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Tickets for this superb event at bit.ly/flaevents
Just £10 for one day, or £15 for the entire weekend!
Poster with details for the conference, which is on April 11th and 12th via Zoom. A range of speakers are listed and the prices, which are £10 per day or £15 for the weekend
We are going to start profiling the talks at our 2-day online FESTIVAL OF MAGICAL HISTORY CONFERENCE on April 11 and 12.
On Sat 11th at 2pm @witchesetc.bsky.social will speak on
"Welcome to Witchland: Recovering the Stories of Britain's Civil War Witches"
Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklo...
Bullstone in a grassy landscape
NEW ONLINE TALK
Saturday 18th April, 8pm UK via Zoom
WALKING THE WEIRDSTONE
Archaeology and the works of Alan Garner
An illustrated lecture, presented by buildings archaeologist @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
Tickets £5 plus booking fee from bit.ly/flaevents
All tickets support our work
#folklore
Season 11 Episode 190 And Other Stories - Reinterpreting disability through storytelling. Blue text on a white background
Episode 190
AND 'OTHER' STORIES
Reinterpreting disability through storytelling.
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-190.... or on your podcast app
In this episode, I meet members of The Turning Tides Project to learn about a very special Arts Council funded folktale project
A picture of a UFO toy on a black background with the event details
Just two days left to grab your ticket for our next online presentation, looking at the folklore of UFOs and their different looks in films, TV, toys or eyewitness sightings!
Tickets are £5 including a video replay, from
bit.ly/flaevents
Come and join us. The Truth Is Out There
Today is publication day for ‘Fairies: A History’ - so I’ve written a special free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ to celebrate 📚🧚 open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...
Elfwisk – a Hookland dialect word for fate. While it can be translated as god-wished, it's more often used to imply that ill or fortunate happenstances in a person’s life are being manipulated by unseen forces of a somewhat lower order, often for no reason other than their fierce merriment. #WOTD
Come and join us online this Saturday night for some UFO picture fun
The second best Irish phrase I’ve heard, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.”
My number one favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you’ll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”
pothole vignette: in a deep pothole filled with muddy water is a white cruise ship and a dock made of popsicle sticks bearing signs that read “Pothole Cruise Port,” “Now Boarding,” and “Delayed Due to Road Conditions.”
Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM
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Full-cast audio production now available from the webstore.
Tales of the Lantern is a family appropriate collection of chilling stories based on Arabic urban legends - best told around a campfire on a dark, starry night.
Digital download, just £5
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p195/T...
This is not far from us. The sign has been like this for a good while now, and we really want it for our collections!
Off of my travels to York for SPRING HAUNTS this April, where I'll be joined by authors Naomi Booth, Sarah Brooks, Laura Elliott and Icy Sedgwick for two days of writing workshops, interviews and more! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-hau... #York #Yorkshire #horror #horrorwriting #horrorwriters
Poster advertising the conference detailed in the main post
We are delighted to be able to announce ticketing is open for our ONLINE conference on witchcraft and magical history
Sat 11 / Sun 12 April via Zoom, with recordings for all ticket holders
£10/day or £15 for the whole event
Book now at bit.ly/flaevents
Profits support our charitable work
#OnThisDay in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was 1st published. It's not been out of print since. Read Sharon Ruston on the scientific background to the novel incl. contemporary investigations into the possibility of states between life and death: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
If you'd like to meet up with me and others and chat folklore and local heritage, and Devon is in your orbit, then please book a free place for our new monthly social group
Booking is at bit.ly/flaevents. More details below
Poster advertising the Folklore Fridays event. The background is an artistic rendering of the Folklore Library interior. The text gives the details about the event as in the main post
We are starting a FOLKLORE AND HERITAGE SOCIAL in Crediton, Devon on the last Friday of each month from 7-9pm.
The first meeting is March 27th. There will be a curated mini exhibition of artefacts, presentation and chat about future meetings.
Book a free place at bit.ly/flaevents or email us
Call for Papers poster reading: 'Trade in Legend and Tradition: 20th FLS Legendary Weekend. A two-day conference to be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2026 at Tuckers Hall in Exeter, EX4 3AN'
📣Call for Papers📣 'Trade in Legend and Tradition: The Twentieth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society'. 5-6 September 2026 in Exeter at Tuckers Hall, home of the Guild of Tuckers, Weavers and Shearmen. Deadline for proposals and registration: 1 July 2026 www.folklore-society.com/event/-legen...
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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
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Folklorist Mark Norman, in an excellent shirt featuring a design of calaveras skulls, delivers a talk in Screaming Skulls. He stands at a lectern to one side of a screen, showing a human skull with a large red cross next to it, and the words '0/10 Must try harder' beneath the cross
The final presentation of this year's #GhostStoryFestival is @folklorepod.bsky.social discussing Screaming Skulls. #ScreamingSkull #skull #folklore #legend ##QUADDerby #Derby #ghost #ghosts #haunting #haunted #ExcellentShirt @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @alexdavis1981.bsky.social
I had far too much material - the talk could easily have lasted for another half hour. Lady Howard's story is so fascinating. #Dartmoor #GhostStory #ghost #GhostStoryFestival #QUADDerby #Derby #folklore
Dr Emma Probett sits in front of a screen bearing the presentation title 'Dracula and Survival Cannibalism'
The #GhostStoryFestival continues on Day 3 with Dr Emma Probett discussing #Dracula and Survival Cannibalism. #ghost #GhostStory #haunted #haunting #QUADDerby #Derby @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @alexdavis1981.bsky.social
Occult illusionist David Alnwick holds up some cards to an audience
Day 2 of the #GhostStoryFestival closes with a performance by #occult #illusionist David Alnwick, featuring card tricks and a dramatic reading of Dickens's The #Signalman
@ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @alexdavis1981.bsky.social
#ghost #GhostStory #QUADDerby #Derby #magic
Mark Norman and Jon Dear talk all things 'A Ghost Story For Christmas' at the 2026 UK Ghost Story Festival in QUAD Derby.
The penultimate session of Day 2 of the 2026 #GhostStoryFestival sees @accordingtojond.bsky.social and @folklorepod.bsky.social discussing the beloved #Ghost #Story for #Christmas #GhostStory #QUADDerby #Derby #BookSky🩵📚
@ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @alexdavis1981.bsky.social
Great to meet you, too! 💕
No, afraid there isn't for this version - but there was an online event a couple of weeks ago.