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Tracey Norman Author
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Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library.
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About an hour left to get your tickets!

#folklore #heritage #tradition #custom #HobbyHorse #Oss #WhatsOn #OnlineLecture #Kent
folklorelibrary.bsky.social The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 4h
Last call for tickets!

Our last online talk of 2025 starts in just over 2 hours. James Frost will be talking about hobby horse customs, and in particular the Hooden Horse found in Kent.

Tickets are just £5 with a video replay to watch it back later too

Visit bit.ly/flaevents to book
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The right: Bluesky is a angry liberal echo chamber

Bluesky: Everyone is furiously agreeing about toasties
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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I'm at a #Christmas market this morning with ny #books, and I'm taking bets on how quickly I will be #Whammed and off to #Whamhalla with the other valiant fallen. Place your bets here!
a man in a moose t-shirt is standing in the dark .
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December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I'm at The Ship Hotel in #Crediton today between 10am and 2pm with my #books - come and check out the wonderful creators and support local businesses!

#WhatsOn #Christmas #market #local #BookSky📚🩵 #Skystorians #Devon #ChristmasShopping #ShopLocal #history #HistorySky
#folklore #tradition #heritage
A poster for the Christmas Craft Market at the Ship Hotel, Crediton, on Sat 6 Dec from 10am -2pm. It advertises over 20local businesses including pottery, books, jewellery, jam & chutney, wool crafts, art and honey. Mulled wine and cider are available, the market is located over three floors, there is 10% off food for market customers, and free entry to the market.
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨
Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿
Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to [email protected] ☺️
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
traceynormanauthor.bsky.social
The final online talk of 2025 is on SUNDAY 7 Dec - tickets at bit.ly/flaevents

Follow the @folklorelibrary.bsky.social #Eventbrite page to keep up with all our events.

I'm currently in the process of lining up speakers for 2026!

#online #WhatsOn #folklore #tradition #heritage #education #learn
folklorelibrary.bsky.social The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 4d
This Sunday at 8pm we will be hosting our last online illustrated talk of the year (don’t worry - they will be back in 2026)

James Frost will be discussing YULETIME HOBBY HORSE CUSTOMS

Tickets are £5 from bit.ly/flaevents

Talk us via Zoom with video replay

Please share on, and come and join us
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December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Last call for tickets

Online talk tonight at 8pm GMT on werewolves in folklore and myth

£5 plus video replay from

bit.ly/flaevents
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November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Come and grab a final fix of folk horror this festive season, with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDWINTER 2 running online over the weekend of 6th and 7th December! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #winter #midwinter #writing #writers #fiction #authors
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This offer ends at midnight tomorrow!
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Which #TimCurry are you today?
A collage of nine numbered photos of Tim Curry featuring different characters and expressions.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This is going to be a fascinating talk! And if you can't make it, you can get a recording to watch later, so get your ticket now and don't miss out!

#wolf #werewolf #wolves #werewolves #folklore #legend #lycanthropy #story #custom #online #WhatsOn #FLAOnline
folklorepod.bsky.social The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 9d
ONLINE WEREWOLVES!

The next online presentation for @folklorelibrary.bsky.social is tomorrow night at 8pm GMT

Rich Blackett will discuss folklore and myth connected with the werewolf.

Online via Zoom. Tickets just £5 including video replay from bit.ly/flaevents

Come and join us
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November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
traceynormanauthor.bsky.social
Today, I added over 1000 words to my manuscript, and I want a cookie.

I'm so excited that I will soon be able to share with you all the story of the 17thC accused woman who inspired my play #WITCH.

#WritersOfBlueSky #BookSky🩵📚 #WitchSky #WitchesofBlueSky #Skystorians #Historian #History
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
Alt: Kermit the frog is typing industriously on a typewriter, to the point where some of the items on the shelves around him are shaking. I wasn't quite that energetic with my own typing today, but I still think I deserve a cookie.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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For all my American friends and followers 🧡🧡🤎🧡
#Thanksgiving
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November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I haven't shared a postcard for ages, so let's continue with the record of Phyllis's and Elsie's travels with this one:

Details in alt text.

#heritage #vintage #postcard #PostcardAlbum #HistorySky #Skystorians #folklore #tradition #custom #travel #journey
Vintage postcard in an album. Titled 'Aosta - arco d'Augusto'. Image shows a large stone arch built over a rough road. There are a few people walking near the arch, showing that it is a substantial structure, several storeys high. The pillar on the right side appears to be damaged - there is what looks like a large rectangular void at its base, like an open doorway which is about two storeys tall. Above it, the stone blocks are rough and look like they are carrying significant impact damage as those immediately above the void are misaligned and look as though they have been pushed backwards into the structure; they are bo longer aligned with the rest of that part of the façade. There are trees to the left of the arch and a building to its right. Through the arch itself, the street continues, with buildings and trees stretching away from the viewer into the distance. On the horizon, a hill rises, with a large, pale building with a turret on the peak. A beam or pole has been attached to the arch at the point where it begins to arc, and a large crucifix has been attached to this, so it is positioned centrally above anyone who passes under the arch. The arch has a pitched roof with two small pennant- type flags flying from the top. There is no discernable printer/trader information on this postcard and the back is blank except for guide lines for the address.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I'm giving a conference talk next week about the story behind our Bluesky account, which means I've spent much of the last week thinking about how to best articulate the advantages of sharing your hog on the Internet

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themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · Nov 21
more users are joining
and the hog grows longer
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Join us on Saturday 29 Nov as @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social leads us on an exploration of #werewolves in #folklore.

Follow the Folklore #Library 's Eventbrite page, too.

#wolf #werewolf #WhatsOn #archive #OnlineTalk #online #OnlineLecture
folklorelibrary.bsky.social The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 13d
This Saturday at 8pm via Zoom is our next online lecture

Rich Blackett, @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social will be discussing werewolves in folklore and myth, from early wolf cults to today

Tickets are £5 and include video replay access if you can’t be there live

Order now at bit.ly/flaevents
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November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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A lovely and productive meeting with Christina at @treadwells-books.bsky.social today. We signed books while we were there, too. Do please give the team at Treadwell's a follow!

#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
A stack of books by Mark and Tracey Notman - Black Dog Folklore, Britain's Folklore Year, Telling the Bees and Dark Folklore. A copy of Dark Folklore by Mark and Tracey Norman, signed by the authors on 23.11.25 at Treadwell's Books. Shelfie featuring a signed copy of Dark Folklore by Mark and Tracey Norman (photo taken at Treadwell's Books) A photo of the shop frontage of Treadwell's Books in London
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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My next talk is in the wonderful village of Dunster, near Minehead. Details here:
www.dunsterwinterfestival.co.uk/event-detail...
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Really looking forward to this! Get your tickets now!

bit.ly/flaevents

#ghost #GhostStory #Christmas #SpittingImage #impressionist #storytelling #custom #folklore #tradition #ChristmasGhostStories #GhostStories #spooky #creepy #spectre #WhatsOn #Crediton #Devon
folklorelibrary.bsky.social The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 14d
Our next in person event is coming up

Friday 12 December
Boniface Centre, Crediton
7:30

STEVE NALLON’s GHOST STORIES

Join one of the original Spitting Image impressionists, and famously the voice of Maggie Thatcher, for an evening of celebrity ghost stories

Tickets bit.ly/flaevents
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November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Really enjoyed my visit to #Tokyo #Bagel a couple of weeks ago! The #chocolate jelly #capybara was every bit as lovely as I hoped, and the #sakura #latte was delicious. Thanks to Hicham the owner, for being so welcoming! We'll definitely be back! #London #cafe #Japan #EatOut #food ##Japanese #pastry
A chocolate jelly in the shape of a rotund capybara. Cutest dessert ever. And it was delicious! Shot of a man standing behind a cash desk in an artisan bakery. Behind him are shelves full of glasses and bottles, and to his left there is a glass cabinet with pastries. There is a screen in front of him, and some containers full of forks, straws and napkins. Shot of the front of Tokyo Bagel in London, a Japanese artisan bakery.
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Here's something nice: VIANNE on Kindle UK for just 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Vianne-irres...
Vianne: The irresistible new story from the million-copy bestselling author of CHOCOLAT eBook : Harris, Joanne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Vianne: The irresistible new story from the million-copy bestselling author of CHOCOLAT eBook : Harris, Joanne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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All set up and ready for life #drawing this morning! Three hours to focus on one thing - no distractions, no phones, no chatter. Bliss.

#ArtSky #WomenArtistsOfBlueSky #artist #art #sketch #LifeDrawing #WomenInArt
Shot of the setup for a life drawing session. In the foreground, we see the corner of an easel, with a pencil and eraser balanced on it. Beyond, a blackberry-coloured drape provides a backdrop to a small table with a chair standing on top of it for the model to lean on.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Let me introduce you (either in person or online) to the barguest and gytrash on Saturday!
forteanlondon.bsky.social London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 20d
Saturday: 22 November 2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social & online

Icy Sedgwick: Northern Ghosts: The Bargest and Gytrash

@icysedgwick.bsky.social explores tales of the barguest and gytrash as they haunt the landscapes of northern England

7/10

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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Women in folk tales…

Just a couple of hours to go. Still time to grab a ticket for this online talk, plus recording

Just £5 from
bit.ly/flaevents

All income supports the charity
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November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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What you doing on 26 Mar 2026?

Celebrating exactly 21 years since the return of Dr Who to TV?

Or seeing the actual @rakshadigs.bsky.social talk at the annual Long Man Lecture in Brighton??! 🤩😍

Dr Who can wait. He's a Timelord after all.

Details and tickets here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/long-m...
Long Man Lecture 2026: Raksha Dave - Sussex Past
Join the Sussex Archaeological Society for the 2026 Long Man Lecture with renowned archaeologist and broadcaster Raksha Dave at the University of Sussex on Thursday 26th March.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM