Fiona Clawes

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
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[Fiona Clawes @FClawes]

@IcySedgwick Yeah! Not just folklore, either. Like, photos of endangered animal species and raging wildfires. Snark is hardly ever funny. And how come no one ever calls snark a micro-aggression? It is! Well, just keep doing what you're doing! A ton of us love your posts!

[Fiona Clawes @FClawes]

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[Catherine Gogerty @catherine_hann]

The grave of Kitty Jay, Kitty was an 18th century orphan who fell pregnant and committed suicide, as with all suicides at the time she was buried at a crossroad. Her grave is always decorated with flowers, no one knows who places them there #FolkloreThursday

[K.E.A @Stargazer_KEA]

The Twilight Zone / Where Is Everybody?

[The History of Vikings @HistoryofViking]

Contemporary writers often portrayed the Vikings as being a uniquely destructive phenomenon. One must remember that the Vikings practiced violence in a time of violence. Their actions could be compared to those of Charlemagne who in 774 devastated Saxony with fire and pillaging.

[National Museums Scotland Library @NMSlibraries]

We couldn’t decide on just one book to post for #WorldBookDay, so here’s a book full of smaller books! Horn books were educational tools for children, and our 1896 History of the horn book has a hidden compartment containing these miniature versions.

[Fiona Clawes @FClawes]

In Flanders Fields https://t.co/KckZecAkBN

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

To think of yourself divorced from landscape is a cruel form of insanity only matched by thinking of oneself separate from the constant context of folklore. #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Sleep is often used as a metaphor for death/resurrection/salvation in fairytales: 'Sleeping Beauty / Dornröschen' (1943) dir. Ferdinand Diehl. #DeathByFolklore

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

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[The Cromwell Museum @MuseumCromwell]

#OnThisDay 18 February 1653 began the three day Battle of Portland, where the Commonwealth fleet under Generals-at-Sea Blake, Monck & Deane defeated the Dutch fleet under Admiral Tromp, restoring English naval supremacy in the English Channel. #17thCentury #OTD

[John Pilgrim @HEStrategy]

Pretty much the best poem ever written.

[Irish Archaeology @irarchaeology]

This old, ivy covered wall is all that now survives of the medieval nunnery at Kilcreevanty, Co Galway. Founded by king Cathal Crovderg O'Conor in c 1200, an inquisition taken in 1543 records that it possessed 'a church & belfry, a dormitory, hall, three chambers, kitchen, etc..'

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale 'De røde sko' from 1845, where the bewitched shoes lead to anguish; agony; amputation & finally death. #DeathByFolklore

'The Red Shoes' (1948) dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.

[Discarding Images @discarding_imgs]

Wild cats, Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, France 15th century (Chantilly, Musée Condé, ms. 367, fol. 19r)

[Daily Grail @DailyGrail]

I read a comment on @Tool’s Facebook post about Darklore X that said “who the f**k cares about ancient meteorite veneration” and now I’m questioning my whole life.

[Discarding Images @discarding_imgs]

Dream job, Apocalypse, Flanders ca. 1313 (BnF, Français 13096, fol. 87r)

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

How about a little gallows humour for #DeathByFolklore? 'Le Roman de Renard / The Tale of the Fox' (1930) dir. Ladislas Starevich, Irène Starewitch.

[Irish Archaeology @irarchaeology]

Aerial photo of Leacanabuaile stone fort in Co. Kerry. It dates from the 9th/10th centuries AD (image by Con Brogan/National Monuments Service)