Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Today I did a radio interview with BBC Wiltshire about local traditions and finished off with co-leading a guided folklore and archaeology walk around West Kennet. I have no idea how I became this person but it's magnificent 0480
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025It was an absolute dream to launch this fantastic exhibition last night at @wiltshiremuseum, having played a very small part in making it happen. Couldnt be prouder of our team and the amazing folk at Wessex Museums and the Museum of British Folklore. 0214
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 19/03/2025You've raised your Tiny Son incredibly well by the sounds of it 😁 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Now the key people know, I suppose I better fess up why I've been so absent from socials these last few months. Baby mossgoblin coming September 2025. 3170
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Deep in 1980s folklore journals today. We've got black dogs, dark sky omens, dubious folk cures (snail broth anyone?) and saint sightings a plenty at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social 0121
Reposted by Claire Slackhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The year is on its knees, waiting for the blade of ice. We roast ale. We roast cider. Rough music fills the air. The Bone Horse dances the night #WinterSolstice 171034257
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Happy solstice from Oliver's Castle where @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social had to pull me out of the mud when I stacked it but we caught a rather magnificent sunset. 0201
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Had a nice little adventure out with some of our team today to explore the Un/Common People exhibition at Museum & Art Swindon before it heads on to @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social. A gorgeous exhibition with some great folky objects from across Wessex (and a tiny weeny feature from yours truly) 0134
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Was said mystic trying to prevent Loki gaining access to his toenails to build Naglfar during Ragnarok like an ex-boyfriend of mine once did 🤣 120
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024They don't really rise, more like shaped flat breads. They are quite tasty! 100
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024No but I have had the displeasure of smelling garum before and I don't think I fancy tasting it haha 010
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm far from an expert on historic wine making but I imagine they'd be using the wild yeasts that are found naturally on fruits and some plants. So yes add something sweet and let it do its thing. Don't quote me though! *or hold me responsible if experimental wine making goes very wrong haha 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Are you even in museum work if you don't casually bake historic recipes like Ancient Roman Libum on your lunch breaks? All tested for Saturnalia 3325
Reposted by Claire SlackMuseums Association @museumsassociation.org · 11/11/2024Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp 107756340
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A day drinking hot chocolate with 14th century spices and doing my usual pilgrimage to see the things on King Arthurs grave 0200
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024That is fascinating and wonderful and far weirder than the things I've seen there on my studies 🤣 020
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Now that's a long barrow I'm very familiar with! Any good offerings on the stones today? 120
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024It really has been an honour to play a small part in making this incredible exhibition happen. Hope the pre-launch went amazingly! 191
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Take me back to lazing around on long barrows instead of unpacking a thousand boxes into our new house please 1160
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Take your folks to your nearest stone circle day (featuring things hidden on stones) 0362
Reposted by Claire Slackhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/11/2024As archaeologists, we are also storytellers. For the stones are lithic libraries, batteries which store tales. Some recite from their volumes of folklore, I find as much enchantment in sharing with others the narratives of the Long Neolithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday 446868
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks Bill. Only taken us a year to properly get settled in Wiltshire 😅 010
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I'm in the middle of moving to a new house so I feel I don't have much to say to my lovely new followers at the moment but please enjoy this little glimpse into what being an ethnographic researcher into British sacred sites looks like (minus broken boots, sheep poo covered notes and zero sleep) 2431
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I am overwhelmed with notifications and the fact people care about my weird adventures 🤣🤣🤣 010
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 14/11/20241k followers absolutely deserves a throwback to my adventure to see the Hunting of the Earl of Rone in May where I walked many, many miles with @meikle25.bsky.social and got to hang out with the fool and some other lovely people like @folklorepod.bsky.social 2274
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Diolch Delyth! I'm still at duolingo shouting at me for not being able to spell cerddoriaeth on demand stages but I'm making slow progress 💪 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024But most of all you'll like it here if you too are team #FolkloreAgainstFacism forever 1101
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I've got lots of new followers here so a quick intro is due! You'll like it here if you are down for folklore, magic, walking the landscape, terrible attempts at the Welsh language, morris dancing, spoon carving, mushroom hunting, all things #phdlife and weird things in museums. 6432
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024It's getting the buzz of old Twitter and I love it 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024There's some very good people over here so far 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Still 90% certain this signpost in Din Lligwy was a fae trap. Dim diolch Tylwyth Teg🧚♂️ 1130
Reposted by Claire Slackwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024as a historian of witchcraft, ‘agatha all along’ is research 72786
Reposted by Claire SlackHellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Hello, new followers. HELLEBORE is a small press devoted to folk horror, folklore and the occult in Britain. To be notified of new releases, events and merch, you can sign up to our free newsletter here: 👉🏼 helleborezine.substack.com 1022148
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I'm very lucky to have it as my local stone circle these days 010
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024One whole year since I moved to this wonderful place called Wiltshire and wandered through the Avebury Manor yew hedges wondering where life would take me 🌲 1201
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Think I've time slipped into the early 2000s if Etnies stickers are back in the public sphere. If anyone needs me I'll be a grumpy goth teen stomping around in my Etnies and my Cradle of Filth t-shirt writing questionable rock music for the foreseeable. 170
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024It was what I was most worried about leaving Twitter was a lack of incredible CfPs heading my way. I've had a wonderful time on here so far meeting some amazing new folklorey people 110
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Thanks for including me Maria. Some excellent people in that list! 010
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Nice to meet you too! I'd love to know more about your research 110
Reposted by Claire Slackhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/11/2024Stones hold stories like lithic batteries. They store not only the mythic, but profoundly personal tales. For as much as may be petrified warriors, giants' playing pieces, they're also sites of first kiss, the awe found in time's long shadow. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday 115732
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Is #StandingStoneSunday a thing here? A little throwback to my spring adventure in the middle of some very famous stones 4669
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024A cute little witch hanging out on a 1911 chestnut roaster in the Wiltshire Museum collections 1263
Reposted by Claire SlackKristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Hello, here's a starter pack for folklore research, do let me know if you want in! 6622288
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Thank you for the shout out David! Always thrilled to meet new folklorey people 110