Just watched #Springwatch and keen to spot hoverflies? 🐝🌿 Use this handy guide to ID species like the marmalade hoverfly & hornet plumehorn 🧐✨ 📸 Spotted any? Share your pics below! More info 👉 wildaboutgardens.org.uk #HoverflyHeroes #WildAboutGardens

Reminds me of the great Bob Monkhouse gag: "They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now."

On this week's episode of Local Legends, the penultimate for Series 6, Martin is joined around the campfire by folklorists, academics, and The Folklore Society bigwigs Dr Owen Davies and Dr Ceri Houlbrook! They run the University of Hertfordshire Folklore Masters, and are very cool! Listen now!🖤

After years of work, my secrets are finally out! I hope my new book with Oxford Academic will be of use to all scholars who, like me, are interested in what happens when esoteric secrecy meets popular culture

A video from Cambridge University Press introducing my new book 'Silence of the Gods': youtube.com/shorts/jVBxJVK…

✨🔮 Our Magic & Witchcraft Conference in York is almost here! 📅 23–25 June | Hybrid event 🎟️ Last chance for in-person tickets – closes TODAY! 💻 Online registration open until 20 June! Join us for spellbinding talks, history, and fun...don’t miss it! york.ac.uk/crems/events/e…

Avocet chicks hatch ready to run. Within hours, they’re wading through shallow lagoons, feeding themselves as they follow both parents along the water’s edge. The adults stay close, watching carefully and calling sharply at the first sign of danger. #SpringStories

Speaking here July 26th on folk medicine, superstitioons and quackery in colonial Australia. salubriousevents.net/events-1

Anton Kaftanov, 56, a squad leader from Kharkiv, says fencing skills honed through historical reenactment helped him in battle at Soledar. Precision and reaction from sword training improved his marksmanship and tactical decision-making under fire. Photo: 32nd Brigade

These are two British good luck swastika charms from WW1. It was a popular luck symbol. Then, with the rise of the Nazis, people understandably got rid of them. The bottom one was made in 1916 from the frame of a zeppelin shot down in England, & was sold to help the war effort.

Join us next week for our next online talk: Professor Sarah Covington on ‘Connecting Folklore, History and Theory in the 21st Century: Irish Folklore’. Tuesday 17 June at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-f…

📣Call for Papers📣 Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held on Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September 2025 at Tullie House, Carlisle. Submission deadline: 1st July 2025 folklore-society.com/event/lying-in…

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

Not something you expect to see in the trolley port of your local supermarket, but this folklorist is happy #alwaysbefieldworking

There’s nothing quite like the sight of our Voi herd racing in for their midday milk feed — ears flapping and trunks waving — they run down in groups, as our Keepers only have so many hands to feed them! For orphaned elephants, milk is more than a meal; it’s their lifeline.

Tomorrow!

In a quiet English village, one woman’s ice cream raises funds for Ukraine. God bless her!

A good news story? After a ten year absence, swallows have once again nested in my parents' barn. Such a pleasure to seem them sweeping around for insects again.

Un felino misterioso toglie il sonno agli ascolani. Un articolo di Sofia Lincos Sofia Lincos e Giuseppe Stilo Will Amateurish leggendemetropolitane.eu/post/un-felino… #leggendemetropolitane

The Petersyn Witch Fortune Telling Cup. Lovely design & an auction favourite. But information on its origin confused & scant. But I've finally found who Petersyn was & when it was first made - 1909.