Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
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New publication date: 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany' will be published by Reaktion Books in the UK on 13 April.
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
‘We are lithic.’
The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
‘We are lithic.’
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The Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll.
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
January 18, 2026 at 6:01 AM
The Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll.
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
Sheep and stones at the Kerlescan alignments at Carnac in Brittany. #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Sheep and stones at the Kerlescan alignments at Carnac in Brittany. #StandingStoneSunday
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January 18, 2026 at 11:13 AM
A haunting elegy for David Lynch by George Szirtes.
Lynchian: a moving shadow
1 A moving shadow, nothing, just a tree, a late light shifting from the expected place, all the small insignificant darknesses that gang up on the imagination. 2 A moving shadow, nothing, just a tree ...
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January 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
A haunting elegy for David Lynch by George Szirtes.
Now listening: Broadcast, ‘The Future Crayon’ (2006).
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Now listening: Broadcast, ‘The Future Crayon’ (2006).
‘Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.’
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘A Musical Instrument’ #BookWormSat
🎨Arnold Böcklin
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.’
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘A Musical Instrument’ #BookWormSat
🎨Arnold Böcklin
January 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
‘Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.’
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘A Musical Instrument’ #BookWormSat
🎨Arnold Böcklin
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.’
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘A Musical Instrument’ #BookWormSat
🎨Arnold Böcklin
Met this tree last night.
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Met this tree last night.
The epigraph to Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’ (2025). Currently reading.
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
The epigraph to Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’ (2025). Currently reading.
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‘The Earl of Surrey was suddenly startled by a blue phosphoric light.’
Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894)
#PhantomsFriday
Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894)
#PhantomsFriday
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
‘The Earl of Surrey was suddenly startled by a blue phosphoric light.’
Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894)
#PhantomsFriday
Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894)
#PhantomsFriday
New publication date: 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany' will be published by Reaktion Books in the UK on 13 April.
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New publication date: 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany' will be published by Reaktion Books in the UK on 13 April.
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
Pre-order through your favourite bookseller! #BookSky
Finally tracked down a copy of ‘Doctor Who Chronicles: 1970.’ I recently rewatched this season of Doctor Who on Blu-Ray. If you’re a fan, these ‘Chronicles’ for specific years of the series are excellent.
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Finally tracked down a copy of ‘Doctor Who Chronicles: 1970.’ I recently rewatched this season of Doctor Who on Blu-Ray. If you’re a fan, these ‘Chronicles’ for specific years of the series are excellent.
This stone is located not too far from where my family emigrated from in France — and ‘Robuchon’ is a variant of my last name!
The 2.65m tall menhir close to the Gallo-Roman site of Vieux-Poitiers in Naintré (Vienne) had an inscription carved on it in that period; a proposed translation is given on this card by Robuchon in Poitiers from the 1910s.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This stone is located not too far from where my family emigrated from in France — and ‘Robuchon’ is a variant of my last name!
I recently completed OBOD's Bardic grade course and thought it was excellent. I'd been looking for a more solid foundation for my personal practice, and Druidry seemed a good fit with my stage of life and spiritual, cultural, and ecological concerns. Looking forward to continuing the journey. /|\
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I recently completed OBOD's Bardic grade course and thought it was excellent. I'd been looking for a more solid foundation for my personal practice, and Druidry seemed a good fit with my stage of life and spiritual, cultural, and ecological concerns. Looking forward to continuing the journey. /|\
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Tonight's read is a beautiful 1927 edition of #TheHornedShepherd by #EdgarJepson with woodcuts by #WilfredJones.
"Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces where you'll encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns."
#Pan
"Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces where you'll encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns."
#Pan
January 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Tonight's read is a beautiful 1927 edition of #TheHornedShepherd by #EdgarJepson with woodcuts by #WilfredJones.
"Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces where you'll encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns."
#Pan
"Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces where you'll encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns."
#Pan
‘You may think all this strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.’ — Arthur Machen, ‘The Great God Pan’ (1894)
🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’
🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
‘You may think all this strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.’ — Arthur Machen, ‘The Great God Pan’ (1894)
🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’
🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’
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The incredible facade of York Minister tonight 😮🥰
📷 My own
📷 My own
January 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM
The incredible facade of York Minister tonight 😮🥰
📷 My own
📷 My own
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Our film of the month for January 2026 is Chronicle - Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound. A strange televised archaeological dig into Silbury Hill.
You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿
You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿
January 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Our film of the month for January 2026 is Chronicle - Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound. A strange televised archaeological dig into Silbury Hill.
You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿
You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿
‘‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. ‘Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!’’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #WyrdWednesday
🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)
🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
‘‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. ‘Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!’’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #WyrdWednesday
🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)
🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)
In Robert Eggers’ 2015 film ‘The Witch,’ the goat named Black Phillip tempts Thomasin by asking, ‘Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?’ #WyrdWednesday
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
In Robert Eggers’ 2015 film ‘The Witch,’ the goat named Black Phillip tempts Thomasin by asking, ‘Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?’ #WyrdWednesday
Enjoyed ‘Northern Nights,’ an anthology of Canadian ‘strange stories’ edited by Michael Kelly. Shout out to Marc A. Godin, whose story ‘The Mi-Carême’ is set during the Acadian Deportation and draws on Acadian folklore!
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Enjoyed ‘Northern Nights,’ an anthology of Canadian ‘strange stories’ edited by Michael Kelly. Shout out to Marc A. Godin, whose story ‘The Mi-Carême’ is set during the Acadian Deportation and draws on Acadian folklore!
The Crucuno dolmen near Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. #TombTuesday
January 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The Crucuno dolmen near Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. #TombTuesday
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Study of an Ash Tree in Winter, James Hey Davies.
January 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Study of an Ash Tree in Winter, James Hey Davies.
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12/1/26 - nocturn
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
12/1/26 - nocturn