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maria @theliminalcompass.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is my final summer in the Mediterranean, my body cannot handle this heat anymore. Anytime it's windy in the summer I'm terrified the fires will come. And they do. Greece is burning today, too.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 03/08/2026

The Earth is on fire and we have these tech bros eating through electricity and polluting millions of litres of water just to make money of something that no one needs. I understand your fears, it must be terrifying. It wont be long until England will be the same.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 03/08/2026

The heat has been oppressive, a constant strain. It sucks the life out of the land and the mind, it plays tricks upon me. The scorched fields and meadows aren’t speaking and the longing for the rain is intense. It will pass, I know it will, but at the moment I know not when.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Church porch as excommunicate outreach. Church porch as corpse pause, corpse watch. Church porch as threshold, as site of loosing and binding. Half-consecrated, beyond the blessing of water, wine, salt and ash. Neither in nor out and therefore a place of magics. – #CLNolan

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you Mothers Sam and @cwreeve.bsky.social for collecting wyrd horn tales all day - h̶o̶r̶n̶y̶ horned(!) Mother @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social is here now, grabbing #wyrdwednesday by the horns - and ready for more stories from you. Do sit down and tell your wynderful tales, Wyrdlings all!

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 29/07/2026

I hope you enjoy it: bsky.app/profile/wiht...

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 29/07/2026

The latest track from my #Hookland album -- Return of the Horned God. Just in time for #WyrdWednesday youtu.be/qy0jFUsSDG4

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Hookland | Return of the Horned God

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 29/07/2026

I am working on the latest song as part of my #Hookland album and by coincidence it aligns with today's #WyrdWednesday topic. I hope to have it finished soon... I wonder if anyone can guess what it is about

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hookland - there to be used by those who need it or want it.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

Singles that stretch from this place to the next. Who are listening? The valves and obsolete wirelesses of #Hookland hear? What are they trying to say?

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

Thank you so much for your wonderfully kind words.

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Michael Peterson @madpadre.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hookland is a place of reenchantment that I’ve come to enjoy visiting, and this is a wonderful tribute to it.

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Michael Peterson @madpadre.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That was lovely, thanks so much. It captured my own idea of Hookland.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

Thank you Michael, it is part of the album I am putting together. I am currently working on the next track. I am very so glad you enjoyed it.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

That is exactly what I was going for

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Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Does the great Hookland thing of sounding familiar.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

Thank you, I am glad you like it.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 28/07/2026

Two nights ago I could not sleep, I closed my eyes and suddenly was transported to #hookland When I opened my eye, my head was filled with a simple, haunting melody: I dedicate this to @hookland.bsky.social & @skionar.bsky.social and all those who make these processions for us. #folklore

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wyrdlings! With the Buck Moon rising late in July this year, we give you: “Taken by the… Horned Beings, Horned Hats, Horned Moons” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Let’s meet by moonlight and share tales of all horned things.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 27/07/2026

The Wren Lantern Procession -- #Hookland The cunning folk said never count the lanterns in the Wren Procession. One is always carried by someone who never came home. They’ll smile as they pass, tip their light to you, and keep walking towards a village that isn’t there... youtu.be/cj5JLQnwHzw

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Hookland | The Wren Lantern Procession

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 27/07/2026

My favourite of the holy herbs.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 27/07/2026

And you, Wegbrade, greatest of herbs, open from the east, mighty within. Over you carts creaked, over you queens rode, over you brides passed, over you bulls snorted. You withstood them all and resisted them; so may you withstand poison and infection, and the evil that travels through the land.

A clump of common plantain (Plantago major) growing beside a dry, sun-bleached path. Its broad, dark green leaves spread low in a rosette, while several tall, slender seed spikes rise above the foliage. Fallen leaves and parched summer grass surround the plant, highlighting its resilience as it thrives in the trampled ground.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 27/07/2026

RIP Bill Oddie. Goody Goody Yum Yum.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Wihtwara has been a place of unique strangeness since the days of the Jutes. @wihtlore.uk has persuaded me of that.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 26/07/2026

It is indeed a place of strangeness.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 26/07/2026

It is fabulous, loved every minute of it.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 25/07/2026

Thank you to the wonderful @hookland.bsky.social for the beautiful gift. Like always with #Hookland it arrives just as I need it. I spent all morning going through it… I have been transported home.

Hookland fragments and my Hookland right to reside.

I am honoured and touched to be enclosed in the Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgements
This book is dedicated to Paul Watson and Paul Wilson.
Without their sustaining friendship, Hookland would have remained lost.
I would like to offer special thanks to Phil Hine, Maria Strutz and April Cole. Without them, this volume would not have been produced. I would also like to offer special thanks to all who came out to The Bell pub to attend the original talk, especially Tara, Jo and Bob who travelled so far.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 24/07/2026

Meadowsweet by the waterside, Mead in the waiting cup. One sweetens the tongue, One sweetens the heart: And both, folk say, Wake the old tracks up. Mind what you whisper Where Mede-swēte grows. The bees are listening, From devilled lies a cursing goes. #folklore

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 23/07/2026

Sometimes turning to strangers for validation and comfort is all we have. I admire those that do, because sometimes people are surrounded by people but are just lost in the crowd. Be kind to our tribe, love them and give them the support they need, even if we don’t know they need it.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 23/07/2026

The cunning folk called borage the flower that remembers courage. They say if you tucked a blue bloom into your pocket before crossing lonely fields, the shadows would keep their distance. No spirit cares to trouble a heart that has remembered its own bravery.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 22/07/2026

The elder hangs her dark beads in July. The cunning folk say she’s counted the warm days herself and dressed for autumn before the rest of the hedgerow believed it. Never take the first berry you see. Leave it for the old spirits, lest they remember your name when winter comes. #Folklore

Close-up photograph of ripe elderberries hanging in a summer hedgerow. Clusters of glossy black berries dangle from vivid crimson stems, framed by dense green leaves with a few sun-dried brown leaves tucked among them. The berries are heavy and abundant, catching the light against the lush foliage, evoking the height of the English summer before the first signs of autumn.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

Flash floods were a thing I was terrified of.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

My dad was obsessed with unexplained mysteries and had a whole room filled with books about them. I had no chance.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

I guess now that must be added to the list — quietly plotting.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

I think I will still avoid it. Sounds like it might quietly plotting.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

Oh the other hand, not that you have mentioned it, wells might be just biding their time, now that I think I’m safe.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

I did actually manage to evade it once, so I worry that it might start working out other ways of stepping up its attacks. I am wondering if a variant— the bog might get me.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

Best of luck evading those, they sound like they could be difficult to navigate.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

Oh I fell done one of those once, it wasn’t very deep, but I do feel like that threat’s blood lust might be sated.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

Fingers crossed they they’re still coming for me or that I will continue to evade my nemeses ?

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 21/07/2026

As a child I was convinced three things would get me: quicksand, spontaneous human combustion, and something I once read about called Walking Corpse Syndrome. None of them ever did. Still… I can’t say I’ve entirely stopped worrying that there is a chance that one of them is still coming for me.

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Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk · 18/07/2026

We have to meet in China town again.

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is of course, nonsense. The idea I wouldn’t recognise family when I met them or talk to vastly interesting, lovely and charming folk!

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