Open Graves, Open Minds Research Project. Emphasising that sense of Gothic as enchantment. Also tweeting as @DrSamGeorge1 @BillBloodyHughe
Hertfordshire, UK
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How a priest and his wife met a fairy and how this led to the world's first troll dossier. britishmythology.substack.co…
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The witches & cats of Margaryta Yermolayeva get ready for #Halloween.
#FolkloreSunday #Samhain
#FullMoon #NationalBlackCatDay 27 Oct
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The Mythology of Samhain: 6 Stories That Give Samhain Added Significance #Folklore
irishmyths.com/2022/08/21/sa…
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Looking for a new text for your #AnimalStudies students? 🐾📚
Beginning Literary Animal Studies by William Welstead introduces students to human-animal studies through #literature, #theory, #science and #ethics.
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Jiu Tian Xuan Nu (九天玄女), the Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens, stands between mystic and warrior. In early legend, she appears with a human face and birdlike form, descending to aid the Yellow Emperor against Chiyou.
Armed not with brute strength but with
#mythology
ALT 🎨 《九天玄女》 現代 彫仙
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How Were Witch Marks Used to Ward Off Evil?
Which ritual marks were the best protection symbols to keep families, homes, and property safe from witches, curses, and evil spirits in early-modern England? #Folklore
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Our new Christmas special edition of a Tales of the Weird favourite is now available to shop online and in-store today!❄️
Celebrate cosying up during the cold winter nights whilst these dark tales send a chill down your spine.
#talesoftheweird #britishlibrarypublishing
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The Witch, a perennial favourite from Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, originally appearing in Elves & Fairies, published 1916. #FairyTaleTuesday #FolkloreSunday #Halloween #Samhain
Wow these would be perfect to research for our #botanicalgothic conference
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“Warlocks and witches in a dance;
Nae cotillion brent-new frae France,
But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels
Put life and mettle in their heels.
A winnock bunker in the east,
There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast…”
Tam o' Shanter is a legendary Scots poem written by Robert Burns. It focuses on the main character, Tam, as he travels home from the market after a night of drinking. On the way, it begins to rain and storm, and he has a supernatural encounter riding past the local church.
🎨Tam o' Shanter by John Joseph Barker, (1866)
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 'Folklore and the Natural World': The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2027. 11-13 June 2027, The Cut Conference Centre, Shrewsbury. Deadline for proposals: Sunday 13 December 2026 folklore-society.com/event/s…
ALT Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, Wikimedia Commons
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WAKE NOT THE DEAD (1823) Brunhilde is restored from beyond the grave at the instruction of her grieving husband; turning #vampire, she preys on her own children in imitation of female demon Lilith. German vampire tale by Ernst Raupach #31daysofHalloween
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VAMPIRE HEARTS In historical accounts of vampirism the heart is often taken out & burned or reduced to ashes. This 1896 newspaper cutting about the hearts of the New England #Vampires was found in Stoker's working papers for #Dracula the year he visited NY #31daysofHalloween
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VAMPIRE VOYAGE Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, botanist to King Louis XIV of France, travelled to Levant in 1700 in search of plants for the Royal garden, but found instead a plague of #vampires and a Greek #vampire epidemic on the island of Myconos #31daysofHalloween
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The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems.
🖼 Jakub Rozalski #witchwednesday
