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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 1h

Eothen #PrinceEdwardIsland #Canada 7.10.1872. "My birthday. We had tried to arrange to spend the day in harbour, but a contrary wind prevented our arriving as soon as we had expected...We were off the Cape at eight pm, & from thence steered a direct course for Cape Prim,..." #Brassey #History #1870s

Pages from "A Cruise in the Eothen, 1872" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1873. Prince Edward Island, Canada 7.10.1872.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 18h

Gef was allegedly a talking mongoose who inhabited the farmhouse of the Irving family on the Isle of Man in the 1930s. At different times, Gef claimed to be an "extra-extra-clever mongoose" or an "earthbound spirit." The story was extensively covered by the 1930s British tabloids. #FairyTaleTuesday

A supposed sketch of Gef the Talking Mongoose, drawn by George Scott in 1936.

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 1h

The Wounded Vampire by Wilhelm Kotarbinski #WyrdWednesday

Artwork depicting an injured female vampire with bat-like wings in a landscape.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4h

Shhh go quietly... a little Hedgehog is rustling through your feed. 🥹

A small Hedgehog nestles among a blanket of crisp autumn leaves, peering out with a gentle, curious expression as though happily exploring the woodland floor. Warm golden tones surround its tiny face and spiky coat, creating an irresistibly cosy autumn scene.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 1h

"The West Beach and Bexhill Kursaal." Postcard sent 7.10.1905. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Beach #Holiday #History #1900s

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 2h

Aylett Sammes, a maverick among the antiquaries of the seventeenth century, produced one of the most bizarre books of the age - 'Britannia antiqua illustrata: or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phœnicians'.

A giant shape of a man made from wicker with hay stacked beneath it, being set on fire. There are men being driven inside the giant wicker man while crowds gather around to watch.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 4h

The gruesome Leathermen were resurrected after 1000+ years to protect 'The Giant Under The Snow', John Gordon's classic folk horror for kids, published in 1968. #WyrdWednesday #folkhorror #BookChatWeekly #booksky

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 3h

Beech roots at Grenofen woods last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 4h

Very dull and drizzly here today so here’s an early (c.1905) colour card of the alignements of Kermario in Carnac (Morbihan) by Waron in St-Brieuc.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 2h

"A Corpse Awakening : Ligeia Risen From Her Bed Of Death." The Illustrated London News 18.12.1909. #WyrdWednesday

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 2h

Miss Lemon summons Nick Buckley from the dead in PERIL AT END HOUSE #WyrdWednesday

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 2h

In one of the starkest Child ballads a mother's lamentations summon her dead sons home. But the reunion is with revenants & terrestrial time is short: ‘The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin’ worm doth chide; Gin we be miss’d out o’ our place, A sair pain we maun bide.’ #WyrdWednesday

To paraphrase: Before the cockerel crows at daybreak, the grave worms scold the revenants to return, not to their former life but to the tomb. If they remain above ground or accept any mortal foodstuff the punishment will be bleak. In this illustration, an elderly woman looks up imploring at three spectral images who are turning to leave. The viewer can see the night sky through the window and a candle burns as precious time passes.
'The Wife of Usher's Well' forms part of the Child collection, 305 traditional ballads anthologised by F.J. Child and published in 1860 🎨 Henry Matthew Brock's lithograph in 'A Book of Old Ballads' Ed. Beverley Nichols (1934).

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 2h

Paper dress. Paper clothes were short-lived fashion novelty garments from the 1960s made from disposable cellulose fabric and later, wood pulp mixed with synthetic fibres. #Bexhill #PaperDress

The mini dress has an orange background with yellow, pink and pale brown swirls on it. It is sleeveless. It is displayed on a headless mannequin with two strings of beads around the neck.

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Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 2h

Beware of traipsing over the burial sites of the Nordic haugbùi, or “barrow-dwellers,” for the spirits are known for showing no mercy dispensing their specific form of punishment if disturbed to resurrection: Reciting poetry to trespassers. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ The Merry Cemetery by Amrita Sher-Gil

A painting of an atmospheric but cheery looking cemetery decorated with different cross tombstones, and in the background are a line are little buildings, some showing the silhouettes of people.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 8h

The first vampire film was The Vampire (1913), which was based on an 1897 poem by Rudyard Kipling. In the film, a man in a toxic relationship watches a stage show involving a vampire seductress, and realizes it mirrors his own experience. #WyrdWednesday

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13h

Employees at the the Cleveland Trust Company in Ohio, USA, practice protecting the main vault of the strong room, 1924.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 5h

"Husband's Strange Experience. Meets Wife He Thought Dead at Bexhill. Sequel To Drowning Mystery." Bexhill Observer 14.8.1937. #WyrdWednesday

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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 10h

Good night ✨ -Dudley Hardy “London by Night,” 1891

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 19h

Your fat friend who has “fasted for three days” and now feels “ill and faint” appears to have lodgings to let in all her attics, and will shortly have narrower accommodation below ground if she persists. If still above ground, tell her this will result in dropsy.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 7h

In Welsh Arthurian folklore, Peredur (the Welsh version of Sir Percival) battles a man in rusty armor who rises from under a stone slab that was lying on a hill. As pre-Christian Britains were often placed in megalithic tombs, the man is implied to be some ancient undead. 🎨Mike Smith #WyrdWednesday

A British megalith with a stone slab at dusk. Photograph by Mike Smith.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 6h

A curious Celtic conundrum for #HillfortsWednesday A male mustachioed head said to have been found at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Is it Iron Age? 🤔 Part of the Rodney Legg collection 📷 © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.106 Date unknown, importance unclear, investigation ongoing

A yellow block of limestone carved into a make face with moustache, flat nose and bulging eyes

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 22h

Mauna Loa Crater by William Hodges, 18th Century, back when Hawaii was still called the Sandwich Islands on the maps. #Hawaii #volcano #landscape #art

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 22h

I'm excited to be organising this two-day symposium with @janesamuels.bsky.social - The Nature Within - keynote from @pollyrowena.bsky.social - details at www.thenaturewithin.co.uk

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 23h

#FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly "... if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life ..." Bram Stoker - Dracula 🎨John Coulthard

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#NationalBadgerDay Badger-folk were creatures of legend mentioned by Tolkien, but nothing is known of their origin: "Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien #TolkienTuesday art: R. Svensson

A ginger-bearded man sits, surrounded by inquisitive badgers

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Order Rodentia @orodentia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#RodentOfTheDay Southeast Asian Striped Squirrel (Tamiops barbei) Species in the same genus * Tamiops barbei, Southeast Asian striped squirrel * Tamiops rodolphii, Cambodian striped squirrel www.thainationalparks.com/species/tami...

A small squirrel with chipmunk-like black and white stripes along its back. It is otherwise a greyish-yellowish color. It has a long tail with relatively flat fur.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We have much pleasure in stating that as a result of the appeal put forth on behalf of Earl De La Warr...that the residents should take 300 guinea season-tickets...to keep the Kursaal open throughout the winter, about 130 tickets have been disposed of..." #Bexhill Chronicle 6.10.1900. #Kursaal

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An old graveyard superstition warned against stepping directly over a grave. Depending on the tradition, doing so might disturb the dead, bring bad luck, or invite the spirit to follow you. Apparently even after death, personal space remained important. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1878 dress worn by Winston Churchill when he was a boy. It was customary for a boy to wear a dress until he was 6 years old. It is on display in our costume gallery. #Bexhill #WinstonChurchill

The dress is a very pale purple with small white designs on it. It has short sleeves and a pleated part below the neck.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sunbeam #PuntaArenas #Chile 6.10.1876. "We got under way at 5.30am, and steamed past the low sandy coast of Patagonia and the rugged mountains of Tierra del Fuego...At 3pm we reached Sandy Point, the only civilised place in the Straits. It is a Chilian settlement..." #Brassey #Travel #History #1870s

Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Punta Arenas, Chile 6.10.1876.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #NationalBadgerDay. I've seen them fleetingly in the woods behind my studio, and they are beautiful creatures. The art here is by my friend and Dartmoor neighbour Danielle Barlow. www.daniellebarlowart.com

An autumn blessing by Danielle Barlow, with a watercolour painting of a bagder: When hips and haws bring dwindling days and fiery leaves set the land ablaze, kindle the fire and welcome all whose hearts respond to autumn's call.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyday objects are the real archaeological treasures! Birch bark is perfect for making containers and wrapping. This 7,500-year-old wrapping was X-rayed, but unfortunately, it didn't show anything. It probably held something perishable. From the Mesolithic settlement of Motala/Sweden. 🧵1/2 📷me

A compact, irregular item of folded birch bark with a rough, wrinkled surface in shades of reddish and brown, shown against a dark background.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 1671, Friedrich Martens travelled to Svalbard and around Greenland as ship's surgeon on the 'Jonas im Walfisch' or 'Jonah in the Whale'. These engravings of a whale & fin whale are from the diary he kept, first published in 1675, where he recorded the area's flora, fauna & whaling industry.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maman (1999) by French-US artist Louise Bourgeois #Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a huge sculpture resembling a spider sited in an area with a city backdrop

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/10/2026

Goodnight. Ostsee-Schoner Lyonel Feininger, 1924.

$Cubist-influenced expressionism featuring sharp, geometric planes and translucent overlapping layers. A lone sailing schooner with rust-red and orange sails navigating a tranquil, fractured sea under a muted, hazy sky.$

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Irish fetch is a supernatural double of a living person. Seeing someone's fetch could be interpreted as an omen of that person's approaching death. Imagine meeting a friend on the road, only to discover later that they were somewhere else entirely. #MythologyMonday

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks

Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a badger standing on a patch of grass, painted in shades of black, white and green.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/10/2026

Fancy some glass noodles this #NationalNoodleDay? Often made from mung beans, they have been made in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. Mung beans were introduced from India by the 2nd century BC, pointing to ancient trade across the Indian Ocean. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of South and Southeast Asia c. 230 BC-AD 220, annotated with the locations of three major trade centres in Thailand in relation to the extents of India's Mauryan Empire and China's Han Empire.

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The simple dolmen of La Pierre Tournante in Tavers (Loiret) has a 4m capstone resting on 4 orthostats. It was said to turn and reveal a treasure once every century. Card by Griveau c.1905. #TombTuesday.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hooklanders talk of dusk as 'hurry home'. It's an attempt to express that creeping sense of peril that comes upon you in certain places as the sun goes down. Twilight terror. Another cup of tea declined. The Highway Code ignored. The true rush hour of the county. – #MattAdams

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You will remind your friends of some gaudy kind of parrot if you combine red, violet and black in your hat and necktie.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #TrimontiumTuesday! 🏛️ These Roman tweezers found at Trimontium could have been used for grooming or perhaps as part of a medical kit. Their little suspension ring kept them handy — whether at the bathhouse or on the go, marching through the hills of Scotland! 😄

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The oldest living being in Wales is a 3,000-year-old yew tree in the churchyard of Llangernyw village. Nearby are two equally ancient standing stones. On Halloween and July 31st, the Angelystor (a dark spirit) appears by the tree to announce which villagers will die soon. #FairyTaleTuesday

Photo of the ancient yew tree in the churchyard of the village of Llangernyw, Wales.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Bexhill. Sea Road." Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex postcard sent 6.10.1936. #Bexhill #Sussex #Street #History #1930s

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Filling the ears with wool should be sufficient to deaden the sound of the chirruping of birds in the morning.

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