Helen Lundström Erwin
@helenerwin.bsky.social
Novelist in the Metaverse Historical Fiction inspired by political movements and resistance. Historical Fantasy inspired by Swedish Sorcery Trials and Folklore. Virtual World inspired by Women's History https://helenerwin.com
We are thrilled to announce that singer and performer 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 Hummingson is kicking off her tour at The Foremothers Café as part of our 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! Wow! Her Kick-Off Event!💃 August 23rd at 3 pm ET. Dress up your avatar in dancing shoes and join us to celebrate love in style!
Want a good fantasy novel to read this hot summer day? #SummerReading #Folklore #History #HistoricalFantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKXW59YV
The end of an era. Join @deedeechainey.bsky.social at the #CulturalFuturesHub on Spatial to celebrate this wonderful community and to reflect on how to building the future.
DeeDeeChainey@deedeechainey.bsky.social · 2mo agoSpatial recently announced it is closing its creator platform. This means that @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social will also close. Join us us to mark the end of an era, and reflect on building better cultural futures: Thurs 18 June 5:30-6:30pm BST FREE TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cultur...
If you haven't yet, go to whitehouse dot gov /aliens You'll be appalled. I have no further comment. Go look at it, then call your representatives. #AliensTrump #Immigration
Looking for a cute book to read to your youngest to celebrate Pride? Introduce them to my lil' police officer. #Pride #LGBTQ #ChildrensBooks www.amazon.com/dp/B07LFJL29M
Officer Helga Hedgehog Meets the New Neighbors
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An excellent summer read!
Faith L. Justice@faithljustice.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime for a great summer read! Check out my #ebook on #sale ($1.99) thru June. “Readers will be captivated with this wonderfully researched, vividly evoked, good old-fashioned storytelling."-Historical Novels Review #booksky #amreading Also 📚🎧. Enjoy! Universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/eniur3hy6j
Näcken was known to turn into a horse now and then. As late as the mid 18th century a woman witnessed in court that her sister had died after seeing Näcken appear as a horse. He went straight through the house. After that, her sister died. #FolkloreThursday (photo credit: unknown)
I'm beyond thrilled. I can't believe it. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and believed in me. This means so much to me. #AWE #Auggies #TheForemothersCafe
The Foremothers Café@theforemotherscafe.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are overjoyed. @helenerwin.bsky.social is a finalist for an Auggie Award for Best Indie Creator! #AWE
#FolkloreCommunity #Folklore and #Naturalist community, you might enjoy joining us today at The Foremothers Cafe. Starting soon at 4 pm. Reach out for details or comment below.
The Foremothers Café@theforemotherscafe.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin us for a conversation on Bee intelligence today at 4 pm.
1/4 There's a lot of conversation about who has the right to write a story, and who has the right to play a role. Our job as writers is to imagine it and to try to understand what it was like.
I've been nominated for an Auggie for Best Indie Creator for The Foremothers Cafe! Please log in here: auggies.awexr.com/auth/login/x... Navigate to Best Indie Creator(s) and please scroll down to vote for The Foremothers Cafe. 🙏 #AWE
#Folklore friends, looking for a book for the weekend that brings you into the heads of two anxious, deadly AND sexy wood spirits and water spirits? Rooted in actual sorcery trial history? Look no further 😊
It was very dangerous to enter a room where a mother had just given birth, a troll could sneak in and exchange the baby for its own. If you brouht fire though, it would be ok. Trolls feared it. Bortbytingarna (The Changelings) by John Bauer #WyrdWednesday
1/2 Anette, milked several hours per day for most of her adult life. Aching arms and stiff backs were a daily presence in statar-milkmaids' day. Still, Anette felt a connection to her cows, like her, they were enslaved to produce milk for the wealthy land owners that "employed" them.
Like a Swedish Sjörå-Sea Rå
Folklore of Scotland@folklorescotland.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlong our coastline there are numerous tales of 'Sea Witches', traditional folklore characters often portrayed as women, who have a magical bond with the sea and the weather elements. One such tale takes place at Turnberry, Ayrshire. #wyrdwednesday #Scotland art: Adrien Amilat
1/3 Anna was accused of witchery June 1669. She was accused of stealing a man's penis, making it feel as though his stomach was full of kittens instead. She left with it meeting his wife at the door and said, "Now I've been in there taking the penis from your husband." #WyrdWednesday Art: ChatGPT
The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems. #wyrdwednesday art: Jakub Rozalski
I'm nominated for Best Indie Creator for The Foremothers Cafe! It's such an honor! Thank you #AWE Please help me get to the finals by voting for The Foremothers Cafe under Best Indie Creator(s) auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/o...
Thor was everywhere!
The Godyssey Podcast@godysseypodcast.com · 3mo agoIn one of England's great folklore crossovers, the Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey was formed when the Norse god Thor, annoyed at the Devil jumping over the Devil's Jumps, threw the earth at him, thus creating the Punchbowl. #FolkloreSunday
Rå loved Thor and his powerful hammer. She went outside during thunderstorms and moved her long hair aside and opened her back so Thor's power could enter her. #SwedishFolklore #Rå Read about her in my historical fantasy The Lure of Water and Wood
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3mo agoWitness the stunning timelapse of a lightning storm over Western Australia, where nature's fury creates a breathtaking spectacle of light and power.
Like Näcken
Bevan Thomas@bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3mo ago"I made up my mind to try again, so I went to the wood where the pool was, where I saw the White People, and I tried again [to call them]. The dark nymph, Alanna, came, and she turned the pool of water into a pool of fire...." - Arthur Machen, "The White People" 🎨Anna Vinogradova #BookWormSat
It's true! OMG, I'm so honored about this. Thank you!
The Foremothers Café@theforemotherscafe.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are deligthed to announce that @helenerwin.bsky.social has been nominated for an Auggie Award for Best Indie Creator! Please vote for her and The Foremothers Cafe so she can go to the finals! Login, then click Indie Creators and scroll down. auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/o...
1/2 In my historical fantasy novel, the Skogsrå is visited by two human women who wants her advice, and to tell her about the horryfing fact that Näcken has been seen in the area. Of course they have no idea who they are confiding in. They think she's human.
Dirk Puehl@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 4mo ago"Forsooth, the eyes they are of one whom, dying, No hand with loving pressure closed; That is the breast whereon I once was lying,— The body sweet, beside which I reposed!" (Goethe "Faust") 🎨 Apparition of Gretchen during Walpurgis night, after Hermann Hendrich #phantomsfriday
