The extraordinary vision and magic of Ani Williams. The survival of ancient Egyptian music through the physical presence of the ancient temples. Pure inspiration.
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Whenever I come across one of the chapels of the Black Fathom Faith told in driftwood crosses and shells, I wonder what happens within their walls. All along the coast there are rumours about their inner beliefs. Talk of the King-Under-the-Sea, Drowned Dead sumonings. – #MattAdams
Mountainous landscape
Arcadia, a mountainous region in the Peloponnese, was a difficult land to farm, so its inhabitants relied on pasturing flocks and hunting, both presided over by the god Pan. Other Greeks regarded the Arcadians as ‘older than the moon.’ #WyrdWednesday
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Entrance to a tumulus flanked by a menhir.
Les Pierres Plats in Locmariaquer, Brittany, June, 2023. The menhir flanks an enclosed tomb that is now closed to visitors to aid preservation. #TombTuesday
Queen of the Hum. An owl with big green-pupilled eyes looking out at the viewer, an electricity pylon behind the owl. Oak leaves and oak flowers surround the owl on their left and right. Linocut, white, black and green, Maria Strutz
3.05 am
Owl eyes
Bat wings
Moon dance
Night things
- Siana Bangura
#OwlishMonday
Certain doors demand your attention when walking passed them, demand you wonder about what happens beyond them. They generate an intimate, personal folklore, unfold odd stories in your mind. I'd knock upon them, but the sense of mystery is just too valuable. – #MattAdams
You can read my piece exploring the mythic and folkloric roots of Peter Pan in the new issue of Hellebore!
Of course the tree is a dare for local children. Can you walk it to the end and throw a stone into the pool? The fear comes not from falling off as such, but the fear of falling off into waters that are home to Stay Belows. After all, they are so hungry in mating season. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH
The Long Neolithic is a fever. It infects all of us stone botherers – whether we are archaeologists or lithic pilgrims. None are free of its symptoms. The call to visit, that palpable feeling ongoing ceremony when you walk into a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
The Secret College
#joncarling #drawing #art
Two tall standing stones in level pasture with a blue sky behind
#StandingStoneSunday the magical Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone pair at Penrhos feilw, nr Trearddur, Ynys Môn/Anglesey 🥰
Remarkable that they have survived so long 😮
📷 My own 2025
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOForOld
Also #StandingStoneSunday
Trethevy Quoit, near St Cleer in Cornwall, is a neolithic ‘dolmen’ burial chamber, so is quite old!
a green female presenting humanish figure coated in moss with glowing pods around their head glances over their shoulder at you. Pencil drawing with colour applied (mostly green-because)
Moss maiden of Hookland bids you a good morning.
Small standing stones in field.
At Stanton Drew Stone Circles, Somerset, July 2023. #StandingStoneSunday
I’ve been foraging for what, ten years or so… and this is the first time I have ever found Calocybe gambosa - St. George’s Mushroom. I’ve looked for them for years. I was very pleased and will remember where I found them for next year. Tasty! #FungiFriends
I overcome tariff nonsense to review a newly discovered 19th century Icelandic treatise on elves! medium.com/@danharms_29...
the hungry moon
Mystical archway at dawn. The view from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor this morning.
Listen now: Dr. Paul Robichaud explores how ancient monuments have been reimagined across the centuries in folklore, literature, art and popular culture with New Books Network
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new moon
#joncarling #drawing #newmoon
I am for the neglected ghosts of England. The poltergeist in terraced street, the phantom in the Co-op store. So many ghost botherers overlook industrial spectres. It is as if the shade of a hatter is somehow worth less investigation than a knight of the realm. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
Live footage from inside the Bluesky server closet
Sybil Leek, early 1970s
Supply routes for saffron have been disrupted, shipments have stopped, prices have shot up, and there's warning of upcoming shortages.
There may not be a new crop in 2026 due to the current pollution and ecocide from the war and the deaths and displacement of its people.
Iran is the largest producer and exporter of saffron and is the origin of 90% of the world's saffron. Saffron's importance in culture, food, textiles and medicine cannot be denied.
Production and supply are currently at high risk due to the war in Iran.
Pan (the Piper at the Gates of Dawn) holding his pipes and staring intently at the viewer.
‘The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so that armies were dispersed; now by the woodside on a summer noon trolling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen.’
— R.L. Stevenson, ‘The Pipes of Pan’ #FolkloreThursday
🎨Arthur Rackham
There is a Hookland dialect word I am most fond of and find inordinately useful – path-doubt. It refers to the uncertainty of looking down the way and not knowing if the folk you can glimpse are flesh and blood or phantom flicker. – #CLNolan #WOTD
a future city
the falling gem
