Sarah Rance-Riley

Narrative; visual & material culture; death culture; community heritage; folklore; film.

[Sarah Rance-Riley @SRanceRiley]

#Caturday News Flash!! Science claims cats do not deliberately steal babies' breath during the night.

https://t.co/C4pXiTUaoz

Img: 'The Witches Cove' - follower Jan Mandijn 16thC.

[Sarah Rance-Riley @SRanceRiley]

Just to say @FolkloreFilmFes is currently unable to log onto twitter (several days now). The image below is the prompt that keeps appearing - there isn't a phone number linked to the account as only linked to email.

Not sure what it means/what to do... sorry, folks. 🤷

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Coming to you, direct from Iceland. It's just not a proper #GothicAdvent until the Yule Lads arrive...

[David Castleton (Author) @david_castleton]

The Russian version of Santa is Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost. This figure was popularised in a play of 1873, but is thought to be based on an elemental snow demon associated with brutal winters. #FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #folklore #Christmas

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Here's a little taste of #WinterFolklore magic from the "Mother of Czech animation." ❄️❄️

'Snehulák / Snowman' (1966) dir. Hermína Týrlová.

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

🎶O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... wait. What?? 🎶

#GothicAdvent / #FolkloreThursday

'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1913) dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz (Ladislas Starevich).

[WunderKammer  @DirkPuehl]

"Block: Black for you!
Death: It becomes me well."

A game of chess - Ingmar Bergman's iconic "Seventh Seal" for a dark Medieval #WyrdWednesday

#31DaysOfHalloween #FolkloreAtNight

[Cassetteboy @Cassetteboy]

New! Cassetteboy vs Boris Johnson 2021 #cpc21

[Seed in the Sand @SEED_SAND_FILM]

The Masked Woman appears as a stop-motion puppet, and also in limited live-action sequences, moving between worlds.

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Hey #FolkloreThursday gang! Awesome theme today by @FolkloreThurs - if you'd like to dip into our #FolkloreWomen archive, please do so below! Enjoy. https://t.co/BOTwrE0wXt

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Asking all our followers to please retweet the message below. We've never asked for support like this, but we're taking a stand for everyone who suffers from mental health.

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay on Oct 10th - we all need to tell our stories & make some NOISE.

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

@GillianKeegan - I'm ashamed that our local MP is the minister for mental health. Mental Health provision in Sussex is a total scandal - and your party is to blame.

Give the NHS/CAMHS what they need to do their jobs. It will be too late when our children are dead.
@Chiobserver

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1952 fable & featuring the breathtaking paint-on-glass animation technique -

'The Old Man and the Sea / Старик и море' (1999) dir. Aleksandr Petrov.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Life of insects. Excerpt from "Spring Fly" Soviet Estonian animation film, 1986

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

A little something for #FairyTaleTuesday ---

Based on the 1845 fairytale 'The Elfin Hill / Elverhøj / The Elf Mound' by Hans Christian Andersen; which in turn inspired Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt'.

'The Big Underground Ball / Bolshoy podzemnyy bal' (1987) dir. Stanislav Sokolov.

[Sarah Rance-Riley @SRanceRiley]

Really appalling behaviour from #tReds @tRedsOfficial. Shutting down the #Chichester store with no notice & making everyone redundant 2 weeks before Christmas.

You've strung along your workforce along for weeks. They have bills to pay/families to support.

#MerryChristmastReds.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet-era mitten 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

#SovietFilmWednesday --- taken from a 1938 fairy tale story by Pavel Bazhov, which was based on a folktale from the Ural region of Siberia:

#WinterFolklore

'A Little Silver Hoof / Серебряное копытце / Serebryanoe Kopytce' (1977) dir. Gennadiy Sokolskiy.

[Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 @FolkloreFilmFes]

A Norwegian folktale/Russian animation for #FolkloreThursday.

When dealing with a selfish, loathsome & stupid Troll, resourcefulness, quick-thinking and *flattery* will get you everywhere ---

'The Three Sisters Who Fell Into the Mountain' (2000) dir. Ekaterina Mikhailova.

[Jack MacGregor @JiggeryJackMac]

Snowdonia's Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most iconic peaks, it's name translates as Idris' Chair, a nod to the giant who once used the mountain as a throne.
It is said that whoever sleeps on the mountain will awaken as a madman, a poet or will never wake again.
#FolkloreThursday

[Emily Jessica Turner @emilyjessturner]

New hobby: drawing cosy stuff on Procreate