They made it. I have been and remain profoundly inspired by the Artemis II astronauts and more broadly, the Artemis mission. Watching them reach so far with such skill has given me hope that we can reach across the divisions between us here on Earth with healing hands, while we live. #moonjoy
My prayers are with the crew of the Artemis II today as they complete their journey around the moon and come home. I understand it will be a dangerous undertaking, and I want very much for them to see their families again. #ArtemisII
From 2019 and the early days of the Folklore & Fiction dispatch and podcast series, these "Folkbyte for Writers" memes. #THESTORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #throwbackthursday
From 2019 and the early days of the Folklore & Fiction dispatch and podcast series, these "Folkbyte for Writers" memes. #THESTORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #throwbackthursday
This month's video is a discussion folkloristics and the ethics of cursing in historical and contemporary magical practice. Earlier discussions of charms and curses can be found here:
#STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #FolkloreScholar #FolkloreStudies #Witchcraft
This month's video is a discussion folkloristics and the ethics of cursing in historical and contemporary magical practice. Earlier discussions of charms and curses can be found here:
#STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #FolkloreScholar #FolkloreStudies #Witchcraft
Found on YouTube this morning. I was captivated by Rukmini Vijayakumar's performance of the sacred and wanted to share it with you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpx...
Me too.
Watching the lunar fly-by with a black candle lit for the dark side of the moon, the brightness of this moment, and Reid Wiseman's wife Carroll, who passed away in 2020. The crew asked to name a lunar crater after her today, and NASA responded "Integrity and Carroll Crater, loud and clear."
From one of our best local comic artists, this gem. #AtlanticCanada #ArtemisII
Looking forward to this re-release of a book I've loved for years and cite in The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore.
Locus 2026 Auction FRANK HERBERT'S Children of Dune (Putnam, 1976): First Edition, Signed WILLIAM GIBSON'S Count Zero (Easton Press, 2026): Special edition, signed and personalized TO YOU
Our auction has begun! It will run until 8pm on April 8, no fooling!
We have incredible things up for bid, like these signed editions of Children of Dune & Count Zero.
For first dibs on these extremely rare and beautiful titles, visit: http://locus.betterw (link in bio)
The April 2026 Folkbyte is on its way to subscribers, containing a passage on ritual world-building cut from THE STORYTELLER'S GUIDE TO FOLKLORE.
-> csmaccath.com/april2026
#STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #SerendipityLiteraryAgency #FolkloreStudies #AgentedAuthor #UpcomingRelease
Hard pass, but thank you for being concerned about my writing life. ;)
Look at this beauty, originally found on the Watkins Books website and written by a scholar of Old Norse literature. Well, that's thirty dollars gone from my bank account.
First they stopped telling me I was going to hell for playing D&D, and now they've stopped demonizing my tarot cards. Next they'll be lighting black candles to get in touch with the womb-like nature of darkness and not because they're spooky. Is nothing sacred, I ask you?
I was delighted to place my story "A Mouth Full of Stones" at The Daily Tomorrow last year. It's a great new magazine, and it was good to have an editorial team "get" my story. It's eligible for the Auroras, if you're voting. I hope you'll give it a read.
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/a-mouth-fu...
This month's Special Dispatch continues my discussion of folkloristics, material culture, and animism with a stop at Dunino Den in Scotland, where I visited late last year.
Find it here: csmaccath.com/songno...
#animism, #folklorestudies, #scotland
This month's Special Dispatch continues my discussion of folkloristics, material culture, and animism with a stop at Dunino Den in Scotland, where I visited late last year.
Find it here: csmaccath.com/songno...
#animism, #folklorestudies, #scotland
Just a bit of Sunday morning peace for you. We had a snow so heavy yesterday that we couldn't see the treeline for a while, but today the island is silver and blue and green. #CapeBreton #AtlanticCanada
Also reintroducing Field Notes for Storytellers, which is still available here:
csmaccath.store/b/fieldnotes...
#folkloristics #folklore #writing #storytelling
I've made new trailers for my EPs and thought I'd reintroduce them today. Shatter and Rise was a pandemic project comprised of songs I had written over many years but never recorded. Find the EP here:
csmaccath.bandcamp.com/album/shatte...
#MusicSky #Folk #FolkMusic #FolkMusician
I've made new trailers for my EPs and thought I'd reintroduce them today. The Folklore & Fiction Ballads comes out of my 2019-2023 Folklore & Fiction podcast and the traditional songs I sang for it. Find the EP here:
csmaccath.bandcamp.com/album/the-fo...
#MusicSky #Folk #FolkMusic #FolkMusician
My latest short video discusses the many ways we tell and once told stories and some of the ways folklore scholars think about narrative transmission.
#THESTORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #folkloristics #folklore #AcademicSky
My latest short video discusses the many ways we tell and once told stories and some of the ways folklore scholars think about narrative transmission.
#THESTORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #folkloristics #folklore #AcademicSky
TFW the song in your head is the one you're writing... I'm working on the music for my third EP while I finish writing SGF. It will be titled "Lead On, Wild God," and I'm presently working on a track titled "Prayer of the Living." Hopefully ready for release early next year.
On this International Women's Day and always, I honour my grandmothers: Norma June Duvall, Ormazinda Crisp, Sarilda Mays, Maragret Slusher, Nancy Ann Wade, Hannah Jones, Frances Bohannon, Ruth Barnes, Mary Knowles, and all of my foremothers before them. (Pictured: Norma June Duvall)
It celebrates war in the worst, most egotistical way.
Same. But thank you for sharing this.
