You can turn anything inside out and it will throw piskies into a bit of a tizzy!

Alternatively you can carry a pinch of salt. Don’t ask me why! But piskies don’t like salt!

Elizabeth Dale 〓〓 Cornish Bird Siân E Powell〓〓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I Do ‘Ave th’Traditional Seckret Piskie Deterrent Recipe, but ‘twill Cost Ye Many Groates t’Coax It from Me

Advice please!
How to avoid being piskie led . . . I know that you should turn your coat inside out but I think I remember that you can turn your pockets inside out too, is that right?
Any other advice?😁
Siân E Powell〓〓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Giving a talk on 23rd April at Falmouth Uni! Be great to see people there as I delve into the enchanted landscape of Cornwall ☺️ what stories do the forests, the sea peninsula, the moors and the granite outcrops betray!?

This April, we’re hosting a special talk at Falmouth University on Cornish folklore.

Taking place at the university's Falmouth Campus on Tuesday 23rd April, the talk will guide you on a mythical journey across the Cornish landscape.

Find out more here cornwallheritagetrust.org/book-your-plac…

Me for the last two weeks

Latest Acquisition! We are delighted to report that Penlee House has received a generous donation from a private benefactor. This John Anthony Park (1878-1962) painting of Penberth was recently on show at Penlee House in the exhibition A Passion for Cornish Art, 2023.

Being a goth is not just for the young and edgy! We need more elderly goths who sit knitting cosy jumpers in graveyards. Goths who bake skull-shaped cookies while cheerfully chatting to their raven pals. Grandma goths.

Two brash students on train from Penzance; tattoos, mockney accents, the plump apple cheeks of prosperity above their scraggy beards. They've been down at the family second home: 'Five days of pure rain and one trip to Land's End. Every year it just gets shitter and shitter' 1/

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

Rykard reference after staring at his portraits and models for 5 billion years

Finally making a ranni reference for my pre shattering design but using more than 50% of my brain this time

[ELDEN RING] some of my favorites

EVERYONE knows EXCEPT these two

Your go to drinks and snacks when you’re poorly? I have the WORST cold & feeling very sorry for myself. Have lucozade though. Lucozade makes everything better. What are yours?