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War of the Roses database in Northampton The Battlefields Trust says the database will broaden understanding of the War of the Roses.

Medieval conflict database 'keeps #folklore alive'
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Portals, Vehicles, and Vessels: How Folklore Holds the Weight of Cultures in Flux Recently I’ve been thinking about how writers work in a time of extremes and how our work has begun to reflect this tension. On the one hand, readers and writers are tugged toward the distant futur…

Portals, Vehicles, and Vessels: How #Folklore Holds the Weight of Cultures in Flux
THAO THAI DISCUSSES THE POWER AND CREATIVE USE OF MYTHOLOGY WITH ANNA KOVATCHEVA, ALICE EVELYN YANG, RYAN COLLETT AND SARAH HALL
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Wildlife Folklores And A Potpourri Of Fascinating Stories - Wildlife SOS What else can make your day better, than a story – or rather a set of stories! Folktales or folklores […]

WILDLIFE FOLKLORES AND A POTPOURRI OF FASCINATING STORIES -#Folklore #WorldWildlifeDay
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Use celandine to predict the weather as they close their petals before raindrops #Folklore #FolkloreSunday

Wild garlic! also known as ‘bear garlic’ after belief that bears used to eat it to get their strength back after a long winter sleep.People also used to plant it for good luck in cottage thatch and to keep fairies out #folklore #Folkloresunday

Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover — Live Science A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing.

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“Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover”
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Live Science
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Painting of March morning, tree with buds, trunk appears to be a woman reaching into the sky, snowscape, stony shore, lake with mountains behind, sky with clouds.

March morning, Nikolai Astrup, c.1920.

In an underground crypt against the backdrop of a stone arch, a wooden coffin is creaking open and a hand reaching out. The lid is being prised open by a white-skinned human figure wearing a white shroud.

The coffin of a suspected vampire would have been filled with garlic or poppy seeds. Garlic would keep it bound in the grave. The seeds provided food but the vampire could only eat one seed at a time and eat them all before it could leave the grave again... #MorbidMarch 🎨Wiertz

Now emerging from its winter hibernation, the legendary Tizzie-Whizie: part hedgehog, part squirrel with the wings of a bee. Often seen at dusk flying over Windermere at high speed. more in: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae

Now emerging from its winter hibernation, the legendary Tizzie-Whizie: part hedgehog, part squirrel with the wings of a bee. Often seen at dusk flying over Windermere at high speed.

more in my: "Folklore of the Lake District"

#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky

Plum blossom! 🌱🕸️ energy returns

St David's Day | Museum Wales Discover the history of St David’s Day, Wales’s national celebration. Learn about its origins, traditions, symbols and the story of Dewi Sant.

St David’s Day in Wales: History, #Traditions and Symbols museum.wales/articles/118... #Folklore #StDavidsDay

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‘When March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb.‘
‘A dry March and a wet May
Fill barns and bays with corn and hay.‘
‘As it rains in March so it rains in June.‘
‘March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.’
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If You’re Exhausted, This Mars in Pisces Transit Is About You This isn’t a soft transit.It’s a flood.Mars in Pisces isn’t here to inspire you. It’s here to expose you. Expose the quiet addiction to being needed. Expose the script that says sufferin

Mars moves into Pisces on Monday, March 2, 2026.

If you’re exhausted, this isn’t burnout. It’s a boundary crisis.

The savior complex is up for review.

Read the article. Then tell me—what are you still carrying that isn’t yours? 👇

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Mercury Rx conjunct Venus is not subtle. Old conversations resurface, unresolved feelings find their voice, and the stories we tell about love get rewritten in real time. What do you need to resolve? Let me know.

#astrology #horoscopes #PiscesSeason

The Ghosts of Savernake Forest Mega Blog - Weird Wiltshire Join me and my intreprid canine adventurers, seeking out the ghostly spots of the ancient and ethereal Savernake Forest.

Since there wasn't enough time to tell Radio Four about all the ghosts in the ethereal Savernake Forest, I created a blog instead!
Heads up, this is a MEGA blog. There are an awful lot of weird stories connected to this eerie place and it's ancient trees. 👻🌳👻

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An image from a tomb showing a silhouetted figure, completely in black, emerging through a completely white doorway, as two Ba's, flying embodiments of spirit that are human-headed birds, fly, one turned away from the figure, the other flying towards the figure. The figure, male, is nude and flaccid.

A letter from the Middle Kingdom tells of a widower, asking his dead wife why she had returned to haunt and torture him: had he not worked hard enough, sent the right things with her to the Duat? Did he not mourn properly, abstain from drink long enough? #PhantomsFriday

Celestial Guidance

🎨Alphonse Mucha (1900)
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When you see the wind stir the greenwood, or when you turn the pages of a book made from a tree’s still-blameless flesh, lean close and listen. You hear my voice.

~Ellen Datlow, The Green Man
🎨Brian Froud #PhantomsFriday

Celandine - “If any man shall have this herb, with the heart of a Mole, he shall overcome all his enemies, and all matters In suit, and shall put away all debate”. The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus #Folklore

Willow at a lecturn

And we are off … the first talks and workshops @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social are underway

@willowwinsham.bsky.social is speaking on the subject of witch’s familiars

Inside the strange history of a 'haunted' former city pub The Barley Mow in Sidbury, Worcester has had a long history in the city with rumours of ghosts making mischief.

Inside 'haunted' Barley Mow pub where ghosts cause mischief
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BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Savernake Forest Martha Kearney visits Savernake Forest in Wiltshire

I'll be on Open Country on BBC Radio Four later today, with a little snippet about the ghostlore of Savernake Forest! 👻
If you fancy hearing more about this ancient and ethereal woodland deep in the Wilthshire countryside, have a listen here:
#Radio4 #Wiltshire
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The Gleninsheen Gorget - a stunning late Bronze Age collar which was discovered in 1930 at Gleninsheen in County Clare. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Ireland