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Shanon Sinn
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Author and comic illustrator. Folklore journalism. Publisher of Black Cat Books.
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A tarot spread uses cards in a pre-determined order to explore a question or theme. How the cards are laid out will give a reader their answers #FolkloreThursday

A clever spread by the Polish Folk Witch on YouTube exploring her fear of the Bent Neck-Lady ghost on The Haunting of Hill House.
Screenshot of a tarot spread by Polish Folk Witch on YouTube exploring her fear of the Bent-Neck Lady ghost seen on Haunting of Hill House season 2 (loosely based on Turn of the Screw by Henry James). The graphic is in black and red with a white title. There are spots for six cards to be laid out. A red snake can be seen behind the text list of questions whose numbers correspond with each card. Full video with audio at https://www.youtube.com/live/EO_OysYwi7c
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Hello #FolkloreThursday 🐉

Thank you to Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break!

I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your last host today for the "Folklore of Games and Pastimes" event. 1 hour left 🃏🎲

To play, use the #folklorethursday hashtag in a themed post

1920 N. Rockwell
A painting shows realistic figures, a man and a woman, sitting across from each other at a small table. There is nothing in the background though a large red circle acts as a frame. The woman has her head thrown back and the man stares intently at her with a smile on his face. Both of their hands are on a Ouija board.
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#FolkloreThursday #Reed
November’s Reed Moon (Ngetal) dips into Donn’s underworld at Tech Duinn, winds whisper for the dead.
Also known as Broom or Fern,original plants of the ancient Celts.
@shanonsinn.bsky.social article explores the Reed. livinglibraryblog.com/ngetal-reed-...
Ngetal (Reed Grass) II
“When a cow hesitates to cross, the person driving her throws a stalk or a twig into the ditch before the unwilling animal and sings the ‘Feith Mhoire,’ Vein of Mary, to encourage her t…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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PROGRAM UPDATES:
🎃Spooky scavenger hunt (first 20 arrivals)
🎃Chat local cryptids & ghost lore w/ folks who've lived, unearthed & reimagined coastal horror!
🎃Haunting & horrifying (short) readings!
🎃Interactive storytelling—let's invent our own bookshop cryptid/urban legend/local creepypasta!
Promo graphic reads: Spooky scavenger hunt (first 20 arrivals)—enter to win an eerie prize pack! Chat local cryptids & ghost lore w/ folks who've lived, unearthed & reimagined coastal horror! Haunting & horrifying (short) readings! Interactive storytelling—let's invent our own bookshop cryptid/urban legend/local creepypasta! Horror & dark fiction anthology for teens & up available for purchase now at independent bookstores across Vancouver Island & online! Indulge in an eerie night out: West Coast Horror, 7-8:30 pm October 29 Fireside Books, Parksville, BC Dark blue background with silhouettes of a bat, evergreens, tentacles, and ghostly smog/smudges, clouds, and a claw reaching down from the sky. The Kindread Coast anthology cover also on the graphic.
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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My contributors copy of The Kindread Coast finally arrived! Very excited to be a part of this anthology of writers from Western Canada! Thanks to @shanonsinn.bsky.social and @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in this!
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Received my contributor copy of The Kindread Coast from @blackcatbooks.bsky.social 🎃

It was an absolute thrill to write for this collection - thanks to the editors and look forward to reading these haunting tales by firelight tonight…
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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2025 Release 🧵4: Powerhouse in THE KINDREAD COAST @blackcatbooks.bsky.social

🐈‍⬛Gen-Alpha slang attempt (feel free to laugh!)🫡
🐈‍⬛Much horror, many monsters, also cryptids🐙
🐈‍⬛Nature is SO over us💀
🐈‍⬛He likes to neg, she likes to watch (her bullies get eaten)👀

books.kawiggins.com/kindread

#ecopunk
Silver and gold tone text on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird. Remaining text reads: Powerhouse in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, Oct. 2025) YA+ brainrot ecopunk cryptid horror "You grow up afraid of the water here. Doesn’t matter if you ate in swimming lessons, the glacier-fed waters have these hidden currents. They’ll freeze your balls off and leave the rest of you on ice. We spend every summer throwing shade at the latest drownings while trading horror stories about what lurks in the depths. Those stories have me tucking my knees now, flinching at every lap against the pilings and straining to make out the chittering beneath the loon-call echoes of voices in the distance..." Ecopunk cryptid horror meets the manosphere/toxic masculinity with a side of anticolonialism/anticapitalism & a splash of mid-2020s-era brainrot in this 6k word short in a dark speculative/horror anthology for teens and up featuring 13 haunting stories set on/near the British Columbian coast by Western Canadian authors. Reader Advisory/Content Alerts: bullying/hazing/harassment, implied assault, death-by-monster, racism/colonialism/white supremacy, sexism/patriarchy, terminal capitalism. The Kindread Coast, edited by Caroline Lavoie and Monique Riel. Cover art by Lydia Avsec of a blue water monster reading a red book under a full moon with a black cat walking below the painted title.
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🔥🎃🌙

Today's theme was folklore of Ghosts, Monsters, and All Things Spooky! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you the best Spooktober ever 🍁

1883 Bernard Gillam - Gambling with death
A detail from a colour magazine or newspaper illustration. A man in a top hat is smoking a cigar while seated at a table. A skeletal ghost-like figure in white robes is rolling dice from a cup and standing over the man while pointing to the table, which is shaped like a coffin.
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A well-known American legend claims blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil on the crossroads at midnight -- for musical genius and fame.

Remembered as the godfather of rock music, Johnson died at 27 years old #FolkloreThursday

Digital painting for an art class two yrs ago.
A digital painting recreating a black and white photograph of blues musician Robert Johnson in browns and blues. He is seated wearing a suit, tie, and hat while holding a guitar and smiling.
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Greetings #FolkloreThursday 🎃

Huge thanks to Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social for being our host before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your crypt keeper for the next one hour.

Today's theme is "Ghosts, Monsters, & All Things Spooky!" 👀

1898 Josef Mandl 🌙
A 19th Century painting showing a graveyard scene at night. There are several gravestones and disorganized plots and trees. A partly open grave is in the foreground with a shovel laying across it. A luminescent-cloaked apparition is standing behind it and looking down into the ground. Though it is bright, the details of the person are not apparent.
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Many Tarot readers interpret The Star card as connecting to the universe, creation, and divine guidance. Stars also appear on The Chariot card, on The Empress’s crown, and in The Hermit’s lantern. As pentacles, they have their own suit #FolkloreThursday

1909 Pamela Coleman Smith (colour U.S. Games)
Card illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith for A. E. Waite’s tarot deck. It shows an old man with a long beard and a long grey cloak with a hood on it. The background is plain blue sky. He looks to be standing on a snowy mountain peak. He has a walking staff and is holding a lantern with a star in it. At the bottom it says “The Hermit.” Card illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith for A. E. Waite’s tarot deck. The card shows a beautiful and regal woman seated on a throne holding up a sceptre. She has a crown with twelve stars on it. Grain grows in front of her and a forest with a river is behind her. At the bottom of the card it says, "The Empress."
September 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Hello everyone and happy #FolkloreThursday ✨🌛✨

Thank you to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your folklore host for the next one hour.

Today's theme is "The Folklore of the Stars and Skies"

1872 Eleanor Vere Boyle
A tiny fairy woman is riding a songbird in flight. In the background is a body of water with an island visible and the far shore. In the foreground beneath her are white flowers and ivy with several other fairies looking up at her.
September 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Dates for the Diary!
The next hosted #FolkloreThursday dates and themes are as follows:
Thur 4th September: Folklore of the Stars, Skies and Heavens
Thur 2nd October: Folklore of Ghosts, the Supernatural, and all things Spooky!
Painting, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh. a painting of a deep blue night sky filled with swirling white clouds, yellow stars, and a yellow crescent moon over a stylized village nestled in the midst of some hills. Missouri History Museum. Halloween postcard, with text "A Merry Halloween" at the top in capitals, with three figures made from pumpkins below. Each has a pumpkin body and a carved pumpkin for a head. Two are smiling, the one on the right is frowning.
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday 🐉

Today's theme was "Folklore of Travel, Journeys, and Holidays." This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you good luck on the path ✨

19th Century Albert Schindler poster
19th Century poster by Albert Schindler says Voyage Round the World at the top. A complex graphic design image shows Earth on the horizon coming out of the ocean with two large ships on either side of the poster with several world flags on the edges. In the foreground is a train crossing the poster.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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When travelling, protection against the Evil Eye is needed. Cast by an envious gaze or supernatural being, the curse of misfortune is both ancient & contemporary and spans many cultures. Glass eye beads are popular protective amulets #FolkloreThursday

1911 Poster Detail and 1925 Vancouver Province
A detail from a retro poster showing a large eye drawn in gold and black with a blue sky and gold stars behind it. The eye has points coming from all sides or it suggesting it is illuminated. Newspaper clipping from 1925 titled "The Spell of the Evil Eye Still Has Its Foundations in Antiquity"
July 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Welcome aboard #FolkloreThursday ✨🚋 🐉

Huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I'll be your host for the next one hour.

Today's theme is "Folklore of Travel, Journeys, and Holidays"

1584 map detail by Abrahm Ortelius
A colour illustration of a map detail showing Triton and Sirene in the Mediterranean Sea from above. Land can be seen on the edges.
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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We are having another Art Jam Night on Thursday July 3rd, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join us.

Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (a few people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app).

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#Victora #DrinkandDraw
Art Jam Night at the Drake, Thu, Jul 3, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Sketch, paint, or just doodle, at our monthly drink and draw like event open to everyone, including first time artists and non drinkers. Please sign up on Meetup if you ha
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July 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A phantom ship is the spirit of a destroyed vessel. A ghost ship, on the other hand, is an unmanned craft adrift at sea. Ships can also be haunted, “hoodooed” (have bad luck), or may even be favoured by benevolent beings #FolkloreThursday

1882 from Arctic Adventures by William Henry Giles Kingston
An old colour illustration shows a large shadowy ship. Several people are standing on a rocky shore watching it approach. The large caption at the bottom says, “The Phantom Ship”
June 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Ahoy there #FolkloreThursday 🌊

A huge thank you to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your sea captain for the next hour.

Today's theme is "Folklore of the Sea and Oceans" 🧜‍♀️☠️🦈

1562 (sometimes 1555) Olaus Magnus
A coloured woodcut shows two witches on the shore controlling a storm. Three animals are on land near them. A ship is broken in the water and three people are in the ocean, probably in trouble. A crescent moon is above the clouds and rain.
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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We are having another Art Jam Night tomorrow, Thursday June 5th, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria! Anyone who sees this is welcome to join.

Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (seven people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app).

Art Jam Night
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Art Jam Night at the Drake, Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Sketch, paint, or just doodle, at a drink and draw like event open to everyone, including first time artists and non drinkers. Please sign up on Meetup if you have not com
www.meetup.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Ghost Plant is also known as Ghost Pipe, Corpse Plant, Fairy Pipe and Indian Pipe. The parasitic flower is associated with wolves in Coast Salish culture. Europeans with the ghost world. A folk remedy claims it can heal a broken heart after the death of a loved one #FolkloreThursday

A photo I took
A photograph I took of the plant sometimes called ghost pipe. This is a close up of the semi transparent and white plant with cedar and pine cones on the ground around it.
May 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🌻

A special thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your uninterrupted host for the next one hour!

Today's witchy spring theme is the Folklore of Plants, Flowers, and Herbs.

1921 Arthur Rackham
Three young women hold hands around a tree with golden apples on it. They are facing outwards. Roses are in bloom on a fence behind them.
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A few of us are meeting tomorrow, May 8th, at 7 pm at the Drake in #Victoria BC for a drink and draw. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join

Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (five confirmed on Discord, etc. who don't use Meetup)

Art Jam at the Drake www.meetup.com/boho-victori...
Art Jam Night at the Drake, Thu, May 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
A "drink and draw" like event open to everyone -- from those new to art to established professionals. Join us to sketch, paint, work on your hand lettering, or even just d
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May 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The next hosted #FolkloreThursday is 8th May - our theme will be the folklore of plants, flowers and herbs!
A leafy plant - mandrake - with a bulb and red berries stands in a garden, while a dog sniffs a bowl on the ground, with a figure nearby.
May 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote that eggshells were used in spells by witches. In 1584, Reginald Scot added that witches could, "Saile in an egge shell, a cockle or muscle shell, through and under the tempestuous seas." #FolkloreThursday

BreeAnn Veenstra, still one of my favourite images ✨
Illustration of a tumultuous sea. Two witches are on the crests of waves in eggshells, using double-sided brooms like kayak paddles. Two angry looking sharks are in the water wth them, as well as a few small fish
March 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM