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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 3h

Today in #31DaysofGraves is Skeleton AND it's #MementoMoriMonday - so here is the very crudely carved cadaver effigy from St Dogmaels. Probably a prior or senior monk from the monastic community there.

Upper part of crudely carved cadaver effigy with shroud exposing face and ribs and clutched over lower part of torso

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 10h

Take a moment to slow down and reconnect with your two headed horsedog.

A flyer taped to a post. It advertises a sound healing session for you and your dog. AI has been used to create an image of people sitting cross legged alongside their canine chums, one of which has two heads. Nice.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 1d

Stoke Newington sometimes out parodies itself

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 6h

✨Delightful 👻 ‘ghost-door’, dated 1627 in the spandrel - at Conistone in the Yorkshire Dales. The patterns reminiscent of the protective daisy wheels🛞 that are often seen around openings.

A blocked stone doorway on a historic building in Conistone, Yorkshire Dales, dated 1697 in the spandrel, with carved rosettes and initials above.

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Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 7h

The Aztecs were aware of the wheel but did not develop it into transportation. Instead, they put wheels onto toy animals. Things I learned from reading Eric. 💙📚🪐📚 #Discworld #terrypratchett #BookSky
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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 19h

Currently binging 2 series of this 🔥

Poster for tv show 'Dreaming Whilst Black'. Blue sky with white clouds. A black man stands side on looking relaxed with his eyes shut. He has freeform locs, a short beard, and he's wearing an orange hoodie and a navy jacket.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 1d

‘Hand of Glory’ linocut.

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#BLOCTOBER2

A carved linocut plate of a ‘Hand of Glory’ candle with a Pfeil cutter alongside it.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · Jan 7

Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm always updating this. Let me know if I'm missing any UK and Ireland folklore, folk dance, music, folklorist, folk horror people. And have a look see if there's anyone you want to follow if you're embracing this spooky time of year. (Or if you're spooky all year round.)

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · Jan 7

Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 1d

Newgate Prison loomed large in London's history, before its demolition in 1902. How did this prison gain such a fearsome reputation? How has it survived well beyond its early 20th-century demolition? Let’s find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 1d

I adore this ghost ridden land 🦇

#ghosts #Shropshire #paranormal #Folklore

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

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poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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John @maenhir.bsky.social · 1d

Boscawen Ros
#StandingStoneSunday

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Omg that's so cute.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

I can only assume the summoning circle was breached, yet again...

www.filthyluker.org/art-attacks/...

large inflatable octopus tentacles emerging from a multi story building, coming out of windows

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

I posted Penrhos Feilw last week, so here is the stone row in #Pembrokeshire called Parc y Meilw (literally 'park of the dead'). Unlike the former, Parc y Meilw is bloody difficult to photograph because they are buried in a hedge with an ugly farm gate stuck between them. [Cont:
#StandingStoneSunday

One grey pillar stone rises to the left of the picture. A hedge of gorse and a farm gate separates it from a similar stone to the right.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Early morning walk today. No regrets. Though the fog was more like a mist, I'll take it.

Portrait colour photo of two trees in a hedgerow at dawn. The orange rising sun is between them, with misty pinks and yellows in the sky. In front of the hedgerow is a green misty field covered in dew. At the very top of the photo is dark silhouette of a leafy branch of a tree, arching over and framing the scene.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Also I'm in love with the house in the mist. Woman in black?

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 Yessss. You absolutely will. Just try and enjoy new creative things and don't worry about the result. You will get there. I still think the tree and chainsaw plan will work 😅 (also I want a go).

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

*levitating

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 1d

Drumtroddan Standing Stones, near Monreith. A row of possibly once four or five stones, aligned north east/south west. Two of the stones now lay fallen, with just a single stone, the eastern-most still standing.
#StandingStoneSunday #Scotland #blackandwhitephotography

Black and white photo of a tall standing stone, with two others fallen on the grass in the foreground. With a dark sky overhead.

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 1d

Stones in the mist – Tregeseal circle entirely cut off from Kenidjack common and the carn on the skyline invisible. At times like these, the danger of beguilement by unnatural lights and shifting paths grows, and stumbling pixie-led into the otherworld feels entirely possible … #StandingStoneSunday

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 2d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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