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Signe Maene
@signemaene.com
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Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · Feb 16
Sleep softly, dearest Frodo. You were loved and you will be missed so much. 🖤 We hope that you're dancing with mischievous faeries now, as you were an adorable, little hobgoblin yourself.

You will forever remain in our broken hearts. 💔 We're devastated.
Picture of a tuxedo cat
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Very superstitious by @willowwinsham.bsky.social has been on my reading list for quite some time, so I was very happy to find this beautiful book in the wild! 🐈‍⬛🐾 The lovely illustrations and mini-chapters make it the perfect companion to pick up during breaks!
Picture of books displayed on a white store shelf with Very Superstitious by Willow Winsham. In Stonemanor, Everberg.
July 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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SHIP!
Model of a historical ship, Dutch flag. Stadhuismuseum Zierikzee.
July 6, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Our garden resident practising high beam walking. 🦔🖤
June 13, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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I found the amazing book of @signemaene.com in a bookshop in Brugges Yesterday. So cool!
The book Flemish folktales retold by signe Maene
May 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Hi everyone, except for hosting #BookWormSat, I'm not that much online here because I live in the world of Flanders’ folklore witches atm. ✍️ I'm also still trying to cope with the loss of my beloved cat and spending a lot of time in nature, which helps with grieving and writing. 🌳🌸
Picture of a ruin in the woods. Picture of cowslip Picture of a tree surrounded by little white flowers Picture of a river, forest.
May 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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‘But he calls down a blessing on the blossom of the may,
Because it comes in beauty, and in beauty blows away.’ ~ Yeats, Red Hanrahan’s Curse.
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🖼️ Charles Caryl Coleman, 1889.
Painting of Apple blossom in blue and white vase against background of cream wallpaper and vase placed on a pale pink, blue and cream floral tablecloth.
May 2, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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“So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd.”

🌺 The Mabinogion #BookWormSat
FLOWERS - Blooms of Blodeuwedd by Jenny Dolfen, Goldseven de TEXT - Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr Coch O Hergest, and Other Ancient Welsh Mss. - image of a woman's face - half human and half owl. Stares directly at the viewer, mouth slightly parted. Human side of face is partly covered with primrose flowers and foliage.
May 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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'Moon Foxes'
- in celebration of today's full moon here are three moon foxes basking in the light of a full moon's glow 🦊🌀🌕
#FoxMoon #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay
Three foxes, two of them seated, one raised on something that might be a rock looking down to the right at a fox looking up at the fox on the top left, between and behind them a full moon in a starry night sky, the fully moon reflected in a stretch of water behind them, possibly the sea. A third fox curled up below the fox on the left. Linocut, white, orangered and black, Maria Strutz
May 1, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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"Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will."

Poet & polymath Novalis was born #otd 1772.

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "The Dreamer" (1835)
May 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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O! I can feel the cold earth upon me—the daisies growing over me—O for this quiet—it will be my first.

– John Keats on his deathbed in 1812, as reported by his friend Joseph Severn.

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Keats's grave in Rome, sans daisies. The photograph is from the 1913 book 'Shrines old and new, and other poems' by one 'obscure and unworthy disciple', as Thomas Devey Jermyn Farmer calls himself in the dedication: TO THE MEMORY OF Those Illustrious Two WHO "GAZING ON NATURE'S NAKED LOVELINESS" AND FOLLOWING HER IN SINGLENESS OF HEART REVIVED AND RESTORED THE PURITY OF ENGLISH POETRY AND WHOSE DUST FOREVER HALLOWS TESTACCIO'S HILL AT ROME, AN OBSCURE AND UNWORTHY DISCIPLE DEDICATES THESE HUMBLE EFFORTS The text below the image ("For here rests that sweet flower of song, than whom / No sweeter ever faded in its bloom.") is from Farmer's poem 'To a Violet' (Gathered on the grave of Keats at Rome.)
May 2, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Third German Art - Trade Exhibition from Dresden May to Oct 1906.
Third German Art - Trade Exhibition from Dresden May to Oct 1906 Green background with art nouveau woman in brown gown decorated with pink flowers, she has very long red, curly hair, she is barefoot, she is holding a gold ornament in the shape of a tree with white blossom.
May 2, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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The spring comes...

'O’er woods where May her gorgeous drapery flings,
And meads washed fragrant by their laughing springs.
Fresh are new opened flowers, untouched and free
From the bold rifling of the amorous bee.'
-John Clare

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 🪻🌼
Painting by Helen Allingham A young girl in a white dress wearing a black hat gathering flowers. Red, green purple, pink There's a rose bush behind her.
May 2, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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'Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.'
-Robert Frost

Tomorrow, #BookWormSat celebrates Beltane with the theme flowers. Join us! 🌸🌼🪻

🎨Anna Billing
Painting of a wildflower meadow. Trees in the far distance
May 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Beltane blessings. Walter Crane, 1889.
The sullen winter nearly spent, Wueen Flora To her garden went, *o call the flowers from Their long sleep, The year’s glad festivals to keep: Mythology - Flora ~ illustration, basket at her feet
May 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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"The wind howls and surges.
Hear the voices on the heights?
Far away, and then nearby?
Yes, a furious magic song
Sweeps the mountain, all along!"

(Goethe)

🎨 Albert Zimmermann

#walpurgisnight
April 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Beware the Beautiful Witch
by Power O'Malley, 1913.
Painting of a witch flying over a town at night. There are bats flying in the sky. A full moon is partially hidden behind dark clouds, its light reflects on a body of water in the background.
April 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Say

"White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!"

on the first of the month for good luck!

🎨 Higuchi Yuko
May 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.
Workers’ Rights May pole
May 1, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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'A darling Mouse it is:—
Part hope not likely to take wing,
Part memory, part anything
You please.

Venus-cum-Iris Mouse
From shifting tides set safe apart,
In no mere bottle, in my heart …'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Dick Twinney
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Artwork of a mouse in nature nibbling on something. Purple flowers and greenery.
April 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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"Gestumblindi said:
"Who are the twain
that on ten feet run?
three eyes they have,
but only one tail.
Alright guess now
this riddle, Heithrek!"

Heithrek said:

"Good is thy riddle, Gestumblindi,
and guessed it is:
that is Odin riding on Sleipnir."

(Heiðreks gátur)

🎨 John Bauer

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April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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‘We lived beneath the mat,
Warm and snug and fat,
But one woe, and that
Was the cat!
To our joys a clog, In our eyes a fog, On our hearts a log
Was the dog!
When the cat's away,
Then the mice will play…’ ~ Lewis Carroll. 1/2
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From Lewis Carroll’s own illustrated manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Written in shape of a mouse’s tail.
April 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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‘She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who kept a parrot.’ ~ Mark Twain 🦜 #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh or The Legend of the Parrot, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, c.1865.
Woman in white and gold, red and black gown with long, curly red hair, little green slippers, lies back on a chair, a parrot perches, wings out on her hand, she is in a Moroccan style room with a small table with tea beside here, tiles, red rug, hookah, painting.
April 11, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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He mounted on a chariot and tamed with the bit the horses of Diomedes, that greedily champed their bloody food at gory mangers with unbridled jaws, devouring with hideous joy the flesh of men.

– Euripides, Herakles

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#art 'Diomedes Devoured by His Horses' by Gustave Moreau 1866
Note: The translation is by E. P. Coleridge (1891), with the exception that the word 'car' is replaced by 'chariot', as is customary these days. Image: 'Diomède dévoré par ses chevaux' An oil painting showing the King of Thrace being attacked by four horses in a classical setting. The palette is muted and pastel, contrasting sharply with the subject of the painting. One of the enraged horses is brown and three are white. Diomedes is depicted as a young man in the state of undress and deep fear and anguish.
April 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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'You are lord of a place bounded like a dream.'
-To a Cat, Jorge Luis Borges.

🎨Bruno Liljefors
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Painting title: Sleeping Jeppe. Artwork of a tabby cat sleeping outside in the spring sun.
April 11, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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'Jellicle Cats come out tonight,
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright—
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.'
-T. S. Eliot

@signemaene.com and Jellicle cats everywhere welcome you to #BookWormSat!

🎨Edward Gorey
Black/white illustration of six tuxedo cats dancing. Full moon.
April 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM