Andy
@dreamsongs.bsky.social
folklore / mythology / magic / dreams
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Dreamt I met Tom Petty. He told me he was building a house in Lancashire designed according to the Paracelsian concept of elementals.
December 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Dreamt I met Tom Petty. He told me he was building a house in Lancashire designed according to the Paracelsian concept of elementals.
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I really want social media to be just this kind of thing for ever more
My son and I were returning down a street where earlier in the day there had been scaffolding outside a house, and now there wasn’t. We joked maybe we’d slipped through a time portal and should ask someone what year it was. A women walking the other way called out, “1981”, and started laughing.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I really want social media to be just this kind of thing for ever more
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I still use a daily, handwritten planner as my calendar. Which means I am a big fan of the ancient device known as the παράπηγμα (parapegma); essentially a Greco-Roman calendar and weather predictor with peg holes where you could keep track of the days and months. archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/24...
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I still use a daily, handwritten planner as my calendar. Which means I am a big fan of the ancient device known as the παράπηγμα (parapegma); essentially a Greco-Roman calendar and weather predictor with peg holes where you could keep track of the days and months. archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/24...
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
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Kathleen Jamie’s poem “The Republic of Fife” (published in The Queen of Sheba, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1994) mentions
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kathleen Jamie’s poem “The Republic of Fife” (published in The Queen of Sheba, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1994) mentions
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
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Treadwell's is happy to be here at last. Bookshop at midnight. Haunted? Maybe, or maybe the books are alive and just waiting for the door to lock so they can be alone to come to life.
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Treadwell's is happy to be here at last. Bookshop at midnight. Haunted? Maybe, or maybe the books are alive and just waiting for the door to lock so they can be alone to come to life.
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There are times when the hill figures of Hookland shift from their usual positions and go on sacred journeys. We may never know the purpose of these wanderings 🌖🌿🐾
@hookland.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There are times when the hill figures of Hookland shift from their usual positions and go on sacred journeys. We may never know the purpose of these wanderings 🌖🌿🐾
@hookland.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social
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In Somerset they know fairies have to be treated with extreme care, at least
August 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In Somerset they know fairies have to be treated with extreme care, at least
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"Kilsey Nan, who ran a shop at Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales, in the early nineteenth century. She…told fortunes by using 'her Guinea pig, and about half a pack of dirty cards.' Sadly, nobody recorded how."
Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon
Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon
July 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Kilsey Nan, who ran a shop at Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales, in the early nineteenth century. She…told fortunes by using 'her Guinea pig, and about half a pack of dirty cards.' Sadly, nobody recorded how."
Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon
Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon
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Tarot exhibition opening soon at The Warburg Institute:
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/tarot-o...
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/tarot-o...
Tarot – Origins & Afterlives: Opening Soon at the Warburg Institute
warburg.sas.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Tarot exhibition opening soon at The Warburg Institute:
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/tarot-o...
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/tarot-o...
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Going on a little whale-watching boat trip that includes breakfast, but the 4yo got her wires a little crossed and believes the whales will be serving us breakfast.
December 31, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Going on a little whale-watching boat trip that includes breakfast, but the 4yo got her wires a little crossed and believes the whales will be serving us breakfast.
Latest read: "2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future" by Mark Borax.
Partly a memoir, partly an account of the esoteric teachings of Ellias and Sara Lonsdale, including a key dream set in Atlantis.
Heard via Sam Oakwell talking about the book on the excellent Within Orb podcast.
#booksky
Partly a memoir, partly an account of the esoteric teachings of Ellias and Sara Lonsdale, including a key dream set in Atlantis.
Heard via Sam Oakwell talking about the book on the excellent Within Orb podcast.
#booksky
December 13, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Latest read: "2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future" by Mark Borax.
Partly a memoir, partly an account of the esoteric teachings of Ellias and Sara Lonsdale, including a key dream set in Atlantis.
Heard via Sam Oakwell talking about the book on the excellent Within Orb podcast.
#booksky
Partly a memoir, partly an account of the esoteric teachings of Ellias and Sara Lonsdale, including a key dream set in Atlantis.
Heard via Sam Oakwell talking about the book on the excellent Within Orb podcast.
#booksky
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Happy MOONDAY
Art: Nigel Jackson
Art: Nigel Jackson
December 9, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Happy MOONDAY
Art: Nigel Jackson
Art: Nigel Jackson
“In the first dream he had a fortnight ago he was simply looking at the photograph – or, the image in the photograph was his reality, as if he were Collins, and he was drifting out alone, the only man in the universe.” ~ Samantha Harvey, Orbital
#noveldreams
#noveldreams
December 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM
“In the first dream he had a fortnight ago he was simply looking at the photograph – or, the image in the photograph was his reality, as if he were Collins, and he was drifting out alone, the only man in the universe.” ~ Samantha Harvey, Orbital
#noveldreams
#noveldreams
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December 1, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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Brian Froud on how Bowie became an evocation of Pan as Jareth, the Goblin King.
📖: ‘Labyrinth, the Ultimate Visual History’
📖: ‘Labyrinth, the Ultimate Visual History’
November 26, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Brian Froud on how Bowie became an evocation of Pan as Jareth, the Goblin King.
📖: ‘Labyrinth, the Ultimate Visual History’
📖: ‘Labyrinth, the Ultimate Visual History’
“Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream“
~ ‘Manic Monday’, The Bangles
#SongDreams #nowplaying
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream“
~ ‘Manic Monday’, The Bangles
#SongDreams #nowplaying
November 25, 2024 at 10:36 AM
“Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream“
~ ‘Manic Monday’, The Bangles
#SongDreams #nowplaying
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream“
~ ‘Manic Monday’, The Bangles
#SongDreams #nowplaying
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Rosehips were believed to ward off bad dreams if you kept them under your pillow. Carrying a rosehip was supposed to draw fertility and wealth to you!
November 23, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Rosehips were believed to ward off bad dreams if you kept them under your pillow. Carrying a rosehip was supposed to draw fertility and wealth to you!
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Doctor Who day, and I’m thinking about my friend Keith Carter who once saw Tom Baker emerging from a phone box in Edinburgh and shouted “Been anywhere nice, Tom?” and got a resounding “fuck off!”
November 23, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Doctor Who day, and I’m thinking about my friend Keith Carter who once saw Tom Baker emerging from a phone box in Edinburgh and shouted “Been anywhere nice, Tom?” and got a resounding “fuck off!”
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Some ways are harsh-haunted. Some paths have gentler phantoms. The ghosts which hold to the track to Danebury Common were once relatively benign. However, after a microwave relay tower was installed close by, they seem to have become much more resentful and active. – George Kindred, 1970
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Some ways are harsh-haunted. Some paths have gentler phantoms. The ghosts which hold to the track to Danebury Common were once relatively benign. However, after a microwave relay tower was installed close by, they seem to have become much more resentful and active. – George Kindred, 1970
Hello sky! I am glad to be here.
November 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Hello sky! I am glad to be here.