Open Graves & Minds

Open Graves, Open Minds Research Project. Emphasising that sense of Gothic as enchantment. Also tweeting as @DrSamGeorge1 @BillBloodyHughe

[Beach Combing @DrBeachcombing]

How a priest and his wife met a fairy and how this led to the world's first troll dossier. https://t.co/JXZxbhT11R

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

The witches & cats of Margaryta Yermolayeva get ready for #Halloween.

#FolkloreSunday #Samhain
#FullMoon #NationalBlackCatDay 27 Oct

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

The Mythology of Samhain: 6 Stories That Give Samhain Added Significance #Folklore
https://t.co/JSotzWJSVj

[Poeta Desastre @PoetaDesastre]

Sleepy Hollow (1999)
En una neblina eterna de misterio y hojas secas.

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Looking for a new text for your #AnimalStudies students? 🐾📚

Beginning Literary Animal Studies by William Welstead introduces students to human-animal studies through #literature, #theory, #science and #ethics.

Published this week!

Order your FREE inspection copy here 👇
https://t.co/z9HnuIsDvN

[XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @x1ngwu]

Jiu Tian Xuan Nu (九天玄女), the Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens, stands between mystic and warrior. In early legend, she appears with a human face and birdlike form, descending to aid the Yellow Emperor against Chiyou.
Armed not with brute strength but with
#mythology

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

How Were Witch Marks Used to Ward Off Evil?
Which ritual marks were the best protection symbols to keep families, homes, and property safe from witches, curses, and evil spirits in early-modern England? #Folklore
https://t.co/agGQlQ9VJs

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

Our new Christmas special edition of a Tales of the Weird favourite is now available to shop online and in-store today!❄️
Celebrate cosying up during the cold winter nights whilst these dark tales send a chill down your spine.

#talesoftheweird #britishlibrarypublishing

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

The Witch, a perennial favourite from Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, originally appearing in Elves & Fairies, published 1916. #FairyTaleTuesday #FolkloreSunday #Halloween #Samhain

[Open Graves & Minds @OGOMProject]

Wow these would be perfect to research for our #botanicalgothic conference

[Theo Paijmans @memizon]

Five fortean pamphlets by Harold T. Wilkins about the mysterious and the unknown. Monsters, flesh eating plants, strange disappearances and lost cities. They are now extremely rare - maybe someone should reprint them.

[Bluebell Raven @BluebellRaven]

“Warlocks and witches in a dance;
Nae cotillion brent-new frae France,
But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels
Put life and mettle in their heels.
A winnock bunker in the east,
There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast…”

Tam o' Shanter is a legendary Scots poem written by Robert Burns. It focuses on the main character, Tam, as he travels home from the market after a night of drinking. On the way, it begins to rain and storm, and he has a supernatural encounter riding past the local church.

🎨Tam o' Shanter by John Joseph Barker, (1866)

[The Folklore Society @FolkloreSociety]

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 'Folklore and the Natural World': The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2027. 11-13 June 2027, The Cut Conference Centre, Shrewsbury. Deadline for proposals: Sunday 13 December 2026 https://t.co/XmnHsXndZv

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

WAKE NOT THE DEAD (1823) Brunhilde is restored from beyond the grave at the instruction of her grieving husband; turning #vampire, she preys on her own children in imitation of female demon Lilith. German vampire tale by Ernst Raupach #31daysofHalloween

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

VAMPIRE HEARTS In historical accounts of vampirism the heart is often taken out & burned or reduced to ashes. This 1896 newspaper cutting about the hearts of the New England #Vampires was found in Stoker's working papers for #Dracula the year he visited NY #31daysofHalloween

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

VAMPIRE VOYAGE Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, botanist to King Louis XIV of France, travelled to Levant in 1700 in search of plants for the Royal garden, but found instead a plague of #vampires and a Greek #vampire epidemic on the island of Myconos #31daysofHalloween

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

"The Broomstick Train" illustration by Howard Pyle, 1905.

[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems.

🖼 Jakub Rozalski #witchwednesday

[MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23]

“Dead leaves,” 1902
Alexandre-Jacques Chantron (French, 1842 – 1918)

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

Dracula (1931) The brides...

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

Bela Lugosi in Return Of the Vampire (Columbia 1943)