An engraving depicting six children holding hands and dancing around a maypole.
I'm doing an online talk with Creswell Crags on 27 April, examining the folklore of May Day! It's at 6 pm BST. [Image by Isaiah Thomas, Public Domain]
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maypoles-h...
I play DnD but I never have any idea what's going on!
My mate got me the custom dice in the image!
We’re going to explore the folklore of casting lots, casting stones, and throwing dice in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! (Yes, there are demonstrations) youtu.be/s9aJBhl8W6c
Give it a go! You know, for science.
A screenshot from an events website. The photo at the bottom displays witchcraft ephemera, including bottles, quills, bundles of herbs, and a leatherbound book.
For those of you in Newcastle, I'm doing a talk at Newcastle Castle on 19 June! This is going to be a storytelling tour of the north east's more magical legends...
www.newcastlecastle.co.uk/events-activ...
It's fascinating how many people seem to be expecting the result of local government elections to affect national issues.
Very excited for this talk by @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social tomorrow... thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/unexpl...
We're looking at pendulum dowsing in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! It appears in a range of folklore, from the famous ‘sieve and shears’ practised by cunning folk, to wedding ring-based love divination! Let’s explore them further... pod.co/fabulous-fol...
No, Whitley Bay, just south of St Mary's Lighthouse.
You tend to see people surfing further south nearer Tynemouth!
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Freezing!
Definitely big coat weather.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Waves on a grey sea coming in over a smooth sandy beach. Grey clouds bunch overhead.
The North Sea earlier today. It's a lot more drafty than it looks.
Hahaha yeah, I worry about some people.
Thrilled to welcome the excellent @morgandaimler.bsky.social back to Fabulous Folklore Presents to talk fairy courts from Scottish folklore, fakelore, why it's not a great idea to sanitise supernatural beings to suit modern sensibilities... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cr3...
I have a podcast episode on them too.
Clusters of tiny flowers with four blue-purple petals around a white centre, growing out of a mat of green rounded leaves.
Slender speedwell! In the Victorian language of flowers, speedwell represented 'female fidelity'. Richard Folkard relates how the forget-me-not was once called the speedwell, since speedwell was an old way to say 'farewell' or 'goodbye'.
I'm more concerned about the amount of fake news dressed up to look real using AI.
Maybe we'd be better off if the AI bots *were* more like Holly.
People in the comments felt the same but the source articles are all from March.
Wikipedia’s AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026...
WIZARD OF OZ, 1939. Dorothy Gale is named after twin tornadoes that struck Kansas in 1879. The sky is said to turn green before a tornado. For Dorothy it conjures the green Wicked Witch of the West & transfers her to the green Emerald City #FairyTaleTuesday
It seems like it does that - I came across so many people who could dowse for water, or knew someone who could, when I did the water dowsing episode!
Part of me is SO tempted to give it a go.
I ended up falling down a rabbit hole of people using it to dowse for human remains 😬
