Hookland 11/12/20 22:37:43

@PeterReavill @DrLouiseN @Skionar Possibly the best recorded and developed example of this around the Christmas period are all the old injunctions on cutting and bringing the Yule log into the home.

Hookland 11/12/20 22:40:59

@DrLouiseN @PeterReavill @Skionar Some of the folklore can be thought as curtailing ecological imbalance/resource management – leaving berries after a certain date for the birds et al, curtailing the worst impulse to deforest et al.

Hookland 11/12/20 22:50:56

@DrLouiseN @PeterReavill @Skionar Much of my interest in folk horror comes from it as a narrative to describe ecological cicatrix, to warn against imbalance and lack of respect in our environmental relationships.

Hookland 11/12/20 23:47:38

Those cunning folk skilled in ossomancy – divination through the throwing of bones – were often called by their kin ‘children of the bones.’ Some used a special cloth map to throw their bones, some the flat top of a stone grave for their telling of tomorrow – #CLNolan

Hookland 11/12/20 23:52:05

@Doodlebugisblue @oldweirdalbion Their is a guild of Dancing Masters in Hookland (the Society of St. Vitus). In many ways, the dancing master never died out just evolved into everything from a MA in dance to Strictly Come Spectacle.