disappeared to scramble up Dartmoor’s Tors in search of ancient cairns!
Lizzie Bickerstaff
@lizziebickerstaff.bsky.social
English MA student @ University of Bristol. Part-time henge lurker. Interested in paganism, folklore and occultism through the long 19th century. 🧚🏻‍♀️ she/they
John Keats and Celticism? it’s more likely than you think!
this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰
It had been a while since I'd seen anyone dowsing in real life. The King Stone, Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire.
Old English (all used today) ac - oak flacca - snowflake heofon - sky (heaven) heorot - deer (Hart) pæþ - path reġnboga - rainbow treow - tree Weald - Forest (Wald in modern German) wudu - woodland wuduweard - Forester (Warden) All still recognisable
currently researching the incredible Catherine Crowe, her occultist interests and the injust nature of her fall into canonical obscurity with help of the wonderful research by @ruthheholt.bsky.social ! Both brilliant women