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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love Aubrey Beardsley. Really wanted to be an illustrator in my teens and he was my big inspiration. Ditto Harry Clarke/Kay Nielson. (Spoiler alert the illustrator dream never happened which is now why I'm a historian squawking about folklore on social media🙂)

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Enjoyed your Warwick Words talk this morning. Have bought 'Mythbusting'. I now really want to visit Maxstoke Castle. I didn't know much about the place before though have photographed the priory in the past as there's folklore attached to it.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, not yet. I've read Daisy, Frances Greville's autobiography where she mentions encounters with several ghosts.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for sharing. I'm off on a 'Behind Closed Doors' at Warwick Castle tour tomorrow evening so it'll be interesting to check out the atmosphere if we take in the kitchen.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks 👻 I'd be interested to know if it's any good see if it's worth me having a mooch along

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The last of October’s birth flowers is the marigold. Its sun-like flowers have the power to strengthen and comfort the heart, and cure melancholy. A spoonful of marigold jam taken at breakfast each morning will protect you from witches & enable you to see fairies. #FolkloreSunday

A collage about marigolds. On the left is Walter Crane’s 1906 illustration “The marigold that goes to bed with the sun, And with him rises weeping”, from “Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden”. It shows a graceful woman in a pale flowing gown adorned with marigolds, standing beside a harp, with a setting sun and drooping marigold blooms behind her. At top right is a close-up photograph of a golden-yellow pot marigold flower against a soft green background. At bottom right is a wider photograph of a border filled with orange marigolds in bloom.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Young pigeon in the garden this afternoon and I've now been staring at its knees😳

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It certainly has a reputation in the folklore tomes

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

📷 skeletal squab by Vcby via Wikimedia Commons

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Long Compton woman, a reputed witch, lay dying surrounded by relatives. She begged them to leave but after hearing bangs & crashes they rushed back in to see a black pigeon fly out the window. The woman was dead and her possessions were strewn about the room. #FolkloreSunday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As folklore says she's still supposed to be in that dam and modern ghost walk people say she roams the streets of Warwick, I ain't commenting. I don't live in Warwick but don't want to piss MB off should I pop in for a spot of shopping.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Envious as I'd love to do a ghost hunt there. did you experience anything - disembodied footsteps in one of the corridors? An elderly lady who suddenly vanishes?

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(2/2) According to folklore the black dog/Moll is still there to this day, trapped beneath the fletcher dam.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A spectral black dog, believed to be a witch, Moll Bloxham, once haunted Warwick Castle. Moll was angry that her concession for selling the castle’s surplus dairy produce had been withdrawn. After an exorcism the dog leapt from Caesar’s Tower into the river 🧵 #SpookySunday

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'" ...the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle, which, as recently as January of this year, was reported to be still at large..." Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Betty, a Tredington witch, wasn’t invited to a neighbour’s party so she went in the form of a cat but was detected. After being jabbed with a pitchfork, the cat disappeared thru a keyhole. The next day Betty was found to have a wound in her right hand.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t usually post songs here but I’m going for a witch theme this month so here’s ‘Season of the Witch’ by Donovan to set the mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q54H...

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Donovan - Season Of The Witch

YouTube video by Juliette

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Ladies and gentlemen please fasten your seat belts. We are now entering October country"

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

Most of the Warwickshire hare lore I've encountered so far tends to be witches transforming into hares so nice to find something a bit different.

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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

Source: Meg Elizabeth Atkins, ‘Haunted Warwickshire’ (1981) 📷 by me

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

😀 if they're anything like the ones round here, definitely.

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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

I don't know but there's also another legend of buried treasure guarded by a very aggressive cockerel attached to the hill so that may have been a lure (the treasure not the angry rooster🙂)

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

📷Track passing Alcock's Arbour by Philip Halling via Wikimedia Commons

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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

A few haunted graveyards round here but they're for another Sunday 🙂

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

In some other Warwickshire villages, the live bird was replaced by a rooster's head woven from pieces of corn and sickles were thrown at it.

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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

As the English Civil War began in 1642, was there some connection between that and the sounds of military drumming coming from the well?

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

Am I remembering right that you said when you set up SpookySunday that you used the same account as #PhantomsFriday but just changed the name? I'm wondering if the name change is what triggered the initial problem. 🤔 Tho that doesn't explain the issues with your remaining account...

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