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Narrative; visual & material culture; death culture; community heritage; folklore; film.

Chichester, England
Joined March 2015
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#Caturday News Flash!! Science claims cats do not deliberately steal babies' breath during the night. livescience.com/22449-do-cat… Img: 'The Witches Cove' - follower Jan Mandijn 16thC.
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Just to say @FolkloreFilmFes is currently unable to log onto twitter (several days now). The image below is the prompt that keeps appearing - there isn't a phone number linked to the account as only linked to email. Not sure what it means/what to do... sorry, folks. 🤷
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Coming to you, direct from Iceland. It's just not a proper #GothicAdvent until the Yule Lads arrive...
The Russian version of Santa is Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost. This figure was popularised in a play of 1873, but is thought to be based on an elemental snow demon associated with brutal winters. #FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #folklore #Christmas
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Here's a little taste of #WinterFolklore magic from the "Mother of Czech animation." ❄️❄️ 'Snehulák / Snowman' (1966) dir. Hermína Týrlová.
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🎶O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... wait. What?? 🎶 #GothicAdvent / #FolkloreThursday 'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1913) dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz (Ladislas Starevich).
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"Block: Black for you! Death: It becomes me well." A game of chess - Ingmar Bergman's iconic "Seventh Seal" for a dark Medieval #WyrdWednesday #31DaysOfHalloween #FolkloreAtNight
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Sarah Rance-Riley retweeted
New! Cassetteboy vs Boris Johnson 2021 #cpc21
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The Masked Woman appears as a stop-motion puppet, and also in limited live-action sequences, moving between worlds.
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Hey #FolkloreThursday gang! Awesome theme today by @FolkloreThurs - if you'd like to dip into our #FolkloreWomen archive, please do so below! Enjoy. teapawt.org/i/events/1064572913012…
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Asking all our followers to please retweet the message below. We've never asked for support like this, but we're taking a stand for everyone who suffers from mental health. It's #WorldMentalHealthDay on Oct 10th - we all need to tell our stories & make some NOISE.
Replying to @GillianKeegan
@GillianKeegan - I'm ashamed that our local MP is the minister for mental health. Mental Health provision in Sussex is a total scandal - and your party is to blame. Give the NHS/CAMHS what they need to do their jobs. It will be too late when our children are dead. @Chiobserver
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Replying to @GillianKeegan
@GillianKeegan - I'm ashamed that our local MP is the minister for mental health. Mental Health provision in Sussex is a total scandal - and your party is to blame. Give the NHS/CAMHS what they need to do their jobs. It will be too late when our children are dead. @Chiobserver
That's nice but I have ZERO trust in your organisation-been waiting 2.5 years for a MH assessment for my child. Against protocol sent home from A&E y'day am after a suicide attempt & still no follow up from CAMHS. Do we have to resort to legal challenges to get help for our kids?
Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1952 fable & featuring the breathtaking paint-on-glass animation technique - 'The Old Man and the Sea / Старик и море' (1999) dir. Aleksandr Petrov.
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Life of insects. Excerpt from "Spring Fly" Soviet Estonian animation film, 1986
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A little something for #FairyTaleTuesday --- Based on the 1845 fairytale 'The Elfin Hill / Elverhøj / The Elf Mound' by Hans Christian Andersen; which in turn inspired Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt'. 'The Big Underground Ball / Bolshoy podzemnyy bal' (1987) dir. Stanislav Sokolov.
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Really appalling behaviour from #tReds @tRedsOfficial. Shutting down the #Chichester store with no notice & making everyone redundant 2 weeks before Christmas. You've strung along your workforce along for weeks. They have bills to pay/families to support. #MerryChristmastReds.
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Soviet-era mitten 🤷🏾‍♂️
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#SovietFilmWednesday --- taken from a 1938 fairy tale story by Pavel Bazhov, which was based on a folktale from the Ural region of Siberia: #WinterFolklore 'A Little Silver Hoof / Серебряное копытце / Serebryanoe Kopytce' (1977) dir. Gennadiy Sokolskiy.
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A Norwegian folktale/Russian animation for #FolkloreThursday. When dealing with a selfish, loathsome & stupid Troll, resourcefulness, quick-thinking and *flattery* will get you everywhere --- 'The Three Sisters Who Fell Into the Mountain' (2000) dir. Ekaterina Mikhailova.
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Snowdonia's Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most iconic peaks, it's name translates as Idris' Chair, a nod to the giant who once used the mountain as a throne. It is said that whoever sleeps on the mountain will awaken as a madman, a poet or will never wake again. #FolkloreThursday
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New hobby: drawing cosy stuff on Procreate – at Chichester, England
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