Rupert Ferguson

Currently working on an updated edition of my magnum opus on Sir Walter Scott's work as a Folklorist. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Solothurn, Switzerland courtesy of The-Samizdat #SteepleSaturday

Up to #StMaryTheVirginFinedon via the southeastern path in July .#PhilOnaBike #FootpathFriday #SteepleSaturday #SpiresOnSaturday

Hi all, a reminder that this Sunday’s theme is: PASSION (BOTH WILD & QUIET) IN FOLKLORE, ART & LITERATURE. Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST. See you then! Maude xx Image: Witchery of the Moonbeams by Edward Potthast (1906)

1st century CE Roman flower fresco from the triclinium of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta courtesy of Mary Harrsch. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #Art #RomanArt #FlowersOnFriday @SaveRome @romanarchaeouk

#FlowersOnFriday in July. #PhilOnaBike

July Flowers and Wood Warblers 1929 Cedric Morris #FlowersOnFriday

#FlowersonFriday I breathe you in as if you were just, Rose, all of life.. > Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Mark Bolton Photography

#FlowersOnFriday

Medieval Door taken in Southern France courtesy of The-Samizdat. #AdoorableThursday #doors #architecture #adorabledoors #thursdayvibes d @jeni_balseiro

Magna was a Roman Fort on the Stanegate and pre-dates the building of Hadrian’s Wall in AD122.  The site guards the road junction between two major Roman roads, the Maiden Way and the Stanegate. Now it is under the care and study of the Vindolanda Trust #RomanFortThursday

Lilia pits at Rough Castle Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall, near Bonnybridge in central Scotland. The pits were a defensive measure (each pit contained a sharpened stake) that would have helped defend the northern approach to the fort. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday

In his 1919 masterwork "Bladud of Bath" H.C. Lewis recounts the numerous legends of the Ancient British Prince who tried to fly. Pics: Smalljim, Catherine Bradbury. #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly @BookChatWeekly @Kerria @BookologyCat

I had never heard this story, so glad you posted! Wishing you a Happy Thursday✨

It's in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain" among other sources, including John Hardyng's "Chronicles" of 1457; and he even gets a mention in the Charles Dickens novel “The Pickwick Papers”.

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)

#BookologyThursday #bookchatweekly "Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change." The Time Machine, H.G.Wells 1895.

#BookologyThursday The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. Contact Carl Sagan

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.” —Shelley #BookologyThursday

When Johannes Gutenberg unveiled his printing press in the 15th century, he unknowingly sparked the Information Age. His movable type machine helped democratize knowledge and paved the way for libraries, literacy, and revolutions. #BookologyThursday