Three cats.

Still the best historical re-enactment ever ;)

Happy birthday to the great Sean Bean

Just a runestone, standing in a wall, asking oblivious tourists to love it. This misused but glorious soul is Upplands runinskrifter 53 and forms part of a building wall in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. It commemorates the son of Torsten and Frögunn.

I need these guys.

Fancy a stay at a haunted hotel? Here are a few for you to choose from: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hau... #haunted #folklore #paranormal #hauntedhotel #creepy #ghoststory #lizzieborden #biltmorehotel #ballygallycastle #blackmonarch

Yes hi hello resurfacing this thread with this piece of breaking news: GKids has apparently remastered Wolf Children and it's returning to theaters?! www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

Only 12 more subscribers until I reach 500 🥳 🎉 🤞🏻

According to a Vietnamese folktale, the Jade Emperor was so impressed by the courage demonstrated by Toad when he traveled all the way to Heaven in order to plead for rain to end a drought that he bestowed the title of “Uncle of Heaven” upon the amphibian. #FairyTaleTuesday 📷: John Cameron

Monster museums! www.tripzilla.com/monsters-mus... #folklore #myth #monsters #folkloring #yokai #mothman #ogohogoh #cryptid

I'll be at @thebookery.bsky.social on Thursday May 15th at 7pm, in conversation with @alexandradawe.bsky.social, where I'll be discussing my book The Folklore of Devon and various aspects of the county's folklore and heritage.

People who were in space longer than the Bezos "astronauts"

This is the weirdest misspelling of Cyfarthfa I have ever seen 😳 La Belle Assemblée • 1827 📰 #Wales #History

Our new temporary exhibition is now open! If you’re in Edinburgh between now and Easter 2026, do come along to Surgeons’ Hall to learn all about the history of women in surgery.

If you’re in London on 28 May, why not come along to Foyles for a panel on New Romani writing, with Damian Le Bas, Karen Downs-Barton, and myself? Register 👇 www.foyles.co.uk/events/new-r...

Okay, what the ACTUAL heck?! WE'RE NOW IN THE ALL TIME TOP 50 ENGLISH PODCASTS!!! Thank you very much to @goodpodshq.bsky.social for sharing this momentous news with us, and thank you also to EVERY THREE RAVENS LISTENER for all the things you do to spread the word! 🖤 #history #folklore #podcast

Spirit of the times

Which English county has a cathedral with a #vampire buried in its courtyard, UNDER the statue of a famous composer? #Herefordshire 🖤

From the Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908.

Here’s Loki, courtesy of John Bauer, finding Gullveig’s lonely heart and contemplating his next steps. Should he eat it? Is it even really Gullveig’s? These are the questions that matter.

Did you know that I'm on the editorial team for Folly Journal? We are currently hunting for more poetry submissions! We love anything sexy, fun, rebellious, ironic, and still wearing last night's makeup. 🍸

I'm finally parting with this one, UK shipping only unfortunately as it's quite big catherinegogerty.bigcartel.com/product/wass...

Waking Up on Sunday Be Like: 'I'm Starving but the Fridge Is So Far Away!'🥱😴🍮

Laziest cat fight ever

#Occult #Magic #ChaosMagic

My medusa joke goes hard

A Lithuanian girl holding Palm Sunday fronds (verbos) in church, by Kanuty Rusiecki (1844)

It’s been a while since our Poppets exhibitions finished, but it’s wonderful to see visitors still engaging with our poppet craft corner, or bringing their own creations to show us, inspired by the exhibit. 💚

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a tale of Katsura Otoko, an extraordinarily beautiful man believed to live on the moon. Based on a myth from China, it is said he lives in a moon palace and spends his time pruning a katsura tree. He prunes it so much that there is... #FullMoon #FolkloreSunday 1/5

'Hares and Autumn Full Moon' - Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese Edo period. #FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Going to the DDD17 conference? Treat yourself to a mug! ko-fi.com/s/d864bdc0c1

#PalmSunday • Sul y Blodau 🌸 A thought for those who don’t know where their loved ones are buried, for those buried in unmarked graves, and for those who have never been visited. #Wales

Thinking about the time we gave a friend a Wicker Man themed stag do and we all wore different animal masks to greet him off the seaplane

Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the presence. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you' #Folklore #Shropshire #History

Necromancy is fine tho👻

me when people call the 1990s ‘the late 1900s’

Why Patreon? It’s how we fund our weird show without having ads in the middle of your readings! Plus, we like mailing out perks to you that probably aren’t hexed 💀 patreon.com/midnightlibrary see what we have for you!👻

How cool! Martin was the first caller up on the awesome @mrjamesob.bsky.social programme today, talking about internet and social media disinformation! 🖤 Thanks for the nice chat, James, and for your show. We listen every day!

Over on ‘All Old Strange Things’, my latest post introduces my new book about Baltic religion open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

Art by Danial Ryan #CaturdayEve

A photo of Abu at a stone circle and henge is the Platonic ideal of my bluesky feed

The folk horror is strong at RSPB Flatford

#NationalPetDay 🐾 "My Dog" 🐕 📍Tenby Museum #Wales

#NationalPetDay 🐾 A gorgeous little memorial to 'Tilly', the church cat 🐈 'Step into the sun Step into the light' 📍St Mary's Church • Painswick ⛪ #History

currently waiting to get into the #Yellowjackets finale screening & a man is out here going up & down the line asking “Have you heard about Jesus?” SIR, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE WILDERNESS?