I have an awesome short story that I think will resonate with a lot of us writers right now coming out in @folkloricmag.bsky.social 's first issue! Their release date and launch party are on the 22nd of August. I can't do a reading there, but I am so excited for this batch of Lore to exist!

Come celebrate our first issue, we're having an event! Join us! #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/wildc...

Mel Reeve is the author of the short story "Endless Sleep", which we are proud to be publishing in our first issue. Read the entire interview with Mel on our Patreon. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/131664...

Doing a fun interview for my piece in the upcoming 1st issue of @folkloricmag.bsky.social Folkloric Magazine. It's really fun thinking through all the answers and seeing how much of a nerd I am. If I was a cryptid, what WOULD I be.

The sea is to be feared and respected. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #oracle #prediction

NGL I wanna be an oracle at Delphi #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #oracle #prediction

If an adult told me that they had found a unicorn in a park and was standing next to said unicorn, I would not have questioned it, tbh #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #unicorns

What does this have to do with our litmag, you ask? Well, why are you asking so many questions?? #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #parenting

I hate it when I lose my great-grandpa on an Alaskan exploration. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #ancestors #alaska

Is it taboo to post videos on here? Because we have some videos we think are funny. We... we're gonna post them anyway and just roll with the taboo. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #santa #toothfairy

Throughout time and different cultures, there have always been stories of people who have done wrong things and gotten punished for them. Like the unpronounceable Sisyphus. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

Cant wait to share this amazing story!

Are you a fan of the 1999 Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow? Have I got something for you ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/127510... #litmag #folklore 💙📚

Would the headless rider be as effective if he rode something else? A motorcycle? A bicycle? Rollerblades? #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/headle...

Sending out decision emails for @folkloricmag.bsky.social tomorrow! Can’t wait to start putting the first edition together!

Ever heard of the Kubinashi Rider? No? Better read about him here ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/127510... #litmag #folklore 💙📚

The folklore of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and America are riddled with headless riders. Unfinished business after death drives these spectral riders on even after their capacity for cerebral activity has most definitely ended. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

If you befriend the Leshiy, he will reveal to you hidden paths, animal speech, and forest magic. That's more than the government has ever done for me. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

The Leshiy is mischievous; he casts no shadow, and his laughter shakes the forest and paralyses people with fear. He fucks with lumberjacks and people who disrespect the forest. Slay. #litmag #folklore 💙📚

You might be wandering through the Slavic forests one day and meet a mossy little guy. Read out to find out what to do next. www.patreon.com/posts/127510... #litmag #folklore 💙📚

The Leshiy is a shapeshifter. My favourite Leshiy form is a tall man with one leg made of birch and the other one made of oak. He walks around you with his tree legs, confusing the hell out of you and leads you ever deeper into the forest. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

Leshiy is the Slavic Lorax, you can't change my mind. No idea what I'm referring to? Read out post! #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

One of my favorite folkloric creatures is the Leshiy. Be nice and offer him some tobacco and he will teach you how to communicate with animals, but fuck around and he will get your Slavic ass lost in the forest forever. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

Holy shit, there are hundreds of people at this trans rights demo outside the EHRC in Glasgow. On a Friday lunchtime!

Isn't the US a wendigo state as is sucks the life from industry, the environment, and its own people? Hasn’t it always been that way? #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

A wendigo is a skeleton image of clawed hands, a pair of ghostly antlers and the tantalizingly horrific idea of cannibalism. And yet, it is the perfect representation for Native-European settler relations, even though to today. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

As happens with so much of Native American and First Nations folklore, this creature has been co-opted by non-Native writers and creatives. read on ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/127510... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo

It is not merely a monster, but a state of being. Humans can become wendigos when they succumb to greed. This cryptid is a lesson and a warning. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

There are countless stories of the wendigo eating people or even taking part in auto-cannibalism. The ideas of over-consumption, rot, starvation, and greed surround this figure. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo www.patreon.com/posts/127510...

The wendigo is a horrific and emaciated creature that features in the folklore of many Algonquian tribes of North America. It is the physical representation of greed and is defined by its insatiable hunger. read more ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/127510... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #wendigo

Nature and Society are both cyclical and regenerative, and we need to be able to imagine a different future and a different trajectory if we do not wish to slowly rot in this exploitative hellscape we call home. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/125383...

We can think of our collective obsession with collapse as a haunting; there were alternative futures that never materialized, and their ghosts linger. Climate action, economic justice, and technological ethics could have taken us down different paths, but capitalism shut those doors. read more ⬇️

This is the second part of a series on the end of the world and imagination If you have not read the first part, it would be a good idea to check it out. If you don't wanna do that then fuck me what do I know right? #litmag #folklore 💙📚 www.patreon.com/posts/125383...

The thing about the World Turtle that makes it so interesting is the absurdity combined with a feeling of inexplicable rightness. Turtles and elephants are absolutely the correct animals. It wouldn’t feel right if they were replaced with four alligators on the back of a giant camel.

Humanity loves the World Turtle. It has everything: animals, mystery, a journey, flat-earth-ness. Perhaps this is why the myth is found in Hindu, Chinese, Lenape, Iroquois, and Anishinaabe mythologies. www.patreon.com/posts/125383... #litmag #folklore 💙📚

It is true that Orwell and Huxley were perceptive and could see the dangers of television, surveillance and pacifying drugs. However, it would be naive to think that they have not inspired the police state to innovate in line with their imagination.

Our modern collective consciousness is rife with stories of how the world will end. From climate disaster to nuclear war, pandemics or a global technological collapse, you would be stretched to find someone who does not believe we are going towards the inevitable end. #litmag #folklore 💙📚

Humans have always liked stories about the end of the world. Through religion or mythology, the apocalypse presents a riveting, linear story. However, it is quite unnerving how many people believe that the end is actually near and inevitable. www.patreon.com/posts/125383...

This small piece of folklore could have spun out of control and made flint arrowheads a black-market commodity, like rhino horn. It makes you think about the millions of pieces of plastic we are leaving behind and what they might spawn in the minds of future generations 2000 years from now.

In the UK, there is a folk belief that prehistoric arrowheads (called elfshot) could be collected and used as amulets to protect the wearer against illness, more elfshot, or witchcraft. These flint arrowheads were used in folk medicine for centuries and are still called elfshot in the UK today.

The Celts noticed the occasional but inexplicable shooting pains through a muscle or joint with no obvious source or reason. They attributed this to elfshot. They literally believed that this pain came from an elf shooting you with an invisible arrow. Honestly, this is some sound logic.

In some Middle Eastern funeral customs, people believe that knots must be untied from the clothes of the dead before burial. If a body is buried with knots in its clothes, the soul may become trapped and unable to pass to the afterlife. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft #knots

One of the most feared Islamic spells was the “knotted tongue” curse, used to silence enemies. This involved tying knots in a wet rope or animal sinew while chanting names of spirits or jinn. The victim would struggle to speak, forget their words, or lose their ability to argue. #litmag #folklore 💙📚

When we think of witches, the pervasive image is Eurocentric and narrow, so I thought it would be fun to explore some aspects of witchcraft coming from the Islamic and Pre-Islamic East Mediterranean, specifically knots. www.patreon.com/posts/125383... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft #knots

Witches! How do we make a living in the post-capitalism world while also staying connected to our ancient folk practices? How do we welcome others in and remove the barriers to this knowledge without selling out our very identities? www.patreon.com/posts/125383... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft

Witchcraft is something that sells. This, like everything that capitalism touches, warps the idea of witchcraft itself. Now you can buy the hat, the broom, the crystals, and the cards and call yourself a witch without participating in the craft. Read more below #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft

Witchcraft is, at its roots in nearly every culture, an anticapitalist practice. It is about independence for people of marginalised gender identities. It is about participating in communal care. And yet, since the rise of capitalism, witchcraft has had to change.

A contemporary setting might not need cauldrons or broomsticks to create witches; it only needs a reality where some individuals can see the patterns of time more clearly than others. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft www.patreon.com/posts/125382...

A witch is, fundamentally, a being out of sync with time. Witches do not merely live in the present; they haunt the past, manipulate the future, and exist in loops outside conventional cause and effect. #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #witchcraft