Join us next Tuesday, Nov 18 for an exciting evening with Bee Dancer Sara Mapelli Tink.

It was lovely to join such a fantastic group of women to discuss #inclusion and #storytelling in #VR this week at @helenerwin.bsky.social's fantastic space, @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social! Do check out Helen's excellent books and events about women's history and folklore. theforemotherscafe.com

Join me Paige Dansinger, Anju Bhargava, PhD, and @deedeechainey.bsky.social for an in depth conversation on how we can bring more women into spaces where equity is the focus not just locally, but globally. Tomorrow at 1 pm. Register here: immersive-x.de

My Neighbour Totoro stage show Extends its West End Run until August 2026 animeblurayuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

Join us on Thursday!

Waterstones are offering 25% off my pre-orders of my next book, Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines! Enter code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app, valid until 17th October.

Do visit The Foremothers Cafe, it's a fantastic space!

This is The Foremothers Cafe's brand new account moving from @helenerwin.bsky.social author account to focus more on Virtual Reality. If you're in #XR and like #VR #Culture and #WomensHistory please follow us and help us grow.

So much fun yesterday feeding cookies to dragons and wolves with @helenerwin.bsky.social at #TheForemothersCafé! 🍪 This tiny dragon is definitely my favourite creature in VR. (The dancing demon is brilliant but creepy!) #FolkloreThursday #VR #EngageXR

This Saturday, from 8pm, I’m giving a short talk for the wonderful @edgeways.bsky.social group. It’s free, but attendees do need to register beforehand. I’m really looking forward to it, hopefully see some of you there 🙂 tinyurl.com/NewEdgewaysR...

Out now! The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson Keeping the best place by the fire By Andrea Wright A complete and chronological overview of Henson's career from the late 1950s to his death in 1990 bit.ly/4mcQtCV #JimHenson #TheMuppetShow #FairyTales #ScreenStudies

Hey @deedeechainey.bsky.social, @willowwinsham.bsky.social & @johnnymains.co.uk - we've made it to Tarrytown NY! We're sat on the shelves of the lovely Transom Books...! #HudsonValley #Booksky #Folklore

'Essential reading for understanding our multi-folkloric present.' @deedeechainey.bsky.social 'Folklore: A journey through the past and present' by @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, coming soon. #FolkloreThursday

On Being Heard in the #ImmersiveWeb: A Journey Through Fairy Tale, Embodiment and #Inclusion Fairy tales hold a mirror to social norms. #XR will, too—when we build tools that amplify all voices. open.substack.com/pub/deedeech...

Is there a university somewhere where Asexual Fairy Tales is on the reading list? Trying to figure out why sales and library loans have shot up recently. (Not that I’m complaining! 😂) #folklore #asexuality #fairytales @deedeechainey.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social

The traditional Maltese luzzu is a brightly painted fishing boat with #protective eyes on its bow, believed in local #folklore to ward off danger and bring #luck at #sea.

The #festa is coming! Daytime #fireworks from Victoria Citadella… 😁

#Victoria #Citadella #Gozo #malta #heritage

#QbajjarBay #Gozo #Malta

The salt pans near #Marsalforn in #Gozo are centuries-old rock-cut pools where locals still harvest sea salt by hand each summer — a living #folk tradition passed down through generations. visitgozo.com/places/salt-... #XwejniBay #QbajjarBay #Malta #SaltPans #Tradition #folklife #FolkloreThursday

Watched a fantastic talk from Marina Warner about gender, fairy tales as a promise between women & the domain of pain; stories as a place that you dwell. She touches on the power of play & imagination as a way of thinking. Many implications for the uses of VR storytelling. youtu.be/Zop-QPDlnFw?...

Beautiful mist rising from the valley this morning. #Gozo

It was great to catch up with folks at yesterday's #FolkloreThursdayVRsocial at Dee Dee Chainey's Cultural Futures Hub and hear everyone's holiday, travel and journey lore! Do follow on Eventbrite for updates about the next event! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dee-dee-ch... #FolkloreThursday

If you keep losing buttons, it foretells of a sea voyage and settlement abroad. #FolkloreThursday 'Encyclopedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world' - Cora Linn Daniels

A pig appearing to a traveller is a good sign. Your trip will be even more successful, if you see a sow with a litter. #FolkloreThursday 'Signs, omens and superstitions' by Astra Cielo

Anna Hopkinson’s illustration of Oda the Pilgrim from Legends from Lindisfarne. A Scottish saint, after she was cured of blindness, she went on pilgrimage to sites throughout Europe with her female companion. They settled down together in the Frankish lands, where her father tracked her down… 🧵

She follows Jizo's directions and finds the dumpling, however an Ogre has eaten it. Then she's protected by another Jizo statue against the Ogre, BUT... she laughs at danger and the Ogre finds her 😆 I love this story. We recorded it here: www.jesseguelfi.com/the-laughing... (password 541)

In Texas, the Lady of White Rock Lake flags down drivers near the water’s edge, soaked and shivering. She asks for a ride and then vanishes from the back seat. Her ghost is said to belong to a young woman who drowned decades ago. Her journey never ends. #FolkloreThursday

Many an errant youth set out, wide-eyed, on his first voyage as a sailor, perhaps enticed by the false promises of treasures and mermaids, or simply a regular wage. It was a harsh life of toil and fraught with danger, so it makes sense that seafaring was rife with superstitions. #FolkloreThursday

Hi! This is @crystalponti.bsky.social your wayward guide for this hour of #FolkloreThursday! 🌞✈️ Our theme? Travel, journeys, & holidays—think cursed crossroads, magical detours, & strange time travel. Thanks to @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social for hosting our social! "Time" to post! Art: Jelena Janic

Pedra da Gávea

The island Ven (or Hven) is a small island in the sound between Denmark and Sweden. It was created when a lady giant walked across the sound to get better soil from the Swedish side, put it in her pinafore and but dropped some on the way back. #FolkloreThursday

Jizo statues are found throughout the roads in Japan. It's said they protect travellers as they journey across the country. People may leave food offerings by these statues so they please the spirits and also aid lost travellers who may be hungry. #FolkloreThursday

In many areas of the South West of England, sailors were generally wary of cats, and if one met a black cat on the way to his ship, would turn around and go home, seeing it as a bad omen. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler

Monk’s Well in #Wavertree, #Liverpool, bears an inscription from 1414, relating the local legend that all travellers must give alms at the local monastic building when drinking from the well or, should they not, a devil chained at the bottom would laugh. #TreasuryOfBritishFolklore #FolkloreThursday

Don't forget today's #FolkloreThursdayVRSocial at The Cultural Futures Hub on Spatial.io, starting at 1-2pm BST! Join #FolkloreThursday for an hour of folklore chat and socialising! The theme of the day this time is holidays, travel and transport! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folkloreth...

Join us Thursday 3rd July for the next hosted #FolkloreThursday! Our theme is the folklore of travel, journeys and holidays and our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times (BST): 9am-1pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm 🎨Odysseus and Polyphemus, Arnold Böcklin

ANNOUNCEMENT! The #FolkloreThursdayVRSocial at @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social: 3 July, 1-2pm BST! The theme of the day this time is... the folklore of travel and holidays! Join us for an hour of folklore chat and socialising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folkloreth... #folklorethursday

Sharing this lovely event from @helenerwin.bsky.social. This Saturday at 5 pm ET: Midsommar — the traditional Swedish Summer Solstice celebration! Help decorate the Midsommar Pole with flowers, dance around it! Join from your laptop on engagevr.io by searching for The Foremothers Café space.

Ten years!? How has it been ten years?! @deedeechainey.bsky.social I still remember those first discussions about it all - how far we've come!💛 #FolkloreThursday

Happy anniversary, @willowwinsham.bsky.social! Can't believe it's been 10 whole years! xx🥳🤩

Good morning on this salty #FolkloreThursday! This is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social opening the door to the magical otherworld of today's theme of the #folklore of the Seas and Oceans with this hagstone I recently found on the beach. Bring me all your lovely folklore please! 😊

Still one of my very favourite books to work on and perfect for today's #FolkloreThursday theme - Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers. Packed full of fabulous sea-lore and tales, and can we take a moment to appreciate the stunning cover by Joe McLaren?

Today's #FolkloreThursday theme is folklore of the seas and oceans! Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times (BST): 9am-1pm 2.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm (Image: Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus)

Just a heads up! I'm going off grid for a bit to focus on some deep work. Taking a short break from socials to fully dive into my current project. The next #FolkloreThursdayVRsocial will be in July, so stay tuned for info and I’ll catch up with everyone in a few weeks!

The existence of sympathetic magic implies the existence of unsympathetic magic - when the spirit you've summoned to serve you begs to be released, you just tell it to pull itself together and stop snivelling

Couldn't agree more 😆😆

Or just send a request to join the Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/10271... #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreVRSocial

Brilliant session at today's #FolkloreVRSocial, the new #FolkloreThursday x @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social mashup! Thanks to everyone who came along and shared their lore of plants, flowers and herbs! Follow on Eventbrite for details of next month's session: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dee-dee-ch...

This is TODAY! Come and join us 1-2pm BST - info below! #FolkloreThursday