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Lizzie BickerstaffEssays on the folkloric and occult
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England's Chalk Herd
Cover image: Tom Homewood
On the line between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington, somewhere in that long, dreamy corridor of Wiltshire where the world flattens into cornfield and chalk downland, the reward for a split-second of you...
The Great Big Folk Horror Reading List
An annotated guide to village rituals, strange-looking wildlife, and overzealous parish councils.
Before we embark on this literary journey into villages where the welcome is a little too warm, across moors where the path keeps moving, thr...
Against the Grain: Why Fairies Hate Bread
My research often leads me to fairly strange places. That, of course, is part and parcel of what I do. And yet I am frequently finding that the most interesting threads of inquiry can, in fact, be pulled from the most unassuming subject mat...
Today is St Mark's Eve
One of the quiet pleasures of digging into the British folk record is the realisation that the year was never empty. Every day had something clinging to it, be it a a custom, a superstition, a festival that mattered enormously to one valley...
Dying to Know: A Look at Folk Necromancy
In 1510, nine men were hauled before the Archbishop’s Court in York. Among the regularly scheduled cases of pilfered loaves and drunken pub brawls, this one was strikingly different. This unruly group had in fact been rumbled in the midst o...
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Folklorist and storyteller. Essays on the folkloric and occult (sometimes serious, often not). New posts every week. Ko-Fi: @lizziebickerstaff
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