Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026‘We still regard the beautiful red cup-moss as the fairies’ baths’ (1868) #folkloresunday 082
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In Lyminster there’s a pond known as knucker hole. It is said to be bottomless. If you dive in you’ll land in Australia. It’s home to a water creature, the knucker. #wyrdwednesday 1133
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Arthur & Alfie in the horses ploughing section ✨ Yesterday’s annual East Sussex Ploughing Match, this year’s in Warbleton in the high Weald. 031
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘If you catch a falling leaf, you will have twelve months of continued happiness' Dip in beeswax to make a garland. The beeswax is a pain to melt, but the scent fills the house and the leaves last for ages. #FolkloreThursday 1102
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is sad to read, both for the Goulds and our local area. I visited Diane a few years ago to interview her about her other life as a Pearly Queen but also enjoyed looking round Furnace Brook where they were working hard to create an environmental haven. 120
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Spent yesterday looking at the follies of John mad Jack Fuller. Thank you to Clive Murrell for showing me around. ✨🙏✨ #folklore 071
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Aconite, wolf’s bane, monkshood, helmet flower, friar’s cap, Dumbledore’s delight.., Associated with Halloween as one of the ingredients in witches ‘flying ointment’ 🧙 to induce hallucinations 📷 mine from Charleston garden, Lewes #wyrdwednesday 0162
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Lovely day yesterday at the Wilmington yew tree festival ✨ 021
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When young Thomas Chowne of Alfriston and his dog were killed by robbers on White Way, the ghost of a white dog was said to appear every seven years. Their bones were found during roadworks and moved to the church graveyard. No reported sightings have been made since. #wyrdwednesday 0205
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Wish hounds, witch hounds… Reports of spectral, demonic witch hounds from Downland shepherds in the 1930s, hearing hounds, horse hooves and huntsman’s horn over the cliffs #wyrdwednesday 0143
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026‘Ye bells of Bosham, ring for me, For as ye ring, I ring wi’ ye’ 🔔 Legend says Vikings stole the tenor bell from Bosham church, but as they set sail their ship sank. The bell was lost to the sea and is still heard to ring from beneath the waves. #wyrdwednesday #folklore 0287
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026‘Some wicked women, perverted by the Devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the hours of the night to ride upon certain beasts with Diana, the moon-goddess of pagans’ (C9th AD) #wyrdwednesday 1228
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Tiggy in contemplative, relaxed mode. Adding mine to the mix for #internationalcatday 030
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Friday 28th August, from 8.15pm Observatory Science Centre 🌝 I’ll be playing again at the Observatory Science Centre’s Astronomy Festival this year, joined by David Tomlins on guitar. Stargazing if weather permits ✨✨✨ www.the-observatory.org/shop/events/... #astronomy #stargazing #sussex 010
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Harvesting the barley that makes the Long Man beer. Oh, three men went to market To sell three loads of rye They shouted up and they shouted down The barley grain should die #longmanbeer #longman #sussex 120
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tickets now on sale for this… hailshampavilion.co.uk/events/the-c... #thecopperfamily #sussex 000
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The yellow horned poppy/bruisewort has golden yellow flowers followed by seedpods up to 30cm long that curl like elephant tusks. Grows along the Sussex coastline in shingle, this one at Cuckmere where the river meets the sea. #wyrdwednesday #folklore 0121
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The story goes… St Dunstan was doing smithy work one day when a seductive young maiden came to him. He wasn’t tricked and bid her come closer. Then he took his tongs from the fire and grabbed her by the nose, whereupon the Devil’s true form was revealed. #wyrdwednesday #folklore 0184
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Thanks to Jo Goddard for Up With The Larks yesterday morning at Rottingdean Windmill. Lovely to sing there again this year with fellow folk singers Sandra Manning Jones and Jo, watch Frankenstein’s Morris. Seemed weird to be home by 8am. Photo of me by @pixelsonapage.bsky.social 🙏 Barry P 130
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The belief is very common... that violent grieving for the dead will prevent their resting in their graves in peace. There is a song called The Unquiet Grave, which turns on this belief. (1868) ‘Oh who sits weeping on my grave And will not let me sleep?’ #wyrdwednesday rest 091
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Join us for sunrise singing at Rottingdean Windmill on Sunday 26th July I’m singing with Jo Goddard and Sandra Manning-Jones. 5.18am start 🌞 Free but book a place to come… bit.ly/4yyiXyk #sussex #rottingdean #folkmusicbit.lyUp With The Larks at Rottingdean Windmill 2026Join us for an early morning folk singing session at Rottingdean Windmill. With a retiring collection to raise money for vital repairs. 131
Reposted by Liz OversEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026If like me you're longing for the sea this photo's for you:small precious things I found on a walk on Old Hunstanton beach 2 yrs ago (+an aquamarine bc it looks like a Cornish rockpool). Let your brain swim about in the beachy colours & tell me your fave exhibit in this tiny museum if you fancy it🪸: 2937559
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026As the days begin to shorten, The heat begins to scorch them #folklore 030
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026St Swithin’s Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain; St Swithin’s Day, if thou fair, For forty days ‘twill rain no more St Swithin’s Day, 15th July #wyrdwednesday 1245
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Saturday 11th July A Celebration of Sussex at Newhaven Fort I’ll be singing throughout the day joined by David Tomlins and including traditional songs with a local history. Dancing by Long Man Morris ✨ Storytelling and have-a-go weaving by The Woven Owl ✨ Stalls selling local Sussex produce ✨ 041
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Beginning and end of yesterday’s solstice. Wishing all peaceful, happy summer days 🌞 060
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Last of the Mostly Folk summer events… Jason McNiff is a British troubadour often touted as one of the UK’s most overlooked musical treasures. He’s released nine albums in the Folk/Americana/Chanson genres. Superb finger picking folkie, MOJO www.lizovers.com/event-detail...lizovers.comJason McNiff, hosted by Liz Overs at Emma Mason Gallery | liz oversUK's premier fingerstyle guitarist (Mojo) 021
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Tickets: www.lizovers.com/live The next Mostly Folk event is Friday 3rd July. The Owl Service... Dorothy Chappell, Rebecca Leivers, and Steven Paul Collins Essex-based alternative folk collective who have been fusing traditional British song with bold instrumentation for the past 20 years. 021
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I’ll be joined by David Tomlins to play at 12 on Sunday, part of Treebourne’s day of music and nature. It’s being held at Sevenoaks Rec, home to the woodland they planted in 2021. Treebourne have planted 10,000 trees on this site alone and many more around the town, I think 39,000 so far.💚 040
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Working on the long man yesterday with James Neal and his team. So lucky with the weather 🌞 #thelongman 040
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Had the best of times in Whitby. With thanks to The Hand of Glory Folklore Festival, Flash Company Arts and Debbie Armour for having Sophia Kingshill and me along to this beautifully created event 🙏 Loved watching all, including maypole dancing, with singers led by Rebecca Denniff ✨ #whitby 020
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026📣 I’m hosting a series of intimate gigs at Emma Mason Prints in Eastbourne. 🎟️ www.lizovers.com/live Ticket price includes a drink The first is June 5th with Andrew Rumsey… ‘Hushed, haunted and shiver-inducing’ (The Guardian) 044
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026As it’s St George’s Day I thought I’d share a local dragon legend… Jacqueline Simpson (The Folklore of Sussex) tells the story of the Lyminster knucker. I went to Lyminster a number of years ago to try and find the knuckerhole. The illuminated stained glass window is situated inside St Mary’s. 020
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Atlantis Bookshop for Jeremy Harte’s book launch… Treasures on Earth, Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend. ‘Jeremy Harte is one of Britain’s leading folklorists…. this book is a treat for readers at any level of knowledge’ (Ronald Hutton) 031
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Last Sunday’s Spring singing walk in Friston Forest was a beauty ✨ Tonight at The The Vinyl Frontier in Eastbourne is Attila The Stockbroker. Tickets all gone but there should be a little space. We’re very lucky to have him. Come along. Donations to We Shall Overcome. 📷 cuckoo flower 010
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Whitby Hand of Glory Folklore Festival FREE May 1st-3rd I’ll be singing ballads of the Mermaid, presenting alongside Folklorist Sophia Kingshill, author of Mermaids: Lusts & Legends of a Rebel Sisterhood 🧜♀️ #folklore #whitby 0143
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Every Good Friday The British & World Marbles Championship is held at Tinsley Green. This audio from 2019 when I spoke with John Roberts at the games. #marbles 021
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026A balm, walking in Friston Forest today, choosing songs for woodland walks with fellow folk singer Sandra Manning-Jones ✨ 130
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Nightjar making a comeback ✨ Some local lore from 1868 … also known as the fern-owl, goatsucker, the puck bird or puck; it probably received the name from a belief that it is a mischievous sprite, which inflicts on calves and heifers a disease here called the ‘puck complaint’ 041
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Singing the Forest Sunday 12th April Meeting at 2.00pm Forest walk from Seven Sisters Country Park Visitors Centre to East Dean Free to join, but please book. Email robertmcgowan@mac.com 012
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Mimosa… a symbol of solidarity and sensitivity for International Women’s Day. #internationalwomensday 030
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026It’s the February full moon tonight, the snow moon, but not visible here with the cloud and rain. Here’s the snow moon from 2021 🌝 #snowmoon 230
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I went to the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain this week. In 2020 I spoke with her granddaughter, Ami Bouhassane at Farleys House for Mostly Folk. Thought I’d share a little. This snippet is about her parents discovering Miller’s archive following her death. #leemiller 020
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Every Thursday at The Cove, Fairlight. I’m there Thursday 29th January. Warm welcome, free entry and freshly prepared, locally sourced food. I’ll be adding some locally sourced sea songs. 020
