Dr Icy Sedgwick
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
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For the new followers, I'm a Geordie folklorist with a love for ghosts, cemeteries, and plant lore, host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast, avid crafter, former ghost hunter, lecturer in film and design, and holder of a PhD in haunted house films. Apparently I also hate free time.
Thoroughly enjoyed Uncanny Live at the Theatre Royal although endlessly disappointed the Grey Lady didn't make an appearance.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed Uncanny Live at the Theatre Royal although endlessly disappointed the Grey Lady didn't make an appearance.
It's a hybrid event with a great line-up...and me!
Two weeks until The Haunted Ladscape VII: Ghosts, Magic and Folklore
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do...
forteanlondon.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's a hybrid event with a great line-up...and me!
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Gibbet postcards... fun choice. On the back of it
"I have arrived here safe, & am enjoying myself tophole"
"I have arrived here safe, & am enjoying myself tophole"
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Gibbet postcards... fun choice. On the back of it
"I have arrived here safe, & am enjoying myself tophole"
"I have arrived here safe, & am enjoying myself tophole"
This is tonight!
Fancy some folklore on 5 November treat? Dr Jack Hunter is going to be telling us all about Folklore of the Tanat Valley at our next Folklore Centre online talk. 7 pm GMT, replay available. Grab your ticket: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Jack Hunter- Tanat Valley Folklore | Centre for Folklore
Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat
www.folkloremythmagic.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is tonight!
It's Bonfire Night here in the UK. G. C. Moore Smith, related a popular Bonfire Night rhyme in Birmingham in 1919.
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's Bonfire Night here in the UK. G. C. Moore Smith, related a popular Bonfire Night rhyme in Birmingham in 1919.
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
If you see a group of crows flying low, it means illness is on the way. A crow that flies over a house and calls three times is letting you know there will be a death in the family. But if a crow calls in the morning before any other bird sings, it means rain is on the way.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you see a group of crows flying low, it means illness is on the way. A crow that flies over a house and calls three times is letting you know there will be a death in the family. But if a crow calls in the morning before any other bird sings, it means rain is on the way.
Fancy some folklore on 5 November treat? Dr Jack Hunter is going to be telling us all about Folklore of the Tanat Valley at our next Folklore Centre online talk. 7 pm GMT, replay available. Grab your ticket: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Jack Hunter- Tanat Valley Folklore | Centre for Folklore
Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat
www.folkloremythmagic.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Fancy some folklore on 5 November treat? Dr Jack Hunter is going to be telling us all about Folklore of the Tanat Valley at our next Folklore Centre online talk. 7 pm GMT, replay available. Grab your ticket: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Today is All Souls' Day, which marks remembrance of the dearly departed. Given it's a day dedicated to the dead, I thought it would be a great time to hear more unnerving and uncanny experiences from listeners of Fabulous Folklore...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today is All Souls' Day, which marks remembrance of the dearly departed. Given it's a day dedicated to the dead, I thought it would be a great time to hear more unnerving and uncanny experiences from listeners of Fabulous Folklore...
pod.co/.../listener...
pod.co/.../listener...
Jesmond Old Cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1834. The north's most notable architect, John Dobson, designed the cemetery, and he was later buried here.
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Jesmond Old Cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1834. The north's most notable architect, John Dobson, designed the cemetery, and he was later buried here.
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Four weeks to go, and we have a monster of a line-up incoming for you at WRITING THE OCCULT: CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES on the 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #writing #writers #occult #monsters #creatures #cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Four weeks to go, and we have a monster of a line-up incoming for you at WRITING THE OCCULT: CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES on the 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #writing #writers #occult #monsters #creatures #cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology
Free on Monday evening at 6 pm GMT? I'm doing an ONLINE talk with Creswell Crags about the folklore and traditions of Bonfire Night!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gunpowder-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gunpowder-...
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: The Legends and Customs of Bonfire Night
Join folklore expert, Icy Sedgwick, online to discover the fascinating legends of Bonfire Night.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Free on Monday evening at 6 pm GMT? I'm doing an ONLINE talk with Creswell Crags about the folklore and traditions of Bonfire Night!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gunpowder-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gunpowder-...
Since Friday, I've spent fourteen hours on trains and spoken in three different cities.
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Since Friday, I've spent fourteen hours on trains and spoken in three different cities.
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Launch event last night for @icysedgwick.bsky.social and Hazel Atkinson's great books. Ghosts, magic, witches, worldwide folklore. We met new friends, wine was drunk, ghost stories were told. Tired but happy this morning. #dorlingkindersley .
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Launch event last night for @icysedgwick.bsky.social and Hazel Atkinson's great books. Ghosts, magic, witches, worldwide folklore. We met new friends, wine was drunk, ghost stories were told. Tired but happy this morning. #dorlingkindersley .
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My book DREAM WITCHERY in Treadwell's Books in London.
When your book has better passport than you and goes literally everywhere 🫠😂
📸 : @icysedgwick.bsky.social
📖 : @llewellynbooks.bsky.social
📍 : @treadwells-books.bsky.social
#booksky #occultsky #witchsky
When your book has better passport than you and goes literally everywhere 🫠😂
📸 : @icysedgwick.bsky.social
📖 : @llewellynbooks.bsky.social
📍 : @treadwells-books.bsky.social
#booksky #occultsky #witchsky
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My book DREAM WITCHERY in Treadwell's Books in London.
When your book has better passport than you and goes literally everywhere 🫠😂
📸 : @icysedgwick.bsky.social
📖 : @llewellynbooks.bsky.social
📍 : @treadwells-books.bsky.social
#booksky #occultsky #witchsky
When your book has better passport than you and goes literally everywhere 🫠😂
📸 : @icysedgwick.bsky.social
📖 : @llewellynbooks.bsky.social
📍 : @treadwells-books.bsky.social
#booksky #occultsky #witchsky
This was so much fun!
Launch event last night for @icysedgwick.bsky.social and Hazel Atkinson's great books. Ghosts, magic, witches, worldwide folklore. We met new friends, wine was drunk, ghost stories were told. Tired but happy this morning. #dorlingkindersley .
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This was so much fun!
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Covid on the rise again, no surprise there: reckless reduced eligibility for free vaccination, lack of infection control in healthcare settings, kids repeatedly infected in schools, and on it goes.
Please sign & share the petition.
(@drjoepajak.bsky.social)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Please sign & share the petition.
(@drjoepajak.bsky.social)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Covid on the rise again, no surprise there: reckless reduced eligibility for free vaccination, lack of infection control in healthcare settings, kids repeatedly infected in schools, and on it goes.
Please sign & share the petition.
(@drjoepajak.bsky.social)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Please sign & share the petition.
(@drjoepajak.bsky.social)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Register free and come hear me speak about Heathcliff, adaptation and anti-Roma racism
Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Register free and come hear me speak about Heathcliff, adaptation and anti-Roma racism
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This weeks Halloween episode of Time between Times sees me joined at the firepit by @icysedgwick.bsky.social the Host of Fabulous Folklore and author and folklorist of great renown . Join us as we discuss many things and I tell one of her favourite Ghost stories
open.spotify.com/episode/4I5i...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This weeks Halloween episode of Time between Times sees me joined at the firepit by @icysedgwick.bsky.social the Host of Fabulous Folklore and author and folklorist of great renown . Join us as we discuss many things and I tell one of her favourite Ghost stories
open.spotify.com/episode/4I5i...
open.spotify.com/episode/4I5i...
Ah brilliant. Transpennine Express were apparently so surprised that engineering works overran that they didn't tell anyone their train was cancelled, and no one at Manchester Piccadilly seems to have a viable alternative for travel. I just want to get home.
October 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ah brilliant. Transpennine Express were apparently so surprised that engineering works overran that they didn't tell anyone their train was cancelled, and no one at Manchester Piccadilly seems to have a viable alternative for travel. I just want to get home.
Re: @robinince.bsky.social's poem about crochet, I made the first of a pair of hand warmers yesterday at @qedcon.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Re: @robinince.bsky.social's poem about crochet, I made the first of a pair of hand warmers yesterday at @qedcon.org
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The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
1/2
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
1/2
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
1/2
Aw @robinince.bsky.social being awesome, as always, at the final QED Conference.
October 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Aw @robinince.bsky.social being awesome, as always, at the final QED Conference.
Fascinating talk about the law and the supernatural by Naomi Ryan at the QED Conference!
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Fascinating talk about the law and the supernatural by Naomi Ryan at the QED Conference!
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A Flemish tale says a man felt something very heavy crawling on his shoulders while he was at a graveyard. He was accompanied by a rat-like ghost creature that became as large as a horse. It disappeared into a stream.
🎨Gustave Doré
#PhantomsFriday
🎨Gustave Doré
#PhantomsFriday
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A Flemish tale says a man felt something very heavy crawling on his shoulders while he was at a graveyard. He was accompanied by a rat-like ghost creature that became as large as a horse. It disappeared into a stream.
🎨Gustave Doré
#PhantomsFriday
🎨Gustave Doré
#PhantomsFriday
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Halloween is almost here, and if you haven't already, you need a copy of Ghostlore by @icysedgwick.bsky.social in your life.
Uniquely illustrated with beautifully evocative descriptions of 50 spooks from across the globe, get yours now 👻 🎃
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Uniquely illustrated with beautifully evocative descriptions of 50 spooks from across the globe, get yours now 👻 🎃
amzn.eu/d/fgCtyUt
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Halloween is almost here, and if you haven't already, you need a copy of Ghostlore by @icysedgwick.bsky.social in your life.
Uniquely illustrated with beautifully evocative descriptions of 50 spooks from across the globe, get yours now 👻 🎃
amzn.eu/d/fgCtyUt
Uniquely illustrated with beautifully evocative descriptions of 50 spooks from across the globe, get yours now 👻 🎃
amzn.eu/d/fgCtyUt