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Ern400 @ern400.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Winter Solstice. Photograph by Bill Brandt.

Iconic photo of Stonehenge by Bill Brandt.

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Lovely miniature from an early XV c. #inventorybook ... #staytuned because soon there will be... an #homicide with #inventory from 1380s! @artandinequality.bsky.social goes beyond testaments! @uofglasgow.bsky.social #medievalsky

miniatured "Q" with detailed tree inside, black ink on paper. Some of the writing is readable.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Women in folk tales… Just a couple of hours to go. Still time to grab a ticket for this online talk, plus recording Just £5 from bit.ly/flaevents All income supports the charity

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Thomas Light was a conjurer who lived in the early 19th century at High Ercall. He consulted the stars, summoned spirits, and satisfied the needs of locals with both curses and cures. He was often heard wrestling with supernatural beings and even the Devil at night. 🌙 #Folklore #Shropshire #Satan

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In “The Haunted Mirror”, from Dead of Night (1945), an antique mirror reflects the subject in a room from the past, and it is as a retainer of a tragedy soon to be reenacted. The segment was based on a tale by E F Benson that explored ideas popular among 19th-century psychic researchers.

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Why might Blind Lane, Ansty, be called so? Well I found out (from my new haul of folklorish stuff) that it is because the spring there was thought, in days gone by, to cure blindness in babies. I went to find the spring on Blind Lane. I think this is it!

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National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Have you ever experienced that strange feeling that you’ve encountered this moment or event before?

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Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

HOORAY I'm back in London on 25th November! Did you know that a magician used to ply his trade where The Gherkin now stands? Come join me for more weird facts that will make you see England's history differently 🌟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-magic-witchcraft-tickets-1743090002119

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A hill carved with mysterious figures and an eccentric old man who follows the old ways. An island steeped in legend and a stranger who claims to be its next king. A church on the marshes and a struggling artist who glimpses its demons. TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Folk explanations of place name derivations. Just finished revising a short study of them. Some were serious & others humorous. A favourite: The Shropshire village of Selattyn on the Welsh border was thought to derive from a local schoolmaster who advertised "I sell Latin".

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British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920. Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society. Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Thurs 23 October, 10:00-17:00 BST: 'Folklore & Anthropology in Conversation: Revisiting Oral Narrative'--joint symposium of @folkloresociety.bsky.social and The RAI. Tickets are free. In-person attendance is fully booked but places still available to attend online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Japanese storyteller: the image shows a man dressed in white sitting on a mat on a brightly lit stage; image via Wikimedia Commons

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Linden, linden, linden tree Thou art so gracious o’er me Whose shade exalts such gentle rest Afore eve’s sun bids last to west T’wards tides & shingle pulled & swell T’is there that I shall dream to dwell

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I'm doing a talk about Bonfire Night folklore on 3 November so I'm curious... What traditions do you follow, if any, for the day? If you don't follow them now, what did you do to mark the day when you did 'celebrate'?

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sirena de dos colas @fantocha.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Mummers where humans dressed up as animals and fantastical creatures to entertain 🎉 Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, fol 21 V. Five Mummers, 1338-44 MS Bodl. 264. #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #mummers #marginalia #medievalmanuscript

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

📣 Kemble Lecture 2025 #TOEBI #medievalsky 📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’ 🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge 📅Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5pm 🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Borth Submarine Forest: A submerged forest, preserved in peat from the later Neolithic/ early Bronze Age, one of eight known submarine forests along the Welsh coast. Best visited after a storm, though in normal conditions some stumps are visible at or beyond the low tide line.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Looking forward to reading this by Matthias Egeler 🧚📚

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just a few days left to book a ticket for our online talk this Saturday. Daniel Harms will be discussing British Grimoires and their place in our folklore. Tickets are just £5 and include access to a recording of the event, which starts live at 7:30pm Book now at bit.ly/flaevents

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I should, shall not, arise into mists Nor bode broodily unto the moonlit morn Shuddered into whispers shorn of sleep Fall coiled ‘pon dew-bitten fodder for the bracken dawn

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread. 1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970). Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.” You’ll need: - Tweed trilby - Mutton chops - Cracked spectacles - A copy of The Golden Bough

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Goodnight

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Lady Dard’s mobile beekeeping service wasn’t an immediate success. It took her a while to work the bugs out - 14th century, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3003, f. 72r

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“The most lavish of them all, the Aberdeen Bestiary, which dates from around 1200, was once owned by Henry VIII. Now, the University of Aberdeen has digitized the text and made it freely available to readers online.” www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

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The Aberdeen Bestiary

The Aberdeen Bestiary - MS 24

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Tune in to listen to a podcast made live at the Bradford Lit Festival, with me discussing my book, ‘The Roma’, with the brilliant Damian Le Bas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...

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S4: E7 - The Roma: A Travelling History

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Clematis Vitalba - or Old Man’s Beard - always lovely to see at this time of year.

The grey-white wispy seeds of the Clematis Vitalba - or Old Man’s Beard - stretching off along a hedgerow, a bright blue sky illuminating the greenery of a warm autumn day in southern England.

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Should we give it a name? No, I think knot. Knot today.

An amalgamation of knots in a large piece of drift-wood, all together looking very much like a scrunched up pair of eyes above a pursed and withered mouth.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜ The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces. They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading. #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Slug foamly soaking the tall grasses shimmer Thorned berry needles ‘pon cloud sifted glimmer Worm eyed and fox-bit thine autumn provoked Such mulched bramble thickets embracing the oak

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Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Patricia Crowther, High Priestess of wicca, author and teacher, has died at the age of 97 in Sheffield. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest witch, dies aged 97

Wiccan high priestess’s 1970s BBC radio series is credited with helping to popularise modern witchcraft

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Haunted Bridge. A mystery to solve ... I have this postcard called "The Haunted Bridge" but cannot identify it. It's described as a British beauty spot. The card was posted from Nottingham, early 20thc.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16/09/2025

so, as some may know, I'll be doing an online course this coming October - 4 sessions on the myth of the dark ages and how we can know a messy medieval world well, delighted to announce that now you can get 50% OFF your registration! link below --> buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

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Online Course Dispelling the "Dark Ages"

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Grab your scythe, your nut-brown bowl, and keep an eye on the Farmer's Daughter, as on this month's Forgotten Melodies bonus episode we're talking all about Harvest Songs - in particular, We Gets Up In The Morn, John Barleycorn, and The Barley and the Rye! 🖤 Listen now, wherever you get your pods!

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Its here! The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond. This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel Gumb, Flint, Stonehenge, Druids and more! 40 pages of stone-mania. Copies will be shipped in October. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Some of the fabulously ornate Victorian wallpaper at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster 🤩

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Dr Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hoping to be able to run this class in November! If you know anyone interested in pre-Christian religions, please do share :D blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/module...

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Call for abstracts! Special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. #folklore #academicsky #monsterstudies

Metamorphosis – Studies in changing relations between people and supernatural beings
Call for abstracts: To a special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore, we invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon to the tiniest gnome. As variable are their attitudes, inclinations and habits, and their relations with the human world, ranging from indifferent, to beneficial, to deeply malevolent. What is more, this gamut of variability, including shapes, inclinations and human relations, is subject to historical changes. While the concept of metamorphosis is applicable to many aspects of monster studies, for instance to how supernatural beings may have the power to alter their appearances, or to how their origin stories may contain mythical alterations, or to how they can disturb and change the fate of a person who happens to cross their path, the title for this publication marks the specific intention to orchestrate analytical close encounters with significant changes in the human/monster interaction patterns, when you for instance can see that people start describing supernatural beings in different genres, sorting them in different categories, experiencing different kinds of encounters with them, or placing their images in different locations and on different objects. We want articles that use a range of research strategies for describing, exploring and interpreting these kinds of changes and leave you at liberty to apply the theoretical and methodical approaches that you prefer. This whish for methodical and analytical plurality is motivated by how the supernatural beings themselves are multi-faceted and moldable, and on the assumption that no single approach can hold them.
Abstract deadline: December 15th, 2025. Abstracts (250–500 words) should include: working title, description of source materials and …

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