Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel https://nitter.cf/t.co/CeZT5Z5jX7 Joined July 2009
Joined July 2009
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Interesting to see that both Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel will feature in the new HBO HP series. Neither appear directly in the source material. Now, if you want the full Nicholas and Perenelle story, then may I suggest: dillonscott.com/the-flamel-s…
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🎃 #HalloweenCountdown 🐗👻
✨2 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN!✨
Meet Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta, the Tailless Black Sow of Welsh folklore! 🏴
On Nos Galan Gaeaf (Winter’s Eve), as the bonfires died, anxious, children raced home!
The beast would snatch whoever came LAST! 🔥
Better hoof it home!
#WelshFolklore #YrHwchDduGwta 🐗
#31DaysOfHalloween 👻🎃
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Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are
Alone together, scholar and cat
Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting, for me study.
Your shining eye watches the wall
Pangur Bán. 9th century Irish poem. 🖇️Read/listen in link. #NationalCatDay 🐈 futurelearn.com/info/courses…
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Looking for some Halloween costume inspo? Some first-rate ideas in this 18th-century demonology book: publicdomainreview.org/colle… #halloween
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Cat names from Old Irish legal texts:
Bréone = ‘little flame’
Cruibne = ‘little paws’
Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’
Méone = ‘little meow’
🎨Book of Kells. Source: Kelly, Early Irish Farming p123. #NationalCatDay 🐈
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An automaton fuelled by tomes of newly available knowledge sweeps away the old society. No, not a self-portrait by ChatGPT in the style of a Georgian satirical print, but one of several “March of Intellect” cartoons published ca. 1828: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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Apple bobbing has been around since at least 14th C; Luttrell Psalter depicted it in a drawing! Girls would attempt to bite into apples named for male suitor. If she won after 1st try, fated for love! x2; romance would fade. x3 courtship wouldn't last at all. #FairyTaleTuesday 🍏
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Before Halloween, there was Samhain—the ancient Celtic festival when the veil between living and dead was said to grow thin.
This year, we’re partnering with the Congressional Cemetery to uncover stories of Irish figures who shaped the US and now rest in the nation’s capital.
An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and, with nothing to lose, planted them. The result was almost biblical msn.com/en-us/news/other/an-…
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
For 2,000 years the bog at Bellaghy kept her, a young woman, 17 to 22, deliberately decapitated, her skull never recovered. Identified this year, she has a name now: the Ballymacombs More Woman. heritagedaily.com/2025/02/bo…
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones. atlasobscura.com/places/cata…
What's the oldest thing you've ever held in your hands? Mine was a 15th-century manuscript page — vellum, still supple. You could feel the scribe's hand in it, six hundred years later.
One of my favourite books!
𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 ᯓ⋆˚࿔
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Alchemyst #1 by Michael Scott
💬 503 hlm
🏷 Fantasy | Urban Fantasy | Mythology | Historycal Fantasy | Adventure
Finished Madeline Miller's Mestra in a single sitting: eighty pages, not a wasted word. Far too short, and completely brilliant. madelinemiller.com/mestra/
Scientists may soon read scrolls carbonized by Vesuvius in 79 AD: X-rays spotting lead in the ancient ink. Two thousand years ago someone wrote these words. Now we're going to read them! phys.org/news/2026-09-lost-a…
In my books, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel are immortal because of the Philosopher's Stone. In reality, the Flamels created their kind of immortality: spending a fortune on charity so they would be remembered. It clearly worked.
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Samhain and the White Stag
This is Samhain, a traditional time of the ‘thinning of the veils’. #Folklore #Myth
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Alchemy's great joke: the alchemists never turned lead into gold, but in trying, they invented chemistry, medicine, and the scientific method. Failure, pursued rigorously for a thousand years, became science.
A 1,700-year-old tomb in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis carries a 19-line poem from a son to his dead father, ending: "Listen, father!" Seventeen centuries, and grief still sounds exactly like grief. smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
