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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1h

Goodnight from The Bloody Empress pub, where Mel Ridge is shouting requests to the band – The Sorrow Maidens, The Naming Jig, The Stoat’s Coat. Goodnight from Jenny Lovelock, sleeping in the stables to keep the Soul-knacker from taking her favourite mare. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 2h

Day 4: Entrance Delightful gates of the Holy Trinity Parish Cemetery last fall, when we were consulting with a local heritage group on some site conservation! #31daysofgraves

A metal hand made arch that reads Holy Trinity Parish Cemetery, supported by two stone pillars made of many different squared stones. There is an open set of iron gates, and two people in toques and raincoats walking up into the cemetery.

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Filocalus Letters @filocalus.bsky.social · 5h

55_ Cementerio de Geloria (Torrelavega, Cantabria – Spain) #31DaysofGraves Day 3: Glass (Sorry for the delay!) #tombtober #typelovers #mixtype #displayfont #typography #lettercutters #stoneengraving #stonecarving #heritage #cemetery #grave #memorial #epitaph

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 3h

It is a subtle decorative choice, wrapping the body in mint green chiffon with a swirl of piping around the waist attached with bridging stitches. Early #1940s style, soft layers and sleeves that seem to fold into themselves #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The front of a lower calf length dress of floaty pale green chiffon with short sleeves and a v neck. It has a panel of piped fabric at the centre of the waist that encircles the body

Back view of the pale green chiffon early 1940s evening dress. The back is higher around the neck but the piped mid section continues from the front

A detail of the piping in the middle of the early 1940s pale green chiffon evening dress. It shows how the bridging stitches attach the green piping in a concentric pattern

Sleeve detail of the early 1940s pale green chiffon evening dress which shows how the sleeve is folded into a soft draped shape

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysofGraves Day 4 Entrance L is for Lychgate, a wonderful illustration by @landisblair.bsky.social for A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, available worldwide. Lychgate: A gate between the land of the living and the dead, marking the boundary between consecrated and unconsecrated soil.

Black and white drawing of a roofed structure with open gates where a wheeled bier and hatted mourners stand. A veiled woman stands at the entrance of the gate. A church tower stands in the background and there are trees and a fence next to the roofed structure--a lychgate, because monuments in a cemetery can be seen in the background.

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thefamilyarchives.bsky.social @thefamilyarchives.bsky.social · 13h

#31daysofgraves Day 4 - "Entrance" - this is the lychgate entrance to St Peter's church and graveyard. Lychgates were designed as a sheltered waiting point for mourners carrying the body from home to the church for last rites and burial. This one's around 140 years old.

Photo is of the lychgate entrance to St Peter's Church, Liverpool.
Date built: c. 1886–1887
Architects: Grayson and Ould (George Enoch Grayson and Edward A. Ould)
Design: Timbered canopy on stone side walls featuring a half-hipped shingle roof, an arch-braced frame, and finely carved bressumers and bargeboards. Painted in contrasting black and white.
Listing Status: Grade II listed structure

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Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social · 13h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Entrance from the churchyard of St Giles, Packwood, Warwickshire.

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 12h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4 - Entrance: The entrance to the Calderai mausoleum at the Verano Monumental Cemetery in Rome (Campo Verano, Roma).

A grand iron gateway with a male and female sculpture on either side.

An image of Kraków New Jewish Cemetery overlaid with text
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 15h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Entrance An entrance is also an exit

B & W. A stone Victorian tomb, on a bed of fallen leaves and below the branches of a tree. The arched entrance/exit has been bricked up with fairly modern looking bricks. Ivy climbs.

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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 14h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Entrance To a crypt Craile Fabulous carvings and symbols

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 11h

Dering Woods, Pluckley Kent. Legend says that terrifying, blood-curdling screams are heard through the trees after dark. It is said they are the cries of people who became lost and died in the forest. A highwayman was pinned to a tree and beheaded by villagers at nearby Fright Corner. #SpookySunday

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 13h

"'Basely murdered!' the Ghost interrupted." illustration from GHOST'S GLOOM, written by J.G. Holmes, 1889. Artist: Wm. Parkinson. #SpookySunday

A spectral figure draped in hood and long robes stands in an open doorway, hands raised in confrontation. In front of the spectre, a woman in Victorian dress has collapsed to her knees and leans against the open door, her head in her hands.

Caption:
"Basely murdered!" the Ghost interrupted.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 10h

I'm just off to the Refectory for a few hours because a friend has kindly and unexpectedly invited me out for lunch. But I look forward to seeing all your ghostly posts when I get back! #SpookySunday #31DaysOfHalloween

An illustration of skeletal monks processing through a crypt, from Arthur Waite's 'Belle And The Dragon', 19th Century.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 9h

In a properly sheep-centered view of things, sheep would readily transmute into standing stones and vice versa. At night the stones become flocks of sheep roaming the countryside and then return to stone forms at dawn. 🐑 🪨 🐑

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 21/09/2026

You should probably preorder KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN coming out Nov 10. Probably multiple copies. You can give them out as Christmas presents and make the world a better place. link.amazon/B00KDt3xD

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

To stand inside a stone circle is to be enfolded by the Long Neolithic. To stand inside a stone circle is also to be enfolded by folklore and a sense of awe. Archaeology is a telling of stories, we do not pretend that our stories are the only ones that matter. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h

Tucked away in the corner of the Church of Saint Nicholas, Feldkirch: the Annenaltar, 1521. Masterpiece of Wolf Huber whose day is today.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 8h

Day 4: Entrance I've always loved the main gate to the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. I wish the rest of it was still around and not the concrete wall that exists today. #31DaysOfGraves

The main gate to the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is a narrow wrought iron arch attached to two low concrete walls on either side. The top of the arch has the words General Protestant Cemetery in rusting white metal

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Entrance The metal gates of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's military cemeteries are handmade by the Commission's artisans. You can visit their workshop in Beaurains to see the blacksmiths (and carvers and carpenters) demonstrate their craft.

display at the CWGC Experience in Beaurains showing sketches of different gates crafted by the CWGC blacksmiths

display at the CWGC Experience in Beaurains showing an example of a metal gate with geometric design and a flower detail, crafted by the CWGC blacksmiths

entrance to a CWGC cemetery with a hand-crafted metal gate featuring rounded shapes

back entry gate at Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, Beaumont-Hamel, showing a metal gate set into a stone post

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 3: Glass windows of family mausoleum in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France

two stained glass windows in gold and green with art nouveau white poppies in tile above them, all set into the gray stone of a mausoleum

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 8h

Warding off witchcraft with paper: an everyday solution for everyday problems.Particular words written on paper were meant to carry power to ward off witches and defeat evil. #Folklore www.aber.ac.uk/en/history/n...

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 8h

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Madame Veuve Fontaine Clémentine Fontaine, née Aubut, Montreal, Quebec, 1899 2nd mourning--her gown is textured, not crape. She holds a black handkerchief. The buttoned velvet bands on her cuffs are an unusual detail. collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/4...

Black and white photograph of a woman in full mourning dress with a long skirt and immense gigot sleeves and a mourning bonnet with a pointed front peak trimmed with a white ruche, and a long veil. Labeled L.E. Desmarais & Cie, 17 St. Lawrence St. Montreal. She stands with one hand on a decorative pillar prop in front of a backdrop painted with flowers, between two curtains.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 8h

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Black and white mourning handkerchief with scalloped edges. Trauer-Taschentuch - Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Germany - CC0. www.europeana.eu/en/item/1254...

Black handkerchief with embroidered white bow and ribbon details, line and dot borders and scalloped borders bound with white.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 8h

#SpookySunday Cincinnati's Music Hall is built on the site of the former Potter's Field. The dead, whose bones were disturbed, manifest as footsteps and apparitions in old-fashioned clothing. During renovations some 60+ skeletons were discovered in a concrete crypt under an elevator shaft.

Massive orange brick building with Romanesque or early Gothic details of towers, pointed roofs and Gothic arches. Grey roof. Cincinnati Music Hall. There are groups of people in front of the steps and a white tent canopy to the right.

Cover of Haunted Ohio III by Chris Woodyard. Smudged grey and black clouds with a moon containing an image of the state of Ohio and a skull. The title is in bright orange letters.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 12h

'Ghosts' one of Paul Nash's illustrations for 'Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk' (1658). Its author, Thomas Browne, crafted many a funerary banger: "But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave" #SpookySunday

🎨 Hand coloured lithograph of ‘Ghosts’ (1932)

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 14h

This ghastly illustration comes from Ernest Suffling's 'Decameron Of A Hypnotist' from 1898. I've never read it, or Suffling's more famous work, 'The Story Hunter', which I'm realising is a serious oversight on my part. This looks creepy as hell. #SpookySunday

A man clasps the arms of his chair in horror as a corpse-like figure rises out of the seat in front of him.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 8h

#31DaysofGraves Day 4: Entrance Gloriously gothic Green-wood Cemetery (New York) gates, then (1900-1909) and now. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a44288... Green-Wood Cemetery Gate today By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Entrance Greenwood Cemetery, New York Gothic gate with elaborate buttresses and spires with plainer brick houses on either side.

Gate to Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, with elaborate Gothic buttresses, pinnacles, and tracery above Gothic arches in brownish-red stone. A car is parked in front of one of the pillars. There are buildings flanking the gate with pointed roots with striped and patterned roofs.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 03/10/2026

Late to #31DaysofGraves but have an emergency submission for Day 3: Glass. A rat-chewed bottle of Methadone in St. Cuthbert's burial ground 🙈

Edge of a gravestone on an old atone wall. On the edge Is a small glass medicine bottle with a partially chewed cap

Edge of a gravestone on an old atone wall. On the edge Is a small glass medicine bottle with a partially chewed cap. Label reads 40ml Methadone DTF

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Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' by @folklorewales.com and @folklorepod.bsky.social is out in paperback! Find your copy in your favourite local bookshop or through the link below 👻 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-fol...

Now in Paperback

‘a masterpiece of ghost stories in Welsh homespun.’

Myrddin ap Dafydd,
former Archdruid of Wales

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23h

Goodnight from the women of Weychester, marching the night with torches and placards reading: WEREWOLVES LIVE AMONG US. Goodnight from the Lightfoot Travelling Curiosity Show, its punters journeying home sure they’ve seen spirits trapped in bell jars. Goodnight from Hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

War is target fixation. War is concrete cicatrix. War is an unbanishable ghost. Hookland knows this. It pillboxes remain manifestations of invasion fears. The abandoned sound mirrors of its salt marshes still listen out for phantom planes. There is no psychic peace. – #DAKilory

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was my go-to park for a number of years. In lichen we trust.

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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Waiting. #CemeterySaturday Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL ▪️ I just listed this original drawing in my shop if anyone is interested. www.etsy.com/listing/4587...

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please join us for some more phantom fun and frolics on #SpookySunday, the feed for all things ghostly. Any posts on ghosts will be welcome: #folklore, fiction, poetry, art, popular culture, info on haunted locations - etc etc. I look forward to your manifestations. #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost #ghosts

'La Vie' by De Boever - a skeleton with a monocle dances with a woman who is smilingly gesturing at a another skeleton lounging in a chair and smoking a cigarette.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you can’t share a divine selection of late #1930s Madame Grès gowns on your birthday then when even can you? Saturday birthdays are the best! #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A selection of four pleated evening dresses in white, peach and yellow, with pleated bodices in a variety of styles, all 1930s by Mme Gres

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm talking to @threeravenspod.bsky.social about ghost stories! We talk about the fascination we have for ghost stories, what ghost stories need to be creepy, what ghosts need to make a comeback in ghostly fiction, and whether it even matters if a place is actually haunted! youtu.be/JhpkRwdR8Fs

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Phantom Cubes and Spectral Smells: Ghost Stories with Three Ravens

YouTube video by Icy Sedgwick

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most people have a devil and an angel on their shoulders. I just have a dragon – a fabulous firedrake – that lives in my bones. It's much more wonderful and its flame burns away bullshit like you wouldn't believe. – #EmilyCBanting

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gearing up for #Halloween on this October #Caturday with 1930s die-cut cardboard cat and scarecrow masks. No elastic needed; the cap holds the mask in place. Former Etsy listing

Cardboard masks representing a black cat with big eyes, whiskers, and its tongue out and a goateed, red-faced scarecrow wearing a black slouch hat. Both have orange cloth or crepe-paper caps with orange-and-black checked borders attached, to hold the mask on the head.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves #3 glass. Portraits in stained glass set in the Ralph and Mickey Laukhuff gravestone, 1993, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee. Designed by Mickey Laukhuff Walker, who founded Laukhuff Stained Glass in 1961 and was the first woman to own a stained glass company in the US.

A tombstone shaped like a church with buttresses, arched windows, and a bell tower. The name "Laukhuff" is carved into the base. There are two brightly colored stained glass windows in the structure, with floral and wing motifs, each featuring a portrait of Ralph and Mickey Laukhuff, buried here. Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65537959/martin_%22mickey%22-laukhuff_walker

A portrait in stained glass of a smiling Mickey Laukhuff Walker against a white opalescent background. She has reddish blond hair and is wearing a ruffled collar with a pink edge. The portrait is framed in faceted square pink glass stones and floral stained glass sections may be seen around the portrait.

A portrait in stained glass of Ralph Laukhuff against a white opalescent background. He is smiling and wears a black coat, white shirt, and black bow tie. The portrait is framed in faceted square turquoise glass stones and floral stained glass sections may be seen around the portrait.

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of #Booktober - a mid-century modern classic. Fantastic dust jacket, and delightfully gossipy stories. The Ida Lupino one is properly creepy.

That Ghost I Saw
Some excursions into the
SUPER NATURAL
As told to & recounted by
DANTON WALKER
These things couldn't possibly happen but they did, - to
NOEL COWARD, BEATRICE LILLIE, MAE WEST, STUART CLOETE, IDA LUPINO, BURL IVÉS...

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Friends of Toowong Cemetery @fotc.au · 02/10/2026

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 3: Glass Glass-covered immortelles on the grave of World War I Soldier, Private George Heiniger, at Toowong Cemetery in 1915. 📍 Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘 - fotc.au 🔍 Details in Alt text...

George Heiniger's comrades funded the erection of a marble headpiece above his grave at the Toowong Cemetery which was engraved with a miniature saddle and crossed rifles. The grave was surrounded by a concrete kerbing. After paying for the tombstone the balance of the money raised was used to purchase two artificial wreaths which were placed on the grave.

Private George Heiniger of the Unallotted Light Horse died on 21 February 1915 at the Enoggera Military Training Camp in Brisbane at the age of 18. The night before his death he complained of a headache and giddiness. The next morning he was very ill and his comrades took him on a stretcher to the field hospital at the camp. Once there he lapsed into unconsciousness and died at 9.15 am that day.

A court of enquiry found that he had died of heat stroke, although his comrades stated that he had not been in the sun and had not engaged in violent exercise or work preceding his illness.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Goodnight from Davey Smith, excited by the air being thick with bonefire incense sending smoke-wraith prayers to boundary gods. Goodnight from the midnight sisters of Bramble Street, sharing cigarettes, gossip and protective charms against the wounds of the night. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ghosts. One of 240 images from my forthcoming (2027) book on the global, visual history of ghosts. Franz Sedlacek "Ghosts on a Tree" (1933)

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧵Back to Ryedale Museum and my favourite exhibit mainly because it tells a wonderful story of community. It is, the Farndale hearse. Victorian funerals were taken very seriously and a certain level of ceremony was expected. In some ways they were the equivalent of a present day wedding. These

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For I am a salt-hag. I know gull gossip. I know the calling and quelling of storms. My hair is wind-braided. My lips wear rough salt kisses. I stand on the cliffs and read omens pulled by the tide. Be well and avoid my anger. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW VIDEO! A trip down memory lane for the original fans of Under The Knife as I contemplate which medical objects to bring to NYC for the filming with Doctor Mike. As ever, I appreciate shares, likes, and subscribes as I try to resurrect this old channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL55...

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The Return of the Clockwork Saw!

YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What to wear for #WorldSmileDay Moschino smiley-face crochet top, c. 1990 Augusta Auctions Goyard smile tote, 2018 Sotheby's Michele della Valle diamond and ruby brooch, Sotheby's

Ivory, orange, and red crochet top showing smiley-faces in various configurations: framing hearts, centering suns or stars. By Moschino via Augusta Auctions. c. 1990

Burgundy leather tote with a purple-beige woven chevron pattern. Ivory leather appliques under the handle attachments and on the side of the bag make a smiley-face. Goyard smile tote 2018 via Sotheby's

Round jewelled smiley-face brooch of yellowish diamonds, heart-emoji eyes, and a ruby and white diamond smile. Michele della Valle, via Sotheby's.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For #ForteanFriday Fearing the Reaper: A Fight with Death “I felt certain if that shade came on and touched me, I was a dead man.” A fight to the death–with Death. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/fearing... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Black and white drawing of a skeletal Grim Reaper walking in a graveyard with two tombstones and some trees behind him. He carries his scythe and an hourglass.

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