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Thea Sabin
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Author, Wicca for Beginners. I write about birds, bats, folklore, history, art, archaeology, things spooky and spiritual, monsters, and VERY bad movies. Ideal day is a hike with my sassy parrot to a Neolithic stone circle for a picnic that includes cheese.
Woohoo! Glad you’re back!
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#Teotihuacan, Mexico was once the largest city in the Americas.

It exerted influence on the distant #Maya and the presence of a Teotihuacan-style altar at Tikal, Guatemala indicates there may have even been a Teotihuacan enclave in the Maya capital.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Please welcome our newest bat, a big free-tailed bat (N. macrotis). She came to us from Nebraska Wildlife Rehab. They assume she was blown off course during a storm. Since they aren't found in NE, they brought her to us for release. For now we have 4 of the 5 species of free-tailed bats in AZ. 🦇
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🦇A lot of people think bats try to “get tangled in your hair.”
Nope. These animals fly with precision that would make any fighter pilot jealous. If a bat brushes past you, it chose that line on purpose - and it could’ve flown through a smaller gap if it wanted to.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Agreed.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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In Hookland, many a folkloric tale starts not with ‘A long time ago’ or ‘Far, far away’, but with the line: ‘Out across the dark moor where strange songs are still heard …’ For folklore tells strongly of place and our relationships to it. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore #FolkloreThursday
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Holscad is an excellent name for a black cat.
Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This fascinating video proves birds are running secret high-IQ societies while we lose our keys. 🐦‍⬛🦆🐦

Bird Brain | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

#Animals #Bird #Birds #Crow #Crows #Documentary #Feathers #Geese #Nature #NatureLover #NatureLovers #Parrots #PBS #Wildlife
Bird Brain | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Two and a half more hours on the phone today with my mom’s pension people sorting her Medicare, and although we’ve mostly dealt with Parts A and B, I still need to do D. Never mind getting my own insurance dealt with.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Sometime in the dim past, those who worshiped the hag saw her in the land - saw the land as their goddess - and cemented that connection through place-names.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This last shot of Cushing is him thinking about how he did this to pay the mortgage and he'll never live it down. Thanks @wr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social! #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Did apple-spitting guy die? #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This laser-kills-everyone-in-the bedroom thing is absolutely ridiculous. #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Terry's husband is a few cans short of a six pack. #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Look. They keep the machine that goes ping in their bedroom. #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#Riffotronic (I seem to be using my Archer memes tonight)
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Why do skin grafts heal so quickly in movies? Sure, it moves the story along faster, but it's not remotely realistic. #Riffotronic
If he were a better surgeon, his skin grafts would last. Just sayin
#riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
They seem to have a lot of slender, murder-ready knives to hand. #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I missed something--why does she want him to keep murdering people if her face is fine? #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Holy cats. #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
To cameraman: "He just stabbed her. Pan to the creepy dolls! Pan to Bugs Bunny!" #riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Thank goodness he's messing with the pituitary gland and not the pineal gland. #riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Has anyone commented yet on how Peter Cushing--dapper and charming as he is--is engaged to a model half his age? #Riffotronic
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM