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Scary retelling of the OpenAI/Huggingface incident,
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface
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Rapunzel
Retelling the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale in 1983 on Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre starring Shelley Duvall as Rapunzel, Jeff Bridges as the Prince and, and Gena Rowlands as the Witch. Narrated by Roddy McDowall. Written by David Wyles. Directed by Gilbert Cates.
#ShelleyDuvall #Rapunzel, #JeffBridges #GenaRowlands #ShelleyDuvallsFaerieTaleTheatre #faerietalethearte #brothersgrimm #fairytale #tv #tvshow #allstarcast #evilwitch #theprince #greatmomentsontv
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CW: TW mención a violación
Añadido: en retellings posteriores, han revisitado mucho las intenciones de #Circe. Tanto en #Epic como la novela de #MadelineMiller hablan que ella actúa así porque han violado a sus ninfas, pero personalmente no me gusta que, para "empoderar" a un personaje femenino se tire de abuso sexual que ni está en el relato original.
La xenia ya sirve de motivo de sobra para defender a Circe. Invades mi tierra, te doy la mano y te tomas todo el brazo. Recordemos, además, que en #LaOdisea no hay buenos ni malos, hay personajes ambiguos, complejos e imperfectos. Y es lo bonito.
#ViernesDeMitologíaGriega #culturagriegaantigua #mitologíagriega
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#BehindTheScenes
#TheGreenKnight (2021)
A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Director #DavidLowery taking a moment to instruct #RalphIneson and #DevPatel
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Announcing RWHServers for WHMCS: PAYG #VPS & Dedicated Server Reselling
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Announcing RWHServers for WHMCS: PAYG #VPS & Dedicated Server Reselling
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CW: Article: Grïgnyr the Ecordian by Geoff Bottone
I read Grïgnyr the Ecordian, Geoff Bottone's retelling of infamously-terrible fantasy novella The Eye of Argon. Which I hadn't read when I started, so I needed to read that first. Bottone's version is an enormous improvement... and that's an incredible achievement.
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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It's double-trouble in our first commedia dell'arte performance at Pennsic 2026 later this month in our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Don't miss "The Unexpected Twin" two weeks from tonight on Thursday, July 30 at 6:00pm on the Amphitheatre stage!
And make sure to catch our other two shows this year:
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
"Pasquella's Powerful Potions"➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
"What Went Down in Goblin Town?"#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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It's double-trouble in our first commedia dell'arte performance at Pennsic 2026 later this month in our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Don't miss "The Unexpected Twin" on Thursday, July 30 at 6:00pm on the Amphitheatre stage!
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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It's double-trouble in our first commedia dell'arte performance at Pennsic 2026 later this month in our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Don't miss "The Unexpected Twin" on Thursday, July 30 at 6:00pm on the Amphitheatre stage!
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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CW: Viernes de Mitología Griega sobre el mito de Aracne. TW suicidio
Ovidio no escribió Las Metamorfosis para recopilar sus mitos griegos favoritos, sino para hacerles un retelling con la intención de hacer crítica social de la época.
Ovidio había sido exiliado por el emperador Augusto porque se sentía muy incómodo con sus obras, que además había prohibido. A través de #Aracne, Ovidio nos habla de la censura al artista cuando éste se mete con el poder.
No sabemos cómo serían las versiones griegas de Aracne, si bien se especula mucho que en efecto sería un cuento sobre hubris.
Espero que os haya gustado este #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega y que vuestras voces de artistas no sean censuradas ni robadas por la IA.
Si queréis apoyar otra de mis artes, podéis ver y comprar mis sesiones o invitarme un té aquí:
https://ko-fi.com/lauralunamodel#ViernesDeMitologíaGriega #culturagrecorromana #mitologíagriega #mitologíaromana
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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Three weeks ago tonight it was double-trouble in our first commedia dell'arte performance at Pennsic 53, our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Check back soon for the full video of i Verdi Confusi's performance of "The Unexpected Twin"!
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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It's the first day of Pennsic 53 so a good time to remind you about our first commedia dell'arte performance of the event this year next Thursday (July 30) at 6:00pm on the Amphitheatre stage!
It's double-trouble in our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Don't miss "The Unexpected Twin"!
And make sure to catch our other two shows this year:
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
"Pasquella's Powerful Potions"➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
"What Went Down in Goblin Town?"#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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It's the first day of Pennsic 53 so a good time to remind you about our first commedia dell'arte performance of the event on Thursday, July 30 at 6:00pm on the Amphitheatre stage!
It's double-trouble in our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Don't miss "The Unexpected Twin"!
And make sure to catch our other two shows this year:
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
"Pasquella's Powerful Potions"➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
"What Went Down in Goblin Town?"#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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Soy consciente de lo problemático que es su director y de que #DraculaALoveTale copia descaradamente el vestuario de la versión de #Coppola, pero me ha gustado mucho este retelling. Desarrolla mucho mejor el romance entre Elisabeta y Drácula y los actores están espectaculares. Mención especial a María (que hace las veces de Lucy Westenra) y a #ChristophWaltz.
PD: No le he dado ni un duro al director.
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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Apenas se ha rescatado información sobre cómo serían las prácticas dedicadas a su adoración y, por los poemas de Homero, se deduce que Circe era adorada como diosa de las pociones, tanto las de sanar como las de hacer daño a los enemigos.
Una cosa que me pone triste de los retellings feministas de #mitologíagriega es "la necesidad de reescribir a Circe", cuando no le hacía falta, sólo hay que recordarla por cómo es. Homero nunca la presentó como la villana. Tal vez, las traducciones del siglo XXI y los retellings modernos los que nos han desdibujado a Circe como una pérfida seductora, cuando ya era una diosa venerada y con un conocimiento privilegiado sobre la magia y, sin su presencia, Odiseo no habría vuelto a casa
Pero esto merece otro capítulo.
Espero que os haya gustado este #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega. Si queréis invitarme a una poción, podéis hacerlo aquí:
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Ya que se estrena #LaOdisea, hoy toca un #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega temático. Hace un tiempo hablé de cómo todo el mito de La Odisea es un cuento con moraleja sobre tener respeto al mar, con todas las malas faenas que te podían pasar.
Hoy voy a hablar de un personaje icónico y peor tratado: #Circe.
A menudo nos dicen que Homero puso a Circe como la bruja, la mala, cuando en realidad no era así. La misoginia con la que se ha tratado a esta hechicera que convirtió a los hombres de Odiseo en cerdos viene más bien de interpretaciones posteriores (sobre todo de traducciones victorianos) y demás retellings con extra dosis de misoginia.
Pero lo cierto es que La Odisea no la trata de villana, ni de bruja malvada. De hecho, la obra de Homero va de personajes grises, lejos del maniqueísmo que se fuerza a la hora de interpretar #mitologíagriega.
Pero lo que mucha gente olvida es que Circe era una diosa, hija de Helios y de la oceánide Perseis. Y esta divinidad no se reduce a La Odisea: Circe tenía su propio culto en Grecia, aunque poco se ha rescatado de él.
#Homero no utiliza ningún adjetivo despectivo sobre Circe, sino que la describe como una practicante de la pharmakeia, es decir, el conocimiento de pociones (sí, de ahí viene "farmacia") y esto es un arte que ya se practicaba y sin connotaciones feas.
De Circe hay mucha miga, como su papel en La Odisea, la xenia y señores a los que les das la mano y se toman todo el brazo, pero hoy me quiero centrar en un aspecto que no es tan conocido: el de su culto.
En los Epigramas de Homero, él la invoca como una diosa de la magia y de las pociones. En las costas de la Ática se encontró un altar dedicado a Circe. En Italia, tenemos el monte Circeo, que recibe su nombre por la diosa y donde también se erigió un templo dedicado a ella. Cicerón documenta que en la colonia romana de Circeii eran muy devotos a ella.
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CW: Viernes de Mitología sobre Atenea. Se mencionan violaciones.
¡Felices #Panateneas, hermosuras! Como no podía ser de otro modo, el #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega de hoy va dedicado a #Atenea, diosa de la sabiduría, la tecnología, la artesanía y, desde luego, mucho más que una muchacha guapa con un manto que te mira mal (sí, Nolan, te estoy mirando a ti).
Atenea es protagonista de numerosos mitos griegos y se tiene de ella una idea equivocada, como de una diosa tranquila. Esta interpretación, tal vez, viene de que es el lado opuesto de la guerra y la antítesis de su medio hermano #Ares. Como a ella se le atribuye la estrategia, se cree que esto se basa en diplomacia, en aplicar la inteligencia para evitar el conflicto y, aunque la estrategia va también de saber elegir las batallas, también tiene un lado muy cruel.
Atenea fue quien susurró a Odiseo la idea de colar un caballo de madera para asesinar a los troyanos mientras dormían.
Por otro lado, también se le atribuye el mito de que convirtió a Medusa en monstruo al ser violada por Poseidón. No obstante, esto se trata de un retelling de Ovidio, con el que criticaba los abusos de poder del Emperador Augusto.
No obstante, sí hubo una historia de una mujer violada en su templo: #Casandra, que fue abusada por Áyax el Menor, príncipe griego, durante la #GuerraDeTroya. Casandra, princesa y sacerdotisa de Apolo, se había refugiado en un templo de Atenea y se abrazó a una estatua de la diosa. Áyax saqueó el templo, violó a la muchacha. Atenea, quien había estado apoyando a los griegos en la guerra, pidió a Poseidón que hundiera su barco de vuelta a casa, y así fue. Lo feo no era sólo abusar de una sacerdotisa, sino encima en el templo de Atenea, lo cual es sonarse los mocos con la #eusebia.
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Stocksbridge Bypass Revisited
There are some stories that refuse to stay buried.
You can examine them, challenge them, investigate them and pull apart every available piece of evidence. You can stand in the places where events allegedly occurred. You can interview witnesses. You can compare accounts and search for inconsistencies. You can spend years trying to separate fact from fiction. Yet somehow the story survives.
The Stocksbridge Bypass is one such story. For many years the road has been described as Britain’s most haunted highway. Tales of phantom monks, ghostly children, strange figures and unexplained encounters have become woven into the folklore of South Yorkshire.
Television programmes have featured the road. Paranormal investigators have visited it. Podcasts continue to discuss it. New generations of ghost hunters discover it every year.
In 2010, alongside my good friend and colleague Steve Mera, I took a critical look at the legend. Together we examined witness accounts, investigated locations, considered alternative explanations and attempted to establish what could actually be known about one of Britain’s most famous hauntings. You can read that report here – Stocksbridge Bypass: A Critical Review
The article generated considerable discussion.
Some readers felt the evidence supported the existence of something genuinely unexplained. Others felt the case demonstrated how easily stories can grow and evolve over time. Others, well… They just thought we were being killjoys. What fascinated me most, however, was not the evidence itself.
It was what happened afterwards. The legend carried on. If anything, it became stronger.
Sixteen years later the monk still walks. The children still play. The stories continue to circulate. And perhaps that tells us something important. Because the real mystery of the Stocksbridge Bypass may not be whether it is haunted. The real mystery may be how modern folklore is created.
To understand that, we need to go back to the beginning.
The bypass opened during the late 1980s, designed to ease traffic congestion around Stocksbridge. It was, by any reasonable measure, a modern road. Unlike ancient lanes and forgotten trackways, it arrived complete with engineers, planning documents and living witnesses. Yet almost from the beginning strange stories began to emerge.
Construction workers reported unusual experiences. Security guards described encounters with mysterious figures. Most famously, stories began circulating about a hooded monk seen near Pearoyd Bridge. Other reports quickly followed. Ghostly children. Shadowy figures. Unexplained feelings of dread. As often happens with folklore, the stories accumulated.
One witness tells a tale. Another adds a detail. A newspaper reports the account. A television programme broadcasts it. A book repeats it. A podcast retells it. Each retelling adds another layer. By the time most people encounter the legend, they are rarely hearing the original story. They are hearing the latest version.
Folklorists have long recognised this process. Traditional folklore was once carried by word of mouth around hearths, pubs and village greens. Today it spreads through websites, social media, documentaries and YouTube channels. The mechanism has changed. Human nature has not.
The Stocksbridge Bypass exists at a fascinating crossroads between traditional folklore and modern media. Had the story emerged a century earlier, it might have remained a local tale known only to nearby communities. Instead it appeared at exactly the right moment. Local newspapers reported it. Television discovered it. Programmes such as Strange But True? introduced it to a national audience and suddenly a South Yorkshire ghost story belonged to the whole country. The monk became a celebrity.
What is particularly interesting is how the various elements of the haunting reflect much older traditions. Take the monk – Please take him. He has a dirty habit(sorry!)- Britain is full of phantom monks. Many appear near ruined abbeys, ancient churches and former religious sites. Some are associated with historical events. Others seem to exist purely because a hooded figure emerging from the darkness is an inherently unsettling image.
The ghost children are equally familiar. Stories of spectral children appear throughout British folklore. Sometimes they are linked to tragedies. Sometimes they seem entirely disconnected from any identifiable historical event. They both occupy a strange place within our collective imagination.The bypass may be modern. Its ghosts are anything but and this raises another intriguing possibility – Perhaps Stocksbridge Bypass did not create new folklore. Perhaps it simply provided a new stage upon which old folklore could perform – After all, roads have always attracted stories. Travellers are vulnerable. They are away from home. They move through unfamiliar landscapes, often at night. The road is a liminal space, neither here nor there. Folklore thrives in such places, from phantom hitchhikers to black dogs, from highwaymen to ghosts, Britain’s roads have never been short of stories. The bypass merely joined a much older tradition.
The surrounding landscape contributes its own atmosphere. This part of South Yorkshire possesses a unique character. The hills rise abruptly above former industrial communities. Woodland presses against roads and reservoirs. Old boundaries blur into newer developments. There is a sense of transition everywhere. The landscape feels ancient and modern simultaneously. On misty evenings the bypass can appear genuinely uncanny, but hat does not prove the existence of ghosts.
It does, however, help explain why ghost stories flourish there. The atmosphere matters, as does landscape and even the place. After all, the most enduring legends are rarely attached to locations that feel ordinary.
So, as the years pass, another process becomes visible.The original witnesses gradually fade from the story. Some have passed away. Others have withdrawn from public discussion. Yet the legend continues independently of them. It no longer requires the original events, it has become self-sustaining and this, perhaps, is the final stage of folklore. A story reaches a point where it no longer belongs to individual witnesses. It belongs to the community. Stocksbridge Bypass has reached that point.
Whether one believes in ghosts or not almost becomes irrelevant. The legend now exists in its own right. Visitors still stop. Investigators still search. Stories continue to be told. And somewhere between the steel towns, the moors and the woodland valleys of South Yorkshire, a hooded figure continues to walk through the public imagination.
My investigation with Steve Mera remains one of the most rewarding pieces of research I have undertaken. Not because we solved a mystery, but because we were able to watch folklore at work. The bypass taught me that legends are living things. They evolve and adapt. They survive criticism. Sometimes they even grow stronger because of it.
The monk may never be conclusively identified, the children may never be explained. But the debate? The debate will undoubtedly continue.
The greatest lesson of the Stocksbridge Bypass investigation for me is that stories have power – not because they are true or because they are false. But because people continue to tell them.
And as long as that happens, the ghost road of South Yorkshire will never truly fall silent.
Further Reading:
David Clarke – articles on contemporary folklore and road ghost traditions
Steve Mera and Kirst Mason D’Raven – Stocksbridge Bypass: A Critical Review
Strange But True? archives
Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud – A Dictionary of English Folklore
Katharine Briggs – British Folk Tales and Legends
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