Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 20h'Hooray!' Inktober day fifteen #joncarling #inktober2026 #hooray 122849 228
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialThe Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 19hThe way purple coneflower petals change from green to pink to purple as they bloom is so cool. I love a late autumn bloomer! 0101 10
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11hEven the shallowest puddle on a city street can become a scrying mirror. For this is the power of the witch – she refuses the false polarity of magical and mundane. All and everything may hold wonder. All and everything may be a tool of her witchery. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky 330654 306
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/10/2026There are stretches of place we instinctively feel are haunted. Long before we hear the story of phantom grey lady or discarnate chanting of skipping rhymes, we know to walk them would be to tread ghost soil. Our psychic skin itches with spectral anticipation. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts 121522 215
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialBernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 16/10/2026It’s #FungiFriday woo 013816 138
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialSteffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026One of the true hidden jewels of Oslo. Not difficult to get to, but it's usually closed unless for services or special occasions. Although heavily restored, it is one of the best surviving examples of Norwegian medieval architecture. 0233 23
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 15/10/2026'Rabbit Lady' Inktober day fourteen #joncarling #inktober2026 #lady 125351 253
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026We walk streets we know to be ghost-soaked and our journey becomes the joy of a shivering story. We walk obviously haunted streets in the hope of spectral encounter. There is an ache for the strange and disruptive up until the moment it arrives to scratch our psychic skin. – #CJosiffe 219424 194
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The wood is full of watching eyes. The wood is full of sharp teeth. The wood is full of things that makes burrows in the dark beneath. – Trad. Hookland rhyme 530147 301
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialThe Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) watercolour by Leigh Woods, 1892. Source: Wellcome Collection 0152 15
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 15/10/2026'The Flimsy Bridge' Inktober day thirteen #joncarling #inktober2026 #flimsy 128254 282
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026We talk readily about the collective folklore we still half-believe from days of parental scarelore – Stay Belows, Harrowhounds, Blackwater John – yet remain tight-lipped about our intimate encounters with it. As if to speak would break some cherished spell. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreThursday 216921 169
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Some in Hookland still have headaches from last night's festival of Safe Return. 414425 144
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026We make wild pilgrimage. Approach feral churches in green communion, feel the rub of primitive ritual against our bones. Our faith is fierce, our faith is in the land. We are not summoned by bells, but by a congregation of spirits abiding at the edge of memory. – #DAKilroy, 1982 519932 199
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialBernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I found my first Aniseed Funnel - Clitocybe odora. There was only one. What an absolute stunner! Look at that colour. #FungiFriends 624434 244
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 13/10/2026'He likes to toss seeds to the birds from his favorite stump' Inktober day twelve #joncarling #inktober2026 #toss 026249 262
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialLomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#TombTuesday A diadem for the dead #Dartmoor 1719 71
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialFiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Bryn Celli Ddu for #TombTuesday. This place was designed so that the light would enter at midsummer, but the guardian stone would always stand in the shadows, observing. 117330 173
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I remember car journeys with my Dad. A speeding along country roads till everything became green blur. I felt that if we had stopped the car, that's the moment we could have travelled into another country – Elfland, Faerie, England of the Shadows. Beyond the hedge lived wonder. – Ruth Lee #VOH 228524 285
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialCoffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026IGNIS FATUUS or Will o’ the Wisp. A corpse candle that haunts pathways with a flickering light. This phenomenon is used in Bram Stoker's #Dracula; a flickering blue flame is seen by Harker on his carriage journey through the wolf-infested forest to Castle Dracula #31daysofHalloween #Spooktober 13616 36
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 12/10/2026'The Rescue' inktober day eleven #joncarling #inktober #inktober2026 #rescue 021039 210
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The rapid abandonment of Bennewith House by both the nuns and the orphans left in their dubious care, continues to generate much speculation. Phrases such as ‘mass possession’ and ‘group hysteria’ are commonly used. The gates remain locked, the buildings hollowed and left to rot. 422931 229
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Give me stone bestiaries. Give me lithic libraries of strangeness. Let me look up and see impossible animals, a telling of folklore above me. May carvings roar their stories as part of the transmission of the living lore. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday 330856 308
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialMika Paananen @painmike1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Adelaide Claxton, “The Party on the Stairs”(1875). #SpookySunday 128067 280
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Long Neolithic lives as call to mystery, call to wonder. Whether we respond to those calls as archaeologists, ley hunters or stone pilgrims – we respond with stories. The Long Neolithic tithes in narrative. With typology or folklore, we all pay our dues. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday 128146 281
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialSubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Revival of an ancient Hekate ritual! "The Hekatesia key-carrying ceremony has deep historical significance. In ancient times, the route from Lagina’s Hekate Sanctuary to Stratonikeia was not merely symbolic, but represented a political and religious bond. " 094 9
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026'Her Mystical Friend' inktober day ten #joncarling #inktober2026 #mystical 320337 203
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026They built it anyway 634665 346
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialThe Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Mabesgate Longstone: "It's a fairly big thing." - TheCaptain, master of understatement. A 3 metre tall standing stone near the village of St Ishmaels, Pembrokeshire. #StandingStoneSunday 📷 TheCaptain More: www.megalithi... 0526 52
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialRupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Neolithic standing stones, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, courtesy of Diego Cue. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology 1635 63
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialThe Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Mranaha (Datura metel var. fastuosa), naturalized in eastern Africa, blooming and covered in dew at midnight on the dark moon. Identifiable by its black stems and the purple outer edges of the flowers. 1311 31
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJudith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As is every day! 183 8
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 15983198 983
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Autumn comes to the ponds with a hope that Stay Belows will soon be at mud. Comes with fear that they aren't yet sleeping. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn 226032 260
tee1959.bsky.social @tee1959.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Was in downtown Essex today and this lady outside a seafood place was really beautiful.,, 010 1
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialBernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Pilobolus crystallinus - Dung Cannon #FungiFriday #FungiFriends 19011 90
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The witch is a creature of weather. Wind-summoner. Drought-breaker. Cloud-reader. Flood-flyer. Mist-wearer. She adapts to it, she adjusts the weather to her favour. It's one of her most vital relationships. She wears it on her boots. She wears it on her skin. – #EmilyCBanting #FolkWitchFriday 224241 242
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Autumn comes to the alleys with a crowding of ghosts. Schoolboy firework anticipation triggered by the smoke of every garden bonfire. Comes with half-heard voices full of leaf-rasp and branch-stretch. It comes with waking shadows. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn 020124 201
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026'The Stinky Garden' inktober day eight #joncarling #inktober2026 #stinky 127361 273
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"lie close," Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: "We must not look at Goblin men, We must not buy their fruits" Christina Rossetti. 47918 79
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip' 133862 338
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Autumn comes to the cottages with carpets of apple rot that sour the air with vinegar tang. Comes in a dressing of the year not in green gowns, but wounded rags of brown. It comes as a fear of early darkness. A terror of hungry spirits that rush the path. – #DAKilory, 1982 726039 260
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialBernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Auriscalpium vulgare - Earpick Fungus. One of my favourites! #FungiFriends 116218 162
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Casting cats 024955 249
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Folklore likes to travel ... #FolkloreThursday 012526 125
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hookland nephomancy AKA cloud-telling No. 1: The Witch Rides Her Besom. This is said to represent magic in play; new starts; pursuit; success obtained only by combing intent and speed of action; detached perspectives reveal new truths and the consequences of disrespect. #Nephomancy 318822 188
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialJon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026'dragon panic' inktober day seven #joncarling #inktober #panic 125649 256
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Some buildings hold their shadows after sunset. They stretch and pace beyond the failing sun. Stalk corridors, assemble in former ballrooms in hope of a grand waltz. Creep wooden doors and walls overdressed for the dark. Shadows that are so eager to meet you. – #DAKilroy, 1982 728038 280
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialBernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Twig Parachute everywhere after the rain. Marasmiellus ramealis. #FungiFriends 221044 210
Reposted by @tee1959.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky 629872 298
