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Apologies for missing any comments, I've been inactive on socials. The latest Epstein files release has triggered trauma from my past and my mental health has taken a nosedive - battling bipolar and PTSD is no joke. I'm not the only one, my love and solidarity to everyone struggling right now.

Exploring Duloe Stone Circle: A Journey Through Time #standingstonesunday Duloe stone circle is thought to date from the early to middle bronze age – approximately 4000 years ago – around 2000 years BCE. Like all Kernow’s megalithic monuments, it is still an alluring enigma and s…

Coping in a Bipolar Crisis These are my strategies for coping in a bipolar crisis.

Man Engine: A Short Folktale William Wendron balanced on a wooden stool, wedged into the corner of the old pub, leaning upon the slate bar top. A crooked half smile fixed upon his face; old hands deformed with arthritis by years of toil in the damp with pick and axe. He grappled with his mug,…

Piskey Led – A Short Tale Ghosts of the old world make their presence still known upon the moors. Known by their ancient stone walls and standing stones that still litter the landscape. The walkers, incongruous in their primary colours, garish symbols of the twenty first century. The group, as per…

Discover the Traditions of Imbolc and the Cornish Furry Nights #Imbolc #Candlemas #cornwall What is Imbolc? Otherwise known as Candlemas, Brigid's or St. Brigit's day, Imbolc is an ancient Celtic fire festival celebrating the first whispers of Spring as winter comes to a close. Us…

Exploring the Mystical History of Merry Maidens - New Blog Post #StandingstoneSunday The Merry Maidens, one of Penwith’s four remaining stone circles, are a fine example of a Cornish megalithic monument. A perfect seventy-eight-foot circle, consisting of nineteen granite stones of around four fo…

Pendeen Vau Fogou set in a muddy farmyard in the far-west of Cornwall #standingstonesunday #kernow #cornwall #ironage

Have you got a wyrd take on pop culture you are desperate to share? We are now open for guest blog posts! Any length, as informal as you like (just cite your sources). Dm or email us your proposed posts or any questions 👻 Check out our past posts here: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

Visited this beauty of a crop circle in Wiltshire last year. I wrote a small piece in @stoneclub 's 2nd edition of their fabulous zine Ancient Times #wyrdwednesday

On our blog you'll find posts on all sorts of gothic topics including Taylor Swift’s monstrous women and the uncanny double in Love Island. We also have plenty of rec lists covering gothic fiction, nonfiction, film, podcasts and video games! lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com

In the latest episode of my podcast, which is out now on all platforms, I discuss the role of the ghost in the medieval period with my expert guest @goingmedieval.bsky.social Listen free on your podcast apps, or at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-186.... or watch at youtu.be/UXT9f5sWD5Q

Duloe stone circle - #Cornwall #Kernow #standingstonesunday Cornwall's smallest yet grandest stone circle with its magnificient quartz menhirs.

I am launching a new blog and short fiction site UncannyCornwall.com in February. Exploring the mysterious, the fortean and unexplained in the land of myths and legend.

Four-day celebration of talent to take place in Falmouth #Cornwall #Kernow 🔗: https://www.falmouthpacket.co...

Things are somewhat muddy in pony land right now and more rain on the way!

Tregeseal stone circle #StandingStoneSunday meditating in the centre always gives me a tingly, joyful warmth.

Top Xmas presents this year #booksky #folklore

Looking forward to Montol celebrations in Penzance, after some solstice stone bothering at sunset #wintersolstice #midwinter #folklorefriday #Cornwall www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Last week I visited Duddo Five Stones, aka the Singing Stones, for the first time - wow! Beautiful weathered megaliths crowning the hill, with Northumberland spreading far and wide, and the Cheviots on the horizon. The stones even whistled for us! Very nice indeed #StandingStoneSunday

Men Scryfa - probably dated to the bronze age but inscribed in the late iron age/romano-celtic period #StandingStoneSunday #kernow @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

A pysky led adventure on the moors of Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #flashfiction #folkyfriday literallystories2014.com/2024/04/09/t...

The Giant Bolster gets an outing for the St. Agnes Christmas lights switch on #folklore #cornwall

The Giant Bolster gets an outing for the St. Agnes Christmas lights switch on #folklore #cornwall

Standing stones are an excellent habitat it seems! Perfect for mosses and lichens to grow... I wonder if anyone's done a survey of standing stone ecosystems? 🤔 This stone is part of Callanish IV on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday 📸 Mine #archaeology #ecology #photooftheday🏺

Bronze age holed stones part of the Tregeseal stone circle complex in the far west of Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

A tale of a drunken Cornish miner - are the Knockers his friend or foe? #folkyfriday #shortstory literallystories2014.com/2024/04/16/k...

This weekend's reading (aren't libraries great!) #folkyfriday #booksky #kernow #cornwall #folklore

The mystery that is the Cornish Fogou. Their purpose unknown but my best guess is for rituals of death and rebirth. #wyrdwednesday Boleigh, Penwith

The depths of my procrastination knows no bounds when I have a deadline looming. It's the only time the flat gets cleaned! #writersky

Boskednan stone circle in the far west of Kernow #StandingStoneSunday @megalithic.bsky.social

Fairy knots - Legend has it if you find little knots in the mane it's because the Fae are riding your pony at night, braiding little stirrups into their mane and going on celestial adventures. She did seem a little tired this morning... #folklore #folktales

Making my own skin care from natural, organic, simple ingredients infused with organic home grown and foraged herbs. It's been a game changer for my skin staying away from prescribed petroleum based products and the preservatives in them.

Front light on my bike craps out on the pitch-black rural back lanes. I'm cycling down the hill plunging into the dark abyss. Add the hail driving into my face and crunching under my tyres. Unnecessary amounts of drama for one evening.

Menhir dit la Chaise-à-Margot: Margot's Chair - referring to fairies in Breton folklore. A smallish menhir #StandingStoneSunday which does indeed look like a seat. Part of the megalithic complex "La Lande du Gras" with 2 menhirs and 3 long barrows - see the nearby sites list on our page for more. 1/

Trevethy Quoit, late Neolithic #cornwall #kernow #StandingStoneSunday

A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater 📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008 #WhatLiesBeneath

A proud moment this summer: bagging a stone that isn't already on the @megalithic.bsky.social (very rare occurrence!). On the Beara peninsula east of Adrigole, a little way north of the Drumlave row. It involved crawling under barbed wire but then we saw there was a gate. #StandingStoneSunday

Cornwall council took away all the bins on our estate because apparently they can't afford to provide bins in low income areas. But if you don't live on a council estate you can still have the privilege of bins. The place is covered in rubbish already. How does this make sense!

Hares are nocturnal and active at night, leading to their association with the moon and lunar deities like Cerridwen and Andraste. Like the moon, the hare was believed to die each day and be reborn each night, making it a powerful symbol of immortality and rebirth. Art my own. #FolkyFriday #Folklore

I can't be the only one anxious about it being mid-November and nowhere near cold enough to put the heating on

Spriggan - the Cornish piskies malevolent and grotesque cousins who guard the barrows, cairns and stone circles of West Penwith. Known to conjure storms, steal cattle and terrify travellers. Most frighteningly of all steal mortal children and swap them for changelings. #folkyfriday #Cornwall

IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more. 👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com

A wee tale of mischievous piskies #folklore #kernow #wyrdwednesday literallystories2014.com/2024/04/09/t...

The rather ruinous Sperris Quoit in its marvellous moorland setting, with the triangle of Zennor Quoit visible in the distance! #TombTuesday

Bronze age barrow and cist - Penwith, Cornwall. In view of Chun Quoit and Chun Castle. A landscape clearly revered by Neolithic, bronze and iron age peoples. #TombTuesday

After hearing stories of the ghost in Somerset's Quantock Hills who tells passing walkers to fuck off, I decided to write about some of the other ghosts I've come across who have turned out to be massive dickheads: www.tom-cox.com/some-ghosts-...