You can read the whole story here 🥹🥹🥹🥰:
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*stares in historian*

if you’re really good at your job, instead of getting a raise, you just get more people’s work

the whole art of magic

I gifted my nephew my laptop for his birthday today. This is what my sis overheard him saying. Y’all, my tears could turn a desert into a rainforest. 😭

Folklore Studies. Well, well. Our MA Folklore Studies is listed No 2 in the world's most unusual degrees list!!! We'll take this as a win I think Leanne Calvert Ceri Houlbrook

Due to the response, created a mini reading/watch list to understand Central/Eastern Europe better:

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The specific exception is if you go to graduate school with the intention of being a sleeper agent to improve academic (or government/broader nonprofit research) culture. That is potentially quite valuable for society (though it won't necessarily be lucrative for you personally).

Now we can have a spell for dusting and vacuuming

*GASP*

England’s holiest beer (the only one brewed by actual Trappist monks)

Niece 2 pronounces ‘croissant’ as ‘crow-snot’ and I will now forever call them that, with my apologies to the French 🌹

While I am sadden that the wallet was stolen and the money taken in the first place, there is a certain small measure of honour…

Dr Francis Young As an Irishman, it's rare to be able to say, 'I'm so sorry our cultural traditions overtook yours.' 😂

This and every Hallowe'en, I and dozens of other English folklorists stand in solidarity with 24 April (St Mark's Eve), which was usurped in the late c20th as *England's spookiest day* by Hallowe'en 🙁

FaceTime with my brother as he’s cooking with his girls (4 & 2). They are adding garlic and paprika. They ask how much. He said until Nagypapa (our father, who has passed) tells them “elég, lányom” (enough, my girl). I could smell the garlic and paprika from 600km away ❤️

every Halloween I think about Obama absolutely losing it when he met Baby Pope

What’s the collective noun for writers of ghost stories?

Susie Dent Love the word - coincidentally am working on a poem about it for my next poetry book ☺️

Word of the Day is a reminder of the beautiful Old English ‘uhtceare’ [ucht-kay-ara]: ‘dawn sorrow’, for those moments when you lie awake in the darkness and worry.