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Francesca Simon @francescasimon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Such a fun interview with @threeravenspod.bsky.social about Salka, my first novel for adults, about the Welsh legend of The Lady of Llyn y fan Fach @faberbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Local Legends #59: Francesca Simon MBE

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 26/03/2026

As if that weren’t enough, you can also catch me discussing my research with Martin from @threeravenspod.bsky.social as part of their newest series delving into the folklore of the historic Welsh counties, where we chat all things ghosts, language, culture, and my favourite misunderstood monster…🦫

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our new episode out the history and folklore of Montgomeryshire is OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🖤

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Each new day is a new ladder of possibilities. Keep climbing! Hope every writer out there is finding the time to write, painters to paint, makers to make, and that the light is making a comeback against the dark. The first daffodil is out in our garden. Change for the better. 🖤 #WyrdWednesday

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

To win a copy of Bring Me Love by our pal @icysedgwick.bsky.social as heard on today's Valentine Magic special, follow us both then comment on this post with your favourite romantic gesture from across history, mythology or folklore! 🖤 #valentinesday #folklore #bringmelove #lovemagic #competition

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day! As a gift, we have TWO new eps for you to enjoy! 🖤 First we're chatting with Russ Williams about the historic Welsh county of #Caernarvonshire! Then Eleanor has interviewed @icysedgwick.bsky.social for our Valentine's Magic episode, including about her book Bring Me Love!

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hello! Apologies for having not really been on BlueSky lately - we're going at things hammer and tongs at the moment and are struggling to keep up with social media. Anyway, this is our big current project. If you're not a listener, please give it a try! www.threeravenspodcast.com/wales

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SERIES 7: WALES | Three Ravens Podcast

Launched in September 2025, ending in March 2026, Three Ravens went international for the first time, crossing the land border to Wales! Stories this series include, "The Cauldron of Awen", "A Howl o...

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We're currently having a lovely time editing 20 of our original ghost stories for publication this year in our second book, Three Ravens Ghost Tales! 🖤 If you would like a sample, search up 'Three Ravens Haunting Season' on your podcast app of choice. Go on, scare yourself! #PhantomsFriday

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Through and through the inspired leaves, Ye maggots, make your windings; But, oh! Respect his lordship's taste, And spare his golden bindings. - Robert Burns, "The Book Worms", 1787 According to Cunningham Burns wrote this epigram in a volume of Shakespeare in a noble's library. #BookWormSat

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

You are correct in your assertion, Sharon! OH BOY!!! 🖤

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Sapho, I will choose to go Where the Northern winds do blow Endless Ice, and endless Snow; Rather then I once wo'd see But a winter's face in thee, To benumb my hopes and me. Robert Herrick, 'To Sapho' (1648) 🖼️ Gustave Dore, 'Voyage to the Moon' (1868) #BookWormSat #Fantasy

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The History of European Theatre Podcast @thoetp.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

What a year 2025 was for guests.Heartfelt thanks to each & every one of them for sharing their knowledge, passions, insights, & enthusiasm for theatre history @audioandrea.bsky.social @threeravenspod.bsky.social @wokestudies.bsky.social @simonsandys-winsch.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This was great fun! 👇👇👇

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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

We're so happy that this mad project — described by one review as "Mike Oldfield on ketamine" — is reaching people. Look out for a new episode of @threeravenspod.bsky.social out today where we discuss the ideas behind it...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I popped up on the @threeravenspod.bsky.social Christmas special talking about the history of Christmas food. It was great fun to record. Thanks for having me on, Eleanor and Martin. Available on all podcast apps, inc this one: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Christmas Food with Dr Neil Buttery

Podcast Episode · The Three Ravens Podcast · 22/12/2025 · 1h 11m

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

On today's episode we're back telling the Lang Fairy Tales - starting with The Goose Girl! 🖤 A stone-cold classic with versions known from Europe to Japan and across to the U.S, this one comes from The Blue Fairy Book collected by Nora and Andrew Lang. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Winter Solstice! 🖤 Ready for a six-part festive extravaganza? It all begins tomorrow 6am UK time with an episode about the history of Christmas Food with Dr Neil Buttery, award-winning writer and host of the British Food History Podcast! Find Neil's work here: @neilbuttery.bsky.social

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For us, this time of year is associated with ghost stories by M.R. James - and across the genre really! 🖤 Christmas Eve last, Eleanor released her Jamesian ghost story "The Spinning House" inspired Caroline Biggs' amazing book - @carolinebiggs.bsky.social For those seeking haunting. #BookWormSat

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

‘Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and…shiny paper…’~Tove Jansson. This #BookWormSat, we will unwrap the gifts of literature by celebrating all aspects of Christmas…be they festive or disdainful. Do join us.

🖼️ Weihnachtsbaum, C Müller, 1914.
Painting of decorated Christmas tree in corner of room with large cupboard to one side and framed paintings on wall behind on the other side.

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Beautiful friends, what a cracking #FolkyFriday. Thank you! 🖤 On the theme of endings, after two years of folky fun, today was our final #FolkyFriday. We launched the hashtag to encourage folky sharing on Fridays in lieu of #FaustianFriday - and now #PhantomsFriday has it locked down! (1/2)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/12/2025

... in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe... is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse’s stall or the cow’s crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast." (Frazer "The Golden Bough") 🎨 John Bauer #folkyfriday

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @handle.invalid · 19/12/2025

#FolkyFriday #WildHunt 🐾 Cŵn Annwn = "Hounds of Annwn." Ghostly dogs: snow-white with blood-red ears (sometimes small & liver-colored or black.) They hunt with the Wild Hunt for Annwn's ruler—Arawn (early Mabinogion) later Gwyn ap Nudd, king of Fae & underworld. Omens from the Otherworld!

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @handle.invalid · 19/12/2025

#FolkyFriday ❄️🔥🪵 The Yule Log is an ancient Germanic and Scandinavian tradition. A symbol of the Sun's RETURN, it burns brightly in homes to usher in longer days. A piece is saved to light next year's fire, linking seasons in a cycle of renewal. #Yule #Yulelog 🪵🔥 #Midwinterlore ❄️☀️ 🎨Art by D.L.A.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War is considered the end of the Age of Heroes. In some versions, it was purposefully instigated by Zeus because he was worried that all these demigods could be a threat to the gods. Thus, Zeus caused a war to make them slaughter each other. 🎨Peter Rubens #FolkyFriday

Achilles slays Hector during the Trojan War. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

The romance between a noblewoman and a ghost ended when their relationship goals diverged. #FolkyFriday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Gho…

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The Ghostly Suitor on Hartenstein Castle

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Some early Christians believed that the pagan era came to an end with the death of Pan, an event reported by Plutarch in the first century CE; but when Pausanias visited Arcadia a century later, people still heard Pan’s pipes echoing on Mount Lykaion. Io Pan! #FolkyFriday 🎨Louise Glazier (1903)

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bob-the-curious.bsky.social @bob-the-curious.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

On the topic of endings, the rope used by a hangman was thought to be a lucky charm… while the hand of a hanged criminal could be turned into a hand of glory and used to aid further crimes! #FolkyFriday More at

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Hangman's Rope and the Tyburn Tree: Explore the Grim Folklore of the Gallows

Read about the "hand of glory" and how a length of hangman's rope could be a lucky charm - or explore the deadly Tyburn Tree of London!

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#FolkyFriday "And so ends this branch of the Mabinogi." It's a subtle but powerful closing line, a phrase that ties each individual story into the larger, interconnected tapestry of the Four Branches. It`s a line that, much like Christmas, gives both closure and anticipation for what's to come!

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As part of a Welsh winter custom, Mari Lwyd—a character represented by a decorated horse skull—is carried door to door by a group of performers, who sing their requests for entry into homes. Those who welcome them in will have good luck for the year. #FolkyFriday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Beiwe, the Sami goddess of the sun and spring, rides a flying sleigh made of reindeer bones during winter solstice. The Sami people of Finland put butter on their doorposts and wrap reindeer meat in wreaths to help keep her fed on her travels. #FolkyFriday

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"The Star Money", which features in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", is the story of a kind hearted orphan girl who gives all she has to others and is rewarded by a shower of silver Thalers falling from Heaven. image: childstories.org #FolkyFriday

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

#FolkyFriday #FindsFriday: `According to Dr. Miranda J. Green in her book, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, the sun was significantly meaningful to the ancient #Celts. She states that “One of the most important venerated natural phenomena was the sun […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The Portable Antiquities Scheme - The Trustees of the British Museum, An Iron Age Unit from CAMBRIDGESHIRE Iceni Celtic Coin Index reference, 93.0469 (FindID 295726), CC BY-SA 4.0

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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

According to Swedish folklore, the perfect way to ring in the New Year is to fast from food and social interaction all day, followed by a walk in the woods. This ritual, known as årsgång (or “year walk”), is meant to provide insight for the upcoming year. 🧵 #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

A man walking in a graveyard among ghosts and goblins at the night time.An old wooden church and dark woods with some eyes peeking from it on the background. Northern light in the sky.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 19/12/2025

People often call winter solstice Midwinter, marking the center of winter, but this was not always the case. Before the rule of Haakon the Good of Norway, Midwinter, at which Yule was celebrated, was the first day of þorri, which is mid-January on our calendar. #FolkyFriday

A mindwinter scene, showing trees in a frozen wood.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Csodaszarvas, or the Miraculous Hind, is a divine golden deer in Hungarian myth, often depicted with a star on her forehead, the moon on her belly, and the sun in her antlers. During the winter solstice, she uses her antlers to carry the sun into the new year. #FolkyFriday

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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

During the first week of January in Ilulissat, Greenland, the perpetually dark streets come alive with horror. Distorted human figures linger in the shadows, waiting for unsuspecting citizens. But no one is in any real danger. The annual tradition of Mitaarfik #FolkyFriday 🧵

A group of people in elaborate, theatrical costumes stands together against a dark, star-filled background. The outfits include fur-lined parkas, animal-like suits, hooded figures, skull masks, and layered winter clothing, with faces mostly hidden by masks or hoods. Colored stage lighting casts green, red, and blue highlights across the figures, creating a surreal, ritual-like atmosphere as they cluster closely in the center of the image.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Lady Jane Grey was born at Bradgate House, #Leicestershire. Every Christmas Eve (and also New Year's Eve - she knows how to party), Lady Jane rides round the park in a phantom coach with her head on her lap. It's hard to imagine a more traditional #ghost story than that #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

The chapel and ruined tower of Bradgate House, both built of Tudor brick. Photo by Andrew Norman /Wikimedia Commons.

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DreamSwarm @dreamswarm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There's a folklore motif where the Winter Solstice marks the height of the powers of the Holly King in the deep Midwinter before the Oak King regains his power as the Sun returns. #FolkyFriday

Holly King image of a bearded old man wearign a crown of holly and antlers against a starry sky

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

According to legend, after clockmaker Master Hanuš built the Prague Astronomical clock in 1410, city officials blinded him to stop him creating another masterpiece. In revenge he cursed the clock, saying it would bring misfortune to the city if ever neglected 1/2 #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

with his ghost personally guarding it. The legend claims if the Prague Orloj stops, the city will suffer. Supposedly, the curse will be confirmed by the skeleton figure on the clock nodding its head. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

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