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Folklore, oral tradition, rituals & festivals, psychogeography, forteana, revivalism & the occult🌾
Alias Hollie Starling
https://smarturl.it/TheBleedingTree
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Final image ©James Russell
Final image ©James Russell
February 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
#folkhorror #folkhorrormagpie #willowman #wickerman #somerset #folkart #willow #artsfundinguk
Final image ©James Russell
Final image ©James Russell
A study will be conducted to explore avenues for restoration, future-proofing and possibly even relocation. Let’s hope this funding injection saves Willow Man from his sad and sparse state and ensures his enigmatic watch over Somerset can continue.
February 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
A study will be conducted to explore avenues for restoration, future-proofing and possibly even relocation. Let’s hope this funding injection saves Willow Man from his sad and sparse state and ensures his enigmatic watch over Somerset can continue.
But in November 2023 Somerset Council announced it is set to receive £35,000 from the National Highways’ Designated Funding programme to begin looking at a feasible way forward.
February 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
But in November 2023 Somerset Council announced it is set to receive £35,000 from the National Highways’ Designated Funding programme to begin looking at a feasible way forward.
Despite a reported £20,000 hair cut in 2006, mostly to replace material the birds had taken for their nests, the wicker giant began steadily to fall into disrepair. A 2018 appeal for funding did not meet its target and by 2021 the head and both arms had fallen off.
February 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Despite a reported £20,000 hair cut in 2006, mostly to replace material the birds had taken for their nests, the wicker giant began steadily to fall into disrepair. A 2018 appeal for funding did not meet its target and by 2021 the head and both arms had fallen off.
Since then it has suffered both desecration and neglect. The first iteration was the victim of an arson attack in 2001 and had to be rebuilt inside a large protective moat.
February 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Since then it has suffered both desecration and neglect. The first iteration was the victim of an arson attack in 2001 and had to be rebuilt inside a large protective moat.
Somerset Levels. Locally it became known as both Withy Man and the Angel of the South. The wicker also provided a novel habitat for Somerset’s native bird species, becoming itself a part of the county’s ecology.
February 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Somerset Levels. Locally it became known as both Withy Man and the Angel of the South. The wicker also provided a novel habitat for Somerset’s native bird species, becoming itself a part of the county’s ecology.
When unveiled in 2000, Serena de la Hey’s Willow Man stood at 40ft with a 16ft arm span and was built from black maul willow withies woven over a 3-tonne steel frame. As well as marking the millennium the sculpture was intended to celebrate the role of willow in the traditional crafts of the
February 6, 2024 at 10:24 AM
When unveiled in 2000, Serena de la Hey’s Willow Man stood at 40ft with a 16ft arm span and was built from black maul willow withies woven over a 3-tonne steel frame. As well as marking the millennium the sculpture was intended to celebrate the role of willow in the traditional crafts of the
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January 20, 2024 at 9:37 AM
So much so that many parents sign up their children to the decades-long waiting list of volunteers, so that one day they might have the opportunity to be pelted with root vegetables.
January 20, 2024 at 9:36 AM
So much so that many parents sign up their children to the decades-long waiting list of volunteers, so that one day they might have the opportunity to be pelted with root vegetables.
Like most fiestas it also serves as an excuse for music and merrymaking, and the festivities spill out onto the streets for the whole day. Far from ignominy, being selected to be the Jarramplas is a great honour.
January 20, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Like most fiestas it also serves as an excuse for music and merrymaking, and the festivities spill out onto the streets for the whole day. Far from ignominy, being selected to be the Jarramplas is a great honour.
The reenactment of that night has been played out every year for over a century.
January 20, 2024 at 9:35 AM
The reenactment of that night has been played out every year for over a century.
Local legend has it that a thief snuck in to the village one night to relieve the ranchers of their animals, but didn’t reckon on the might and ingenuity of the townsfolk, who used everything to hand - mainly turnips - to fend off the thief.
January 20, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Local legend has it that a thief snuck in to the village one night to relieve the ranchers of their animals, but didn’t reckon on the might and ingenuity of the townsfolk, who used everything to hand - mainly turnips - to fend off the thief.
Next day’s bruises must be about as colourful as the costume.
January 20, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Next day’s bruises must be about as colourful as the costume.
This villain, played by a lucky volunteer, runs around the 1,200-strong town banging a little drum while local people throw turnips at him in an attempt to expel his general bad vibes for another year. Two tonnes of turnips if you want the specifics.
January 20, 2024 at 9:32 AM
This villain, played by a lucky volunteer, runs around the 1,200-strong town banging a little drum while local people throw turnips at him in an attempt to expel his general bad vibes for another year. Two tonnes of turnips if you want the specifics.
The focus of events is the costumed ‘cattle rustler’ named el Jarrampla, who wears a cloak of multicoloured rags and is adorned with a great horned mask.
January 20, 2024 at 9:31 AM
The focus of events is the costumed ‘cattle rustler’ named el Jarrampla, who wears a cloak of multicoloured rags and is adorned with a great horned mask.
Such a metabolic process has never before been observed in nature. So it seems Blood Falls does indeed conceal impossible life, strange as any great scaled beast and far, far more numerous.
January 2, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Such a metabolic process has never before been observed in nature. So it seems Blood Falls does indeed conceal impossible life, strange as any great scaled beast and far, far more numerous.
Eventually they adapted to live with almost no oxygen. Instead the microbes respire sulphate with ferric ions, metabolising trace levels of organic matter trapped with them.
January 2, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Eventually they adapted to live with almost no oxygen. Instead the microbes respire sulphate with ferric ions, metabolising trace levels of organic matter trapped with them.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Falls are rich with life, with 17 types of microbes discovered so far. These microbes have existed in the subglacial pool in a sort of time capsule, isolated from other marine microbes and evolving separately for up to 2 million years.
January 2, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Perhaps surprisingly, the Falls are rich with life, with 17 types of microbes discovered so far. These microbes have existed in the subglacial pool in a sort of time capsule, isolated from other marine microbes and evolving separately for up to 2 million years.
In 2017 scientists finally figured out the strange phenomenon. A team or researchers led by the University of Alaska concluded that the red colouring is due to oxidised iron in hypersaline water from an ancient lake under the ice, similar to the usually dry process of rust.
January 2, 2024 at 8:54 AM
In 2017 scientists finally figured out the strange phenomenon. A team or researchers led by the University of Alaska concluded that the red colouring is due to oxidised iron in hypersaline water from an ancient lake under the ice, similar to the usually dry process of rust.
polar explorers initially put it down to some sort of unknown red algae.
January 2, 2024 at 8:53 AM
polar explorers initially put it down to some sort of unknown red algae.
Ok fine, no. Blood Falls was discovered in an area called the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land, East Antarctica in 1911. Though a red sputtering gouge would have been the last thing they could expect among the vista of blue-white and must have come as quite a shock,
January 2, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Ok fine, no. Blood Falls was discovered in an area called the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land, East Antarctica in 1911. Though a red sputtering gouge would have been the last thing they could expect among the vista of blue-white and must have come as quite a shock,
An atavistic Thing of the Deep, vanquished by an equally-statured adversary, speared and gutted and bleeding out? Nature Herself, crying for our insatiable blood-lust for her resources, an accusation written in violence and gore, the only language humanity truly understands?
January 2, 2024 at 8:51 AM
An atavistic Thing of the Deep, vanquished by an equally-statured adversary, speared and gutted and bleeding out? Nature Herself, crying for our insatiable blood-lust for her resources, an accusation written in violence and gore, the only language humanity truly understands?