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Interview footage here with Margaret Murray, Gerald Gardner, and Aleister Crowley's friend and executor Louis Wilkinson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgja...

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Protection & Power!

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The Serpent Stone - a Class I Pictish Symbol stone which is located at Aberlemno in Angus. The stone dates to around the 7th century AD, and is probably a re-used prehistoric standing stone. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #Aberlermno

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#standingstonesunday One of my favourite stone circles - Lochbuie on Mull. There are a few outliers around the main ring, performing their mysterious functions.

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#StandingStoneSunday One of the stones in the triple stone row on Challacombe Down #Dartmoor

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Bedd Arthur, looking across to Carn Menyn and Foel Drygarn. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Preseli #Pembrokeshire

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I would watch a whole movie just about these characters. Such a POWERFUL scene of gravity and grace.

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‘The Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. Now in their painting and sculpture, the image of Pan is made with the head and the legs of a goat, as among the Greeks...’ — Herodotus, ‘Persian Wars,’ II. 46

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For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers

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Summer flowers are officially in bloom! 🌸 #salem #summer #salemwitchmuseum #museum #flowers #nature #bloom

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Beautiful images of the Etna pyroclastic flow. These are superheated clouds of rock, ash, & debris that can reach speeds of a jetliner (~500mph). They form when material ejected in eruption is too heavy to stay airborne and the eruption column collapses on itself. St. Helens had a huge one in 1989.

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Mt. Etna is one of the most potentially dangerous volcanoes on Earth, b/c of the large population nearby, its past history of slope collapse/tsunami, and its pure eruptive potential. This DOES NOT mean every eruption is huge or deadly. It means we need to keep a close eye on it and build/live smart.

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Wishing a happy Pride month to all who celebrate! 🎨Heliodorus of Rhodes, Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes (detail), 2nd century BCE.

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In 1967, French fishing vessel Sainte Astrid reports a sighting of the infamous Maryworth Sea Serpent off of the county’s coast at the spot known to mariners as The Mare’s Mouth. #HOTD (Hookland On This Day)

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We come to ruins with ghost expectations. We know that if the stones and bricks do not leak spirits on our visit, they will at least always leak stories. For ghostlore is a condition of both place and our cave-old need for narrative. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Ghostlore

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Come with us on a research trip to Boston! Today we were searching for the grave of Mercy Short (married name Marshall). Follow to see where we go next! #salemwitchmuseum #history #research #salemwitchtrials #witch #witchtrials #witchcraft #boston #museum

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Digging through it.

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The lingering fear of a Wood Sprite may be measured in the special treatment its former home tree receives even when it has been vacated. At Panstone Green, the old residence of John-of-the-Whips is still given appeasements, receives parish council support. Terror tarries. – Dr. M. Benn

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Those stone saints, part erased by brute puritanism, often retain folk faith cults. They may be missing a head or even a verifiable name, but they retain pilgrims. Candles are lit, ears of corn or corns left. Flagstones below polished by praying keens. A living lithic devotion. – Dr. M. Benn

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Photograph of ‘The Whispering Knights’ Rollright stones in Oxfordshire by John Piper

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‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’ — Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)

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It has been eighteen years since I wrote Spirit Speak. During that time my experiences have given me new thoughts to share. In addition to modifications, clarifications, and refinements to the existing work, it is no 10,000 words longer. www.calameo.com/red-wheel_we...

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Some who see the high, tree-enfolding hedges of summer as no more than green walls. I am a witch. I see not a green wall, but pharmacy for future ills. I see not a green wall, but a parade of wild augury. The lanes are lined with magical potential. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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When you're hot, you're hot.... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8039ttpPMg

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Part of witchcraft and witchgraft is a charting of spirits. Tutelary deities, genii locorum – the witch walks to make a map of where they can be found. The witch walks to make a connection with them. For all magic is rooted in relationships. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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There has been much debate as to whether Burnswark hillfort in S. Scotland was the site of a Roman siege, or was a long abandoned fort re-used by the Romans as a training camp. Excavation in in the 60's recovered lots of Roman ballistics and even a Roman sword! #HillfortsWednesday

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The 4.5m tall menhir of Beg-Meil near the signal station in Fouesnant (Finistère) was pulled over in the 1940s because it had been painted white and acted as a landmark. It has never been re-erected. Card by Neurdein c. 1909.

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In the trees by the Cotswold village of Enstone stands the Hoar Stone, the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb. Local legend says that the stones will return to their places if anyone tries to move them and that one of them sometimes travels to the brook at nearby Woodford to drink. #TombTuesday

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#Salem has some truly amazing ocean views! #ocean #massachusetts #nature

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As it would be the birthday of #PeterCushing today, I feel obligated to tell this story of one of the nicest men in horror.

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Met the Long Man yesterday! It was so great to wander out of Wilmington and see him on the hillside, where he’s been (in successive incarnations) for 500 years. And maybe even longer, who knows!

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Alleged home tree of the Wood Sprite known as Bone Daggers. Favoured payments for his terror tithe include dolls' clothing, Matchbox cars, wine gums and bird wings. Local children say once Garry Collins didn't pay his tax to Bone Daggers and next day he ran out on the road and got hit by a Cortina.

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A three-year-old atropa belladonna root I dug up today.

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Avebury, June 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

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A group of attendees at the Northeast Thing, an annual Heathen event held in August, will be boycotting the event following the executive board’s decision to ban a workshop presenter from attending this year’s Thing. wildhunt.org/2025/05/boyc... #boycott #northeastthing #heathen #transgender

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#StandingStoneSunday One from the archives... Cycle-touring & camping as a teenager in 1988 - out from Cardiff to take in Avebury, Stonehenge, Stanton Drew & other sites. I remember it mostly rained 🫣 📷 Bike propped at the Cove, Avebury, showing the descending stone 'eyes'/circles on the upright 🧐

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#standingstonesunday The very impressive and spectacular Clach an Trushal on Lewis, almost SIX metres high and Scotland’s tallest stone. I always wonder what it must be like to live next door to it.

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The shadow of the Long Neolithic provides shelter for stories. Its umbra houses an ecosystem of folklore grown from our complex relationship between place and need for narrative. The landscape's lithic story engines have never stopped turning. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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It's Caturday! "Mystery, magic, and a hint of mayhem." 🌕 This is the Moon from the Everyday Witch Tarot illustrated by me, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, published by Llewellyn. Signed prints of every card from the deck: albaillustration.etsy.com #cats #caturday #tarot #moon #witch

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Somehow the ghost soil always seems more active on St. Sara's day. Almost as if the displaced dead know there are ears who will listen to them. You can feel it as a prickling of your psychic skin. A sense of the land's long memory of those unnamed folk push to the margins. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

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For it is St. Sarah’s day, a time of horse fair and pilgrimage to half-hidden roadside shrines. Even those who turn away from the folk faith of others know the phrase: ‘To laugh is to pray on St. Sarah’s day.’ - #CLNolan #Folklore

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Folklore is a lens that doesn't come off. There are certain places you encounter and your first thought comes from parental scarelore that taught you: 'Stay Belows live in places like this.' The lore lives in us. Stories that don't ever end. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH #Folklore

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#WorldGothDay #CaturdayEve

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This piece emerged from a meditation on urban mysticism—where the architecture of self dissolves into sacred geometry. The eye and lotus converge as thresholds: one sees, the other blooms, both revealing what lies beyond the veil of routine perception. #SynthArt #UrbanGaze Aperture of Becoming

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There are signs when a church starts to turn feral. Its walls wear green, its windows become bold in showing ghosts in the glass. Inside, dust forms into words never written in any Biblical language. Congregations of the dead say mildewed prayers. Lead thieves remember a childhood fear of curses.

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