Melissani Cave. A Magical Underground Lake in Kefalonia. A view looking up through the sunken roof. Everywhere in Greece you will find the colour blue. #blueskymonday #greece #Kefalonia #Cephalonia #melissanicave #landscape #photography
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws… Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. Thrilled to be in top 5% of entrants for 2026 Bridport Novel prize #amquerying
The Hum was a singing of the wires. The Hum was a telling of the land's electric ley in drone and buzz. The Hum was our conversation with wonder. How could we not walk below it? How could we not be pilgrims of the pylons? – Trippy Pete, ex=Pylon Person #VOH
The tower blocks the council put up in the 1960s only took a decade till they were so haunted, no-one wanted to live in them. It weren't just the broken lifts, the smell of piss in the stairwells, it was the ghosts that did for people. Spirits turned mean by the towers' design. Liv Green #VOH
The dolmen of Passebonneau in Le Châtre-Langlin (Indre) has 3.3m long heart-shaped capstone on 5 orthostats. In 1840 it narrowly escaped being dismantled and used in construction of a bridge at Argenton-sur-Creuse. Card by a bookseller Péraud 1908 or earlier.
Part of a 4th century #Roman floor featuring waves, calyx and guilloche Simple but undeniably effective 🤩 From a villa at Brislington found in 1899, lifted in 1900 by Bristol Museum and now on display in the M Shed on Prince's Wharf Happy #MosaicMonday 😊
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality…
Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real
Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality
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Well, well. File under 'learn something new every day...' Lucky Astecs. English are named after a corner ( or bendy bit of land).
EveryHeron 𓅣@everyheron.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Aztecs were named after a Heron. 🪶 The Nahuatl word aztatl means heron or egret. It's the root of Aztlan, "place of herons," the legendary homeland the Mexica said they migrated from. #HeronHistory #history #Birds🧵
“The thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.” (Anne Sexton) 🎨 Seth Fitts #owlishmonday
The work of Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker based in rural Perthshire, Scotland. #WomensArt
Goodnight from The Witch Shirt pub at Cloverhill, where the charity bucket is going round to help those folk caught up in last week rain of stones. Goodnight from Ellis Garside, asking the lines on his face to remember this as the moment he saw a Thornshriek. Goodnight from Hookland.
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve found blooming from across Britain & Ireland in the last week! ☺️
Sarah Lambert@sarahlambert7.bsky.social · yesterdayA misty start at Roydon Common NNR, the last of the summer flowers bejewelled with droplets. Always good to see acid grassland and heathland species rare or absent round Peterborough, especially Hare's-foot Clover, Mossy Stonecrop and Corn Spurrey. All names in ALT #wildflowerhour
Listen to the stones…part of Langstone Moor stone circle, Dartmoor, and a cow ruminating on the partial destruction of this Neolithic/Bronze Age monument as target practice in WWll #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor
‘Falcon with Spread Wings.’ #Sculpture, #Egypt (4th century BC) #art This falcon, holding a shen ring represents the god Horus Behdety. The figure of this god generally hovers protectively over the head of a king.
Autumn colours starting to form. The landscape around Glastonbury Tor always looks lovely at this time of year.
In my thread on haunted staircases, I'd forgotten this one. In June 1884, Kathleen Leigh Hunt was staying with her cousin in a house in Hyde Park Place, #London. She told the @spr1882.bsky.social : 'One morning I seemed to see, about two stairs in front of me, a figure...' [Cont: #SpookySunday
A remarkable ancient Iberian silver patera (offering dish) with a wolf devouring a human head (!), encircled with snakes. It’s surrounded by two friezes: one showing nine hunting scenes, the other a procession of male and female centaurs. In Iberian culture, the wolf was a psychopomp … 🏺 1/ 📸 me
Neolithic standing stones, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, courtesy of Diego Cue. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology
The rapid abandonment of Bennewith House by both the nuns and the orphans left in their dubious care, continues to generate much speculation. Phrases such as ‘mass possession’ and ‘group hysteria’ are commonly used. The gates remain locked, the buildings hollowed and left to rot.
Give me stone bestiaries. Give me lithic libraries of strangeness. Let me look up and see impossible animals, a telling of folklore above me. May carvings roar their stories as part of the transmission of the living lore. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday
Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · 6d ago#WyrdWednesday “Sometimes they come back” The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902) An elderly couple possess a talisman that will grant three wishes. They are warned there will be dire consequences if they use it. Foolishly they wish for money & receive it as compensation for the death of their son.
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
The Long Neolithic lives as call to mystery, call to wonder. Whether we respond to those calls as archaeologists, ley hunters or stone pilgrims – we respond with stories. The Long Neolithic tithes in narrative. With typology or folklore, we all pay our dues. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
I can’t remember which Blueskyer remined me that staircases are liminal, like bridges and crossroads, and therefore favourable for hauntings. There are many #haunted examples – such as the one where the famous Brown Lady of Raynham, #Norfolk, was maybe photographed in the 1930s. [More #SpookySunday
A dramatic scene from the six-volume 'Casquet Of Literature' compiled by James Gibbon and Marie Elizabeth Christie in 1895. Anyone like to guess the story? I suppose some website could find it but I prefer human interaction (as apposed to AI or ghostly!) #SpookySunday #Ghost
Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!
