Won't you give me my flowers while I'm livin' And let me enjoy them while I can? Don't wait 'til I'm ready to be buried And then slip some lilies in my hand... Terry Allen does Flatt and Scruggs: youtube.com/watch?v=A9NiJZ…

In Mediterranean tradition, figs are sacred to Dionysus and Priapus, symbols of fertility and abundance. A fig tree shading your home was considered a blessing, unless it blocked the light, which brought misfortune. #FolkloreSunday Art: Aleksandra Portenko

Florence mayor Sara Funaro watches the Martinella bell ring out from Palazzo Vecchio as it did on this day 81 years ago to mark the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation.

In Japanese folklore, the giant catfish Namazu lives beneath the islands. When it thrashes, earthquakes follow. The god Kashima pins it with a stone to keep it still, but legends say it cannot be held forever. #FairyTaleTuesday

Word that’s making me think today: endling. It’s the last surviving member of an animal or plant species. Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, died in 2012. 📷: Arturo de Frias Marques, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The beautiful poem that Sue Hardy-Dawson💙 posted this morning for #WorldElephantDay inspired me to write about a long-gone cousin of modern elephants.

One of the best #Roman mosaics (or certainly, one of the most memorable!) - from Aldborough, of the she-wolf who saved Romulus & Remus - would like to wish everyone a very happy #InternationalWolfDay!

Tempestarii were weather making witches and/or wizards who possessed the power to raise or prevent storms at will. Anyone reputed as a 'weather maker' was the subject of both respect and fear in rural areas. #bookologythursday #magic art: John William Waterhouse

Bibliomancy is the practice of divining fate from books, often the Bible, Virgil’s Aeneid, or poetry. The reader opens at random, seeking answers between the lines. Literature itself becomes an oracle. #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday In Welsh folklore, "Tyngedau" are a type of curse, an inevitable destiny cast on to an ill-fated target. In this painting by Margaret Jones, we see the young Lleu Llaw Gyffes breaking free of one of the Tynged laid on him by his own mother, the sorceress

"It's drizzling, Here I am, Still alive." Santoka (image: Takeji Asano)

Charley Crockett does Bob Dylan: youtube.com/watch?v=wCPvSI…

How you used to say the highway was your home But we both know that ain't true It's just the only place a man can go When he don't know where he's travelin' to Guy Clark does Steve Earle: youtube.com/watch?v=v7FGw3…

On this day in 1972 the sensational discovery of the Riace Bronzes, off the coast of Calabria in Italy, made headlines around the world.

Two poems by Aaron Poochigian from his upcoming collection and tour guide, Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park.

#WorldHoneyBeeDay In Druid tradition, there is the secret knowledge of the bee: “ask the wild bee what the druid knew” during sleep or while in a trance, a person’s soul leaves their body in the form of a bee #bees #folklore #Druids

Governor Newsom Press Office In Gavin we trust. Release the Epstein files!!!!!!!

Tomorrow in Mytholmroyd. It's going to be good!