Morbitorium

A newt has moved into our pond 🥰🦎
#wildlife #smallpond #newt #amphibian

Thank you 🥰. I'm so pleased with how she turned out

She's finished! Our first Mari Lwyd is complete and a full build diary will be going onto the website soon
#MariLwyd #Wales #Welsh #folklore #folktradition #horseskull

Fixing a broken horse skull with Milliput epoxy putty... Just a normal day when you're making a Mari Lwyd
#marilwyd #horseskull

The first step is to glue the remaining teeth to stop any rattling and further losses

I've accumulated a few horse skulls recently and decided that I need to build a Mari Lwyd. In fact I need TWO Maris so I'll be using these skulls to make a traditional Yule theme one and a black 'Border Morris' Mari

Follow me for progress updates

#MariLwyd #SouthWales #Folklore #Wassail #Wales

#stylophone #theremin

Sgt. Howie's latest experimental album will be dropping on Spotify soon

#catsplayingtheremins
#catsofbluesky #catsofbsky

Today's Mari Lwyd workshop was a bit smaller than usual (unfortunately due to illness) but there were still some beautiful Mari creations
#marilwyd #southwales #folklore #workshop

I picked up a 1949 copy of Folk Tales of Wales by Eirwen Jones and I think it might be signed by the author! I can't think why anyone would write the name inside and it's totally different handwriting from the books owner. Can anyone confirm?

#folklore #Wales #folktales #cymru #books

Every time I need to replace the stickers in my pricing gun I have to look at a YouTube video showing me how. Every. Time.

The Morbitorium is in this months issue of Take A Break Fate & Fortune

#magazine #fateandfortune #haunted #museum #southwales

You can't park there mate!

So this happened last night 😮. All the kids in the car ran off unharmed but more amazingly they missed our car by about 2ft, the wall by inches, and we had no damage whatsoever 😅

#joyride #carcrash

Lots of new stuff going out on display in the museum and shop recently, including these amazing prosthetic hands. A cable attached between the hand and the wearers arm would allow the devices to be opened/closed by moving position
#prosthetic #medical #medicalhistory #oddities #curiosities #forsale

Uranium glass always glows brightest on the cut edges and these vials of broken pieces are ALL edge
#uraniumglass #ultraviolet #oddities #glow

I'm not to everyones taste.

And neither are you.

Be you. Be weird.

The ones who matter will find you. 💯

#Witchsky #beyou #goblin

My favourite thing about duck skulls (and live ducks too) is the hidden cartoon dog. You won't be able to unsee it once you do 😂
#skulls #duck #skullcollector #vultureculture

After spending all morning fixing my email, I just took a scalding hot, grey-out inducing, hour-long bath and am now spending the rest of the afternoon rotting my brain with trash TV

#ithoughtmyITdayswereover

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Day two of a broken email server 🤬

Today's Mari Lwyd workshop went really well with some lovely designs and colours being used to decorate a real rabbit skull and each one has its own handler hiding beneath the sheets.
We'll be announcing new dates very soon if you'd like to join us.
#MariLwyd #Welsh #Wales #folklore #craft #workshop

Some new uranium glass just added to the display case. A lovely uranium necklace and a vaseline glass button

#uraniumglass #uranium #uvglow #ultraviolet

One of the more popular spirit boards in the museum
@folklorepod.bsky.social 😜

#scoobydoo #Ouija #Ouijaboard #spiritboard

Messaged you 👍

It's the 5 year anniversary of Brexit and I've lost count of how many of my friends' small businesses have been forced into closure. Not all Brexit related I'm sure but personally the extra paperwork and bureaucracy means I don't post to Europe any more

Is this just England or does it include Wales etc too?

Live tracking of parcel deliveries is an incredible technology. I've just watched mine drive past my house and it's currently heading towards the English border
#guessimnotgettingthattoday

All set up ready for the first guests of the night 💀
It's another one of our "after hours" events where I get to bring out some of the things I can't usually display 😎
#skulls #skeleton #bones #oddities #museum

It's restock day in the apothecary! I've also been cooking up some special tinctures and balms (mainly out of necessity due to my bad back 😣)
#apothecary #witchcraft #herbs #natural #healing #homeremedies

I picked up this semi mummified horse skull on the weekend but it'll need a good clean before it can be displayed. I might even turn it into a Mari Lwyd
#skull #horseskull #MariLwyd #mummified #vultureculture #bones

An Annabelle replica & Vikki Agnes, our haunted doll

Mummified cat and other small mummified animals

Taxidermy goat stood in-front of the wall of Ouija boards

The Morbitorium is the place to be if you're interested in the strange and unusual. It's a fascinating blend of museum and haunted house with a witchy gift shop; you won't find anywhere else like this! morbitorium.co.uk

#oddities #witchcraft #wicca #ouija #taxidermy #haunted #skulls #occult