Me & the Batmobile screen used car from Robert Pattinson's   The Batman  My love of bats covers many spectrum of interests from real life conservation of bats living in my local area, art, and literature especially Bram Stokers Dracula, his ability to shape shift into a bat always intrigued me. My first Gothic necklace was a bat purchased from Whitby which features in the original story of Dracula!  Nothing gets me more excited to empty my purse than a winter jumper covered in bats or a bat mug! Lol! Anyway it's not just people like myself who are 'bat crazy' Victorian culture was totally obsession with bats! The theme of...
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The Witches of Old, Witchy Wednesday article

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  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday. Newspaper Title: Lancaster Gazette Publication Date: Saturday 22 December 1810 WITCHES. A SONG.  THE Witches of old, could, as we are told, Do wonderful feats at their pleasure  On a broom-stick they'd fly, and skim thro' the sky, And view the vast regions of azure  By all 'tis agreed on, that Lapland and Sweden, Were famous foot Riders of Switches, And England was noted (so Glanville* has wrote it) Of old for " the Lancashire Witches."   Old women (not men) of threescore and ten, , Of witchcraft were then the possessors  But now the old women, may 'ply to their spinning, For their daughters have turn'd out aggressors   They've seiz'd orj^the reigns, by which act our poor swains,   Perceive at their hearts some sad twitches;   Before they could cure, but now must endure The spells of «' the Lancashire Witches."   Instead of a sallow complexion like tallow, And rhe...
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Witch newspaper mentions, a Witchy Wednesdays article

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Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday.  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week I am sharing with you some interesting real articles that were published in British news papers. I have added a copy of the transcript. Please note they are written as they are printed with mistakes and old English words and terms.  Northern Weekly Gazette - 1903-11-28 Transcription.  NOTES ON NORTH RIDING LORE WITCHES. The name of Peggy Duell is mentioned in connection with several events, which we are told transpired towards the close of the seventeenth century, probably between 1680 to 1710. There remains sufficient recorded evidence to prove beyond all doubt that Peggy belonged to the old school of witches. We, however, know but little about her, further than such an old dame did once live, and claims a place amongst the list of North Riding witches, but the when and the whereabouts of her birth and death have long been forgotten. Presently we shall have occasion to refer to Peggy; fo...
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Witchy Wednesday's are back!

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Witchy Wednesday's are back! 🌿🌸🍂🌿🌸🍂🌿🌸🍂🌿🌸🍂🌿 Water Nymph from the Goldfish Pond by Franz Hein. Well I had a lovely Summer break though for me it was a bit too warm and way too dry. I am quite a hobbit at heart and in my Shire I prefer things to be a little more traditionally English with variable weather. So the last few days since we have had a few rain showers I have felt more myself and indeed my garden has breathed a sigh of relief!  As for WW I have been working on some new folklore stories and interesting facts and non facts to share with you over the coming months. It will probably take me a few weeks to get back into the swing of things. So today to gentle ease us all back in I am sharing some information on a plant I came across on my local ramblings.  🌿Water Mint 🌿 Water Mint growing out a body of water.  I spotted this lovely plant with its purple bobbles on a local walk at the weekend. Excuse the quality of the photo but it was just peeping throug...
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