The #fullmoon on Sat 9 Aug is the #SturgeonMoon, after the freshwater fish Native Americans caught at this time. To the Celts it was the #GrainMoon for the first harvest, & also the dispute moon, when disagreements between neighbours were settled. #FolkloreSunday

The ancient Celts called the August #fullmoon the #GrainMoon after the first harvest at this time. It rises on Sat 9th August this year. Image: Lucy Grossmith #FolkloreSunday

Flower fairies of the late summer/early autumn - here are strawberry, blackberry, elderberry & sloe. #FolkloreSunday Illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker

Dreaming of #autumn #MythologyMonday #1920s #vintage

Margaret Lockwood in The Wicked Lady, 1945. The film tells the story of bored Lady Skelton, who adds excitement to her life by becoming a highwaywoman. Based loosely upon the life of a C17 highwaywoman, the film was an instant success upon its release. #WyrdWednesday

The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse, 1902. A spell is being woven with the aid of a book of magic & a skull. The skull has been restored to the painting in recent years, after being painted out by a previous owner. #BookChatWeekly #BookologyThursday #FolkloreSunday

Some believe witches to be cats in disguise, while others believe cats to be witches in disguise. #Caturday #FolkloreSunday #BlackCatAppreciationDay (Sun 17 Aug) Image: Maggie Vandewalle

#BlackCatAppreciationDay Her Favourite by Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (1905) #FolkloreSunday

Thank you all for your wonderfully magical posts on cats- black & otherwise - today. Next week’s theme as we move towards autumn is: SUMMER’S LAST HURRAH: ON THE THESHOLD & OTHER LIMINAL SPACES Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST

Owl in a #darkmoon forest. #Art by Tuesday Riddell. This beautiful piece is made with the technique of Japanning - gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment & paint on European lacquer. #OwlishMonday #FairyTaleTuesday

The keeper of secrets. Cat librarian by Liselotte-Eriksson #FairyTaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday

#BackToSchool for the #autumn term, c.1906. Photographed in #Kensington by Punch magazine’s cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne, whose private passion was photography. #FairyTaleTuesday #London

Alice & the Dodo from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as illustrated by John Tenniel in 1865. The dodo was a flightless bird found on the tropical island of Mauritius but sadly hunted to extinction by sailors arriving there by the mid C17th. #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend full of your favourite things. #latesummer #blackberries #BankHoliday #weekend #FolkloreSunday Image: Emily Duffin