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David Castleton (Author)

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Freelance journalist; prize-winning gothic/magical-realist fic; Amazon #1 bestseller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Folklore, graveyards, weird history, myth.

North-East England Katılım Haziran 2016
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A strange spring custom is Whuppity Scoorie, in Lanark, Scotland. Children run round a church, making noise & whirling paper balls around. Some say the custom scares off winter spirits; others claim it recalls the relaxing of curfews as days lengthened #FolkloreSunday #folklore
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GOTHIC MARIONETTES 'Hell is empty, all the devils are here'; aren't they glorious! Prague Marionette Theatre's Folk Devil, Faust, Dracula, Devil for #WorldPuppetDay
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In spring, more spiderwebs appear, due to these creatures becoming more active as they prepare for the mating season. Some folklore asserts that the more spiderwebs you see in spring, the luckier you'll be. #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #Mythology
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Some feel the Isle of Man is named after Manannan, a sea god fond of cloaking the island in mist. From Man's highest point, it's said you can see 7 kingdoms - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland & Man, plus the Kingdom of the Sea & Kingdom of Heaven. #FolkloreSunday #folklore
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In Irish myth, the Salmon of Knowledge absorbed all the knowledge in the world by eating hazelnuts that had fallen into the Well of Wisdom. Fionn, when cooking the fish, burnt his thumb & sucked it - thereafter, he could access any knowledge by biting his thumb. #FairytaleTuesday
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS SCREENPLAY 1920 Yesterday I explored magnificent gothic pile East Riddlesden Hall, the setting for the first ever film adaptation of #WutheringHeights. The screenplay by Eliot Stannard was remarkable to read and the setting was perfect in its gothic gloom. Wow.
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I found the witch's gingerbread house in Hansel & Gretel incredibly disturbing. It was made of delicious treats that were difficult to resist, but the more you ate, the more you'd get fattened up, until the witch decided to enjoy a treat of her own. #MythologyMonday #folklore
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Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! ~T.S. Eliot 🎨Tuesday Ridell
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In folklore, hedgehogs are believed to carry fruits on their spines back to their dens and to steal cows' milk by sucking at their udders. In reality, hedgehogs do not hoard food and they are lactose intolerant. #folklore #mythology #FolkloreSunday
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Bluebell Raven@BluebellRaven·
Door of the Day ✨🚪✨ 📷“Secret Garden Door" created by the British artist Mark Reed in Harrogate, located in North Yorkshire.
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Sedlec Ossuary is an underground chapel in the Czech Republic filled with artistically arranged bones, including a chandelier said to include every bone in the human body. The signature of its creator, Frantisek Rink, can be seen a wall - executed in bones. #wyrdwednesday #gothic
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#Folklore depicts the Man in the Moon as having been imprisoned there for various crimes. Roman legend claims he was a sheep thief; Christian tradition states he is Cain or a woodcutter punished for working on the Sabbath. #FairyTaleTuesday
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@david_castleton A children's TV drama, called Earthfasts, was filmed at Richmond Castle in the early 1990's based on the drummer boy legend.
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#Folklore claims soldiers discovered a tunnel in Richmond Castle, Yorkshire. They sent a drummer boy to explore it while they followed from above, but his beats suddenly stopped. He was never seen again but his drumming can still be heard on dark quiet nights #BookologyThursday
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Though ravens are strongly linked to the Tower of London, the association may not go back further than Victorian times, when some beefeaters started keeping the birds as pets. Ravens became popular pets thanks to Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic
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