Rachel Oakes

Mother, Artist, Scorpio & Stevie Nicks Obsessive, Folklore & Witchyness

[The Museum of Curiosities @CuriosMuseum]

Authentic 16th Century Plague Doctor Mask Preserved and on Display at the German Museum of Medical History.

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

Macbeth’s Hillock, where Macbeth met the 3 Wryd Sisters, was not as moody today as Shakespeare would have liked, and even tried to give a rational account of who the *real* king was ...
I prefer @helleborezine telling of the tale.

[Micah Ulrich @micahulrich]

Burn the witch.

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

@SongWarmonger @Slippery_Jack I miss her

[Olivia Armstrong - Storyteller @oliviasstories]

In the Fens, honeysuckle was once banned from homes as it gave girls erotic dreams! If any was brought inside, a wedding would follow...
#FairytaleTuesday 🎨Tirzah Garwood🌸

[Nina Antonia @NinaAntonia13]

'Swiftly walk over the western wave
Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty Eastern cave
Where all the long & daylight,
Thou wovest dreams of joy & fear
Which make thee terrible & dear
Swift be thy flight.' (Shelley/Maskek)

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

@BethanJones9 Ooooh, happy day!

[Thinkwert @Thinkwert]

Before the portals between our world and the Fae Kingdom were closed in 1909, tourists would often visit the English bordertown of Ombersley to pose with visitors from the other side. Photographs could be purchased for a copper penny or two; silver coins were strictly prohibited.

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

@Slippery_Jack Crown? Seeking King John’s lost treasure in The Wash ...?

[Fox Guardians @foxguardiansuk]

Foxeroo breakfast delivery😆 One cub was VERY excited when dad delivered a bread roll at 5 am! Turn the sound UP to hear the what a happy cub sounds like! 🦊 The roll was swiftly cached and the cub decided to follow dad on an adventure 🐾#cemeteryfoxes #foxcub #cub #foxdad #fox

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

@OwenSGriffiths @thehappysalmon @Uncanny_Will @danny_robins The Hooded Man shall come to the forest? There to meet with Herne the Hunter and do his bidding? Always hoped that experience wouldn’t be quite as freaky as Harry Called
#nothingisforgotten

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

“I believe folk horror touches on a deep longing in many today - the need for roots.”

[Tristan S. Rapp @Hieraaetus]

I have been thinking about the genre of folk horror recently. It is in many ways an interesting one. Unlike nearly all other varieties of horror fiction, it derives its potency not from the fear of the unknown as such, but precisely from the domestic element.

[Rachel Oakes @enchanted_oaks]

Yes. Gloriously creeped out.
Looking for patterns or faces was a thing too

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

Was it just me, or did you get creeped out when this happened at night? #80s 👻

[Long Victorian @longvictorian2]

The Wizard (1896–98) by Edward Burne-Jones (English artist, lived 1833–1898). Birmingham Museums Trust. Burne-Jones referred to it as his 'Maiden and Necromancer picture'. #PreRaphaelite style.

[Nina Antonia @NinaAntonia13]

'Wonderful World Turned Upside Down' 1611 - Johannes Wackherleigh's dipiction of a sartorially smart stag as hunter of humans, whilst a hare happily blows the hunting horn........

[Signe Maene  is on Bluesky, Instagram & elsewhere @MaeneSigne]

'...no answer
Came from the graves of the dead, nor the
gloomier grave of the living.'
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

🎨F. S. Coburn
#BookChatWeekly #OfDarkAndMacabre

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

#FaustianFriday
~ Witchcraft and Belladonna ~
Along with opium poppy and other plants, belladonna was believed to make up the ‘flying ointment’ used by witches.
Commentators thought the ointment helped the witches to fly to their gatherings, but it’s more likely that a combination of the plants caused hallucinations.
This helps to explain why some people used it in spells to “induce second sight”