First thoughts when waking up after a night of lightning flashes.

Happy May Day. Here is something we secretly released three years ago today under a different name. 'May Day (as Witches Weave the Maypoles). May your May Day be just as groovy. #mayday #witchdisco
youtu.be/oEma6x3Eycw?si…

Wishing you all a merry 🌹💮🌹 #MayDay 🌹💮🌹
youtu.be/Fisfhe__c6s?si…

Get the track here:
lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/track/oss-girls

#LabourDay2024 #InternationalWorkersDay

Strong overreaching Jamesian antiquary vibes

Too late for #WyrdWednesday ?

Until a decades ago, both in #Galicia and neighboring areas, living 'maios' were common, roaming streets and roads on May Day.

⬇️ Living 'maio' in Portomarín in the 50s of the last century.

Well, that has to be the fastest turnaround ever (for me anyway) from finished drawing to print in Etsy shop... prints done by Bare Branding in Leith. Look them up, local arty types, they are ace. Yours to cherish forever for a mere £20 plus p&p sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/172436…

Goodnight from Lizzie Fleckton, unable to sleep for thoughts about the children in the mirror. Goodnight from Begbear Farm, where recent Fethrower sightings mean both Burt and Eileen Hands are watching Z Cars on TV with shotguns by their sides. Goodnight from Hookland.

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a friend reminded me of this little mari and the may poll piece I did, I think last year maybe?
#beltane #MayDay

‘Covens & Cauldrons A Book of Witches’ edited by Jacynth Hope-Simpson - illustrated by Krystyna Turska - my copy 1977 #WalpurgisNight

'In the Isle of Man witches are supposed to be very active on May-Day Eve...'
From Customs of the World, Great Britain and Ireland by D.H. Moutray Read, 1900, page 1072. #FairyTaleTuesday #MayEve #WalpurgisNight #Bonfire #Witches #1900s

Hanna Alkaf's 'The Girl and the Ghost' is based on Malay folklore of Pelesit, a heritable spirit that often appears as a grasshopper. Pelesit is passed down between generations of the female line as a protective spirit, but can be dangerous.

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash

‘The Witches Frolic’
Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrated by Ernest M Jessop.
My copy 1888 #WalpurgisNight

Children dancing the May Pole on Marine Terrance, Skinningrove. On the hilltop behind, British Steel Skinningrove looms.

Cover image of the booklet, Skinningrove - An Educational Study published 1985 by Manpower Services Commission at Guisborough Educational Development Centre.

Bit of Folk Horror kicking about the place today.
Perhaps, if time allows, you might want to give this a listen.

Made by me 11 year ago.

I’m considering putting it out on vinyl if the interest is there..

thesoullessparty.bandcamp.com/album/tales-fr…

Still better than the Nic Cage version

In 1933 Alfred Watkins of leyline fame gave a lecture at the Queen’s Stone, Symonds Yat in #Herefordshire , in which he proposed that the grooves in the rock were carved to support a wicker cage to hold human sacrifices, and reconstructed how he believed it would have looked

Folk Horror Revival ⨘ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ta! I shall be watching it on a double bill with its immediate follow up, 'Carry On Cthulhu'... Cor, what a cracking pair!

You might appreciate this Folk Horror Revival ⨘ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Quick, I need a naked young man to help me to plant my cucumbers today!