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Paul Whitewick @paulwhitewick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

England and Wales have 1.3 million Hectares of Land you can access.... but it turns out, its illegal to get to a lot of it!!!

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Historic England's current images failure (thanks to choices & outsourcing) sucks, but the killing off of decades old urls without reforwarding is frustratingly & annoyingly common with orgs such as uni & history/heritage projects. Summary on H.E. issue by @timdaw.bsky.social

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Days after sharing @johnnythin.bsky.social post on a flint arrow forger in Brandon in 1926 who said he was self taught as a kid, I find mention in Gentleman's Magazine of a flint arrow forger from Brandon, but this is from 1857! 70 years earlier.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cool thread on C20 flint knapping just down the road from Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves. Including arrow heads & mace heads from Mr Spalding who taught himself knapping as a kid to prove visiting professors wrong.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Channel 5s Rich Lives, Poor Lives could have been an interesting concept for a light look at bits of history except for their decision to insert atrocious and pointless AI videos.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Leader of the Skies.. just before the Cardiacs began their incredible, full and joyful magic at Arctangent. #cardiacs

Dramatic clouds, sun and blue evening sky over a festival tent. Low towers of black cloud, bright sunlight above ripping around an edge of a framed blue sky.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Elf and small elf do not tarry long, Sister and father elf leave by the gate, mother of elves go out by the roof, hairy elf I forbid you to scale me and blow your breath in my face" (Part of Munich Night Charm from the C14 or C15. Tr by C. Lecouteux)

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A very good drinking vessel with a very good face. 🐱 This 11th to 12th century lime pot is one of many delightful #OpenAccess works from @metmuseum.org available on JSTOR. See more: bit.ly/457ltyS Images: Lime Pot in the Shape of Cat. 11th to 12th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

British Library getting Ethos (Record of PhD theses) back up will be a boon for research, missing since 2023's cyber attack.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Solstice ritual of new Stonehenge info. I've known a tiny bit about this 1 & the people involved were well aware how 'crackpot' the observation seemed so spent time checking. While the local geography might help the general line & a 2 point alignment is not ideal it's still an interesting nugget.

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Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site

The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm sure we all know a Hans Buchmann who, in 1572, got drunk, lost some of his clothes & fought off invisible bees before flying to Milan, couldn't remember how he got there and returned home without eyebrows. From Cysat's Collectanae Chronica. #hangover #folklore

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Need ££ so decide to sell my vinyl & decks that's been boxed, unplayed, unused, for years after a move. Visually check records & think these need playing to check condition. Spend ££ on new cartridge/stylus, cleaning kit, fixing amp parts, new inner sleeves etc. Keeps records.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#Cardiacs daisy top spotted at start of UK supernatural mystery/horror movie The Gathering. I think this is supposed to be Glastonbury Festival just before someone falls down a hole there and discovers an early Glastonbury church.

People sitting amongst small tents and campfires. One has a black top with large white daisy image on

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This Mesolithic amber figurine from Denmark is conclusive proof that The Wombles were around long before the 70s.

A mall orange figurine carved from amber, with a long snout, facing right. Officially it is a bear, but it has the distinctive whiff of Bungo to us.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Why juries are necessary, as a public stay against the recent stripping away of protest rights by the legislative, police and courts.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This weekend. An interesting feast of talks on Magic & Witchcraft by some knowledgeable folks. Online, cheap (£2 a lecture) & with the cherry on top that ticket holders will get recordings.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Rules aren't rules. Rules: Ss weren't fs...they don't have a cross bar... Ss are S at the front of words... S is 'f' when s is s and s when s is z. Except when they're not.

Memorial stone where s is sometimes f. Including snatch starting f. Sisters starting s. Reposing as repofing.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

History is our memory. When I was involved in the anti-poll tax rebellion of the 1990s something that was often mentioned was the anti-poll tax rising of the 1380s. 600 years earlier. As an inspiration and responsibility to stand up again. We have long memories & this time we won.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 27/03/2026

Stay safe on the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march this Saturday. Tips to deal with 'auditors' and know your rights info in the pics. Key Advice when Going on a Protest: greenandblackcross.org/guides/key-a... Staying safer during anti-fascist organising: solidarity.netpol.org/staying-safe...

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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 06/03/2026

A 1756 ad for a job as a privateer on a ship called "the Terrible" led by a man named Captain Death. 16 yr old Thomas Paine tried to join but his father stopped him. The ship was nearly destroyed soon after with most crew killed, including Captain Death. Join us at events for more: thomaspaine.org

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Is this one of the early fathers of Father Christmas? The carol 'Sir Christemas' from C15. Possibly 1 of the earliest personifications of Christmas. (from Oxford Bk of Carols -orig in Ritson MS)

Sheet of music and words. Titled Sir Christemas. dated c1500. Words include: "Nowell (repeated), Who is there? I am here Sir Christemas."

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

2 weeks til Christmas - time to free Furious Santa from his box

A Christmas ornament of a very angry looking Santa

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is on New Year's Eve Eve so I'm hoping James mentions eaves in his Christmas Lecture about ancient dwellings.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Add this to your cosy Christmas listening- an interesting chat about the paper on irish neolithic kinship that came out in the spring. Go via their website and get links to this paper and others including 'pigs and the solstice'.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

7 is my current disheartening Google experience. I have research from T'internet that I now can't find via Google, even thro 'old Google' & inside quote marks. Even when still accessible direct. Google is no longer the book index at the back, it's the 3 page list of superlative quotes at the front.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Watching BBCs Buried Treasure archaeology series from the 50s. Some of the interpretations might be outdated but it's a cool watch with some great bits of footage. Wish they would put up the Avebury one though. @bbc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC - Buried Treasure - Episode guide

All episodes of Buried Treasure

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

ONLINE WEREWOLVES! The next online presentation for @folklorelibrary.bsky.social is tomorrow night at 8pm GMT Rich Blackett will discuss folklore and myth connected with the werewolf. Online via Zoom. Tickets just £5 including video replay from bit.ly/flaevents Come and join us

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Great set of folklore/hauntology speakers at this years #TheHauntedLandscape run by @forteanlondon.bsky.social I now have a lovely list of rabbit holes to go down. Next year's in my calendar already.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Bungay proving its weird credentials by featuring a 2nd time at #TheHauntedLandscape conference. First with Harte's noting of its church-ravishing devil dog. Now with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social telling of its alchemist Friar Bungay visiting cunning folk.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Interested in the Black Shuck festival? The next one is July 31st- Aug 2nd 2026. Mentioned by Jeremy Harte at @forteanlondon.bsky.social's #TheHauntedLandscape blackshuckfestival.com

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Black Shuck Festival

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Earliest chew-bacca story/lyric reference?

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Context, context. Seeing this photo of 3 dog skeletons in a vague circle, my mind immediately went 'what iron age ritual is this'. But in context: "tentatively" C16 culled hounds. (Dersingham walled garden excavation, Joshua White in Medieval Settlement Research Journal 2025)

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Saturday: 22 November 2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social and online. Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore. Speakers and timings follow 1/10 forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Cathedrals built on lakes, logs and prayers...

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

'For bright Phoebe is a-rolling to the West', part of a harvest rhyme, in LR Haggard's Norfolk poacher book 'I Walked by Night', sparked memories of my dad saying when he started working in Norfolk that the 'old boys' called the sun Phoebe.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Magic amongst Norfolk ruins. Pierced hearts, wax dolls and soot circles. From 1964 new up on BBC archive youtu.be/QWTw3xoGhg4?...

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1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Paterson's Roads (1771–1829), perhaps the closest thing the 19th century ever got to Sat Nav, a book to guide the journeyer along the major roads of England and Wales: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p…

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 16/10/2025

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

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1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Reading of the penance demanded for a medieval love spell where a woman gives 'bread made on her buttocks" & I have some questions. Did she have help, good reach, or is she sitting on the bread, individual buttock twerking/kneading? (In Cunning Folk by @magicnotwitches.bsky.social )

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Listening to @folklorepod.bsky.social on the White Witch of Exeter and the use of 'overlook' for bewitched/evil eye. So is this why @stephenking.bsky.social's Shining hotel is called The Overlook?

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Our next online talk FAIRIES, WITCH BOTTLES AND AZAZEL: British Grimoires and their Significance to the Study of Folklore Saturday 18 October, 7:30pm £5 plus booking fee bit.ly/flaevents All profits support our charity. Ticket includes talk, Q&A and recording of the event

Our next online talk is now booking.

On Saturday 18th October, we will be hosting a talk via Zoom on the subject of British Grimoires and their significance to folklore.

Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee) via our EventBrite page and include a Q&A with the presenter, Daniel Harms, and access to a recording of the talk afterwards.

All profits support our charitable work. To book, please visit

bit.ly/flaevents

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Some 16th-century ballads to pen? Manipulus Vocabulorum is a rhyming dictionary from 1570, thought to be the first ever: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m…

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Only just realised: Transylvania means 'beyond the woods'. It's like having had a blind spot and suddenly noticing the rabbit after decades of only seeing a duck.

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

"Oh Lamentable Death..." A lament found under the whitewash of Acle church seemingly from the C14 Black Death

A panel of Latin script on a church wall

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Avebury cove, one of the stones has a small circular impression in the centre of a larger circular shape. A natural cup and ring mark? (I've been here so many times & had never even noticed this before - Avebury keeps on giving.) #standingstonesunday

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Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Always look under your chair before sitting. #misericord

Small face, with tongue poking out, carved into wood

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