#hauntedlandscape — Public Fediverse posts

Gwen had died earlier that day.

Not spooky, but poignant.

Well, if you don’t know her work, check it out. (I’ve given ‘The Babylonians’ to so many people as a present that one will probably be working its way to you somehow.)

And if you never knew Gwen, but know someone else brilliant & sharp & warm?

Don’t forget to keep in touch.

#obituary #rip #ancienthistory #babylonian #gwendolynleick #weightlifting #fortean #hauntedlandscape #irvingfinkel

I was at Fortean London’s brilliant #hauntedlandscape event, and had just heard Dr Irving Finkel, @britishmuseum Mesopotamiologist, speak on the earliest documentary references to ghosts, in Sumerian tablets. We chatted briefly, and I mentioned my acquaintance with Gwen.

“I haven’t seen her for ages,” said Dr Finkel. “How is she?”

She’s not been well, but she’s still brilliant, I said.

He looked up and said, “People just seem to disappear, don’t they?”

And then I got home… and heard.

Watching Elizabeth Dearnley’s talk on Fearsome Fairies on the #ConwayHall YouTube channel from last year’s Haunted Landscape event.

#TheHauntedLandscape #HauntedLandscape #Folkore #fairies #fae