Sophie Syms

PhD student @ClassicsRHUL; memory; space, place & watery landscapes; currently mapping memories at natural holy places in Cornwall; she/her. ✨

[The Folklore Society @FolkloreSociety]

Our next online talk is ‘Rising tides: water beings as agents of change in environmental activism’ by Professor Veronica Strang. Tues 10 December, 18:00 GMT. Tickets £6 (£4 for FLS members with the Promo Code) https://t.co/ntpomuoyG9..

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Lithic pilgrimages have not ceased. From neo-pagans to ley line twitchers, archaeologists to artists, the stones call out. In our answering journeys, a continuity. Like their builders, we are in a relationship with the stones. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

[Sappho Bot @sapphobot]

memories terribly leaked away

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

The Long Neolithic is upon both the external and internal landscapes. It's foolish to deny some feel a sense of sacred whenever they approach one of its manifestations. For many, entering a circle is an experience in temporal transcendence. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

[Ceri Houlbrook @CeriHoulbrook]

Spring is nearly here! And one of my brilliant #Folklore MA students is looking into customs & rituals surrounding the beginning of the season, so please fill in their survey - whether or not you celebrate spring - and share far & wide https://t.co/XRsyDJEtsI

[Folklore Museums Network @FolkloreMuseums]

An amazing conference on the subject of Sacred Waters is happening in Buxton (June 30 - July 3 2024)! #holy #wells and #sacred #springs, #pools, #rivers, #lagoons and #lakes... #cfp #Folklore

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Magical image. This is Marianne Voaden, a renowned Devon charmer & healer who lived alone in her tumbledown cottage. A powerful poor woman looking right at you from the past.

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

We're in a relationship with the stones. They hold a claim to our hearts. Even in the most tangled landscapes, they exist as nexus of desire lines. They call to us as sacred sites and we, Children of the Long Neolithic, make pilgrimage paths– Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

Trees are among the most powerful symbols of humanity’s unbalanced relationship with nature, argues @DrFrancisYoung
https://t.co/iM4Cr6toBN

[Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HER @CIOS_HER]

Just one week to go!

Come along to the first ever EXPO Ertach Kernow | Cornish Heritage EXPO on 29th & 30th September at National Trust Godolphin!

The EXPO is open to the public on both days between 10am and 5pm, with free entrance to the site and car parking.

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

The truth of those tree occulted banks in the King's Chase Forest might be the time-bullied remains of an Iron Age fort, but as a child you learn them as the Giants Graves and that stays with you. No amount of university should ever rub the wonder off you. – Dr. Adie Warner

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis, painting by Jane Fawkes 2022

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Our job as archaeologists is not to erase enchantment, not to unmake the magic of the circle. Our tales and sources may be different, but we too are storytellers, we too are enchanters of the stones. – Dr. K. Brophy, Keeper of Hookland's Stones #StandingStoneSunday

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Boleigh Fogou

[Catherine Munro @CatherineMMunro]

BOOK GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate #UpHellyAa I'm giving away 2 signed copies of my book. To enter just like and retweet this post.
Based on my PhD research & journey to live in #Shetland, Ponies tells the story of Shetland ponies and the people who love them.

[Ceri Houlbrook @CeriHoulbrook]

For any newer researchers in folklore (new to folklore in any stage of your education or career), save the date for this free workshop in collaboration with @FolkloreSociety @ei_folklore @UniofHerts & hosted by @CentreMyth - more information coming soon

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Chûn Quoit
From 'Naenia Cornubiae' by William Copeland Borlase (1879).

[The Folk Archive @TheFolkArchive]

The Pisky Well in The Joan the Wad shop, Polperro, Cornwall

“Dip your Polperro Pisky in the water from the lucky All Saints Well”

Postcard from The Folk Archive Collection

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Every river, every stream has its spirit. Some sing, giggle as they rush across pebbles, make game of dragging sticks towards the end of their territory. Some brood, remembering disrespects, unpaid tithes. Others are merely hungry. These are the most dangerous of all. – #CLNolan