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Helen Lundström Erwin

@helenerwin.bsky.social
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Novelist in the Metaverse Historical Fiction inspired by political movements and resistance. Historical Fantasy inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore. Virtual World inspired by Women's History helenerwin.com

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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's officially October. Want a spooky read that takes you back to the witch trials and the sorcery trials of Sweden in the 17th and 18th century? Based on actual court trials but told by the sprits themselves? The Lure of Water and Wood, find more info in my pinned thread.
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The Foremothers Café @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We are thrilled to announce that singer and performer 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 Hummingson is kicking off her tour at The Foremothers Café as part of our 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! Wow! Her Kick-Off Event!💃 August 23rd at 3 pm ET. Dress up your avatar in dancing shoes and join us to celebrate love in style!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/2 Looking for a novel about women's history?
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Want a good fantasy novel to read this hot summer day? #SummerReading #Folklore #History #HistoricalFantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKXW59YV
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The end of an era. Join @deedeechainey.bsky.social at the #CulturalFuturesHub on Spatial to celebrate this wonderful community and to reflect on how to building the future.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you haven't yet, go to whitehouse dot gov /aliens You'll be appalled. I have no further comment. Go look at it, then call your representatives. #AliensTrump #Immigration
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just one more week and I'm heading to California as a Finalist for the Auggies! #AWE #Auggies
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Looking for a cute book to read to your youngest to celebrate Pride? Introduce them to my lil' police officer. #Pride #LGBTQ #ChildrensBooks www.amazon.com/dp/B07LFJL29M
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Officer Helga Hedgehog Meets the New Neighbors
Amazon.com: Officer Helga Hedgehog Meets the New Neighbors eBook : Lundström Erwin, Helen: Books
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Big deal for us! YAY!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An excellent summer read!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Näcken was known to turn into a horse now and then. As late as the mid 18th century a woman witnessed in court that her sister had died after seeing Näcken appear as a horse. He went straight through the house. After that, her sister died. #FolkloreThursday (photo credit: unknown)
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Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Well, this is cool! #volcano #meteor #philippines
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm beyond thrilled. I can't believe it. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and believed in me. This means so much to me. #AWE #Auggies #TheForemothersCafe
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#FolkloreCommunity #Folklore and #Naturalist community, you might enjoy joining us today at The Foremothers Cafe. Starting soon at 4 pm. Reach out for details or comment below.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1/4 There's a lot of conversation about who has the right to write a story, and who has the right to play a role. Our job as writers is to imagine it and to try to understand what it was like.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I've been nominated for an Auggie for Best Indie Creator for The Foremothers Cafe! Please log in here: auggies.awexr.com/auth/login/x... Navigate to Best Indie Creator(s) and please scroll down to vote for The Foremothers Cafe. 🙏 #AWE
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Join me at @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social tomorrow! We're four years old!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#Folklore friends, looking for a book for the weekend that brings you into the heads of two anxious, deadly AND sexy wood spirits and water spirits? Rooted in actual sorcery trial history? Look no further 😊
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It was very dangerous to enter a room where a mother had just given birth, a troll could sneak in and exchange the baby for its own. If you brouht fire though, it would be ok. Trolls feared it. Bortbytingarna (The Changelings) by John Bauer #WyrdWednesday
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1/2 Anette, milked several hours per day for most of her adult life. Aching arms and stiff backs were a daily presence in statar-milkmaids' day. Still, Anette felt a connection to her cows, like her, they were enslaved to produce milk for the wealthy land owners that "employed" them.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Like a Swedish Sjörå-Sea Rå
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
1/3 Anna was accused of witchery June 1669. She was accused of stealing a man's penis, making it feel as though his stomach was full of kittens instead. She left with it meeting his wife at the door and said, "Now I've been in there taking the penis from your husband." #WyrdWednesday Art: ChatGPT
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The FolkLore Press @thefolklorepress.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems. #wyrdwednesday art: Jakub Rozalski
The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems. #wyrdwednesday 

art: Jakub Rozalski
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join us! We're on ENGAGE
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm nominated for Best Indie Creator for The Foremothers Cafe! It's such an honor! Thank you #AWE Please help me get to the finals by voting for The Foremothers Cafe under Best Indie Creator(s) auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/o...
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thor was everywhere!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Whoa! A M A Z I N G
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Rå loved Thor and his powerful hammer. She went outside during thunderstorms and moved her long hair aside and opened her back so Thor's power could enter her. #SwedishFolklore #Rå Read about her in my historical fantasy The Lure of Water and Wood
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Like Näcken
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's true! OMG, I'm so honored about this. Thank you!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
1/2 In my historical fantasy novel, the Skogsrå is visited by two human women who wants her advice, and to tell her about the horryfing fact that Näcken has been seen in the area. Of course they have no idea who they are confiding in. They think she's human.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In my book The Lure of Water and Wood, my character Näcken is trying desperately to seem human. He's not. He's a water creature and if people get into the water with him he drowns them. He just can't help himself, no matter how guilty he feels afterward. #FolkloreThursday
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
1/5 I moderated a panel with two amazing authors yesterday, Erica Obey - Dazzle Paint and Martha Jean Johnson - The Queen's Musician. The event was organized by @hns-nyc-chapter.bsky.social and held at the cozy Book Club Bar in NYC and we were introduced by @faithljustice.bsky.social
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
One of my favorite places in the world. Haväng, Sweden. You see the Stenshuvud Mountain (Stones Head) in the background. According to local lore the giant Sten lived in a cave and the iconic view of the cliff got its name after him. (Photo Credit: Ben Erwin) #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Love this!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel on Wednesday. Join us at #TheBookClubBar while we delve deep into the topic of historical storytelling.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For more folkloring and Rå and Näcken conversations, listen to my conversation on the @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social www.folkloringpodcast.com/2275302/epis... #Folklore #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesay #Norse #SwedishHistory
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Episode 58 - Swedish Folklore, Virtual Reality and Horny Tree Spirits - Folkloring
Welcome to the Folkloring Podcast.   In this episode I welcome author Helen Lundstrom Irwin. Helen is the author of The Lure of Water and Wood, creator of the virtual space The Foremother’s Café ...
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Fantastic early morning for me yesterday. Thank you very much for having me. I blame Thor for BlueSky being down, I bet he was teasing Rå. It was ThorsDay after all 😍
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A little like the Norns at Yggrasils roots.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Even today, certain forests carry a presence that feels older than language. A stillness that suggests something is watching, waiting, or simply existing beyond human understanding. #FolkloreThursday Art: Lutz Baar
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#FolkloreThursday The skogsrå (Swedish) or hulder (Norwegian) is a seductive supernatural woman of the forest. She looks beautiful, but has a hollowed-out back and a cow's tail. If a man follows her, he will be taken into the mountain and lost forever, but if he hears church bells he will be saved.
In a forest landscape--a tree, a lake, and a pile of cut trees are in the background--a man in a hat, striped sleeves, and an apron, holds an ax while he speaks with a woman in a long dress, with a white apron, kerchief, and headscarf. She holds her hands behind her back to disguise her cow's tail - she is a huldre or troll-woman.
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One of my favorite artists! BlueSky was down today, but it's ok, we can share now. Love John Baur!
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#FolkloreThursday Some said Rå was actually a tree. In my book The Lure of Water and Wood, she sometimes takes on the spirit and look of an old tree to appear older. Art Credit: Meraylah Allwood
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Rå's home was the forest. She cared for it. The word rå means care. In some contexts it can also mean rule. Art Credit: Kaia Pieters #FolkloreThursday
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yggdrasil, the World Tree. 1, 17th century, unknown 2, Lorenz Frølich 1885| 3, Norns Amalia Schoppe 1882 The three Norns sat by the well of wisdom by Yggdrasil's roots weaving fate into existence, drawing runes into her roots. #FolkloreThursday #Norse
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
As we say in Sweden, hja. (Yes with a sigh)
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
1/2 The skogsrå (The Forest Rå) tricked men into having sex with them for weeks and weeks. She was gorgeous but her long hair hid a frightening secret, a back that was just a tree trunk with a large bottomless black hole. Read about her in my novel The Lure of Water and Wood. #HistoricalFantasy
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
OMG. This is the best! 😍
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Helen Lundström Erwin @helenerwin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I received a lovely review for my book Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool! #goodreads #HistoricalFiction #Readers
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