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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh, that’s a huge change too! Congrats and good luck 💪🏻

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you, Martin 🤗 I consider it a valuable lesson!

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Join us sometime 🖤🤭🍄‍🟫🪾

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I will! I’ve been hosting #dontgointothewoods which is about forest folklore, but here, I have more options hehe 🤭 Awesome!

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I was giving such vibes for a while, yeah? 🫠 And thank you, John! 🖤

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Absolutely likewise!!! And that would be awesome, I love your posts 🖤 And I might try creating a hosted hashtag that all of us can enjoy! I’m on it 😈🍷

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ForestFriday! I love this new hashtag 🖤🪻

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s the best thing I could do for myself. Imagine defending someone else’s values? The ones you disagree with? I had spent 3 months agonizing and finally… I snapped. I’ve been offered to continue with a research PhD at another uni, but I’m not ready yet. Anyway, hope you are doing great 😇

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Crawling back to social media after the last two years were eaten by academia feels weird — I have 0 idea what to do. Long story short: they censored my PhD thesis to the point where I refused to defend it, I quit my job as senior lecturer in law, and currently I’m on self-care vacation. Hi! 🍷

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you 🖤 And now it is! And I’m finally fully here! Hope, you are doing fine too!

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m yet to return fully as I’m a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in the world on top of my own life being a mad carousel of unforeseen events, but thank you everyone so much for your kind words! I missed you too guys 🪻🖤🪻 Hope to come up with something interesting to post soon! Cheers!

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

And mine 🪻🐊🪻 I’ve been considering giving it a new life. Even if it becomes a folklore day of the week popular only between the two of us 🤭

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This will now take place on 20 May at 1.30. You can still find details on the site below!

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#MementoMoriMonday #WorldOptometryDay Death and the Doctor, carved ivory spectacle case, c. 1500 The doctor holds a pair of eyeglasses in one hand and with the other seeks to stay Death's scythe. wellcomecollection.org/works/bqx6zzue #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Oval carved ivory spectacle case showing a skeletal death with a dart and a scythe held over the head of a doctor with his spectacles in one hand and an hourglass at his feet. A young person in a tunic is at one side of the case and a swaddled baby at the other. The doctor's hand in on the scythe, trying to stay Death's hand.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Artist: Tijana Lukovic @tijanadraws.bsky.social

$Stylised illustration. A forest clearing with a dark blue pond under a moon surrounded by fractured crescents in the sky. And the water swims the figure of a girl with long white hair trailing and four white wolves. Little creatures with multiple branching antlers walk mid the mushroom and snail undergrowth.$

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Next Tues! Virtual! Free! Let's talk about our favorite spectral women of NYC! Trailblazers, sensitives, reformers & more... A great #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomenInHorror Month offering thanks to @untappedny.bsky.social! #WiHM

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In Scottish lore, the Bean-nighe (Fairy Woman) was found in all the lonely places washing the linen of those about to die. If a person caught her unawares, she would tell them all what would happen after life. But if she saw them first, they lost the power of their limbs... 🎨Brian Froud #MorbidMarch

Between the rocks a woman in green is bent over washing linen in the rock pool.

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New release for March ~ Moss Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology by Robert Dale Rogers A comprehensive illustrated guide to bryophytes Also explains how bryophytes have environmental benefits, such as in remediation of our increasingly polluted planet #Booksky

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Indeed 🤭 If you are born here, you are born to suffer

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you so much 🖤 And good luck to you too!!! 🔥 Oh, wow! Let me know when they do – I’ll get it! Nothing is easy here, so the funniest fact: even after you defend you PhD dissertation here, you will be counted only as “a PhD candidate” because if you want to be a doctor, you need to defend 2.

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you! But that’s a bit too soon – it’s only the first step! After that, it must be submitted to the state attestation commission and that’s … scary as I write about things not everyone finds comfortable. Btw, are you a doctor yet?

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yeah, same here! I’ve just submitted my dissertation to our department 😱🤧 Hope, you are alright though! I miss Bunika!

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you for not forgetting about my SwampSunday! 🪻🖤🪻

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky

Photos of Bald Cypress trees in a swamp, Georgia. Photo by Holt Webb from his book "Vanishing America"

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Known as "Murder-Logs," the American alligator is a staple of Southern rootwork. Their paws & teeth are prized in luck magic—not just for power, but for the dark, resilient energy of a creature that has survived since the dinosaurs. Truly the ancient guardians of the Okefenokee. #SwampSunday

American Alligator laying in swamp water, Wassaw NWR, Public Domain, https://www.fws.gov/media/american-alligator-laying-swamp-water

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Behind every sweet scent in the swamp lies a deadly secret. Pitcher plants and Butterworts don't just grow; they wait. Their energy is as cunning as their design—a reminder that in the Okefenokee, even the flora has an appetite. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky

Okefenokee giant pitcher plant (Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis D.E.Schnell) Photographer:Karan A. Rawlins, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

Photo of Floating Bladderwort, Utricularia inflata. Photographer: Alan Cressler

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism

Cypress knees along the St Mary's River, Georgia. Photograph: The Swamp Wytch / R.M. Stanford

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#ShakespeareSunday #WorldDayforWater #WorldWaterDay Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Richard III The Death-Boat of Heligoland, E. Goodall, 1837 Yale Center for British Art #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Image of drowning, distress, and damned souls in and around a boat in very rough waters. Death, holding an hour glass, sits at the back of the boat with an upraised arm, seeming to revel in all the suffering.

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

In Chinese lore, the “apricot grove” (杏林) became a sacred metaphor for healers through the legend of Dong Feng of the Three Kingdoms. Refusing payment, he asked only for apricot trees from the cured. The grove flourished, over 100,000 trees strong, feeding the hungry with golden fruit. 1/2

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Cauls (pieces of the birth membrane) were rare and highly prized by mariners who bought them for quite high prices. They were believed to protect the owner from drowning... 🎨Alma-Tadema #MorbidMarch

Stormy sea, rolling waves, a cradle floating on the water with a golden haired baby asleep soundly. a startled black and white cat is clinging to one corner desperately maintaining balance.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Dream of the Ghost Narwhale 🤍 #animalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

the skeleton of a narwhale swimming diagonally forward from right to left, their single tusk pointing to the lower left, the spine angled down towards the right corner. White dots in the water behind the skeleton. Linedrawing, watercolours, white acrylic. Shades of bluegreen and white. Maria Strutz

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#WorldWaterDay 💧 The Stench is Unbearable | Clark's Inspection of Bridgend 📝 A blog post about the fear of disease, filthy housing conditions, and a desperate need for a water supply 💧 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-stench... #Wales #History

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The Stench is Unbearable | Clark's Inspection of Bridgend.

On the 4th of June 1849, two petitions were sent to the General Board of Health on behalf of the inhabitants of the hamlets of Lower Coity and Lower Newcastle – what we now know as Bridgend Town Centr...

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Be the change you want to see in the world 💚

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#MythologyMonday Familiar spirits & devilish imps by @willowwinsham.bsky.social Owning familiars, or supernatural spirits, was common among accused witches in England, from Margaret Ley of Liverpool to some of the more famously accused witches of history. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/fami...

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Charles Keeping (1924–1988), “Lucy Westenra” Illustrations to ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker (1988)

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tatiana 🪻🖤🪻 Hiiiiiii! And I’m happy you haven’t left!!!

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Scott 🔥🔥🔥 I’m glad you are still here!

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