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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 21h

And the answer is: the swift Source: ’A History of Warwickshire’ by Samuel Timmins (1889)

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! When Satan was cast out of heaven on this day he landed in a bramble patch. The pain of the thorns led him to curse the fruit by... er... urinating on them. Eating blackberries after today can be deadly. Read more about it in A Feast of Folklore! #folklore

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Learn the Lingo: In old Warwickshire which avian visitor was referred to as a “jack-squealer”? Answer tomorrow

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Derived from the Latin word limen (meaning threshold), autumn represents an Embrace the In Between phase where nature shifts from an ending to a preparation for the next beginning. a symbolic thinning of the veil between past and future, or this world and the unseen #Folklore

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BOOK OF DREAMS & GHOSTS 1897 Andrew Lang, best known for the coloured fairy books, was President of the Society for Psychical Research. The book poses some fundamental questions: Do you believe in ghosts? How do you define a ghost? One of the best looking ghost books. That cover! #SpookySunday

Longman cover for Lang's Dreams and Ghosts

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clinton Road Bridge (New Jersey, USA) This rural bridge is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young boy. Local folklore claims that if you toss a coin into the water below, the ghostly child will throw it back up to you by midnight. #SpookySunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A white hare once roamed around Brailes Hill which no one would ever try to kill as it was held to be sacred. #FolkloreSunday

Round enamel brooch featuring a white hare leaping over a snowy landscape

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The ghost of a young nun has been seen near the Catholic chapel of St Peter and St Paul in Brailes (located in building below 👇). She is believed to be grieving for her baby which was taken from her to avoid scandal. #SpookySunday

Side view of the building housing the Roman Catholic chapel of St Peter and St Paul

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug

harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine design

the reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folky result of a mooch into the lovely Books On the Hill, St Albans 👇

Two book covers : The Witchcraft Almanac by and Folklore by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Michaelmas Daisy - 29th September is Michaelmas, the Feast Day of St Michael the defender against evil. It marks the end of harvest and the start of autumn. The flower symbolises farewell and transition. The act of giving the bloom to another represents the saying of farewell. #FolkloreThursday

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🌾🎃 In the 1800s, Pennsylvania farmers tied red scarves onto mannequins to frighten crows from their fields. They called these eerie guardians “Bogeymen.” #Scarecrows #Bogeyman ~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd #Scarecrow #Boogeyman

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After the Devil went out collecting nuts on Devil’s Nutting Day (21 Sept), the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared. Startled by this, Satan dropped the sack of nuts which turned into the Devils’ Bag of Nuts (aka Alcock’s Arbour), a hill near Haselor, Warwickshire. #FolkloreThursday

Track passing by the Devil's Bag of Nuts

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A favourite churchyard apparition was the one that manifested in the 1940s at St Bartholomew's, Yealmpton, #Devon. The vicar, Rev Dr Byles, was walking through the graves when he saw a big hole in the path before him. Astonished, he skirted it & fetched his wife from the church. [More #SpookySunday

A photograph of St Bartholomew's, Yealmpton, copyright Ruth Sharvill.

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Autumnal Sundays,collecting nuts on the Sabbath risked running into Old Nick himself, who might disguise himself as a friendly gentleman helping pick the highest clusters #folklore

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another impressive illustration from the Illustrated Police News for #SpookySunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the 19th C, in Brailes at the end of harvest a rooster was brought into the field, tied to a post and all the reapers would shoot at it. One year the fowl escaped but was eventually shot by a man whose gun was loaded with a silver sixpence 🧵 #FolkloreSunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 1642, the sound of military drums emitted from a well in the hamlet of Hill Wooten. The drumming continued for 14 days then stopped, only to restart in 1660 and 1669. No source for the noise was discovered. 🧵 #SpookySunday

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's #SpookySunday tomorrow but BlueSky has exorcised the SpookySunday account entirely - and it looked like it had done the same to this one earlier today (so if I vanish completely, you'll know why). But please follow the feed as usual and feel free to post on all things #ghost. #folklore

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For the history of Chesterton windmill, here's a piece from Warwickshire Museum Service on the 'Our Warwickshire' blog👇 Spoiler alert: the rumours about it being designed by Capability Brown ain't true 🙂 www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/arti...

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Chesterton Windmill

The Chesterton Windmill is a famous feature of the Warwickshire landscape and can be seen from several miles away. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the Roman Fosse Way about ...

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From yesterday's mooch to one of Warwickshire's landmarks - the 17th C windmill at Chesterton

windmill in shadow with a ghostly sun behind it

Inside the mill, looking out on to the landscape beyond

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Warwickshire harvest-home rhyme trashes images of bucolic idylls: Hip! Hip! Hip! For the harvest home. Now we’ve taken the last load home. I ripped my shirt and I seared my skin To get my master’s harvest in. #HarvestLore

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl rules alongside Mictlantecuhtli in Mictlan, the realm of the dead. Long before modern Día de Muertos traditions developed, death already occupied a complex and powerful place in the cosmology of central México. #WyrdWednesday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some years ago the local Pound Shop was selling Day of the Dead-style items for Halloween. I got this skull and decorated it with butterflies to represent spirits of the dead. #WyrdWednesday

Ceramic skull decorated with Day of the Dead style patterns and embellished with 3 butterflies made of feathers

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're in Coventry on Sunday afternoon come and see Priory Row cottages and Cook Street gate for Heritage Open Days. #HODS #HeritageOpenDays #Coventry

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Folklore/myth in unexpected places 👇 A Kodama, a Japanese tree spirit, on the Tsuru no Michi layout at the International N Gauge model railways show. The layout mixed elements from anime and mythology with trains.

A kodama by a train track with cherry tree in full blossom in the foreground

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Molybdomancy is an old form of divination using molten metal, often lead or tin, poured into water. The strange shapes it formed were interpreted for clues about the future. Fortune-telling apparently becomes considerably more dramatic when the crystal ball is boiling. #MythologyMonday

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A 'swarth' is an undead being from Cumbrian folklore, the embodiment of a soul on the verge of death. A 'waff' in Northumberland, and a 'wraith' in Scots dialects. #SpookySunday #SupernaturalDay art: Vera Violetta

A figure sits atop a tomb in a graveyard, a red moon behind

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The shoe is on the other (ghostly) foot now, isn't it? #SpookySunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One summer’s evening in the late 1970s, a visitor to the eerie Guy’s Cliffe House, felt a big drop in temperature when she entered the old hall and being overcome by fear. She later heard that a friend had encountered a dark figure towering over her at same spot. #FolkloreSunday

The ruins of Guy's Cliffe house peering through trees

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the 1960s 2 boys saw an elderly lady in old-fashioned clothes exit St Lawrence's churchyard, Napton-on-the-Hill, walk some way along a path, then vanish. At home, one of the boys described the woman to his mother. She recognised her as a villager who had died 20 yrs earlier. #spookysunday

View of the church of St Lawrence from its churchyard

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most Warwickshire villages had a harvest-home rhyme. This one form Ilmington celebrated a good harvest: Up! Up! Up! A merry harvest home, A good plum pudding and a good beef bone

3 shield bugs on an ear of ripened corn in a cornfield

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some of the Tudor fairies I encountered on the Fairy Trail in the Lord Leycester gardens

Male fairy looking suspiciously like King Henry VIII

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Took part in the fairy trail in the gardens of the medieval Lord Leycester hospital, Warwick. Got a sticker for bagging the requisite number of fae.

Poster describing fairies throughout time

Lord Leycester sticker and flower sticker on my green flowery dress

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SpookySunday "Vigil 1" by Joseph Vargo

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SpookySunday It is said that circling the huge oak tree growing inside the ruined church at East Somerton, Norfolk [three times widdershins] will summon the ghost of a witch reputedly buried inside the church. The oak tree is said to have sprouted from the witch's wooden leg!

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A headless female ghost, said to be a murder victim, was believed to wander the ruins of the medieval Bagot’s Castle. In 1934 archaeologists digging at the site were warned by an anxious local that their activities would provoke the ghost. #SpookySunday

Remains of a room in the ruins of Bagot's Castlle

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Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Get your party shrouds on again tomorrow for #SpookySunday, the feed that celebrates all things ghostly. Any posts on ghosts in #folklore, fiction, #poetry, #art, haunted locations, popular culture etc will be most welcome. (But #ghosts only, please: other supernatural beings will exorcised!)

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some Oliver Cromwell lore on the anniversary of his death in 1658: In 1642 Cromwell was reputed to have slid down one of the bell ropes in the church of All Saints, Burton Dassett. He had climbed the bell tower in order to view proceedings in the battle of Edgehill.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#Halloween seems to have arrived early on social media so to get in a suitably macabre pre-Halloween spirit here’s my cemetery lantern.

Black lantern with an illuminated picture of a graveyard with crow in the foreground

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One Christmas Eve a couple were driving down a narrow lane nr Berkswell when the woman became aware of a coach and 6 horses behind them. Unnerved, her husband who was driving, sped up. The coach sped up too, so he pulled over to let the coach pass but the coach vanished.

Narrow lane near Berkswell, overhung by oak tree

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The ghostly black coach of Caister Castle, #Norfolk, was an omen of death for the Paston family. It had a headless driver and Marc Alexander describes it as 'a huge old vehicle, rather like a hearse'. It would pass through the locked gates, 'hurtle round the courtyard' and then vanish. #SpookySunday

A painting of Caister Castle by John Rooker, early 19th century.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The great 18th century actress Sarah Siddons, was a tragedian whose most celebrated role was that of Lady Macbeth. Her ghost haunts at least three locations. At the Theatre Royal Bristol her lover killed himself in a dressing room. [More #SpookySunday #ShakespeareSunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A stagecoach driver had a bet he could reach Leamington Spa from Ufton in record time. The coach went out of control, crashing at the foot of Ufton Hill. Both coach horses were killed but on stormy nights their ghosts have been seen dragging the vehicle up the hill #SpookySunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Corn maiden from Napton-on-the-Hill in Marton Museum of Country Bygones

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Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When 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

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 26/08/2026

The hottest part of summer is marked by the ascension of Sirius the Dog Star: that is why we call them the "Dog Days" of Summer. The ancients believed Sirius caused it to make the world a hotter place, giving Orion's dog the personality of a merciless hunter. #WyrdWednesday

The constellation Canis Major, of which Sirius is the brightest star and makes up either the neck or nose of depending on how you connect the constellation.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As a child, folklore collector FW Bennett heard a witch predict that his grandfather would die in 5 days. When asked how she knew, she said that her dog told her by its howls. Bennett’s grandfather died at 9am on the 5th day. #WyrdWednesday

Carved dog sleeping by its master on a Tudor effigy tomb

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Say "Hello" to James (named after M. R.). New addition to my Halloween decs collection. I know it's only August but in my defence, there were 3 aisles of Christmas stuff out in B&M already

Small seated skeleton holding a gravestone

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is the flower dedicated to St Bartholomew, whose feast day is 24th August. In late summer its brilliant blooms shine like reflections of the sun. Traditionally known as “St Bartholomew’s Star”, it is a symbol of constancy and devotion. #folklore

Close-up photograph of a bright golden-yellow sunflower in full bloom, its overlapping petals streaked with warm amber around a tightly patterned green and brown centre. Large green leaves and dark burgundy foliage form a softly blurred background.

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