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"Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" https://folkhorrorrevival.com/ #FolkloreAgainstFascism Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett with a miner's lamp and a magpie linocut
It is publication day for SCRATCH MOSS. Please be buying it from your vendor of choice, or ask your local library to get it in. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
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Photograph of a road with a bridge going across above it. Emblazoned on the bridge is written 'Seton welcomes you to Oldham, home of the tubular bandage'.
I grew up in Herefordshire, but moved for a few years up near Oldham, and the first time we went there we were greeted with the large sign proudly proclaiming it to be the 'home of the tubular bandage'.
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Going to have to try to visit Ross-on-Wye's horse tooth swan while I'm there too
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I've just learned about a swan floor mosaic MADE OF HORSE'S TEETH in Ross-on-Wye
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Little mari with a big black dog with flames by its feet and red eye. Little mari holds a leash
Little Mari and Black Shuck are preparing for Crufts. They’ve decided to enter into the ‘Working’ group (harbinger of doom is a job)
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The Treasure Digger (1925) by Louis Moe, Norwegian painter and illustrator #PhantomsFriday
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Two witches, a devil and a frog are jigging back to back in a circle. The two witches are wearing skirts, waistcoats, and a shawl and frilly cap on their heads, respectively. The devil has the legs and head of a horned goat, the torso of a man, and long, clawed fingernails. He is holding a long taper with a flame burning from the end with a bright light. The frog has a rather goofy facial expression.
Two witches, a devil, and a frog shaking their groove thing at the witches' sabbath.
An illustration by Louis Le Breton for 'Danse du sabbat', in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863. Wikimedia Commons, public domain #WitchSky #illustration #art #ArtHistory
Artwork in a simplified modernist style of a human skull with dried grass poking out of the nose and eye sockets, and with a House wren perched on top and another poking its head out of an eye.
"Wrented" by Charley Harper, 1968 #ArtSky #Spring
"Many people view the grinning skull as an unpleasant reminder of their mortality, but to House Wrens an empty cranium is just another home-site with a domed ceiling... Home is where the heart is, even if it's a transplant."
I will never not adore "and allies" in a fieldguide title. Don't mess with the grasshoppers or the earwigs and crickets and cockroaches will fuck you up
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More hares coming for March! As it’s a full moon here’s a panel that I made a couple of years ago which combined many of my favourite things. This one is called Solstice Hare and a reminder of the colour and energy that is coming as we head into spring.
Available as a print. See my linktree. 🥰🌿
CFPs and Events: Monsters, Victorians, Osgood Perkins, Cottingley Fairies, fairy tales, folklore
CFP: Monster Media Conference 2026 University of Edinburgh, 18-19 June 2026 (in person and on line) Deadline: 15 March 2026 This conference aims to explore the relationship between monsters and the…
The fields have been harrowed. The fields have been frost-scarred. Now comes the sun to warm soil, wake its ghosts. Every crack leaks possibility. A hearing of spear against shield, a hearing of words spoken by the restless dead. Even with worm devoured tongues, they desire conversation.
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March 22nd in Arlington, Va.! Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .
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Painting of a deer in the forest at night.
In a Flemish folktale, a woman who was said to have been a thief during life haunted a town in the shape of a deer. The ghost deer would knock on doors and wait. Between her horns she carried an illegible text. She stopped appearing when someone deciphered the text.
🎨Eugen Krüger
#WyrdWednesday
Artwork of a lady stroking a Tiger, adorned with a flower garland. Forest background.
Lady and the Tiger, Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924).
05.03.2026 09:12 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0So the answer to Frank R. Stockton's question 'The Lady, or the Tiger?' is "Why not both?"
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Dreaming fox.
art by Fang Chuxiong
#BookologyThursday
And for the cryptozoologists, the final line of the article: "Its forests may shelter yet more hidden relics of a past Australia," he says.
Thylacine survival TBC.
Double wow! Really exciting to hear about these new discoveries!
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The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."
#WorldBookDay 📚
"She walks among the tombs" 🪦
'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚
#History
Title card for the talk, with the details from the main text with an image of a UFO toy
Our next ONLINE fundraising talk:
Sat 21st March, 8pm via Zoom with recording for all ticket holders
INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN
THE VISUAL FOLKLORE OF UFOs
Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson will be presenting on everything from hoax photos to kid's toys
Tickets £5+booking from bit.ly/flaevents
A vegetable looking like a person walking
YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I WALK
I'M A WOMAN'S MAN; NO TIME TO TALK
And peak book cover design
07.03.2026 10:16 — 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Peak signage
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I love this sign! I've seen other versions posted from other counties (I can't remember where I got this photo from but I've had it saved on my phone for ages).
Next time I'm back home in Herefordshire in going to have to keep an eye out for this.
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From the Davenport Times 1896 #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings
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Stark painting of a still life containing fossils and books, including Charles Lyell's Elements of Geology.
"Fossils (February)" by the English surrealist Tristram Hillier. This 1955 painting was commissioned by Shell for the Shell Book of Nature, Fossils, Insects and Reptiles. From Ark UK: Government Art Collection. You Can Be Sure Of Shell... #FossilFriday
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Nocturne by Tyra Kleen 1905 #PhantomsFriday
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Detail of a pale clay medieval jug, decorated with a green bird and a heraldic shield
Today we're sharing this delightful detail of a Saintonge polychrome jug, which was found at a medieval tenement site in #Winchelsea, E Sussex.
This type of ceramic was imported from SW France during the late 13th-early 14th centuries & is associated with wine trading.
#MedievalMarch
#FindsFriday 🏺
In January 1898, the Illustrated Police News reported that a mysterious figure with
"the ghastly appearance of a headless woman" was haunting an isolated crossroad outside of Buckingham.
PhantomsFriday