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History repeating..

Well worth a walk along it, get a very different feel for the Stonehenge landscape

One of my favourite songs, mainly because it is so out of place with the rest of their tunes

To me, trying to beat each other at the 'catch the bar tenders eye' and 'squeeze to the front' competition seems much more a crowd of individuals than the communal fairness of queuing.

I hated it but... if u forget it is connected to WM, there are elements there that feel like a 70s hard to find B movie, or a pastiche of one shot as a TV episode of the more comic minded Midsomer Murders, that has yet to be fully edited. Shows how much the success of the WM was collaborative effort

It'll end in flames.

Have you seen Sightseers - it is sort of Nuts in May taken in that direction.

And of the Glastonbury Bowl so maybe a holy grail of the holy grail.

I find the writing style of some Arthurian stuff a turgid slog (however interesting they are) but Chretien's are a joyful read.

For me it's the humour.

It's about here I have moments of thinking I can do what I used to and plan/commit like I'm at 100%... then hello 'Wall'.

Lol at "Hooray I'm cured". And 40% "I'm at 60%". I hear you!

I think one of the early records mentions its little foals or 'pullus' so conceivably it's actually a chicken. 😉

From memory the shape the explorations seemed to show is not very different to now.

Black and white still from They Live. Billboards in a busy street have single words such as Obey, Consume, Conform, Buy etc

Sheet of music and words. Titled Sir Christemas. dated c1500. Words include: "Nowell (repeated), Who is there? I am here Sir Christemas."

Is this one of the early fathers of Father Christmas? The carol 'Sir Christemas' from C15. Possibly 1 of the earliest personifications of Christmas. (from Oxford Bk of Carols -orig in Ritson MS)

A Christmas ornament of a very angry looking Santa

2 weeks til Christmas - time to free Furious Santa from his box

This is on New Year's Eve Eve so I'm hoping James mentions eaves in his Christmas Lecture about ancient dwellings.

Add this to your cosy Christmas listening- an interesting chat about the paper on irish neolithic kinship that came out in the spring. Go via their website and get links to this paper and others including 'pigs and the solstice'.

7 is my current disheartening Google experience. I have research from T'internet that I now can't find via Google, even thro 'old Google' & inside quote marks. Even when still accessible direct. Google is no longer the book index at the back, it's the 3 page list of superlative quotes at the front.

Elements of these show where the Scarred For Life 70s TV came from. Slow pace, incidental music over funeral recreation, the slow turning of Tollund Man's face to the screen, the end credits of a held shot on swaying silhouetted men holding strange musical instruments. @scarredforlife.bsky.social

BBC - Buried Treasure, The Peat Bog Murder Mystery A programme on the well-preserved body of a 2000-year-old Dane found in a peat bog. (1954)

The Peat Bog one with its film of Gundestrup cauldron, bronze age fashion show and Mortimer Wheeler and Glyn Daniels in napkins drinking mead from horns is brilliant and hilarious. #archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC - Buried Treasure - Episode guide All episodes of Buried Treasure

Watching BBCs Buried Treasure archaeology series from the 50s. Some of the interpretations might be outdated but it's a cool watch with some great bits of footage.
Wish they would put up the Avebury one though. @bbc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Same, altho I find it hard to watch. When this was released it felt like a powerful public act of magic, especially sealed by his own death. Considering the world turned to shit from 2016 I'll be glad of a counter-spell any time soon.

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ONLINE WEREWOLVES!

The next online presentation for @folklorelibrary.bsky.social is tomorrow night at 8pm GMT

Rich Blackett will discuss folklore and myth connected with the werewolf.

Online via Zoom. Tickets just £5 including video replay from bit.ly/flaevents

Come and join us

Bus buddies.

Similar experience. I'd deliberately avoided seeing any trailers, was very nervous about it and here it was: like reading the book with my minds pictures shown in front of me. That first Fellowship at the cinema was an amazing experience.

Great set of folklore/hauntology speakers at this years #TheHauntedLandscape run by @forteanlondon.bsky.social I now have a lovely list of rabbit holes to go down. Next year's in my calendar already.

Bungay proving its weird credentials by featuring a 2nd time at #TheHauntedLandscape conference. First with Harte's noting of its church-ravishing devil dog. Now with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social telling of its alchemist Friar Bungay visiting cunning folk.

Barguest & Gytrash. Such a great name for a paranormal solicitors firm.