Gakkeido, an indigenous folk religion based on mountain worship in the Kyushu region of Japan, is centred on magic & practised only by women. This religion is almost extinct in Japan today. Hear a talk by the last successor of the Gakkeido practice. Fri 16 Oct, 12-4pm. £8.

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It is a pleasure, nay, an honour, to have been granted Right to Reside in @hookland.bsky.social's capacious boundaries (Hookland Fragments ordered via the excellent @treadwells-books.bsky.social )

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Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

Last night were honoured to celebrate the creator and community of @hookland.bsky.social . Christina and David in the subterranean Hades before the main event.

Last night were honoured to celebrate the creator and community of @hookland.bsky.social . Christina and David in the subterranean Hades before the main event.

I told you next week's Hookland talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social came with stickers ...

From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

Those churches which act as stone bestiaries call me to visit. They are lithic libraries, places where my eyes and fingers can trace stories of wonder. In them I may meet the fabulous beasts I've dreamed about since childhood. They are gateways into folkloric joy. – #CLNolan

This word did the Muses speak to me first of all:
“we know how to tell many lies resembling the truth; and we know, when we want, to utter what is true.”

- #Hesiod, ‘Theogony’ 24