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Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell #Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
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Goodnight from Kristen Smale, wondering which god she pissed off this time to get A&E duty during the madness of Midsummer. Goodnight from The Cloud Walker Inn, where the resident spirits are enjoying its licensing extension as much as its drunken patrons. Goodnight from Hookland.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

The ‘good thing’ includes a piece about the psychic DNA of Hookland which I look forward to sharing more details of soon.

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Sheer raw Neolithic Hookland is a wonderful thing.

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A useful list for Hooklanders.

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Alder is one of those old style writers on ghosts. All ‘phantom armies of the night’ and ‘vengeful souls armed with the gaze of doom’. He isn’t one of those modern ghost folk who thinks the land is some sort wonky C90 psychic cassette. - #DICallaghan in conversation with #DSNokes

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Folklore infects us. Its stories overwrite our inner and outer landscapes. When I walk the cut, I walk filled with tales of Stay Belows, of midnight knocks on canal boat hulls. However strong the sunlight, in the shadows I still hear the cries of drowning ghosts. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Folklore

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Goodnight from Chrissie Hardy, walking from Bowl Barrow to The Old King’s Court stone circle as an act of solar alchemy on solstice eve. Goodnight from the Shelby sisters, weaving chaplets of daisy and St. John’s-wort for tomorrow’s dancing of the rings. Goodnight from Hookland.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Or indeed, perhaps it is very much a a Green Grandmother sort of day. Midsummer under the hedgerows of Hookland.

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There is no persuading the local children that it isn't the grave of a pirate. There is no persuading the likes of Mr. Danebury that it isn't the most haunted grave in the churchyard. At least the children have an excuse for their fallacy. – Rev. David Dade, Rector of St. Apollonia, Horholne

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Happy release day to Quilting Points. You'd expect me to say nice things about this because they're my friends and there's a recording of a traditional Hookland folk song on the album, but everyone knows I'm too old and grumpy to be anything other than accurate, so I'll just say for now: bloody fab.

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Goodnight from Jake Webster, concluding no size of carp could ever make it worth nocturnal fishing the Stannis. Goodnight from the Coreham Echo’s printing press where the headline: ‘THREE BODIES IN FIVE DAYS’ has ended all thoughts of further banter. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Those obstructed doorways in ancient walls always demand stories from us. There is a power behind that old act of denial that echoes into the now. We try to suppress words like 'portal', 'ghost-leakage', but still they come. Beyond the blockade, a psychic calling. – Brian Danebury, 1982

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