Helen Lundström Erwin
@helenerwin.bsky.social
Novelist in the Metaverse Historical Fiction inspired by political movements and resistance.
Historical Fantasy inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
Virtual World inspired by Women's History
https://helenerwin.com
Historical Fantasy inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
Virtual World inspired by Women's History
https://helenerwin.com
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1/5 My Historical Fiction is inspired by political movements and resistance.
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
Rå was forced out of her village when people understood who she was. But she hid in the woods, spying.
One day she saw her mother walking straight-backed between the buildings. It was the last time she saw her. -The Lure of Water and Wood
Art by Mark Hoyle #HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Mythology
One day she saw her mother walking straight-backed between the buildings. It was the last time she saw her. -The Lure of Water and Wood
Art by Mark Hoyle #HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Mythology
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Rå was forced out of her village when people understood who she was. But she hid in the woods, spying.
One day she saw her mother walking straight-backed between the buildings. It was the last time she saw her. -The Lure of Water and Wood
Art by Mark Hoyle #HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Mythology
One day she saw her mother walking straight-backed between the buildings. It was the last time she saw her. -The Lure of Water and Wood
Art by Mark Hoyle #HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Mythology
So far, not one single reader has been able to guess why my title is Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool until it was revealed.
Can you guess?
#HistoricalFiction #Readers #reading #BookLovers
www.amazon.com/dp/B096SRH61Y
Can you guess?
#HistoricalFiction #Readers #reading #BookLovers
www.amazon.com/dp/B096SRH61Y
Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool
Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool - Kindle edition by Lundström Erwin, Helen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool.
www.amazon.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So far, not one single reader has been able to guess why my title is Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool until it was revealed.
Can you guess?
#HistoricalFiction #Readers #reading #BookLovers
www.amazon.com/dp/B096SRH61Y
Can you guess?
#HistoricalFiction #Readers #reading #BookLovers
www.amazon.com/dp/B096SRH61Y
First, I'm impressed that I'm able to run up hills like these.
Second notice the beautiful old style fence of Howell Farm.
#HowellFarm
Second notice the beautiful old style fence of Howell Farm.
#HowellFarm
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
First, I'm impressed that I'm able to run up hills like these.
Second notice the beautiful old style fence of Howell Farm.
#HowellFarm
Second notice the beautiful old style fence of Howell Farm.
#HowellFarm
Our Lucia concert got some beautiful press from #VisualSweden
Join us if you sing in Swedish and are familiar with VR.
Join us if you sing in Swedish and are familiar with VR.
We got beautiful press from #VisualSweden today about our upcoming Lucia Concert! Contact Helen here @helenerwin.bsky.social , or message us.
#LuciaInVR #SwedishYuletideTradition #Lucia #Sweden
#LuciaInVR #SwedishYuletideTradition #Lucia #Sweden
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our Lucia concert got some beautiful press from #VisualSweden
Join us if you sing in Swedish and are familiar with VR.
Join us if you sing in Swedish and are familiar with VR.
They said that Näcken could transform into a horse, to bäckahästen (the brook horse.) His back would lengthen, enticing people to ride him. He would never stop. Round and round it went, stopping only to let more people on.
#FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore
#FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
They said that Näcken could transform into a horse, to bäckahästen (the brook horse.) His back would lengthen, enticing people to ride him. He would never stop. Round and round it went, stopping only to let more people on.
#FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore
#FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore
"The Parson's Wife had told her she could start over again. Tell no one about her past. It wasn't true. She was forever labeled a fallen woman." Anette Lundström 1890
Do you want to learn more about my great-grandmother?
I tell her life's story here. It's my interpretation of her whys.
Do you want to learn more about my great-grandmother?
I tell her life's story here. It's my interpretation of her whys.
Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool
Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool - Kindle edition by Lundström Erwin, Helen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool.
www.amazon.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"The Parson's Wife had told her she could start over again. Tell no one about her past. It wasn't true. She was forever labeled a fallen woman." Anette Lundström 1890
Do you want to learn more about my great-grandmother?
I tell her life's story here. It's my interpretation of her whys.
Do you want to learn more about my great-grandmother?
I tell her life's story here. It's my interpretation of her whys.
Reposted by Helen Lundström Erwin
I love some mushroom lore (and some great folk medicine history) bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/17/m... #folklore #folkloring #folkmedicine #folkhealer #fungi #mushrooms #magicmushrooms
Mushroom for Thought: The Unmaking of Folk Knowledge
In the northern climes of the UK and Ireland, autumn is often the best time to pull out the hiking boots and wind on up the mossy hills and mouldering hollows. Unlike the capricious summertime, the…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I love some mushroom lore (and some great folk medicine history) bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/17/m... #folklore #folkloring #folkmedicine #folkhealer #fungi #mushrooms #magicmushrooms
1/2 Love when men show courtesy and respect to female runners, obviously aware that women are cautious for a reason.
Today on my run in the countryside of NJ, I spot a truck parked at the side, two men with what looked like huge guns, and two large dogs. First thought, "Shit!" I slow...
Today on my run in the countryside of NJ, I spot a truck parked at the side, two men with what looked like huge guns, and two large dogs. First thought, "Shit!" I slow...
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
1/2 Love when men show courtesy and respect to female runners, obviously aware that women are cautious for a reason.
Today on my run in the countryside of NJ, I spot a truck parked at the side, two men with what looked like huge guns, and two large dogs. First thought, "Shit!" I slow...
Today on my run in the countryside of NJ, I spot a truck parked at the side, two men with what looked like huge guns, and two large dogs. First thought, "Shit!" I slow...
Burning all women who had been accused of witchcraft alive, is an exaggeration. Usually people were hung or beheaded first.
In Sweden, 300 people were executed during the major part of the witch trials. One woman was burned alive. Her name was Malin Matsdotter.
#History #Herstory #Witchtrials
In Sweden, 300 people were executed during the major part of the witch trials. One woman was burned alive. Her name was Malin Matsdotter.
#History #Herstory #Witchtrials
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Burning all women who had been accused of witchcraft alive, is an exaggeration. Usually people were hung or beheaded first.
In Sweden, 300 people were executed during the major part of the witch trials. One woman was burned alive. Her name was Malin Matsdotter.
#History #Herstory #Witchtrials
In Sweden, 300 people were executed during the major part of the witch trials. One woman was burned alive. Her name was Malin Matsdotter.
#History #Herstory #Witchtrials
Came upon this old ruin in Kennedy Park in Lenox Massachusetts.
Time. A home crumbles leaving just the foundations while nature takes over. But someone lived here once. They never pictured families passing by their home, wondering, seeing only ruins. Time.
Time. A home crumbles leaving just the foundations while nature takes over. But someone lived here once. They never pictured families passing by their home, wondering, seeing only ruins. Time.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Came upon this old ruin in Kennedy Park in Lenox Massachusetts.
Time. A home crumbles leaving just the foundations while nature takes over. But someone lived here once. They never pictured families passing by their home, wondering, seeing only ruins. Time.
Time. A home crumbles leaving just the foundations while nature takes over. But someone lived here once. They never pictured families passing by their home, wondering, seeing only ruins. Time.
Spending a few days in the Berkshires.
Gorgeous late morning run and a splendid view from my little desk.
#Berkshires #RollingDeep
#AuthorLife #Runner
Gorgeous late morning run and a splendid view from my little desk.
#Berkshires #RollingDeep
#AuthorLife #Runner
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Spending a few days in the Berkshires.
Gorgeous late morning run and a splendid view from my little desk.
#Berkshires #RollingDeep
#AuthorLife #Runner
Gorgeous late morning run and a splendid view from my little desk.
#Berkshires #RollingDeep
#AuthorLife #Runner
Reposted by Helen Lundström Erwin
This Friday, I ruin a perfectly good podcast about rural life by appearing on Absolute Units from @themerl.bsky.social
we're also delighted to reveal that on Friday we'll be releasing a 🎃bonus Halloween episode🎃 featuring Mark Norman (host of @folklorepod.bsky.social), chatting about the origins of Halloween, the spooky and the rural, and your friend and mine: Scooby Doo!
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October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This Friday, I ruin a perfectly good podcast about rural life by appearing on Absolute Units from @themerl.bsky.social
1/2 Women knew her as Magda, the village healer. They didn't know that she was Rå, the forest sprite who lured their men away, trapping them with her in the forest.
Inspired by folklore and true events.
#HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Rå #SwedishFolklore #TheLureOfWaterAndWood
Inspired by folklore and true events.
#HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Rå #SwedishFolklore #TheLureOfWaterAndWood
October 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
1/2 Women knew her as Magda, the village healer. They didn't know that she was Rå, the forest sprite who lured their men away, trapping them with her in the forest.
Inspired by folklore and true events.
#HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Rå #SwedishFolklore #TheLureOfWaterAndWood
Inspired by folklore and true events.
#HistoricalFantasy #Folklore #Rå #SwedishFolklore #TheLureOfWaterAndWood
Nikolaos hid his true self for everyone, pretending to be human.
It went well for the most part. Lest he played fiddle in small crowded spaces, or when people got too close to him in the river. There was nothing he could do then, he lost himself and then he was exposed...
#Folklore #Fantasy
It went well for the most part. Lest he played fiddle in small crowded spaces, or when people got too close to him in the river. There was nothing he could do then, he lost himself and then he was exposed...
#Folklore #Fantasy
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
1/5 My Historical Fiction is inspired by political movements and resistance.
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
1/5 My Historical Fiction is inspired by political movements and resistance.
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
My Historical Fantasy is inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore.
This thread contains info about each.
Book Cover Images: Ben Erwin
She was known as Rå, skogsrå, or skogsfrun (Forest Rå, or The Forest Wife.) The word rå also means care.
She was beautiful, but had a trickster mind, and she wasn't human. People portrayed her in different ways. Take note of what's under her skirt here.
#Folklore
She was beautiful, but had a trickster mind, and she wasn't human. People portrayed her in different ways. Take note of what's under her skirt here.
#Folklore
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
She was known as Rå, skogsrå, or skogsfrun (Forest Rå, or The Forest Wife.) The word rå also means care.
She was beautiful, but had a trickster mind, and she wasn't human. People portrayed her in different ways. Take note of what's under her skirt here.
#Folklore
She was beautiful, but had a trickster mind, and she wasn't human. People portrayed her in different ways. Take note of what's under her skirt here.
#Folklore
1/5 My book Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool is inspired by history that isn't commonly known. The Swedish Statar System.
I will write more about it in this thread, but first I'm sharing what I prompted ChatGPT to create. A statar lodging... It's accurate and it certainly 𝘭𝑜𝘰𝑘𝘴 idyllic, but...
I will write more about it in this thread, but first I'm sharing what I prompted ChatGPT to create. A statar lodging... It's accurate and it certainly 𝘭𝑜𝘰𝑘𝘴 idyllic, but...
October 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
1/5 My book Sour Milk in Sheep's Wool is inspired by history that isn't commonly known. The Swedish Statar System.
I will write more about it in this thread, but first I'm sharing what I prompted ChatGPT to create. A statar lodging... It's accurate and it certainly 𝘭𝑜𝘰𝑘𝘴 idyllic, but...
I will write more about it in this thread, but first I'm sharing what I prompted ChatGPT to create. A statar lodging... It's accurate and it certainly 𝘭𝑜𝘰𝑘𝘴 idyllic, but...
Incredible conversation tonight! Follow our new BlueSkye account to learn more about our activites.
#VR #XR #Evolution
#VR #XR #Evolution
We love when our discussions spark questions that lead to even more questions and, ultimately, to deeper understanding. Keith taught us so much about ourselves and who we are as a species. We're all connected to each other.
Thank you @keithcchan.bsky.social
#VR #Evolution #HomoSapien
Thank you @keithcchan.bsky.social
#VR #Evolution #HomoSapien
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Incredible conversation tonight! Follow our new BlueSkye account to learn more about our activites.
#VR #XR #Evolution
#VR #XR #Evolution
Beautiful Diwali celebration at The Broome Street Ganesha Temple today. Happy Diwali!
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Beautiful Diwali celebration at The Broome Street Ganesha Temple today. Happy Diwali!
Join us on Thursday!
We are all related. We have one foremother who lived thousands of years ago. Join @helenerwin.bsky.social and @keithcchan.bsky.social on Thursday October 23 at 7 pm Eastern. We're on #ENGAGEXR
#VR #XR #Science #Genetics #History
#VR #XR #Science #Genetics #History
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Join us on Thursday!
What a nice review I got for The Lure of Water and Wood!
Like a vampire story, but with more historical details. I've never thought of it like this before. Nice surprise.
#Folklore #history #Vampires #VampireFiction
Like a vampire story, but with more historical details. I've never thought of it like this before. Nice surprise.
#Folklore #history #Vampires #VampireFiction
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a nice review I got for The Lure of Water and Wood!
Like a vampire story, but with more historical details. I've never thought of it like this before. Nice surprise.
#Folklore #history #Vampires #VampireFiction
Like a vampire story, but with more historical details. I've never thought of it like this before. Nice surprise.
#Folklore #history #Vampires #VampireFiction
New York Resists!
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New York Resists!
I'm going to focus more on my books on history and folklore here and posting about #XR and #VR on bsky.app/profile/thef... brand new account. Please follow me there if you're into XR. Stay here if you're into Literature, history, and folklore. Or follow both accounts 😍😁
bsky.app
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm going to focus more on my books on history and folklore here and posting about #XR and #VR on bsky.app/profile/thef... brand new account. Please follow me there if you're into XR. Stay here if you're into Literature, history, and folklore. Or follow both accounts 😍😁
Water. Sanding near it made his blood soften, turning his hands to liquid. I told no one. No one could know. He was Näcken. -The Lure of Water and Wood
#Näcken #Folklore #HistoricalFantasyBooks #SwedishFolklore
#Näcken #Folklore #HistoricalFantasyBooks #SwedishFolklore
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Water. Sanding near it made his blood soften, turning his hands to liquid. I told no one. No one could know. He was Näcken. -The Lure of Water and Wood
#Näcken #Folklore #HistoricalFantasyBooks #SwedishFolklore
#Näcken #Folklore #HistoricalFantasyBooks #SwedishFolklore
We can trace ourselves to her. She lived 150 000-200 000 years ago. Our mothers mothers mothers, and their mothers mothers... all through the female line.
What does she mean to you? Come share with
@keithcchan.bsky.social
and me at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE Oct 23rd at 7 pm.
Image: ChatGPT
What does she mean to you? Come share with
@keithcchan.bsky.social
and me at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE Oct 23rd at 7 pm.
Image: ChatGPT
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We can trace ourselves to her. She lived 150 000-200 000 years ago. Our mothers mothers mothers, and their mothers mothers... all through the female line.
What does she mean to you? Come share with
@keithcchan.bsky.social
and me at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE Oct 23rd at 7 pm.
Image: ChatGPT
What does she mean to you? Come share with
@keithcchan.bsky.social
and me at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE Oct 23rd at 7 pm.
Image: ChatGPT