Ellen Walkingshaw

I'm so excited to announce that mine &
@odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/

Woke Folklorists! We've done it! Our MA Folklore Studies MA finally made it into the Daily Mail university wokeathon campaign!

Looks Like Britt Ekland won't be enrolling next year ...

I write & research about the history of witchcraft, magic, divination & ghosts, at a post-1992 University. Exactly the sort of "waste of space" Humanities academic disliked by the Far Right. But these topics provide important insights for decoding events in the world today.

Gamers… @gamerant.bsky.social suggests that these are the 6 best RPGs which use folklore at their core

Have you played any? Do you agree? Is there anything you think should be on the list?

You can listen to my panel discussion on folklore in gaming here:

www.thefolklorepodcast.com/bonus-conten...

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

cant sleep, stewing, thinking about how easy it is for men to be taken seriously as intellectuals, and how much ground you have to claw and claw to be taken with a quarter of the gravity, as a woman

What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

Centuries of names carved into the brick at Lilleshall abbey

Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the present. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you'

#Folklore #Shropshire

A Deviant Burial from Early Medieval Dorset In the laws of King Æthelred (r. 978-1013), the punishment for a second offence of theft is that ‘He [the offender] shall not be able to

Bianca Chiacchia analyses a deviant burial from early medieval Dorset.

What can this tell us about early medieval views on deviancy and punishment?

#skystorians #history #archaeology #Dorset

I am fascinated by the idea of Shropshire's Death Folklore and how such systems of belief allow access to the past. Far from a sign of superstitious folly, we are given an insight into how people conceptualised their grief.

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#Folklore #Death

Thank you, I'm loving it! So much to uncover still

Thanks Helen, super fascinating so far!

A couple examples of angel objects left on graves from a recent trip to Haycombe Cemetery, Bath.

I recently discovered as part of my PhD research that angels have been found on graves as early as 2nd century CE.

Why are angels such longstanding symbols of death? Would love to know thoughts!