Lots of interesting resources if you are interested in Dartmoor folklore: www.torbayweekly.co.uk/news/home/17... #folkloresunday #folklore #folkloring #dartmoor #devon #ghosthunting #paranormal

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Join us tomorrow (13th March) for the next hosted #FolkloreThursday! To celebrate publication day of The Story of Witches by @willowwinsham.bsky.social the theme will be the folklore of witches! Our hosts will do their best to share your posts: (GMT) 9am-2pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm

FatE News! 💚💜 #Fate2025 is only 127 days away!! Just think you could soon be enjoying fabulous performances from your favourite #storytellers & #musicians, taking part in brilliant workshops & story rounds, or just chilling out enjoying the festival vibes & beautiful views. Limited tickets (100)🧵1/2

The Witches, Legends and Curious Tales mini festival will run from March 19 to March 31 in Suffolk: heartofsuffolk.co.uk/explore/witc... #folklore #witch #witchsky #suffolk #witchfest #folkloring

How do we measure the more subtle feelings these lithic rings inspire? Where are the units of folktales per stone, sense of sacredness within the circle? How do we represent their impact on a community's collective imagination? The impression of ongoing ritual? - Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Me at 2 pm: Ok, I've got four crackerjack Baba Yaga stories to choose from, I just need to decide which one I'm going to tell. Me at 4 pm: I've emptied an entire bookcase and now have 20 stories to choose from and my house is sprouting chicken legs. #performancestorytelling #oralstorytelling

Festival planning was going so well before a certain kitty got involved... 💚💜😁🤣🤣 #Fate2025 #Festivalplans #storytelling #folkmusic #storytellingforgrownups #storytellingforkids #festivalseason 🎟️ www.festivalattheedge.org Takes place at www.hoptoncourt.co.uk

#ArtDD2025 #wrensday A tiny winter king from my archive. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social 🦉🪶

#WyrdWednesday Morgiana (1972) directed by Juraj Herz. Based on a novel by Alexander Grin. A gothic horror melodrama with poison, sibling rivalry and costumes to die for. 🖤 #FashionGoals

The Stiperstones have a long history of mining. When miners heard strange knocks underground, they saw it as a sign that Wild Edric was close and protecting them. Edric was said to dwell deep in those hills and would only return to the surface when England was in peril. #Folklore #Shropshire

The next hosted #FolkloreThursday is 27th February! Our hosts will share your weather-themed folklore at the following times (GMT): 9am-2pm 3.30-4.30pm 5.30-7.30pm Don't forget the hashtag! (Image: Children under a Red Umbrella, Henry Mosler)

FatE Attractions 💚💜 We're thrilled that @lisaschneidau.bsky.social will be at #Fate2025. Lisa is a fantastic storyteller, author, folklorist & environmentalist based in Devon. She focuses on traditional stories about the land & our complex relationship with it, using story as a way of enabling 🧵1/2

This Japanese print by an unknown artist titled 'Snow Demon' (ca. 1930s) depicts a demon or god creating snow. I believe it's part of a series depicting weather gods but I haven't been able to find any more information about it. #WyrdWednesday #JapaneseArt

'Monday? Never heard of her.' 💅 #MondayMotivation

I went looking for snowdrops today as it's Candlemas - they're supposed to bloom at Candlemas so they're known as 'Candlemas bells'. They're also called dewdrops, death's flower, Eve's tear, February fair-maids, and Mary's tapers. Round our way, they also came out in mid-January! #PlantFolklore

I've created a starter pack for #oralstorytelling. Please tell me who I've missed so I can add them. Let's grow the pack together so it won't take us hours of trawling to find each other ❤️ go.bsky.app/8PFSncD #performancestorytelling #traditionalstorytelling

'Alright pal, got plans for the #BigGardenBirdwatch?' 'Nah, just the usual... hang out of sight whilst she's doing the count, then touch down once the hour's over. You?' 'Classic. Planning some fly-bys with a few of the boys, but we'll only land one at a time.' 'Niiice.'

FatE Expectations 💚 💜 We are thrilled that #SefTownsend will be performing at #Fate2025. This versatile, charismatic performer has been telling, sharing & listening to stories across the globe for more than 30 yrs. His work often focuses on refugees & those in asylum detention & he often tells 🧵1/2

We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?

Beira, Scotland's Queen of Winter, (Cailleach, Irish), is a personification of winter in Gaelic #mythology. ❄️ As a #weather deity she can create mountains, make winter storms, herd deer, fight off spring, & she uses her staff to freeze the ground. #FolkloreSunday #Witchsky 🎨 John Duncan, 1917

I’m also here for glode or glid instead of glided, and strove instead of strived. We’ve lost many of our strong verbs and these days simply tack on an ‘-ed’ in the past tense (texted? Why not ‘toxt’?). US English retains more of them: there is poetry in ‘dove’, as opposed to ‘dived’.

I’ve just spent the early afternoon in the company of the wonderful children’s author @clairebarker.bsky.social whose books are full of glorious folklore material for younger readers. There was tea, and coffee, and a great chat which you’ll be able to hear on Saturday as a bonus episode

Here be dragons: dragons and mythological creatures were once placed on maps to indicate unexplored, dangerous, potentially sinful territory, on land and sea: the Fra Mauro map from 1450 shows the Isle of Dragons in the Atlantic and dragons north of Afghanistan. #MythologyMonday

When the longest night is dancing with the shortest day we will surely sing And we will light such candles bright to cheer the way & every bell shall ring Gather round dear friends for all things change (rpt) And our song shall be our song shall be that the time for joy, the time for joy is now

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

'Wirral Council could not afford our library so we took over' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was once believed unlucky to bring holly into the house before Christmas Eve and leave up after Twelfth Night. If you did so, you ran the risk of every berry and leaf transforming into a naughty spirit... #GothicAdvent #Solstice 🎨Cicely Mary Barker

#WyrdWednesday The Babr: a monster created by a spelling mistake. Originally the coat of arms for the city of Irkutsk in Russia featured a Siberian Tiger, which locally was called a Babr. Sadly tigers were hunted to extinction in the region and the word was forgotten. (1/2)

A new copy of the Folklore Podcast e-newsletter has gone out today. This is the first one for a while so if you are a subscriber, it might be worth checking your spam folders to make sure it gets through. Regular newsletters start again in the New Year. Subscribe at www.thefolklorepodcast.com

Festival at the Edge 18-20 July 2025💚💜 at Hopton Court. Fewer than 50 Early Bird (Tier 1) tickets left, so check out the website 🎪🙌🥳🥳🥳 www.festivalattheedge.org to get yours at the best possible price. #Fate2025 #storytelling #folkmusic #festivals #Earlybird

Well, this seems bad......

Only a few days to go now until our "Festive Winter Folklore" themed #FolkloreThursday ! Our hosts will share posts with the #FolkloreThursday tag at the following times on Thursday 19th December (GMT): 9am-12pm 1-2pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm Get your folklore ready, and spread the word!

Teachers! Getting ready for a #festive end of term? Find our free seasonal poetry learning resources at bit.ly/FestivePoetryResources They cover a range of #poetry activities and feature some of the wonderful Christmas Tree poems we've commissioned over the years. Illustration by Gemma Correll.

PLEASE DO NOT TRAVEL TO OUR MORECAMBE GIG TONIGHT! Unfortunately, several members of the band are quite ill and unable to perform, so we have had to postpone the gig. We will be back in touch once we have rearranged. We are really sorry but this is unavoidable. All best wishes Merry Hell

Marishiten is a Japanese Buddhist goddess (or sometimes god) who was introduced to Japan from India via China. She is depicted in various forms and was said to ride a chariot drawn by seven boars, or to ride upon a boar. Believed to be the personification of sunlight & identified... #FolkyFriday 1/3

We’re celebrating our 100th episode! 💯 🎉 To mark the occasion, we’re chatting with publisher & bookstore owner Dan Wells about the 20th anniversary of his amazing literary press, Biblioasis. Join us for this monumental milestone! 🎙📚 Let's 👏 Dive 👏 in 👏 🔊 bit.ly/41rUJYg

The grotesque guardians of certain Hookland churches have a distinctive, perturbed expression. A psychic cicatrix from the things seen in their long stares across time is held in the stone. One is wary of meeting their gaze from some sense that the terror may be infectious. – #CLNolan

We’ll be dancing at the bottom of the Darwin Centre in #Shrewsbury this Saturday (Dec 14th)…by the polar bears! 10.00am, 11.00am, 12.00 noon and 1.00pm. I expect we’ll be collecting for charity so come and throw loadsamoney at us…….gently though please. Cheers! 🙏🎼🎄🪗🕺💃😊

The Mari Lwyd cultivating the light in the darkness

#LegendaryWednesday #GothicAdvent #DailySpooklore At Christmas on the Scottish island of Islay children were warned to be good or Crom Dubh na Nollaig [the dark crooked one of Christmas], an evil spirit whose voice could be heard howling in the chimney at night, would come and punish them.

Advent window, 9th December. I think this was called ‘The house where my heart lies’and I’ll dedicate this to @simoninarcady and @hortusjournal as it was heavily influenced by a visit to their previous home in west Herefordshire, Bryan’s Ground.

The Wife’s #Lament tells of a woman exiled by her lord, her heart heavy with love & betrayal. She mourns in solitude, her grief entwined with the earth’s shadowy embrace. Its mysterious sorrow captivates, weaving longing & loss into an eternal, haunting riddle. #vss365 #Folklore #FairytaleTuesday 1/

Merry Whatever!

"John’s tongue was like a curtain at an open window: you could press it to stillness, but it’d be fluttering away again the minute you relaxed your hold." In The Heart of Hidden Things tinyurl.com/3ru2anas Painting by Andrew Wyeth

Illustration advent calendar day 9 'The Salmon Man' Illustration for Colin Urwins book of Irish stories, 'The Madmans Window' Hands are hard, I was pleased with these, And their tenderness x #ArtAdventCalendar

#GothicAdvent When the ghosts come out at Christmas to celebrate with the living. Still from silent film, “La Fée des Roches noires”, 1907.

In #JapaneseFolklore iwana bozu are char (a type of river fish) who grow to an enormous size and transform into #yokai. They are able to shapeshift into human form, dress in Buddhist priest's robes, walk and talk. Mostly they approach people who are fishing in rivers to ask them... #SwampSunday 1/3