Trevor dePayen ☠

On my last birthday met man who was named William Blake. Bought @forteantimes today, turned to Phenomenomix at the back & guess what? Spooky

#FolkloreSunday The concept that women are more mutable than men due to nature's everchanging cycles is borne out over the centuries by a plethora of moon maiden depictions. Whereas men, perceived as immutable become beastly -werewolves, centaurs, satyrs, creatures of the flesh rather than the ineffable. (art Edward Robert Hughes/Gustaf Tennggren)

Buffalo Eddy Petroglyphs: Petroglyphs pecked into dark basalt in the Lewiston area of west-central Idaho, near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers.

#Caturday Wonderfully eccentric picture by Lawson Wood of a man & his kitties intercepting a potential cat burglar....

"Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human" ~ Prof. Graham Harvey art: Ed Org

Seen on my walk today…a casual PAN (early 18th century, my photo)

If intact the cromlech du Moulin in St-Pierre-Quiberon would be the biggest in Morbihan but stone robbing has reduced it to just an arc of 41 menhirs from its western edge. It lies to the SW of the alignments. Card by Villard in Quimper c.1905.

The evergreen classic;

To all my friends, fellows and X mates: have a wonderful weekend!

Enjoy your Fortean Friday with this motherlode of topnotch studies in the strange and the inexplicable... dip in and blow your mind!

One of my great joys is taking a day off from work and heading into central London and spending an afternoon in the fantastic bookshops. The anticipation and excitement of finding occult treasures is to be savoured. Watkins, Atlantis, Daunt and Treadwells are my favoured haunts.

@AHomelyHouse The ceiling is an hommage to the planetarium of Eise Eisinga in the Dutch town of Franeker. Built between 1774 en 1781, it is the oldest still functioning planetarium.

Thank you Mike. Couldn't have done this without the contributions of some very talented friends. Release date is May 15th.

Art Deco lamp with a mummy inside, by Louis V. Aronson, New York, 1923.

'Knights of Charlemagne' by Henry Pitz

Druids were referred to as 'those with serpent knowledge' They would carry snake eggs as a magical charm for power, insight and journeying into The Otherworld #bookologythursday #druidry art: The Wizard by Arthur Rackham

This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there). A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.

🌿🪦🌿An old Welsh superstition warned against uprooting Periwinkle flowers growing on a grave - the desecrater risked being haunted by the spirit of the buried person, or plagued by terrifying dreams every night. #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

WITCH BOATS & EGG SHELLS According to A Discoverie of Witchcraft 1584, witches like to 'saile in an egge shell, a cockle or muscle shell, through the tempestuous seas'. It was traditional to crush the broken egg shells so they were not stolen by witches 🎨Charles Turner 1807

It's a breezy goodnight from Alberta Vaughn (1904-1992) star of 130 films, mostly silent but a few talkies & a brief spell in the slammer for 'intoxication'. And its goodnight from me........

This is a view of the remains of the transepted passage grave of Keriaval in Carnac (Morbihan) from the early 1900s by Neurdein in Paris showing the NE chamber on the right and terminal cell in the centre. The wicker fence does not feature on later cards.