On All Hallows’ Eve when the veil is at its thinnest and the indigo-eyed night breathes impossible magic, behold the beautiful cover for The Bleeding Tree, my own major arcana, along with the slightly daunting news that pre-orders are now open! See the link in my bio!
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London Month of the Dead 2023!
Friends, fellow mortals, we are just starting to put together ideas for our 10th anniversary year.
If you have suggestions, recommendations or "Would to love to see"s, let us know
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Hey friends I'm looking for eco horror short stories, poems, videos etc to use in an environmental writing class. Any ideas ??
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The Cunning Folk Reading Group is a quiet corner of the internet where we talk about interesting books in an interesting way. It’s free and fun. The next one is in April. Comment if you have a question…
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (14th February♥️) was at 7.22am, sunset is at 5.20pm ☁️
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Such pagan survival rites were stamped out by the authoritarian Catholicism of the Franco regime, but are slowly being recovered and celebrated in all their terrifying majesty once more.
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As this and similar carnivals throughout the Iberian peninsula take place at the beginning of the year it may have its origins in the types of magical performance that expel bad spirits and attempt to invoke fortune for a good harvest after the scarcity of winter.
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The exact significance of some of the carnival’s more striking characters is lost to time, or perhaps kept only by those who keep them alive, but the rooster is often found symbolically linked to fecundity.
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The making of the intricate costumes is time-honoured, and the families of Mecerreyes keep to the tradition of using locally found natural materials such as animal bones found on the hills outside the village.
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Finally the rooster (nowadays a fake stand-in) is then ritually slaughtered by the king, and revelry and the eating of sweet pastries returns the mood to a happy one.
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Then at around 5pm: the the Corrida de Gallo or ‘Rooster Run.’ The ‘king’ holds the rooster and a brave volunteer from the crowd tries to snatch it and run after which he is beaten by the ‘Zarramacos’ kings guards, who wear distinctive face paint and wield sticks.
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The ‘carnival of the rooster’ is a performance in three acts. It begins with a lavish lunch where the masked figures, characters that have been passed down the generations and hold special significance to the village’s history, are introduced.
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Some of my favourites, the incredible folk costumes of the Máscara del Carnaval del Gallo de Mecerreyes, which takes place in January in Burgos, Spain.
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A fantastic response so far to the DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS 2 folk horror event - check out our fabulous line-up and schedule at eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-in-
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this is a glorious collection of myth and exploration of grief ~ a pleasure to work on, and coming to print just in time for Bealtaine 🖤
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On All Hallows’ Eve when the veil is at its thinnest and the indigo-eyed night breathes impossible magic, behold the beautiful cover for The Bleeding Tree, my own major arcana, along with the slightly daunting news that pre-orders are now open! See the link in my bio!
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A scout group were camping near the ruins, and two scouts were sent up to get water from the cottage in the grounds. They saw a figure of a woman ahead and approached only for the woman to disappear into thin air.
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Ghost sightings persisted even after Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, with a man seen walking across the parapet and through the wall. Only recently reports of ghosts intensified by the discovery of a plague pit alongside the abbey in 2016.
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Remarkably there is a second story of immurement at the abbey, that of another abbot with a licentious lifestyle, one Walter Multon, who disappeared in 1443. So at least the two of them had things in common.
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It didn’t stop de Gretham’s activities entirely. He still wanders the grounds and is frequently seen around the gatehouse. Tradition has it that if the gatehouse is lit by the evening sun but the golden hue lingers after dark, the abbot will soon appear.
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Unlike live burial, where a person dies fairly speedily by asphyxiation, actual death through immurement is via dehydration or starvation, a lengthy process.
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that had been intentionally bricked up and forgotten about. The remains were thought to be Thomas de Gretham, a 14th-century abbot whose life of less-than-holy activities in the local drinking dens and concurrent rumours of practising the dark arts, led him to his dismal end.
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Dating back to 1139 the site of the abbey has been quietly accumulating ghosts for centuries. Writing in 1722 antiquarian William Stukeley records the discovery of complete skeleton - ‘seated at a table with a book and candlestick before him’ - in a small dungeon space
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Though immurement or ‘live entombment’ is one of my top five no-thankyou ways to go, it has always fascinated me and one of the best stories comes from Thornton Abbey in my beloved Lincolnshire.
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On Waterfall Wednesday, we're sharing this view of Hull Pot in #Ribblesdale. It's a waterfall which only flows when it rains - worth a bit of a downpour, we think ☔
📸 Thanks for sharing Amy Sarsby
#YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday #HullPot
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#FindsFriday: A Celtic stone head that has a stunning curled moustache. It was found at Mšecké Žehrovice (🇨🇿) and dates to ~450-50 BC: (from 1988, £) buff.ly/3Uv3dXC
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An *unbelievable* Andrew Lang charity shop find…
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Got any swaps?
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Some cleansing images of nature reclaiming from its temporary custodians.
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Quick tease of what I’m working on for 2023. Happy my birthday everyone 
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Also as a Happy New Year gift I’m giving away a signed first edition hardback to one person who retweets this. You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Earth magic
Ghosts
Lost music
Intertwined lives
History
Psychedelia
Dystopias
The sea
Trees
Protest
Moss
Maps
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Goths for Breakfast is happening! A whole day of classes and workshops to raise money for the charity
Choose your ticket price! Talks will be recorded and sent out so you can pop in as and when you can!
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DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS 2 gathers together some fantastic talent in folk horror, with Andrew Michael Hurley and even more names TBC soon... eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-in- @folkhorrorforum
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