Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
562 followers · 131 posts · Server mastodonapp.ukThis sad tale is one of a noble rescue but also what time at sea can do to a man; its power to grant riches and take away just as easily.
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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Images are from short film The Curse of Micah Rood (dir. Alec Asten, 2008) which you can find on youtube and vimeo.
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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Plus their display is pretty unimaginative, next to Mickey Easterling, a New Orleans socialite known for her extravagant parties, who didn’t want to miss out on her final one. At her own funeral she was seated centre-stage with her signature feather boa, a cigarette in one hand and a champagne flute in the other.
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
561 followers · 98 posts · Server mastodonapp.ukThe idea that true heroics require silence - how deep does this run? And to what extent does trope in folklore inform masculinity today?
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Images: Jean-Baptiste Peytavin 1808, Mary Evans c1910, Gustave Doré 1832-33, 'Merlin's Prophecy,' National Library of France 1290-1300
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
561 followers · 90 posts · Server mastodonapp.ukIt gives quite an insight into the relative gravity of each of these ‘transgressions’ within cultural mores at the time. Watson still lies in his crossroads grave just outside of Holbeach.
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Illustration: Pedler Russell
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Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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#10daysofbleedingtree the countdown begins...
LINCOLNSHIRE
I am so proud that The Bleeding Tree features Lincolnshire. My home county gets overlooked time and again, Yorkshire and East Anglia being so rich in folklore, but there is magic and much weirdness to treasure between the Wolds and the Fens.
Folk Horror Magpie · @folkhorrormagpie
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