When even The Guardian mixes up 'have' and 'of' then all hope is lost

My favourite film of all time! So rare it gets a cinema airing these days.

My absolute favourite film of all time! Shame I'm so far from London.

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

In more "archaeology isn't political" news... 🤬

BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
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#Archaeology 🏺

Hellebore no. 15 - The Green Issue, with bluebells and daisies

IT’S HERE!

Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities.

Shipping starts now.

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sorting through boxes of old photos this afternoon & found this fabulous picture of my mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother. The eldest - Rebecca - was born in 1841.

"Nothing short of locks or bolts could keep out the lifters." | Welsh Easter Customs. "I recall the inhabitants of Llangollen, Denbighshire, ascending Dinas Bran on Easter Day to greet the rising of the sun with three somersaults."

Pasg Hapus 🐰

"I recall the inhabitants of Llangollen, Denbighshire, ascending Dinas Bran on Easter Day to greet the rising of the sun with three somersaults."

An account of Easter Sunrise from Rev. John Williams of Glanmor ⛪

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#Wales #History

Hellebore 15: The Green Issue showing a mysterious woman communing with the woods. Cover photograph by Lorenza Dapra with design by Sam Freeman

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities.

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Artwork of a dog (probably Black Shuck) haunting a snowy landscape near a church. A man is hiding his face.

According to a Flemish folktale, the murderer of a woman was doomed to appear as a ghost dog after he died. It's said his eyes looked like lanterns. The dog jumped on people and forced them to carry him to the place where he had committed the crime.

🎨Dillon Samuelson
#PhantomsFriday

A recent article (Archaelogia Cambrensis 2022) connects Ffynnon Sarah with two other Sarah wells at Derwen and Caerwys - one theory is that they were re-named as such as they became landmarks on a traditional Welsh Romani travelling route across the area.

Historic records suggest there was a Ffynnon Fair, St Mary's Well at Nannerch, Flints, associated with the parish church dedicated to Mary. The location of the well seems to be lost - but Ffynnon Sarah is a strong spring, connected by footpath to the church. Surely a candidate for the lost Ff Fair

First hedgehog of the year caught snooping around the garden last night

Stammerwort, by Claudia Barton + gHost editions 12 track album

Loving working to the sound of Claudia Barton's stunning new album about the symbiotic relationship between the cinnabar moth & ragwort. "Tincture of ragwort is effective against conspiracy theories Rumours & rheumatism!" Shame about the horses though
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About the Revisit It is an unbelievable 36 years since the Gothic Society was founded in August 1990. It ran for eight and a half years, ending in December 1998 after 35 magazines and numerous other publications. I …

Delighted to see the resuscitation of the Gothic Society - a truly memorable group of which I was a member for almost all of its life. I'm sure in its new on-line guise it can make many new friends. gothrevisit.uk/about-this-r...

About the Revisit It is an unbelievable 36 years since the Gothic Society was founded in August 1990. It ran for eight and a half years, ending in December 1998 after 35 magazines and numerous other publications. I …

Delighted to see the resuscitation of the Gothic Society - a truly memorable group of which I was a member for almost all of its life. I'm sure in its new on-line guise it can make many new friends. gothrevisit.uk/about-this-r...

Walking the route of the old railway track that ran to Holywell, Flintshire. This is the location of At Winefride's Halt - the station that served the well

New Books for Christmas, 1798 “Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you.…

I'm sometimes amazed that it's 10 years now since I stopped writing my Gothic Heroine blog. I still think that one day I should go back to it but how did I ever have the time. Just rereading the Christmas 2011 book recommendations!

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The Millennium Cross on the site of the old Capel St Ffraid - Trearddur Bay. St Brigid's Cross at its centre. Sunny but wild with storm Bram this afternoon.

Strange times - I don't ever remember seeing this rhododendron flowering in December before. West Cheshire.

Escaping a cold house to the glorious warm quite of Gladstone's Library, Hawarden to write up my talk on the wells of Ynys Cybi today.

Lovely - Ynys Mon!

Preparing to talk about about the traditions of the wells of Ynys Cybi / Holy Island in Holyhead next month

Æternum, by Penelope Trappes 7 track album

Samhain blessings to you all
✨🖤✨
#Samhain #Halloween #Witchsky #Pagan #animism

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A little medieval character I found lurking in St Mary's church Nercwys yesterday

Visiting the fascinating colourful Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna this afternoon

Just picked up a copy of Alice Vernon's Ghosted for my weekend reading. Dark nights and autumn coming on quickly now.

Cover of Hellebore: The Mirror Issue, showing a woman with eyes closed and her reflections in two mirrors, both with open eyes

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Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.

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Call them corpse roads, coffin lanes, funeral walks. Call them procession paths, lych lines, wraith ways. Just as long as you remember they are the arterial routes of the dead. The long cicatrix of grief carved into the land. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1981

At the Silver Well, a petrifying well, in West Cheshire this morning

Gorgeous morning walking along the River Weaver in West Cheshire this morning in search of the Silver Well, a petrifying well near Kingsley.