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Our next meeting is at 6pm, 24th March. The theme of the meeting is 'Wetlands (Fens, estuaries, bogs etc)'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
‘Besides the many old houses that are haunted, there are several endowed with the simple credit of having been the scenes of murders and suicides. Some contain rooms which had particular names commemorative of such events ...' Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh, 1824.
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
‘Besides the many old houses that are haunted, there are several endowed with the simple credit of having been the scenes of murders and suicides. Some contain rooms which had particular names commemorative of such events ...' Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh, 1824.
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 24th March. The theme of the meeting is 'Wetlands (Fens, estuaries, bogs etc)'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
January 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 24th March. The theme of the meeting is 'Wetlands (Fens, estuaries, bogs etc)'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
A splendid house with splendid domestics...
January 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A splendid house with splendid domestics...
Fleas getting married and having wakes...
January 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fleas getting married and having wakes...
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In #JapaneseFolklore uwabami is an enormous snake #yokai with shapeshifting powers believed to eat and drink absolutely vast amounts. It has a particular fondness for drinking sake and one of its favourite foods is people. Legend says it can even swallow...
#dontgointothewoods #SwampSunday
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#dontgointothewoods #SwampSunday
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December 29, 2024 at 7:22 AM
In #JapaneseFolklore uwabami is an enormous snake #yokai with shapeshifting powers believed to eat and drink absolutely vast amounts. It has a particular fondness for drinking sake and one of its favourite foods is people. Legend says it can even swallow...
#dontgointothewoods #SwampSunday
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#dontgointothewoods #SwampSunday
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Cute jackals in a pioneering collection with the 'oral tradition' from a single storyteller, Anna de Souza.
December 27, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Cute jackals in a pioneering collection with the 'oral tradition' from a single storyteller, Anna de Souza.
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It's the winter solstice! The Sun is on its shortest path through the sky and we'll see the least daylight of the year. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices and on the winter solstice, the sun sets to the south-west of the stone circle.
December 21, 2024 at 9:20 AM
It's the winter solstice! The Sun is on its shortest path through the sky and we'll see the least daylight of the year. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices and on the winter solstice, the sun sets to the south-west of the stone circle.
Why is the dotteral foolish and the owl wise
December 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Why is the dotteral foolish and the owl wise
December 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
'A nest of serpents instead of brains...'
December 5, 2024 at 6:20 PM
'A nest of serpents instead of brains...'
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In a blessing copied in an eighth century manuscript, we can see boundaries between prayer and magic blur, showing us that these categories didn't exist in opposition in the Early Middle Ages, and are more often than not indistinguishable (today Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. lat.563). 1/
November 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In a blessing copied in an eighth century manuscript, we can see boundaries between prayer and magic blur, showing us that these categories didn't exist in opposition in the Early Middle Ages, and are more often than not indistinguishable (today Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. lat.563). 1/
Better than the usual version.
November 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Better than the usual version.
Spotlight: Hisashi Tenmyouya Melds Traditional Japanese Painting with Contemporary Artistic Expression in First Hong Kong Solo news.artnet.com/art-world/hi...
Hisashi Tenmyouya Melds Traditional with Modern in Hong Kong Solo
Staged at Whitestone Gallery, Hisashi Tenmyouya is pioneering Neo-Nihonga, employing traditional techniques in decidedly modern ways.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Spotlight: Hisashi Tenmyouya Melds Traditional Japanese Painting with Contemporary Artistic Expression in First Hong Kong Solo news.artnet.com/art-world/hi...
Cambridge Folklore Group
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 27th January. The theme of the meeting is 'Folklore, memory and commemoration'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 27th January. The theme of the meeting is 'Folklore, memory and commemoration'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
November 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Cambridge Folklore Group
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 27th January. The theme of the meeting is 'Folklore, memory and commemoration'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]
Our next meeting is at 6pm, 27th January. The theme of the meeting is 'Folklore, memory and commemoration'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!
Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]