Here's an interview I did with the wonderful freelance journalist Marieta Evans about all kinds of spooky stuff - skeletal statues, haunted libraries, witchfinders' ghosts, magic museums, graveyard vampires, deals being signed at midnight on Halloween, and my new book Atlas Gothica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tBdH4fipQ #gothic #folklore #paranormal #mythology #history #weird #books #reading #writing
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Fixing the massive indices for my folk tale translations is extremely tedious work, but it has already paid off in one regard: I was able to make a connection between two different folk tales which I had not seen before.
Here is a tale featuring a "Vollmer, the Ghostly King" on "Hartenstein Castle":
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Suitor_on_Hartenstein_Castle
And here is a tale featuring a "King Vollmer" on "Hardenstein Castle" (note the "d"):
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/King_Goldemar
The two are rather different entities. One of them is a ghost, the other one is a household spirit, and the two castles are in very different parts of Germany.
Still, I have the suspicion that one tale influenced the other, although I doubt I will be able to prove it to my satisfaction.
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ARA Balears: The first digital archive of Sant Antoni is born, with the history and traditions of all the towns of Mallorca. “The most celebrated festival in Mallorca, Sant Antoni, now has its own space on the internet that aims to become the shared archive of the celebration on the island. The website… was born with the intention of gathering in one single portal the history, programs, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/11/14/ara-balears-the-first-digital-archive-of-sant-antoni-is-born-with-the-history-and-traditions-of-all-the-towns-of-mallorca/ -
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Woe to those who are possessed by the Devil in body and soul!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
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Every Friday, I meet a member of the British Fantasy Society and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Wiltshire native Ellie Wallace shares her love of archaeology and folklore—a big influence on her new novel, out next week!
https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-ellie-wallace/
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #archaeology #mythology #folklore #books #writers #writing #writingcommunity
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The Devil is not always subtle. Sometimes, he resorts to blatant murder.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
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The Devil can be driven away with sufficiently pimped-out crucifixes.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_K%C3%A4thelstein_Rock_near_Annaberg -
And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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Lollus: A god worshipped by the pagans of old - or an overenthusiastic folklorist's flight of fancy?
#Germany #folktale #folklore #paganism
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Uist Gaelic legendry from the 20th century
18 November, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, & online – freeLiam Crouse will explore change & variation in Gaelic legend folklore from Uist as embodied within some of the principal 20th-century collections of oral tradition
https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/research-seminar-liam-crouse/?lang=en
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #folklore #legends #Uist #Hebrides
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Listening to Unbreakable by Eurovision favourites KEiiNO this morning made me dive deeper into the lyrics. The song draws on the Russian fairy tale Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) and The Bear and the Nightingale. Instead of melting when she falls for a mortal, KEiiNO's heroine chooses her own strength over a harmful romance. As the band noted, it's a celebration for anyone who's ever felt like an outsider, reminding us we're stronger than we realise.
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I've just been told off elsewhere for being too quiet, so sorry about that 😅
I'm focused on getting my website ready and I'm drowning in a sea of hoodies but I am still about 😊
In the meantime, did you know that putting a couple of rose hips under your pillow is meant to see off nightmares? Maybe dried ones would be less messy 😅
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#FolkloreThursday: in the Kitab al-Bulhan, a book of wonders made in Baghdad in the late 1300s and now in Oxford's Bodleian Library, every day of the week has its own king of the jinn. Tuesday belongs to al-Ahmar, the Red King. His portrait has him riding a lion, a sword in one hand and someone's head in the other.
https://exhibo.art/blog/the-real-jinn-how-the-middle-east-imagined-them-before-disney
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The copy of 'Atlas Gothica' by Mastodon's own @david_castleton I'd asked my local library to purchase finally came in. 😎
Had a quick leaf through and it looks absolutely lush! Looking forward to reading about spookily interesting places around the world tonight (and making notes on potential places to visit!).