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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
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submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

I guess I'm learning about Lithuania now. I've bought more retail therapy Bluesky books than I ever had from Twitter (alive or dead). Maybe it's because I can actually see things I like. BTW, Cambridge ships like a beast - I bought the book 2 days ago. cc: @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

King.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Only acceptable food in this weather.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This is a good piece on the Lithuanian celebration of Joninės, but it's worth noting that there's no actual evidence that it's "deeply rooted in the pagan celebration of midsummer, predating Christianity." I mean, it might be - we just don't know (thread) www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

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submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Poets on Bluesky should be known as Blueskalds

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Given that we have the Twitterati, the TikTokracy and InstaGrafen, what name should be given to the highest and most influential echelons of Bluesky?

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

Your annual reminder that the cosmological solstice may be today but the liturgical/ritual solstice is 23 June

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

In Wales, the martyrs Julius and Aaron are commemorated today alongside St Alban as British martyrs of the Diocletianic persecution, but Bede also mentions 'many more of both sexes in divers places' whose cults evidently didn't survive to the early Middle Ages

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Folks ought to be careful digging up their back gardens in Hexham, no telling who you might find

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

As we approach Midsummer or 'St John's Night', as it is known in many European countries, I spoke to @universitypress.cambridge.org about the pre-Christian significance of this festival of fire and water - as well as my new book 'Silence of the Gods' 🔥💧🌿 www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand; and to comfort and help the weak-hearted; and to raise up them that fall; and finally to beat down Satan under our feet. #Litany

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Thank you to everyone who came to this evening’s launch and book signing for ‘Silence of the Gods’! 📚✍️ Signed copies are now available to buy from @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sil...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I have arrived for the launch of ‘Silence of the Gods’! Hoping it goes better than a SpaceX launch…

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I’d read it.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments