Spent yesterday looking at the follies of John mad Jack Fuller. Thank you to Clive Murrell for showing me around. ✨🙏✨ #folklore
Liz Overs
@overslizzie.bsky.social
Folk ✨Folklore ✨ Folk singer/songwriter Sussex UK
Aconite, wolf’s bane, monkshood, helmet flower, friar’s cap, Dumbledore’s delight.., Associated with Halloween as one of the ingredients in witches ‘flying ointment’ 🧙 to induce hallucinations 📷 mine from Charleston garden, Lewes #wyrdwednesday
Lovely day yesterday at the Wilmington yew tree festival ✨
When young Thomas Chowne of Alfriston and his dog were killed by robbers on White Way, the ghost of a white dog was said to appear every seven years. Their bones were found during roadworks and moved to the church graveyard. No reported sightings have been made since. #wyrdwednesday
Wish hounds, witch hounds… Reports of spectral, demonic witch hounds from Downland shepherds in the 1930s, hearing hounds, horse hooves and huntsman’s horn over the cliffs #wyrdwednesday
‘Ye bells of Bosham, ring for me, For as ye ring, I ring wi’ ye’ 🔔 Legend says Vikings stole the tenor bell from Bosham church, but as they set sail their ship sank. The bell was lost to the sea and is still heard to ring from beneath the waves. #wyrdwednesday #folklore
‘Some wicked women, perverted by the Devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the hours of the night to ride upon certain beasts with Diana, the moon-goddess of pagans’ (C9th AD) #wyrdwednesday
Friday 28th August, from 8.15pm Observatory Science Centre 🌝 I’ll be playing again at the Observatory Science Centre’s Astronomy Festival this year, joined by David Tomlins on guitar. Stargazing if weather permits ✨✨✨ www.the-observatory.org/shop/events/... #astronomy #stargazing #sussex
Harvesting the barley that makes the Long Man beer. Oh, three men went to market To sell three loads of rye They shouted up and they shouted down The barley grain should die #longmanbeer #longman #sussex
The yellow horned poppy/bruisewort has golden yellow flowers followed by seedpods up to 30cm long that curl like elephant tusks. Grows along the Sussex coastline in shingle, this one at Cuckmere where the river meets the sea. #wyrdwednesday #folklore
The story goes… St Dunstan was doing smithy work one day when a seductive young maiden came to him. He wasn’t tricked and bid her come closer. Then he took his tongs from the fire and grabbed her by the nose, whereupon the Devil’s true form was revealed. #wyrdwednesday #folklore
Thanks to Jo Goddard for Up With The Larks yesterday morning at Rottingdean Windmill. Lovely to sing there again this year with fellow folk singers Sandra Manning Jones and Jo, watch Frankenstein’s Morris. Seemed weird to be home by 8am. Photo of me by @pixelsonapage.bsky.social 🙏 Barry P
The belief is very common... that violent grieving for the dead will prevent their resting in their graves in peace. There is a song called The Unquiet Grave, which turns on this belief. (1868) ‘Oh who sits weeping on my grave And will not let me sleep?’ #wyrdwednesday rest
Join us for sunrise singing at Rottingdean Windmill on Sunday 26th July I’m singing with Jo Goddard and Sandra Manning-Jones. 5.18am start 🌞 Free but book a place to come… bit.ly/4yyiXyk #sussex #rottingdean #folkmusic
Up With The Larks at Rottingdean Windmill 2026
Join us for an early morning folk singing session at Rottingdean Windmill. With a retiring collection to raise money for vital repairs.
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If like me you're longing for the sea this photo's for you:small precious things I found on a walk on Old Hunstanton beach 2 yrs ago (+an aquamarine bc it looks like a Cornish rockpool). Let your brain swim about in the beachy colours & tell me your fave exhibit in this tiny museum if you fancy it🪸:
As the days begin to shorten, The heat begins to scorch them #folklore
St Swithin’s Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain; St Swithin’s Day, if thou fair, For forty days ‘twill rain no more St Swithin’s Day, 15th July #wyrdwednesday
Saturday 11th July A Celebration of Sussex at Newhaven Fort I’ll be singing throughout the day joined by David Tomlins and including traditional songs with a local history. Dancing by Long Man Morris ✨ Storytelling and have-a-go weaving by The Woven Owl ✨ Stalls selling local Sussex produce ✨
Beginning and end of yesterday’s solstice. Wishing all peaceful, happy summer days 🌞
Last of the Mostly Folk summer events… Jason McNiff is a British troubadour often touted as one of the UK’s most overlooked musical treasures. He’s released nine albums in the Folk/Americana/Chanson genres. Superb finger picking folkie, MOJO www.lizovers.com/event-detail...
Jason McNiff, hosted by Liz Overs at Emma Mason Gallery | liz overs
UK's premier fingerstyle guitarist (Mojo)
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Tickets: www.lizovers.com/live The next Mostly Folk event is Friday 3rd July. The Owl Service... Dorothy Chappell, Rebecca Leivers, and Steven Paul Collins Essex-based alternative folk collective who have been fusing traditional British song with bold instrumentation for the past 20 years.
I’ll be joined by David Tomlins to play at 12 on Sunday, part of Treebourne’s day of music and nature. It’s being held at Sevenoaks Rec, home to the woodland they planted in 2021. Treebourne have planted 10,000 trees on this site alone and many more around the town, I think 39,000 so far.💚
Working on the long man yesterday with James Neal and his team. So lucky with the weather 🌞 #thelongman
Had the best of times in Whitby. With thanks to The Hand of Glory Folklore Festival, Flash Company Arts and Debbie Armour for having Sophia Kingshill and me along to this beautifully created event 🙏 Loved watching all, including maypole dancing, with singers led by Rebecca Denniff ✨ #whitby
📣 I’m hosting a series of intimate gigs at Emma Mason Prints in Eastbourne. 🎟️ www.lizovers.com/live Ticket price includes a drink The first is June 5th with Andrew Rumsey… ‘Hushed, haunted and shiver-inducing’ (The Guardian)
