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We've made our latest Solstice donation from the sales of our Wyrd Harvest Press books of £300 to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Species Recovery Appeal, helping to protect and restore Yorkshire’s rarest wildlife

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☀️❄️Species Recovery ❄️☀️Solstice Charity Donation 2025
2025 December 21, 2024 fertilitycult Season’s Greetings to All ~To mark the Winter Solstice, Wyrd Harvest Press & Folk Horror Revival are again making a charity donation of our book sales profi…
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"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."

'Inversnaid' (1881), Gerard Manley Hopkins #WorldWetlandsDay

🎨'Teal Coming to the Pool, by the Willow on a Misty Morning', Peter Scott
February 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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An Acadian tradition for La Chandeleur (Candlemas) was for young men to travel through their village bearing a pole with a carved rooster on top, collecting donations for the poor. The photo below shows the revived custom on Prince Edward Island in the early 1930s. #Folklore

📷 Margaret Richard/CBC
February 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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#OwlishMonday
Barn Owl
Artist - Archibald Thorburn
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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Witch's butter on gorse #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour
February 1, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Snowdrops are also known as ‘Candlemas Bells’, as they bloom around #Candlemas. This Christian celebration of light echoes the older pagan festival of #Imbolc, and is observed on 2nd February to mark the ritual purification of Mary after the birth of Jesus.
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.
February 2, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Stolen gems from Hindu idols are a common trope in cursed jewelry stories. The Hope Diamond came from a statue, the Black Orlov Diamond from a statue of Brahma specifically, and the Delhi Purple Sapphire from a shrine of Indra. Maybe colonists shouldn't steal? #MythologyMonday
February 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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A mammoth drawings from Arcy-sur-Cure cave,France.
Outlined in red-ochre, this rotund, tuskless mammoth looks like a juvenile.
At 28,000 years old, a product of the Gravettian culture, one of the oldest examples of cave art in Europe.
The saddest mammoth from the Ice Age. 🦣😢🏺
#MammothMonday
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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January 31, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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“The Badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day and when he finds snow walks abroad; but if he sees the sun shining he draws back into his hole” (German country lore)

This one seems to be a “Frechdachs” (pert badger, the Germans do have a word for it, of course) judging from his mischievous mien
February 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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There are places that whisper to us: "Hurry home!" Places that whisper: "You are not alone here." The idea that consecrated ground is silent on such matters is risible. The average English boneyard is crowded with shades. It enfolds with spectral mumbles. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
February 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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'Owl with Raised Wings'
by Ipeelee Osuitok (1922 - 2005)
#OwlishMonday 🤍🐾🦉
February 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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King Arthur as depicted by Charles Keeping in 'The Reader's Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends' (1973).
#KingArthur #folklore #legend #folktale #MythologyMonday #ChalesKeeping #artsky
February 2, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Happy World Wetlands Day!

Today we're reflecting on all the successes of the past year. Give yourself a pat on the back for supporting the campaign, especially if you've signed the petition to #EndPeatSales:

actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sales

#WorldWetlandsDay #WWT
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Latest in my occasional series of jolly gibbet postcards! It'll be in my forthcoming book "Legend and Landscape: An Alternative History of Britain."
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about the role of Forteana and folklore within Hookland in an East End pub …. April is your lucky month.
Events at The Bell in 2026
Feb - April

Feb 24 – Stevyn Colgan – A Policeman’s Progress from Law to Lore
Mar 31 – Dr Kate Cherrell – Celebrity Séances
Apr 28 – David Southwell – The Fortean and Folklore Origins of Hookland

Web: forteanlondon.blogspot.com or newsletter: eepurl.com/hV9OAr
January 30, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Now available! Bird of Ill Omen: The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe. Edited by Ruth Heholt. As famous as Dickens in her day - but largely forgotten, it’s time to give Crowe the respect she deserves. #talesoftheweird
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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I need a few more people so please get in touch!
Goths for Breakfast will take place on February 28th today. Everyone gets a one hour slot (tight) and we welcome all sorts of talks or workshops. On the Gothic, horror, the supernatural, folklore, spooky histories, pitch me anything!

Email is sam at romancingthegothic dot com!
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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In Basque, 'otso' means 'wolf', and February is said 'otsail' (+a) ('month of the wolves') because it is the estrus season of this animal, which howls from the mountain announcing the harshness of winter. #HappyFebruary
February 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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🧵This morning we lit an a Imbolc candle in the Earth to welcome in spring Today is the calendar day for Imbolc, tomorrow is Candlemas
17th Feb is lunar Imbolc For me it is a period of time when we sense the earth waking, the light changes, the birds sing, the first shoots of primroses and daffodils
February 1, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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The folk rituals of today and tomorrow in Hookland. #Imbolc #Candlemas
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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1st-2nd February is Imbolc, a Gaelic festival celebrating the impending lambing season and the birth of new life. A Scottish legend tells that the arrival of snowdrops infuriates Beira, Queen of Winter, so she brings frost and snow as she battles to keep her hold. #FolkloreSunday
February 1, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM