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Flotsam and Jetsam. Folklore, customs and odd guilds, gangs and groups.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Our next online talk

FAIRIES, WITCH BOTTLES AND AZAZEL: British Grimoires and their Significance to the Study of Folklore

Saturday 18 October, 7:30pm
£5 plus booking fee

bit.ly/flaevents

All profits support our charity.

Ticket includes talk, Q&A and recording of the event

Our next online talk is now booking.

On Saturday 18th October, we will be hosting a talk via Zoom on the subject of British Grimoires and their significance to folklore.

Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee) via our EventBrite page and include a Q&A with the presenter, Daniel Harms, and access to a recording of the talk afterwards.

All profits support our charitable work. To book, please visit

bit.ly/flaevents

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Still do this. As kids we used to respond with 'Pinch and a kick for being so quick', then 'Pinch and a blow for being so slow'. (The response always felt a bit like sore loser vibes tho).

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Always been slightly apprehensive of grandfather clocks in case they suddenly stop ticking. (Or chime 13 times at night)

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 7d

It could be atmospherics and what not, but this time of year they might just feel the approaching time change and the repeated winter hour. They're a month early but just trying to prepare.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 12d

A shame, one of my faves as well. You will have to make do with Cromer Pier (used in The Flesh and Blood Show)

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 22d

An Ent!

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 22d

Late afternoon stroll along Derwent Water. Found a hollow tree striking a disco pose. Or waving for help. The water was barely ankle-deep, so it's probably fine...

A hollow tree in Derwent Water with one large branch sticking out to the side.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 22d

Is Isengard nearby?

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 29d

Some 16th-century ballads to pen?

Manipulus Vocabulorum is a rhyming dictionary from 1570, thought to be the first ever: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manipulus-vocabulorum-a-rhyming-dictionary-from-the-16th-century

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

Can't wait to get my brass bands on this and have a good old butchers

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

In some parts you might be ok up until Michaelmas, and in the outer reaches they may push it until Old Michaelmas.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

I wonder if the strawberry cream tea lore is akin to the devil spitting on blackberries in September/ Michaelmas.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

Considering the impact the waves of plague must have had across the centuries it's surprising how few, if any, fairy stories/folk tales there are of such in England. (There seem to be some on the continent & Scotland). Is this just down to the story collectors?

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

The unimagined afterlife.

Judas Priest album cover Sin after Sin depicting a mausoleum gate in a desolate cthulu like landscape

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · 29d

I love looking round old churches, until the overwhelming hierarchy, even in death, eventually p's me off.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

For me it 404s. Academia page saying 'Oops! It looks like you're in the wrong aisle."

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Only just realised: Transylvania means 'beyond the woods'. It's like having had a blind spot and suddenly noticing the rabbit after decades of only seeing a duck.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

This could just be the devil of Chanctonbury rings. If you run round that seven times he will appear and give you soup. Now we know where he gets it from.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

And hope you wrote Seven in One Blow on your belt before setting off.. oh and took a piece of cheese

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Oh Lamentable Death..." A lament found under the whitewash of Acle church seemingly from the C14 Black Death

A panel of Latin script on a church wall

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

Avebury cove, one of the stones has a small circular impression in the centre of a larger circular shape. A natural cup and ring mark? (I've been here so many times & had never even noticed this before - Avebury keeps on giving.) #standingstonesunday

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 30

Haven't believed a word Nick Robinson says since he reported a self-depricating joke by Alex Salmond as the real thing. Imo he's heard what happens before truth gets it's boots on and wants some of that.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 30

Always look under your chair before sitting. #misericord

Small face, with tongue poking out, carved into wood

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's fun.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

Summer haunting: Ice cream van chimes echoing through suburban streets, powered by the strong wishes of children. No ice cream van, just the chimes.

Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

A Haunted Landscape event coming up in November. Organised by @forteanlondon.bsky.social these always have a batch of excellent speakers who know their phantasmagorical onions. www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore - Conway Hall

Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do to lift this curse? Join us for a legendary trip through th...

www.conwayhall.org.uk