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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A new Evangelical Alliance guide identifies growing interest in Witchcraft, tarot, crystals, & alternative spirituality as both spiritually dangerous & an opportunity for Christians to evangelize people increasingly looking beyond traditional religious institutions … wildhunt.org/2026/10/evan...

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Evangelical Group Sees Witchcraft and Spiritual Curiosity as Conversion Opportunity - News, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, U.K., World

Witchcraft & Pagan News - A new Evangelical Alliance guide identifies growing interest in Witchcraft, tarot, crystals, and alternative spirituality as both spiritually dangerous and an opportunity for...

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great to see some of the folklore suggestions people want to see in @storymachine-ht.bsky.social digital tool! We had a great time at the #SASResearchandEngagementfestival

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you to everyone posting about Brian & Wendy Froud's new book, containing 72 new paintings with literary responses by 37 women writers of diverse backgrounds, landscapes & mythic traditions. Having worked on the project for the last two years, we've all been moved by the enthusiastic response.

Image: The front and back cover for "Brian Froud's Green Women" (Abrams Books, New York). Release date: October 6, 2026.

Image: One of Brian Froud's paintings for the book, called Grandmother Wood. Brian's mythic Green Women come in a wide range of guises, ages, and moods from light to dark. The response to this image was written by American novelist Delia Sherman.

Image: The contents page of the book, listing the writers in the volume and the titles of their pieces.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

StoryMachine is going analogue thanks to the 3D printers in the MakerSpace, University of London School of Advanced Study. Finally got this prototype of a printing block with the project logo looking decent and found a lovely #UrsulaKLeGuin allusion in the process

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🍁 🍂 Meet Anne Pratt, Victorian botanical illustrator and researcher. Her work on the folklore and medicinal properties of autumn flora is the focus of mine and Jennifer Evans's new exhibition 'Plantlore' at Chelsea Physic Garden 🍂 🍁 www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/plantlore-is...

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In medieval England, farmers wouldn't eat blackberries after Michaelmas Day, which marked the beginning of autumn. According to legend, the Devil fell from Heaven on this day and landed on a blackberry bush, which he cursed, spat, stomped, and possibly urinated on. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The @beinghumanfest.bsky.social programme is live & I'm delighted to share the event I'm running for @storymachine-ht.bsky.social : www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/cross...

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had a wonderfully productive in-person meeting with the whole @storymachine-ht.bsky.social team, followed up by dinner at the Life Goddess on Store St (delicious Greek food). Looking forward to continuing the conversation today!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why was this Lincoln Imp found up the chimney of a C17th-house? You can read some of my theories in this OA article in this brilliant special issue of Revenant edited by @rorywaterman.bsky.social & Anna Milon www.revenantjournal.com/issues/linco...

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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My and Melanie Giles' article on conversations between #folklore #archaeology & #poetry in the Lincolnshire Fens is out now! In the Lincolnshire Folk Tales issue of Revenant journal edited by @rorywaterman.bsky.social & @hexnhart.bsky.social #peatlands www.revenantjournal.com/contents/fen...

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Fenlore: Creative conversations between folklore and archaeology in Lincolnshire’s peatlands. : Revenant

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am delighted to share that the latest special issue of Revenant Journal, edited by myself & @rorywaterman.bsky.social is now published! Featuring proceedings from the Lincolnshire Folk Tales symposium, which attracted both established folklorists and ECRs www.revenantjournal.com/issues/linco...

Black text on white background, reads: Revenant journal. Issue 14: Lincolnshire Folk Tales - Edited by Anna Milon and Rory Waterman

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello again! If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course. Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

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The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A game or something more? This Thursday, Sept 10th at @treadwells-books.bsky.social www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/mys...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From now on I shall only talk folklore to a background of shiny streamers beneath a giant disco ball

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Eighth-century St. Anne thinks the we should stop talking. Truly, a saint for our time. ⚓️ (This is in the Nubian art section of the Polish National Museum in Warsaw.)

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

to add insult to injury, the accused - Joan, Margaret & Phillip Flower - lived on the Lincolnshire/Leicestershire border, not in Yorkshire!

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reminds me of York's Rutterkin Rum, named after a familiar of one of the Belvoir Witches, a mother & 2 daughters accused of malefic magic against the Duke of Rutland. Advertised using a woodcut from the pamphlet detailing their accusation and deaths. Odd how these things travel

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Had a great time launching the paperback of Folklore at Topping Books in York yesterday ❤️ It was lovely meeting so many new people and chatting about their favourite folklore. Other stops on the book tour include Manchester on 6 Sep and Glossop on 8 Oct

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sweet to hear Margaret Murray mentioned on this week's #NSTAAF, though only as an egyptilogist, not as a key figure for modern paganism. Maybe that's in the XL version

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TOMORROW NIGHT! Online at 8pm UK time, with video replay access for all ticket holders SHAKESPEARE AND FOLKTALE: Magic, Monsters and the Stories We Still Tell Illustrated talk and Q&A with Dr Koel Chatterjee Ticket just £5 (+ fees) from bit.ly/flaevents Supporting @folklorelibrary.bsky.social

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One day someone will find a complete triad which'll tie together Cernunnos, the BM antlered goddess, and some as yet unspecified hermaphroditic deity, & everyone will be happy & no drama will come of it 😉

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Getting sidetracked looking into the hermaphroditic figure flanked by Cernunnos (??) and his companion (Fortuna??) on the Bolards Triad: archeogalloromaine.blog4ever.com/la-triade-de... There's another one where the central figure is tricephalic.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ooh... What's its provenance?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bookmail! For the uninitiated, that's Antara ibn Shaddad on the cover. @rachelschine.bsky.social

Rachel Shine's Black Knights

Showing man on horse with finger in the air

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

youtu.be/NvMrDeKg3NU Wyrd TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television is now available for PRE-ORDER! Official date is 7 Jan, but physical books likely be ready in good time for Christmas. Watch this space for more countdown updates and other exciting news. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wyrd-tv-9...

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WYRD TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Might be time to embark on the study of how/why we invest GenAI with agency, lile an antiquarian of old descending into madness as I become the very thing I study and start talking to the math. [art by Andrjez Masianis]

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Project StoryMachine @storymachine-ht.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thank you for having Christopher Ohge & @hexnhart.bsky.social for a stimulating conversation! The team at National Folklore Survey tried out a prototype of StoryMachine & provided feedback that informed the tool's development. Curious? See what else we've been up to: storymachine.iisys.de/blog/

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National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can advances in technology help us navigate comprehensive collections of folk narratives? This is what Project StoryMachine intends to find out, so on the latest episode of Folklore Matters, we invited @hexnhart.bsky.social and Christopher Ohge to come and tell us more.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

pay your taxes or a horse-riding devil will run you off the page. sounds about right. very effective

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's rumoured there was once a government team monitoring all of England's stone and wooden sleepers for signs of omenic twitching. While certain records do suggest that the Department Recording And Measuring Anomalous Statues (DRAMAS) once existed, there's no trace of it now.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Dropped by King's Manor on a flying visit to York. Took some formative classes of my postgrad here (a decade ago now), fell in love with a thermos and learned to read secretary hand.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Evolution is a funny thing. This must be its fossilised ancestor

a piece of red slate with a natural hole through it shaped a little like a crow's head

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Two bits of folklore that could arguably only exist in the current historical moment. Magical thinking cheek by jowl with biology, conservation efforts and extreme sports. The rational and the fantastic as complementary modes of experience.

two examples of digital folklore in text form: one arguing that cave divers are driven by a parasite to go into caves and feed whatever lives there, the other suggesting that rivers are a narrative construct to justify the introduction of more beavers into the UK

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

At @storymachine-ht.bsky.social, we love playing with AI-enabled recommender systems to learn more about connections between folktales, but all our writing is done exclusively by humans. Don't believe it? Check out our blog to see for yourself: storymachine.iisys.de/blog/

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Project StoryMachine @storymachine-ht.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Doc Rowe's six decades of recording folk customs meet the big screen. Read @hexnhart.bsky.social's report from the premiere screening of The Archivist at Sheffield DocFest: www.linkedin.com/pulse/review... #folklore #docrowearchive #docfest

photo of a black t-shirt with a yellow image on the Burryman on it

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Project StoryMachine @storymachine-ht.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Would you be a proud conedancer? @hexnhart.bsky.social attended the Therapeutic Landscapes conf at @worcesteruni.bsky.social, where the Museum of Roadside Magic was a definite highlight. MRM reimagines service magic for today & pushes the constraints of folk archives libbybove.com/projects/roa...

photo of a conference presentation slide featuring a 'mock deer' puppet and masked characters

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

So many tearful faces in the audience. And no wonder - the film celebrates a tremendous labour of love and the communities it is addressed to

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

At @sheffdocfest.bsky.social for the premiere of The Archivist, celebrating folklore collector Doc Rowe. The room is packing up nicely. Write-up to follow on storymachine.iisys.de/blog/

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Here at Therapeutic Landscapes conference at @worcesteruni.bsky.social asking what emerging digital tools researchers & creatives might want to use for folklore

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Project StoryMachine @storymachine-ht.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined the @contemporarylegend.bsky.social panel today for Sabine Slowik's and @hexnhart.bsky.social's presentation. If you're interested in hearing more, follow the QR below, or click the link: storymachine.iisys.de

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Enjoyable read. Two notes: 1) pagan antlered god in 10th century East Anglia; 2) red-berried mistletoe in Norfolk. #theresearchruinsyou

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Helen Tyson, next, frames witchcraft as a method for creating a life of one's own.

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Day 2 of Lolly Willowes 100 Michael Caines on the conversations of S T Warner and T H Powys: 'This mixture of fear and Bank Holiday on Hampstead Heath is very closely reproduced in the witch-cult.' My own 1st dose of such a concoction occured on Primrose Hill, but one shan't split hairs. #UCL200

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just heard the phrase 'many philosophers are anti-science' at an academic conference. Chat, is this a dogwhistle? I think it's a dogwhistle

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it."

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