In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan

Clematis flowering by a door at Miss Minnie Pate’s Cambridge University Type-Writing Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge. ‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. – Lord Byron

Not a book on ghost as such but ‘Needles of Stone’ by the dowser Tom Graves has been really influential on my ghost beliefs. In it Graves uses the theory of earth energies/ley lines to explore why certain phenomena like ghosts, ghouls, fairies and UAPs cluster around certain sites #PhantomsFriday

Who is spooked by whom? The lady, the ghost, the man — or the reflection in the mirror? Originally titled 'In the Room: A Problem Picture'. The artist stated that he just let the painting develop as the fancy took him. #PhantomsFriday A gory detail in the Alt-text.

#PhantomsFriday again of course tomorrow, a week after a splendid Hallowe'en Friday. Follow along on @phantomsfriday.bsky.social or better still, use the hashtag for your own #ghost posts: words, pictures, popular culture, #folklore and #legend & #haunted sites ancient or modern - anything ghostly!

#PhantomsFriday pun of the week.

There at a table sat the three guests with halters round their necks, trolling the old Dutch freebooter's glee: 'For three merry lads be we And three merry lads be we; I on the land, and thou on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree.' - Washington Irving, 'Guests From Gibbet Island' #PhantomsFriday

"The fisherman beheld a band Of spectres gliding hand in hand- Where the green billows played. ...And sometimes from their hammock shroud They dismal howlings made, And while the blast blew strong and loud The clear moon marked that ghastly crowd, Where the green billows played!" #PhantomsFriday

In Salisbury Cathedral a member of the staff witnessed a glowing noose float over to the tomb of a medieval saint. Within this tomb had been hidden the body of an 18th century lord, hanged for various outrages, and who therefore should not have been buried in holy ground. #PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire

"Ten minutes more of suspense. Then, again, loud, sudden, violent, the bell rang! We burst into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the floor, rigid, petrified. He groaned in in a terrible, husky voice, 'Oh my God, I have seen it!' and fell down dead." - Rhoda Broughton #PhantomsFriday

Just found out that Mysterious Tales from 1982, in which Keith Barron narrates short folk tales from SW England, was broadcast recently on Rewind TV. A series I've been wanting to find out more about for ages, luckily it's getting shown again from the 16th of November. digiguide.tv/programme-de...

When everything tide-touched becomes property of the King-Under-the-Sea, high tide is a crucial matter. Even more so when it comes to the county's causeway islands. No-one wants to get trapped on Os or Far Gore. No-one wants to spend even an extra hour on Strood. – #MattAdams

It's very intriguing, isn't it? There are many references to them in place names around North Wales. I've just found a lane on the Wrexham-Cheshire border still called Lon y Bwbach (literally Lane Of The Ghost) and I can't help suspecting that that Bwbach was in fact a Gwyllgi patrolling the lane.

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They really are fascinating spooks these Black Dogs. Almost universal throughout the UK (maybe not so much in Scotland?). I wonder if they're a feature of continental European folklore, too, or peculiar to these Isles. Interesting these should haunt two bridges, liminal places that they are.

#VOH stands for Voices of Hookland, because you can’t tell the truths of anywhere and exclude voices that aren’t the middle class academics, authors and professionals the weird fiction genre relies too heavily upon. Dairy men, shelf stackers, factory workers all sing the strange truths of place.

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old tavern in Wales. But the inn has more than just beer and 'spirits'. As told in the 1944 film The Halfway House from Ealing Studios. #PhantomsFriday #Film #40s

Goodnight. 🖼️ "The moon, like to a silver bow new-bent in heaven", Arthur Rackham.

'Two Women in a Gusty Autumn Landscape' from the series 'The Six Immortal Poets' - Katsukawa Shunsho, ca. 1771. From the Art Institute of Chicago collection. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Restored painted walls from Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent. Dating from the 4th century AD, the figures have been interpreted as priests at prayer. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Lullingstone #RomanBritain

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East Suffolk is host to many Shucks, phantom hounds who bring a warning of immediate death to those who behold them.One is said to haunt two bridges over a stream in Mill Road, in the little village of Wisset, waiting for those who try to cross the water 🐾 #PhantomsFriday

Tools of the Trade for #Scape #Seascape #EastCoastKin #photography #sea #waves #lobsterpot #rope #fishing #Kernow #Cornwall #bluesky (Android phone camera)

THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901

Goodnight from Rob Eley, sure he can see rough and not entirely human shapes on Salt Tear Marsh. Goodnight from Weychester University Library, where the sound of pages being turned has not stopped even though no living reader is left on the premises. Goodnight from Hookland.

‘No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;  Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires.’~ Wilfred Owen This #BookWormSat, join us to mark Remembrance Day with war and peace in literature.

Penguin Books are always a joy. Here are my 1960 editions of 'Quatermass II' and 'Quatermass And The Pit' teleplays. Both absolute classics, but I don't need to tell anyone that. The cover designs are by Nigel Kneale's brother Bryan. The first had a plain cover. #PenguinBooks #BookChatWeekly #scifi

Stained glass shadows, St Mary’s Church, Wreay. #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography

The wooden bestiaries of England's churches offer a library of carved folklore. Here a giant wyrm or ghost bear to keep you company as you pray. There a manticore, flown from far Persia, to growl at tedious homilies. – John Betjeman, The English Alphabet , BBC Two, 1972 #Folklore

'The Mountain Keepers' by contemporary printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.

I like properties where spirits have thrown their ectoplasmic weight around to the point the owners have fled. More so, I adore a property so phantom-plagued no estate agent can find a willing renter. Ghosts that defy the property market are worth studying. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

The year limped on with a malign heart, never quite letting go of its fever. Even as it moved towards the inevitably of ice and long hours of darkness, the village sweated out visions. Evening chatter in both pubs was filled with augury. Ghosts gathered. - #CLNolan, The Growling of the Land, 1912

“All your ducks in a row” - 🦆 🦆 🦆 Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula 8th-7th Century BCE Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena

Remember remember! Some very blurry printing on this highly sectarian pamphlet about 'the 5th of November' printed in 1679

I just leave this one for #PhallusThursday 👃 Bronze amulet from Egypt, 1st c. BC. Mougins, Musée d’art classique de Mougin 📷 me 🏺

Children leave for school early on November 6th. They want extra time to collect the sticks of fallen rockets. They sit in class comparing numbers, passing around the ones with strongest smell of gunpowder, inhaling as if each whiff contained the memory of its display. - Joanna Vickers #VOH

Shoreline; Peering Light Acrylic on canvas www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass! A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Goodnight from Gosmer, where the villagers have chosen to burn an effigy of Thatcher the Iron Witch instead of Guy Fawkes. Goodnight from David Appleyard, walking a night filled with bonefire incense and the heady gunpowder smell of exploded fireworks. Goodnight from Hookland.

Oaks near Sheepstor last November, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Plague Days - Internet - late afternoon - Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Manila, The Philippines November 3, 2020 #plaguedays #Manila #photography #urban #Philippines #covid19 #streetphotography #street #b&w #blackandwhite #hot #lateafternoon #humid #building #internet

Face - Apartment Building - afternoon - Harbin, Heilongjiang, China November 3, 2016 #China #Harbin #Heilongjiang #photography #urban #city #cold #Chinese #street #Chinese #building #architecture #b&w #blackandwhite #view #street #streetphotography #face

Plague Days - Typhoon Two - late afternoon - Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Manila, The Philippines November 5, 2020 #plaguedays #Manila #photography #urban #Philippines #covid19 #streetphotography #street #b&w #blackandwhite #hot #lateafternoon #humid #rain #woman #traffic #tricycle #typhoontwo

Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Golden Sea #photography #greece #crete #EastCoastKin

In the 1905 Wild Flowers Month by Month Step discussed the difficulties of photographing Wild Daffodils in the woods. So this morning I ventured out looking for Wild Daffodils in the woods near me. I found #WoodAnemone too for #WildflowerHour