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Terri Elizabeth Reid

@TerriElizabethR

Performer Writer Speaker. One half of Pedlars & Petticoats, FRSA; Member Folklore Society & Historical Association; she/her; https://t.co/qie6aagx1L

Basingstoke Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Susie Dent@susie_dent·
Etymology of the day is 'on tenterhooks' (not 'tenderhooks'): tenters, once a common sight, are wooden frames on which freshly milled cloth is stretched so that it dries without shrinking. To be on tenterhooks is to be as tense and taut as the cloth itself.
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Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonder·
... and into The Month we go! 'Anne of the Island' • Lucy Maud Montgomery •
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Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonder·
'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare. A spooky classic.
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Terri Elizabeth Reid@TerriElizabethR·
#bookologythursday In MR James' The Ash Tree a witch is buried under a tree, cursing her accuser as she dies. His house is then haunted by strange occurrences and sudden deaths. When the tree is destroyed a skeleton and a nest of huge spiders is found #31DaysOfHaunting #Halloween
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WeirdInTheWade@WeirdInTheWade·
‘Staggering array’ of witches’ marks discovered at English Heritage site Added to my list of places to visit! theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…
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Susie Dent@susie_dent·
If anyone is in need of some distraction from the world - and who isn’t? - here’s one of my favourite word stories.
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#FolkloreThursday It's said that the Palace Theatre in London kept two seats permanently bolted open and unavailable for booking. They were reserved for the Theatre's resident ghosts, one said to be the spirit of Ivor Novello, the other the ghost of a ballerina #31DaysofHaunting
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#FolkloreSunday The Bank of England Ghost was seen for many years. After a clerk at the bank was executed for fraud, his distraught sister visited every day begging to see him. Her visits continued even after her death, she was still there, still searching #31DaysofHaunting
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Eleanor Parker@ClerkofOxford·
If it's warm and sunny today, that's an example of 'St Luke's little summer' - a traditional name for a period of fine weather around the feast of St Luke, 18 October. The sunlight of summer, falling on the glowing colours of autumn. gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sackvil…
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Will Hutton@williamnhutton·
The estimated cost of Brexit in annual lost tax revenue is £40 billion. The Treasury briefs there is now a £40 billion fiscal adjustment to be made. Of course other decisions ( the Tory NI cuts) have contributed. Nonetheless October 30th is fairly the Brexit Budget Reckoning .
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#WyrdWednesday The Black Dog of Newgate was said to have once been a sorcerer imprisoned there. The starving inmates, resorting to cannibalism, killed him in their hunger. Soon after, a black dog began haunting the gaol, picking off guilty prisoners one by one #31DaysofHaunting
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Susie Dent@susie_dent·
Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a place to which an animal/human can retreat entirely for the winter months.
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Dickens Museum@DickensMuseum·
One of Dickens’s great loves was performing. He designed this reading desk so that audiences had a full view of his theatrics during his usually 2-hour readings. This particular desk even accompanied him on his 1868 tour through America and Canada. 🎭
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#BookologyThursday In Sir Walter Scott's The Eve of St John a Lady meets her lover for 3 nights while her husband is away at battle. When the husband returns, she hears that he killed the lover days ago, the lover had been a phantom #31DaysofHaunting Art: John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Eleanor Parker@ClerkofOxford·
It's October, the month with perhaps the most evocative name in the Anglo-Saxon calendar: in Old English it was called 'Winterfylleð', because the full moon of this month marked the beginning of winter.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Bumblebee Conservation Trust@BumblebeeTrust·
🚩 According to our latest #BeeWalk figures, 2024 has been the worst year on record for our bumblebees 📉 We need your help. We’re launching an urgent appeal to secure a future for bumblebees. Find out more at: ow.ly/UwTC50TvYCm
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