#FOLKLORE

Victoria Weinstein

peacebang

Clergy, if you are feeling like a secret psychopomp of the Death Mysteries right now and no one really gets that, I get it. We are called and trained to

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

In 1833, a group of workmen quarrying for stone at Bryn yr Ellyllon (Hill of the Elven Faeries) in north Wales, discovered something incredible. There, caked with mud, was a

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread Once upon a time in 1889, the hinterland of what would later become the territory of Kenya was hit by rinderpest. The scourge reportedly wiped out up to 90%

Onion 🥨

onion_pretzel

// jjk manga spoilersI'm going to make this a thread talking about Megumi, his potential, and theories about him because I've been thinking about this for a while now. this

John Warner

biblioracle

When I sat down to consider writing what would become Why They Can't Write, I thought it would be a book of pedagogy, an articulation of a particular philosophy towards

WHERE WERE THEY GOING, MISHA?

RVCBard

Here's my rant about the Xtian normativity that infuses Lovecraft Country (LCC here on out). H/t @LaurenNakaoWinn Some of this is pulled from stuff I wrote elsewhere. Some of it

Dan Kaszeta

DanKaszeta

Today is Remembrance Day/Veterans Day/Armistice Day, called varying things in different countries. In some places it is an official holiday. But 11th of November has an older meaning that pre-dates

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

Freedom for Scotland, 1927 Lewis Spence (1874-1955) published more than forty books, mainly in the fields of folklore and anthropology. A nationalist with strong anti-English opinions, Spence was a founder

pronounced as ‘wind’ 🌙

VVYND

Facade gedung bekas wahana Rama Sinta di Dufan dan patungnya masih ada ga sih?Denger-denger dari temen udah diganti sama wahana Ice Age. Kalo sampe iya, gue kecewa banget sih. This

M L Clark -- en periodo sabático / on sabbatical!

M_L_Clark

I chuckle sometimes at how truly, truly difficult nuanced discourse is online.A'ight, I'll start! I don't think this story from my 2020 faves got enough love, because it's not free-to-read:Dare

Yonah Bex

remembrancermx

Video game preservation is about far more than a finished video game: a thread People think of video game preservation as the preservation of a playable video game. If they

Cortana Holiday Special

CortanaV

This is such an important point here. The developers, the individuals who just work at CDPR, are innocent victims in this whole thing. They show up, are given direction from

Tim Elwell-Sutton

tim_esPH

1/ My personal thoughts on plans to get rid of @PHE_uk and ‘replace’ it with a ‘pandemic response agency’…as if that’s all that we need from a national public health

Steve Byrne #stayathome #wearfacecoverings

byrnesong

That beekeeper heart honeycomb image. A thread. Firstly, I'm a folklorist to trade. Interested in traditions, customs, tales, songs. How things are passed on. In June 2020, an artist published

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

Very often these conversations about mythic mashups and authenticity get mired in basically people trying to feel out rules for how to do it themselves. "What makes Wakanda/Tolkien/Example okay but

Dan Corder On Your Radio

DanCorderOnAir

Today I will listen to all of Taylor Swifts albums for the first time, in order of release. I have never listened to a Taylor Swift album. Before nightfall, I

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