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We're on our honeymoon at the moment, but did just want to share this... 🖤 Thank you to Lauren at The History Press for sending it through!

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The first episode in our "Fairy Book Project" was released this morning. On it, Martin tells The Bronze Ring - a story about the nature of nobility, talking mice, evil sorcerers, and why you should always be nice to old ladies... #fairytales #thebronzering #langfairybooks

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On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin is joined by folk musician, editor of Facts & Fiction magazine, and author of books including #Derbyshire Folk Tales, Pete Castle! 🖤 #history #folklore #podcast #folktales #fairytales #folkcustoms #arborlow #petecastle #storytelling

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Wanna learn about the life of Giordano Bruno, perhaps the most famous wizard of the Renaissance?! 🖤 #magic #wizard #giordanobruno #renaissance #esoterica #historyofmagic #elizabethan #heresy #newepisode

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Also out today is our April Film Club episode about 1968's Witchfinder General, exclusively on #Patreon! Is Vincent Price any good in the film? Is it scary enough, or folky enough, to move the needle for modern viewers? And why is the whole thing overdubbed?! #witchfindergeneral #folkhorror #podcast

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On this month's episode of Magus - out now! - we are travelling all about Renaissance Europe and up through the layers of the heavens to undertake divine revelations into the life, times, and accomplishments of Giordano Bruno! 🖤 #giordanobruno #esoterica #renaissancemagic #witchy #occult #necromancy

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Happy #EasterMonday! On this week's episode of Three Ravens we're off to the land of the Dark Peak and the White, exploring to #history and #folklore of #Derbyshire from Old Tup to the Longdendale #Werewolf and beyond - and Eleanor has a slice of watery folk horror for you to enjoy, too! 🖤

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@threeravenspod.bsky.social having just seen SINNERS and having the best time, can I humbly suggest consideration for a Three Ravens Film Club? Would love hearing the raven rating for folkiness and heaving bosoms alone

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On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin is joined by blogger, museum worker, tour guide, and all-round champion for #Herefordshire, The Herefordian Historian! We've got cities saved by peas, #ghosts shaking cathedrals... it's a good one! 🖤 #history #folklore #podcast #legends #folktales

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Nymphs and fauns, thank you so much for your veritable pantheon of #FolkyFriday posts! We're going to be taking a few weeks off to get married but will return, in matrimonial bliss, on 9/5 with the theme of "Folk Remedies and Healers." Tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for sharing then!

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The mythic Hindu warrior Aravan chooses to be ritualistically sacrificed to ensure victory in war, but wants to marry first to ensure a proper funeral. The male deity Krishna turns into a woman, Mohini, to marry him, grants him the funeral he wanted, then turns back into a deity. #FolkyFriday

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The Norse god Odin is known for hanging himself on the World Tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days, sacrificing himself to gain divine knowledge. During this time, he has visions of other worlds. He returns from the dead with the ability to read runes. #FolkyFriday

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John the Blind or John of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Jang de Blannen; German: Johann der Blinde; Czech: Jan Lucemburský; 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346) was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. #FolkyFriday 🧵

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Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that handwashing drastically reduced deaths from childbed fever. His peers ridiculed him. Unable to prove his theory scientifically, he was dismissed, institutionalized, and beaten in an asylum—dying from sepsis at 47. #FolkyFriday

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In Chinese myth, pandas used to be all white, until a brave shepherdess was killed while rescuing a cub from a leopard attack. All pandas covered their arms with black ash in mourning, & still carry the stains of the ashes on their fur in memory of her sacrifice. #FolkyFriday

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In Greek mythology, Hector (/ˈhɛktər/; Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, pronounced [héktɔːr]) was a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's Iliad, where he leads the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, #FolkyFriday 🧵

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Bells were silenced from Maundy Thursday through to Easter Sunday. On Good Friday, French children were told the bells had flown off to Rome to bring back the Easter Eggs... #GoodFriday #FolkyFriday #Easter

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Marcus Junius Brutus joined the assassination of Julius Caesar not out of hatred, but hope. He believed killing Caesar would restore the Roman Republic. Instead, it plunged Rome into civil war. “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more,” he said. #FolkyFriday

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In North Germany, it was said if you wish to see witches on May-day, go into church on Good Friday, but be sure not to stop to hear the benediction...! #GoodFriday #FolkyFriday #Easter 🎨Beatrice Offor

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🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were unwilling to work on a #GoodFriday - most would not even light their forges - and none would hammer in a nail, out of remembrance and respect. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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#FolkyFriday #GoodFriday Let’s revisit the Norse myth of Balder 🌞—beloved son of Odin & Frigg—whose mom tried to protect him from harm, but missed one thing: mistletoe 🌿. Loki used this to cause Balder’s tragic death 💔. A reminder that even good intentions can have heartbreaking consequences.

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Prometheus, a Titan, defies Zeus and gifts humanity fire—symbol of knowledge and survival. As punishment, Zeus chains him to a rock where an eagle devours his liver daily. It regenerates every night. His torment lasts centuries. He gave humans light and took darkness for himself. #FolkyFriday

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#FolkyFriday Remembering Gelert 🐕💔Prince Llywelyn’s loyal hound. Mistaking bloodied jaws for betrayal, the prince killed Gelert… only to find his child safe and a dead wolf nearby. #Gelert had saved the day, paying the ultimate price. A poignant Welsh tale of sacrifice. #Welshfolklore

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Shiva drank the Halahala poison to stop its destructive powers from harming others, but it proved too potent. To stop it from spreading to his stomach, where the entire universe is housed, his wife Parvati strangled him to stop the poison, turning him blue. #FolkyFriday

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#FolkyFriday A traitor and murderer seeking redemption, Efnysien sacrificed himself to end the war he had begun. He climbed into the magic cauldron that raised the dead, shattering it from within, taking his own life with it. He couldn't undo the war, but he could end the magic that sustained it.

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In the second attempt at Creation, Izanami succeeded in her mission by having ten thousand children, who are the land and kami that inhabits Japan. One of the last born was Kagutsuchi, the god of fire: he destroyed his mother, and created death. #FolkyFriday 🖼: H. Mansouri

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Good morning magical adepts, today's folk lesson || The Grateful Dead || When the hero of a story assists the deceased, in one way or another. Usually, by helping bury their body or saving their loved ones. The deceased will repay the hero & save their lives. #sorcererswisdom #folkyfriday #witchsky

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Speared in the side and sacrificed to himself, Odin hung from Yggdrasil for nine days. His gift was the gift of runes, used for guidance and wisdom and writing. Odin is master of the runes, which were written in stone and wood, and today are used for divination. #FolkyFriday

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In Appalachian legend, there’s a tale of a granny woman who tried to draw sickness from her neighbors using herbs and touch. When she failed, she offered herself in prayer. Some say she died that spring, bones turned to healing stone. Sacrifice is rarely grand. It is quiet. #FolkyFriday

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Good morning magical adepts, today's #folkyfriday || The Five Suns || In Aztec culture the five suns were seen as the different eras, and cataclysms the world has gone through. In the fifth sun, Aztecs sacrificed themselves to aid the fight against the moon & prevent the end of the world!!!

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The youngest daughter in The Six Swans gathered nettles in silence, weaving shirts to break their curse. For years she endured pain and suspicion, never speaking a word. At the stake, about to burn for witchcraft, she finished the final shirt and saved them all. #FolkyFriday

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#FolkyFriday The magical Pair Dadeni could revive the dead - in a zombified, mute form. Used by Matholwch to create a "zombie" army, the cauldron was destroyed by Efnysien [whose actions had started the war] sacrificing his own life by plunging himself into it while still living. 🎨Margaret Jones

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🌿🦌🌿"She saw a figure framed between the sinewed limbs of the trees: tall, broad-shouldered, his ragged cloak spreading into roots where it touched the ground, and bearing the weight of broad twelve-tined antlers upon his head as if they were no more than twigs." #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday 💙📚💙

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Niobe, once a proud mother of many, boasted of her children and mocked the goddess Leto, who had only two. In punishment, Apollo and Artemis struck down her sons and daughters. Niobe fled, weeping, until she turned to stone. Her grief was not born of malice—it came from a mother’s love. #FolkyFriday

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#folkyfriday THE RAVEN 🦅 ..psychopomps, take the form od horses, dogs, birds, a well known one appears in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven", where it is referred to as the "ominous bird of yore", a messenger from Hades, the land of dead souls, ..

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Is it just my perception that geese are aggressive (unlike the cuddly ones in my recent posts)? Or is it an extra part of the #GooseGirl's sad fate to put up w/ biting & intimidating charges? #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #fairytales #BrothersGrimm 🎨 Marie Louise Petiet

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💜⛈️💜The Storm Spirits - by Evelyn De Morgan #FairyTaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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