Lurker
Lizzie BickerstaffEssays on the folkloric and occult
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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What's With All The Bog Love?
via pinterest.
If you want to feel a little soggy today, check out my media list:
Though it might be an uncomfortable, tooth-grinding exercise, I want you to imagine a data centre. 100,000 square feet of pure efficiency humming somewhere...
Aaaaah! Mandrake Folklore!
Mandragora, 1340-1398, Dioscorides Pedanius of Anazarbus, Historia Plantarum
I’m sure many of us hold wonderful childhood memories of snivelling at the dinner table while our disgruntled parents implored us to eat our vegetables — ‘they’re...
Folklore for the Superstitious Bird Watcher
Cover image: Martine Bernard
‘Pewit pewit, dee dee dee, grutto grutto grutto, hallloooo, tik tik tik, groor groor, roo roooo roo, chip chip chip chip, wacheeeer cheer, crex crex, quil!’
No better time than a midsummer dawn to hear a heart...
King Arthur, Early Riser
Arthur awakens in Glastonbury.
This short story was originally scribbled on the bus back from a particularly lacklustre trip to Glastonbury. I never intended for it to see the light of day but I had great fun writing it as a silly break fr...
Hell's Teeth! : The Vagina Dentata
The vagina dentata—literally, 'toothed vagina'—appears on every continent except, perhaps, Antarctica, where presumably nobody was having enough sex to worry about it. This particular motif has been gnawing at the edges of world folklore fo...
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Folklorist and storyteller. Essays on the folkloric and occult (sometimes serious, often not). New posts every week. Enquiries: [email protected]
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