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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frankincense and meh 🎄
@lilithepunk.bsky.social
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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌
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TBH, you could have just stopped after the fifth word, Peter.
"Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again Peter Bradshaw
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Had a cracking time talking about Christmas folklore and traditions at Broadcasting House today while recording the Christmas Day episode of Woman's Hour!

Never has a sphincter been so clenched though...
#HouseholdLore #Christmas #WatkinsWisdom #BBCRadio4 #WomansHour
The sign outside Broadcasting House - The British Broadcasting Corporation. Inside the Woman's Hour studio - there is a big screen with Woman's Hour on it. From the POV of the producers and studio managers, looking into the recording studio. Nuala and Anita are doing a social media promo. Nuala McGovern, Liza Frank and Anita Rani.
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits
Three people sitting uncomfortably on a sofa - Moss, Jen and Roy from The IT Crowd.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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About to go on BBC Radio Sussex to talk about Christmas folklore around the house! #HouseholdLore #Christmas #Folklore
The front entrance to BBC Radio Sussex.
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Mum just sent me this about her new cat.

#Caturday
Maisie ate large portion of cheesy mashed potato ignoring the fish next to it. Then farted....one of us xx
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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About to start Stir Up Saturday!
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Just a few bits and pieces I'm getting together for tomorrow's talk about household folklore at the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction at 6pm (4 Dec). Come for the folklore, stay for the quiz! 🐁 🐀🏡 #WyrdWednesday #Folklore #HouseholdLore @chiunipress.bsky.social
A collection of stuff for my folklore talk at Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction on Thursday 4 December at 6pm. Left going clockwise - a box of pencils, a pot of thyme, a pot of parsley, an onion, a potato, two silver pieces of cutlery and some plastic knives on a chopping board.
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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That feeling when your new book has just come out but then you have to change your email signature & all the banners on your socials & website from pre-order to OUT NOW and you're still a bit fragile from all the celebrations🎉 #HouseholdLore #Booksky #BookologyThursday #FolkloreThursday #WritersLife
OUT NOW! Household Lore is available in Hardback, eBook and Audiobook format! There is a tablet and a mobile showing the cover of Household Lore and a copy of the hardback.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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And so to the answers! Do make sure you've checked out the questions first, otherwise spoilers. I'm now off to celebrate Publication Day and Martinalia with some sausage, mash and wine! 🍇 #HouseholdLore is now on sale!🎉

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Martinalia
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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And so to the answers! Do make sure you've checked out the questions first, otherwise spoilers. I'm now off to celebrate Publication Day and Martinalia with some sausage, mash and wine! 🍇 #HouseholdLore is now on sale!🎉

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Martinalia
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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And finally Question Ten of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! The Library. Bonus folklore: Should you suffer from silverfish, secrete some cedar shavings onto your shelves to repel them 📚 Answers up next!

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Librariansky
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Ten: The Library Which volume of Homer’s Iliad is said to cure a fever if tucked beneath your pillow and slept on?
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Q. Nine of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Gardens and Gardening. Bonus folklore: Should you be cursed, it's said that agrimony will not only break the hex, but fling the curse back on the hexer 🌱

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Gardening
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Nine: Of Gardens and Gardnening Which tree is said to have a liking for uprooting itself nightly so it can look through your bedroom window to see if you’re getting up to any naughtiness in there?
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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And finally Question Ten of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! The Library. Bonus folklore: Should you suffer from silverfish, secrete some cedar shavings onto your shelves to repel them 📚 Answers up next!

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Librariansky
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Ten: The Library Which volume of Homer’s Iliad is said to cure a fever if tucked beneath your pillow and slept on?
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Q. Nine of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Gardens and Gardening. Bonus folklore: Should you be cursed, it's said that agrimony will not only break the hex, but fling the curse back on the hexer 🌱

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Gardening
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Nine: Of Gardens and Gardnening Which tree is said to have a liking for uprooting itself nightly so it can look through your bedroom window to see if you’re getting up to any naughtiness in there?
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Q. Nine of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Gardens and Gardening. Bonus folklore: Should you be cursed, it's said that agrimony will not only break the hex, but fling the curse back on the hexer 🌱

#WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #PublicationDay #Quiz #Booksky #Witchsky #Gardening
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Nine: Of Gardens and Gardnening Which tree is said to have a liking for uprooting itself nightly so it can look through your bedroom window to see if you’re getting up to any naughtiness in there?
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Q. Eight of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Basements and Cellars. Bonus folklore: Should you encounter any fleeing rats in your crawlspace, you are advised to flee also, as rats don't just leave sinking ships! 🐀 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Eight: Of Basements and Cellars What might you be trying to cure if you applied a poultice of goat poo, wormwood oil and fig juice?
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Q. Eight of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Basements and Cellars. Bonus folklore: Should you encounter any fleeing rats in your crawlspace, you are advised to flee also, as rats don't just leave sinking ships! 🐀 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Eight: Of Basements and Cellars What might you be trying to cure if you applied a poultice of goat poo, wormwood oil and fig juice?
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Q. Seven of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Sitting Rooms & Sitting. Bonus folklore: An ideal housewarming gift is a coin as this represents good fortune. But slipping it under the carpet is said to amplify the luck🤞 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Seven: Of Sitting Rooms and Sitting. If you want to attract love into your life, what might you sprinkle on your carpet before cleaning it?
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Q. Seven of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Sitting Rooms & Sitting. Bonus folklore: An ideal housewarming gift is a coin as this represents good fortune. But slipping it under the carpet is said to amplify the luck🤞 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Seven: Of Sitting Rooms and Sitting. If you want to attract love into your life, what might you sprinkle on your carpet before cleaning it?
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Question Six of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Dining Rooms and Dining. Bonus folklore: If you should like to avoid acid reflux, it's said you should drink cabbage juice three times a day 🥬. #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Six: Of Dining Rooms and Dining. What might you be trying to avoid if you ate roasted pig lungs, or drank a beverage containing a live eel or some wolf’s liver?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Question Six of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Dining Rooms and Dining. Bonus folklore: If you should like to avoid acid reflux, it's said you should drink cabbage juice three times a day 🥬. #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Six: Of Dining Rooms and Dining. What might you be trying to avoid if you ate roasted pig lungs, or drank a beverage containing a live eel or some wolf’s liver?
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Question Five of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Kitchens and Laundries. Bonus folklore: when dabbed on the offending spot, cold parsley tea is said to take the itch off a mosquito bite 🦟 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Five: Of Kitchens and Laundries In Hertfordshire, what typical kitchen windowsill herb is said to visit the devil nine times in hell before sprouting?
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Question Five of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Kitchens and Laundries. Bonus folklore: when dabbed on the offending spot, cold parsley tea is said to take the itch off a mosquito bite 🦟 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Five: Of Kitchens and Laundries In Hertfordshire, what typical kitchen windowsill herb is said to visit the devil nine times in hell before sprouting?
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Question Four of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Stairways and Thresholds. Bonus folklore: another way to protect your front door from vampire incursion is to smear the hinges with garlic 🧄 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Four Of Stairways and Thresholds. Why might a fishing net above your front door be a good deterrent against vampires?
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Question Four of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Stairways and Thresholds. Bonus folklore: another way to protect your front door from vampire incursion is to smear the hinges with garlic 🧄 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Four Of Stairways and Thresholds. Why might a fishing net above your front door be a good deterrent against vampires?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM