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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore publishes in November! Pre-order your copy https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore and learn the secrets of your dark corners...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Have just fondled my first copy of Household Lore & I'm totes emoshe (as the kids probably don't say any more). To get your mitts on my purple spredges pre-order here: watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore
#HouseholdLore #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #BookChatWeekly #Booksky #BookologyThursday 🪴🥔

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Over on Substack I wrote about Lithuania's literary tradition of magical realism: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Discovering the Lithuanian fantastic

Tracing a literary and artistic tradition

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h

One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.

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Sophie Anderson @sophieanderson.bsky.social · 1h

Sparkly paperbacks of #TheSnowGirl hit shelves soon & there is a pre-order gift of a gorgeous Melissa Castrillon print❄️ Simply send proof of purchase, from any retailer, to [email protected]🙏 Signed, dedicated copy available from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social & @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social💙

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 4h

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 14h

Tease.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 17h

If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, people of North Wales!

I’m coming to Bangor on Friday to do a lovely event called Ask A Historian, where you can ask me anything about history — tickets still available. All part of Bangor’s 1500th anniversary!

And @katewilliamsme.bsky.social is there too

www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/g%...

Bangor History Festival - Pontio

https://www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/gŵyl-hanes-bangor

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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The potato was rotten.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social · 1d

If you heard me talking about the 1652 “Maidstone witches” on Radio 5 Live and want to know more, here’s the original trial story: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A8545...

A prodigious & tragicall history of the arraignment, tryall, confession, and condemnation of six witches at Maidstone, in Kent, at the assizes there held in July, Fryday 30. this present year. 1652. B...

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Jules Gray @julesgray.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Playing Dead Man's Fall on Colin's lawn in the Summer of '76
School holidays with both grandmas
Record shopping in Manchester
First kiss (teeth-clashing incident)
Falling down a band and breaking my arm during an elastic band fight

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What five events defined your childhood?

The heatwave of 1976
Chris Kelly kissing my finger better
The Berlin Wall before and after the fall
School sanitary towels with loops and safety pins
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, all on a sesame seed bun