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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

From the forests and highlands We come, we come; From the river-girt islands, Where loud waves are dumb Listening to my sweet pipings. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of Pan #BookologyThursday

The Claw of Archimedes was designed by the legendary Greek polymath in the 3rd century to defend Syracuse against Roman naval assaults. Mounted on the defensive wall, the claw was said to swing out and capsize Roman ships, smashing them into the rocks. #BookologyThursday

Thank you for your incredibly inventive posts, dear Bibliophiles!✨ See you next week on #BookologyThursday 🎈 art by Dan Craig

This Thursday falls on #JumpforJellyBeansDay and #BookologyThursday is celebrating with the delicious theme: ✨🍬🍭History, Literature, and Folklore of Candy, Cakes, and Cookies🍭🍬✨ ‘A Confectioner’ by Martin Engelbrecht

Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨ Join us as we celebrate Amelia Earhart day with the theme: ✨🎈Incredible Inventions, Fantastical Machines, and Daring Pioneers🎈✨ In literature, art, and lore! art by William Pène du Bois from The Twenty-One Balloons (1947)

Thank you for your brilliant posts, dear Bibliophiles!✨ Join us this #BookologyThursday as we celebrate Amelia Earhart day with the theme: ✨Incredible Inventions, Fantastical Machines, and Daring Pioneers✨ In literature, art, and lore!

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ~Diana Wynne Jones✨

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.' ~Cheshire Cat✨

In Key West, conch shells are placed outside the door to bring good luck and keep the sea away. For centuries, sailors would blow conch horns to warn ships of sinking vessels, their haunting call would also signal the discovery of shipwrecks. art by Jacob de Gheyn (1587)

The custom of wearing wedding veils is said to date back to Ancient Greece when veils were believed to protect the bride from evil spirits. Rosemary was often worn in bridal crowns, veils and bouquets as a symbol of love and fidelity. #LegendaryWednesday #folklore

Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. ~Frida Kahlo✨ #WyrdWednesday

Happy Monday, dear Bibliophiles✨ art by Jane Crowther #BookChatWeekly

She had walked willingly into a fairy tale, into a world where she could trade her heart for her freedom. She may as well have donned a red cloak and strode into a darkened forest. She had always known there would be wolves. ~E. Lloyd-Jones