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Saturday 10 September 2016

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"Grave monsters of fable in deeps of the ferny forest danced minuets that witches had made of their whims and their laughter, long ago long ago in their youth before cities had come to the world. And the trees of the forest heavily lifted slow roots out of the ground and swayed upon them uncouthly and then danced as on monstrous claws, and the insects danced on the huge waving leaves. And in the dark of long caverns weird things in enchanted seclusion rose out of their age-long sleep and danced in the damp"

Lord Dunsany
The King of Elfland's Daughter

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Lackington's
BibliOdyssey

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DARK DORSET - Dorset's premier website devoted to local folklore and the unexplained

On this day 27th June 1728, a strange ghost story from Beaminster
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Industrial Folklore Tapes Vol.II - Springs
Hypnogoria

COMMENTARY CLUB 101 - The Purge
Landscapism

Alternative political cartography: a more rational union
Manx Wytch

Six Ways – a review
microphones in the trees

endurance & inner travels
Morbid Anatomy

JOIN US AT MORBIDANATOMY.ORG
Museum of Witchcraft Diary

Owls swoop into the Harbour
Necropolis Now

New book! A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE

Rutland's Abandoned Prison Camp: Ruins, Graffiti, and Maybe A Ghost or Two?
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

More about the Billy Blin'
The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Go on rising to the Zenith, gouache and watercolour on paper, 2024.
The Faery Folklorist

Robert Kirk Revisited
The Hermitage

New Births on the Edge of Winter
The Witch, The Weird, and The Wonderful

A Belated Annoucement
Westcountry Folklore

Queen Boudica in Cornwall?

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Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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