Claire Slack
@mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social
Claire. Feral folklorist, museums worker & DHeritage researcher at the University of Hertfordshire exploring Pagan interactions with historic sacred sites. She/they. All views my own.
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Claire Slack
@mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I've got lots of new followers here so a quick intro is due! You'll like it here if you are down for folklore, magic, walking the landscape, terrible attempts at the Welsh language, morris dancing, spoon carving, mushroom hunting, all things #phdlife and weird things in museums.
Today I did a radio interview with BBC Wiltshire about local traditions and finished off with co-leading a guided folklore and archaeology walk around West Kennet. I have no idea how I became this person but it's magnificent
May 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today I did a radio interview with BBC Wiltshire about local traditions and finished off with co-leading a guided folklore and archaeology walk around West Kennet. I have no idea how I became this person but it's magnificent
It was an absolute dream to launch this fantastic exhibition last night at @wiltshiremuseum, having played a very small part in making it happen. Couldnt be prouder of our team and the amazing folk at Wessex Museums and the Museum of British Folklore.
April 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It was an absolute dream to launch this fantastic exhibition last night at @wiltshiremuseum, having played a very small part in making it happen. Couldnt be prouder of our team and the amazing folk at Wessex Museums and the Museum of British Folklore.
Now the key people know, I suppose I better fess up why I've been so absent from socials these last few months. Baby mossgoblin coming September 2025.
March 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Now the key people know, I suppose I better fess up why I've been so absent from socials these last few months. Baby mossgoblin coming September 2025.
Deep in 1980s folklore journals today. We've got black dogs, dark sky omens, dubious folk cures (snail broth anyone?) and saint sightings a plenty at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Deep in 1980s folklore journals today. We've got black dogs, dark sky omens, dubious folk cures (snail broth anyone?) and saint sightings a plenty at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
Still my biggest claim to fame
The second rule made up by a reader (that we know of). The first one, of course, is “drink if you draw Ronald Hutton”, by @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social.
March 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Still my biggest claim to fame
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The year is on its knees, waiting for the blade of ice. We roast ale. We roast cider. Rough music fills the air. The Bone Horse dances the night #WinterSolstice
December 21, 2024 at 7:38 PM
The year is on its knees, waiting for the blade of ice. We roast ale. We roast cider. Rough music fills the air. The Bone Horse dances the night #WinterSolstice
Happy solstice from Oliver's Castle where @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social had to pull me out of the mud when I stacked it but we caught a rather magnificent sunset.
December 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Happy solstice from Oliver's Castle where @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social had to pull me out of the mud when I stacked it but we caught a rather magnificent sunset.
Had a nice little adventure out with some of our team today to explore the Un/Common People exhibition at Museum & Art Swindon before it heads on to @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social. A gorgeous exhibition with some great folky objects from across Wessex (and a tiny weeny feature from yours truly)
December 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Had a nice little adventure out with some of our team today to explore the Un/Common People exhibition at Museum & Art Swindon before it heads on to @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social. A gorgeous exhibition with some great folky objects from across Wessex (and a tiny weeny feature from yours truly)
Are you even in museum work if you don't casually bake historic recipes like Ancient Roman Libum on your lunch breaks? All tested for Saturnalia
December 5, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Are you even in museum work if you don't casually bake historic recipes like Ancient Roman Libum on your lunch breaks? All tested for Saturnalia
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Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp
November 11, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp
A day drinking hot chocolate with 14th century spices and doing my usual pilgrimage to see the things on King Arthurs grave
November 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM
A day drinking hot chocolate with 14th century spices and doing my usual pilgrimage to see the things on King Arthurs grave
It really has been an honour to play a small part in making this incredible exhibition happen. Hope the pre-launch went amazingly!
Pre-opening excitement at Museum & Art Swindon today! #folk #exhibition
November 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
It really has been an honour to play a small part in making this incredible exhibition happen. Hope the pre-launch went amazingly!
Take me back to lazing around on long barrows instead of unpacking a thousand boxes into our new house please
November 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Take me back to lazing around on long barrows instead of unpacking a thousand boxes into our new house please
Take your folks to your nearest stone circle day (featuring things hidden on stones)
November 18, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Take your folks to your nearest stone circle day (featuring things hidden on stones)
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As archaeologists, we are also storytellers. For the stones are lithic libraries, batteries which store tales. Some recite from their volumes of folklore, I find as much enchantment in sharing with others the narratives of the Long Neolithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM
As archaeologists, we are also storytellers. For the stones are lithic libraries, batteries which store tales. Some recite from their volumes of folklore, I find as much enchantment in sharing with others the narratives of the Long Neolithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
I'm in the middle of moving to a new house so I feel I don't have much to say to my lovely new followers at the moment but please enjoy this little glimpse into what being an ethnographic researcher into British sacred sites looks like (minus broken boots, sheep poo covered notes and zero sleep)
November 16, 2024 at 8:58 AM
I'm in the middle of moving to a new house so I feel I don't have much to say to my lovely new followers at the moment but please enjoy this little glimpse into what being an ethnographic researcher into British sacred sites looks like (minus broken boots, sheep poo covered notes and zero sleep)
1k followers absolutely deserves a throwback to my adventure to see the Hunting of the Earl of Rone in May where I walked many, many miles with @meikle25.bsky.social and got to hang out with the fool and some other lovely people like @folklorepod.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 12:05 PM
1k followers absolutely deserves a throwback to my adventure to see the Hunting of the Earl of Rone in May where I walked many, many miles with @meikle25.bsky.social and got to hang out with the fool and some other lovely people like @folklorepod.bsky.social
I've got lots of new followers here so a quick intro is due! You'll like it here if you are down for folklore, magic, walking the landscape, terrible attempts at the Welsh language, morris dancing, spoon carving, mushroom hunting, all things #phdlife and weird things in museums.
November 13, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I've got lots of new followers here so a quick intro is due! You'll like it here if you are down for folklore, magic, walking the landscape, terrible attempts at the Welsh language, morris dancing, spoon carving, mushroom hunting, all things #phdlife and weird things in museums.
Still 90% certain this signpost in Din Lligwy was a fae trap. Dim diolch Tylwyth Teg🧚♂️
November 13, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Still 90% certain this signpost in Din Lligwy was a fae trap. Dim diolch Tylwyth Teg🧚♂️
Reposted by Claire Slack
as a historian of witchcraft, ‘agatha all along’ is research
November 13, 2024 at 8:02 PM
as a historian of witchcraft, ‘agatha all along’ is research
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November 12, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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One whole year since I moved to this wonderful place called Wiltshire and wandered through the Avebury Manor yew hedges wondering where life would take me 🌲
November 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
One whole year since I moved to this wonderful place called Wiltshire and wandered through the Avebury Manor yew hedges wondering where life would take me 🌲
Think I've time slipped into the early 2000s if Etnies stickers are back in the public sphere. If anyone needs me I'll be a grumpy goth teen stomping around in my Etnies and my Cradle of Filth t-shirt writing questionable rock music for the foreseeable.
November 11, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Think I've time slipped into the early 2000s if Etnies stickers are back in the public sphere. If anyone needs me I'll be a grumpy goth teen stomping around in my Etnies and my Cradle of Filth t-shirt writing questionable rock music for the foreseeable.
Reposted by Claire Slack
Stones hold stories like lithic batteries. They store not only the mythic, but profoundly personal tales. For as much as may be petrified warriors, giants' playing pieces, they're also sites of first kiss, the awe found in time's long shadow. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 3, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Stones hold stories like lithic batteries. They store not only the mythic, but profoundly personal tales. For as much as may be petrified warriors, giants' playing pieces, they're also sites of first kiss, the awe found in time's long shadow. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday