Month: February 2020

Hooklanders don‰Ûªt hold with those tourney hobby-horses. When you have a bone horse who needs or wants a skirt hoop of a thing? – Tom Rudd #VOH https://t.co/k9SC58KXQw

Hooklanders don’t hold with those tourney hobby-horses. When you have a bone horse who needs or wants a skirt hoop of a thing? – Tom Rudd #VOH pic.twitter.com/k9SC58KXQw

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

@MariaStrutz @DelacourRaven @radicalhoneybee Some who study the symbolism of the folklore of the county maintain that the three drops of blood suggest that the first lesson of her wisdom is that dualism is a lazy answer in the face of the shifting balance and border of nature itself.

Some who study the symbolism of the folklore of the county maintain that the three drops of blood suggest that the first lesson of her wisdom is that dualism is a lazy answer in the face of the shifting balance and border of nature itself.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

@radicalhoneybee @MariaStrutz @DelacourRaven The hedge has two sides and a crown. When you hear cunning folk called hedge-walkers it‰Ûªs worth remembering that as often as they walk the sides, they walk the crown. – Tom Rudd

The hedge has two sides and a crown. When you hear cunning folk called hedge-walkers it’s worth remembering that as often as they walk the sides, they walk the crown. – Tom Rudd

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

@robfnunn When a bloke cannot even be original when trying to spin the fact he is a narcissistic tosser that‰Ûªs a good hint he‰Ûªs also a pisspuffin of the first order. No thank you. There‰Ûªs already a shitlark surfeit.

When a bloke cannot even be original when trying to spin the fact he is a narcissistic tosser that’s a good hint he’s also a pisspuffin of the first order. No thank you. There’s already a shitlark surfeit.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

There are dark boundaries with gravity to pull spirits to them. To deny this is dangerous. – Brian Danebury, 1975 https://t.co/As5o2WuUaT

There are dark boundaries with gravity to pull spirits to them. To deny this is dangerous. – Brian Danebury, 1975 pic.twitter.com/As5o2WuUaT

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

Abandoned is usually a word most teenager vandals take as an invitation. When you come across an abandoned holiday village like Dreamland and no-one broken in to scrawl their name on the carousel horses, it’s a good indicator the local kids reckon its haunted. – #DICallaghan

Abandoned is usually a word most teenager vandals take as an invitation. When you come across an abandoned holiday village like Dreamland and no-one broken in to scrawl their name on the carousel horses, it's a good indicator the local kids reckon its haunted. – #DICallaghan

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 2, 2020

I know of only one other place in the country where offerings of loaves or of tresses of hair are left out for St. Mary the Egyptian. – #CLNolan on the peculiarities of religion in Repton, 1887

I know of only one other place in the country where offerings of loaves or of tresses of hair are left out for St. Mary the Egyptian. – #CLNolan on the peculiarities of religion in Repton, 1887

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) January 1, 2020

That Repton tradition, the carnival of fools with their hobby horse parade, happens tomorrow. I shall keep the windows shuttered and ignore the jittering napes the best I can. – extract from the diary of Arthur Blatchford, 1877 https://t.co/wW9YI2KBKW

That Repton tradition, the carnival of fools with their hobby horse parade, happens tomorrow. I shall keep the windows shuttered and ignore the jittering napes the best I can. – extract from the diary of Arthur Blatchford, 1877 pic.twitter.com/wW9YI2KBKW

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) January 1, 2020

@rallen78 Less bachelor, more Norman Bates.

Less bachelor, more Norman Bates.

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) January 1, 2020

No true witch has ever needed to put collar and chain on her familiar. The witch dances with the land, she does not make fences for it. – Faith Dunmort, Barrow Wisdom Coven, 1975 #WitchWednesday https://t.co/6awNXA2Q6t

No true witch has ever needed to put collar and chain on her familiar. The witch dances with the land, she does not make fences for it. – Faith Dunmort, Barrow Wisdom Coven, 1975 #WitchWednesday pic.twitter.com/6awNXA2Q6t

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) January 1, 2020