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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I would like to argue that protest signs are folk art, and a form of creative expression that clearly reflects cultural context.
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A favorite sign: one made last-minute by my kid
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We love food lore!
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The coracle of Celtic myth was light enough to be lifted and strong enough to cross realms. Woven of willow, covered in hide, it ferried saints, druids, and dreamers into otherworlds. The vessel was belief itself. #WyrdWednesday 🎨Chris Duffet
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Very excited to take Public Folklore at GMU! Register and join me: the folklore program is absolutely filled with warm, welcoming, brilliant people who have thought-provoking insights and also sometimes bring snacks
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Hex Rake @lexyhex.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is a BRILLIANT episode! I do love a deep dive from Mark Norman. More of this please! If you enjoyed the Vampire series on Monster talk with @doctoratlantis.bsky.social and @karenstollznow.bsky.social, you will love this too #vampires #werewolves #folklore #thefolklorepodcast
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The world is a messy place. So here is a photo of kilted men.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
because you asked nicely, here’s my latest work in progress song, “context clues”
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic @carterhaughschool.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater is about Regency England. Faerie lore. Coded neurodiverse experiences. And it’s also about what happens when you realize that the world is very unfair. And where you go from there. Enrollment in HopeLore closes THIS FRIDAY, 4/11. courses.carterhaughschool.com/p/hopelore
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This weekend, I watched a man teach several others how to arrange muskets in this interlocking pattern. Tradition is passed on every day, all around us, filling the world with #folklore
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Court jesters in the Middle Ages were licensed to mock the king. Their jokes could defuse tension or deliver veiled truth. In a world of swords and silence, jesters spoke freely—if they played the fool well enough to survive it. #WyrdWednesday
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A little #folklife today. My mom taught me to sew nearly 30 years ago. Today I'm working on an 18th century bedgown in a simple linen, because in the 1750s I am poor. Costume helps express identity, in reenacting and daily life, too.
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Page from "Spell, Charms and Incantations" - Cheese fascinator advice for men
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In Slavic folklore, the effigy of Marzanna — winter personified — is drowned or burned in spring. Children carry her through the village, then cast her into the river. It is not merely a ritual — it is a symbolic exorcism of stillness, a summoning of bloom. #FolkloreSunday
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In 18th-century German almanacs, it was recorded that bees should not be disturbed on the first warm day of spring. Superstition held that if bees swarmed too early, war would follow by summer. Beekeepers watched their hives like prophets watched stars. #FolkloreSunday 🎨Sherree Rodriguez
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic @carterhaughschool.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wishing you a restorative Sunday!⁠ #carterhaughschool #dailyenchantment
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A photo from the enslaved quarters at Mount Vernon. right now. This weekend, one of the events at the estate was the start of a sewing project. Two garments were started, both will be in the updated museum space when it finishes renovations.
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Conspiracy theories are folklore! Like myths, they offer explanations for why the world is a certain way. Did ancient people genuinely believe myths? If people can believe in pizza gate, the idea that Zeus became a shower of gold to impregnate Danae doesn't seem so farfetched a belief.
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Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Editors are accepting proposals for the new SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore. www.siefhome.org/publications... #folklore #folksky #folkloresky #ethnology #callforpapers #SIEF
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SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore
Hande Birkalan-Gedik and Anthony Bak Buccitelli announce the creation of the new SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore. New Directions in the Study of Everyday Life, Past and Present with Berghahn Boo...
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It is good knowing I have made a positive contribution to the field
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic @carterhaughschool.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Here's an older blog post we wrote about folklore and authenticity! Read the whole post: carterhaughschool.com/what-makes-a... #carterhaughschool #folklore
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Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Well, this is nice - Arkansas potter named living treasure: www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/ma... #folkcraft #pottery #livingtreasure #traditionalcrafts #folkloring
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Arkansas Arts Council names Oark potter Stephen Driver as its 2025 Arkansas Living Treasure | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Arts Council has named Oark potter Stephen Driver as its 2025 Arkansas Living Treasure for his work and dedication to the craft of pottery.
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Profs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Monday in Fairfax, Va.! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social @insidenova.com.web.brid.gy @washingtonian.bsky.social
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic @carterhaughschool.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Want to hear a pet peeve of ours about St. Patrick’s Day? It’s probably not what you think it is. carterhaughschool.com/the-dreaded-...
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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our one-day online conference ‘Folklore and the Digital’ is on Saturday 29 March, 09:30-17:30 GMT. Tickets £30 (£20 for FLS members with Promo Code). For the programme and tickets see folklore-society.com/event/folklo...
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Folklore and the Digital: One-day Online Conference - The Folklore Society
On the digitisation of folklore collections, large language models, computational analysis, digital folklore communities, creativity with digitised folklore, and the pros and cons of digitisation
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A unique type of material culture: protest signs capture the mood and ideas of a group at a moment in time. Handmade signs, in particular, are both forms of personal expression, but designed to be seen in public as part of a group event. This, too, is #folklore
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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Booksellers! I have a 60 minute talk on the subject of Church and Churchyard folklore which accompanies my new book, for those who might be interested in doing signings etc. You can reach me here, or at thefolklorepodcast(at)gmail.com
Cover for Hallowed Ground
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Material culture is a delight!
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Free speech on university campuses is essential. It allows for the exploration of ideals and development of critical thinking skills needed to innovate and expand knowledge. Dictatorships limit speech, democracies protect it.
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Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is a very interesting article about the dangers of superstition, particularly when combined with religious fanaticism: www.thestatesman.com/opinion/susp... #superstition #folklore #religion #religiousextremes #folkbeliefs
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Suspending Reason - The Statesman
Superstition has been an intrinsic part of the world’s cultural and religious landscape for centuries. Rooted in tradition, folklore and spiritual beliefs, it continues to influence the lives of milli...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today, Tues 11 March, 4pm! HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY talk at UC Santa Cruz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social, presented by the Center for Monster Studies @ucscmonsters.bsky.social. 1/2 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/davies
Event poster. Middle-right: headshot of author. Lower left: book cover. Poster text: The UCSC Center for Monster Studies Presents Surekha Davies. “Humans: A Monstrous History.” Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. Tuesday 3/11/2025. 4pm. Cowell Provost House.
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment and Cowell College.
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Evie Miller @wickedtizzy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New read just dropped 😯 upcolorado.com/university-o...
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University Press of Colorado - Old Woman with Berries in Her Lap
The Alaska Literary Series "Old Woman with Berries in Her Lap brought me to tears, anger, and some laughter. This search for cultural identity can be a painful one for it often brings up family se...
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have long suspected that cryptids were a smokescreen for something. I live in Appalachia, so I assumed our spooky landscape tales helped hide moonshine operations, but clearly there are other intriguing possibilities... folksongs seem often to celebrate interpersonal interaction, in contrast
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MUNFLA @munfla-archive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing an Inuktitut version of the toe-counting rhyme, This Little Piggy, from M. Tuglavina of Makkovik. Can you help us give M. Tuglavina her first name?
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Evie Miller @wickedtizzy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Shirt is from Seductive Tees.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is THE most important lesson of studying history. Intentions are not the same as outcomes... After Waterloo, European monarchies banned vaccines (!), tore out street lighting, welcomed back the Jesuits--all meant to end the era of revolution and republics. That era was just beginning.
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Photo of cast if IwAV and the text:

Somewhere in America are a group of hundred-year-old vampires who have been quietly collecting Social Security.

Now Elon Musk has cut them off, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Anyone need a story prompt?
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hi there! Interested in customs, beliefs & stories? Sign up to hear about the Folklore Studies MA at the University of Hertfordshire at the online 'open day' event, 4pm on 18 March www.herts.ac.uk/study/open-d...
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
In Russian and Slavic stories, like Baba Yaga tales, there is often a mention of a character "laying across the stove" which sounds very strange to us now. Old-style ovens often had a flat spot that could be used like a stove-top for warming, but also served as a bed.
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Anti-intellectualism is a tool of the present US regeime. While it may not be exactly the sane as it was back then, it is worth considering, as academics, what we can do, and when it may be time to get out. I hate this for us, and for the world
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Occupational folklore doesn't get enough attention. What workplace folkways have you participated in?
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The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Beginning next week all episodes of The Local Mythstorian Podcast will be re-run, once a week for 4 months. If you’ve not heard it, and folklore and lost history are your thing, just search The Local Mythstorian on Apple, Spotify or Amazon (or frankly wherever you get your podcasts!)
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
‘One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that — to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to one by others.’ — Sylvia Townsend Warner #InternationalWomensDay
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 05/03/2025
We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10
a tiny white dog stands on a tile floor and looks up at you. they’re wearing a big plush yellow star around their teensy noggin, like the world’s most congratulatory lion mane. we really needed to see her today.
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This from look like it is absolutely living its best life.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Scottish selkies shed their sealskins to live among humans. But when they reclaim their hidden skins, they return to the sea, transformed yet whole. Some comebacks are about remembering who you are. #WyrdWednesday 🎨Aimee Easterling
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April
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amandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Masks are a fascinating part of Costume Folklore. Like all adornment, they can signal belonging, convey messahes, seek to persuade, and create identity, but maska do all this while deliberately concealing as well, allowing for more trandformative possibilities
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