Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social Pilgrim. Seeker. Struggling to exist in the 21st Century. I run @peakrillpress.bsky.social
Devon @countyofdevon.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Devon, UK - we originally started this service on "the bird app" in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social Vegetarian, Autistic, concerned about our planet and the environment. JohnTheTemplar #GiveBlood #RejoinEU #WearAMask #AutismAcceptance #Vaccinated💉💉💉💉
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Alexandra Beaumont - Folklore Fantasy Author @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social 🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
@joelmccracken.bsky.social @joelmccracken.bsky.social Programmer. Haskell mostly, and whatever interests me. Pittsburgher. Lover of books, nature, animals. Servant of 6 cats.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social Lives for the outdoors, life long union member, Green Party member #FBPE #ActiveTravel
If you don't post, have no profile pic, mention crypto, trading or loving Jesus, I will not follow back
➡️ No DMs ⬅️
Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, warrior hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social Folk musician, freelance writer at Country Walking Magazine, Right to Roam Sheffield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Songlines
www.johnnycampbell.co.uk
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com Writer, editor • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
Bristol, UK.
👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com
📖 helleborezine.com
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social Writer of folklore at The FolkLore Press; Druid and Storyteller alias the Bard of Cumberland; contemporary artist; filmmaker at Land of Lore Films; Haiku poet.
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social I hail from the pastoral/industrial depths of the English Midlands, I live in Belfast and I work at Skullduggery Tatú where I make tattoos and artwork inspired by the folk psychedelia of these haunted islands.
For bookings email botctattoo@gmail.com
Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk
folklorewales.com
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
Folk Horror Magpie 🌬️ @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social 🌾Collecting trinkets & curios of the folk horror genre.
Folklore, oral tradition, rituals & festivals, psychogeography, forteana, revivalism & the occult🌾
Alias Hollie Starling
https://smarturl.it/TheBleedingTree
The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM.
http://thebcdyingmuseum.blog
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social • Artist from the Lake District, England. • Inspired by folklore and nature. 🌿 www.fawnlorn.com
Victoria Clough @ladyvictoriart.bsky.social Historian and Artist
https://ladyvictori.art/
Kelly Holmes 👻 @kellydirector.bsky.social Director. Writer. Rejection Racoon. Goth Kitten Owner. Maker Of Horror Films...Runs Around In Graveyards. Probably A Witch. Def A Ghost 👻
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
Tim Downie @timdownie.bsky.social Actor. Writer. Moustache. Ambassador for The Flying Seagull Project, Blue Sky Autism Project & The Sick Children’s Trust. Agents: Independent Talent & Lip Service Voices. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/475535/rituals-by-downie-tim/9781529980387
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft @museum-mfw.bsky.social Witchcraft Museum, Witch Walking Tours and Tarot readings in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Directed by Ash William Mills
Website: www.museummfw.com
Eli Lewis-Lycett Folklore and History @elilewislycett.bsky.social 'One of the definitive voices on Cheshire & Staffordshire Folklore' - BBC Radio. The Local Mythstorian / Tales From Antiquaria / Cheshire Life Magazine / Haunted Magazine / Inspectre Paranormal.
thelocalmythstorian.com
Francine @francibambi.bsky.social All cuttle and no fish.
Co-host of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. Writing and art and stuff, too.
The Wayfarer 🗿 🛵 🎩 @the-wayfarer.bsky.social Proud Somerset Pagan, Morris dancer, Scooterist, photographer, and magazine writer, Folkloreist, Yeovil Town FC.
Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social Folklore & History Enthusiast
Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social Fiddle player with Bellowhead and Leveret. NYFE Artistic Director 2016-19. BBC Folk Musician Of The Year 2015. Folkophobe. Inadvisably vocal with my opinions.
Mark S. Williamson @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Musician, educator, filmmaker. Landscape drones and scrapes. Old stones.
Children's music workshops with the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.
Deep in the valley, Todmorden.
#MDANT
https://linktr.ee/spaceship_mark
Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics).
Banner:Toby Jones in The Detectorists, a sign reads “ring pulls through the ages”
Bradford
nicktankard.co.uk Prints, Originals and Portfolio.
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Jack @jackalopeart.bsky.social Illustration, printmaking & pamplets - Right Villainous Chapbooks
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RightVillainousCo
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
The Hoodeners @hoodening.org.uk Centuries of traditional folk drama with the Hooden Horse of East Kent; still never knowingly over-rehearsed.
Saddleworth Women's Morris and Clog @swmandc.bsky.social Northwest Morris side based in Saddleworth. Contact us also on saddleworthwomensmorrisclog@gmail.com
MISERDEN MORRIS @miserdenmorris.bsky.social A mixed Cotswold Morris Dancing side practicing Tuesdays at Stroud Old Town Hall, come and join us!
https://www.miserdenmorris.com/
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers @abingdonmorrisatmd.bsky.social 
Shrewsbury Morris Dancers @shrewsmorris.bsky.social A friendly #Morris dance team from Shrewsbury, England. We’re fun and we follow positive, hopeful people. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well, maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. Posts by Graydon. We’re 50 this year! shrewsburymorris.co.uk
Wild Moon Morris @wild-moon-morris.bsky.social Wild Moon Morris are a new mixed border side from Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Our dances are based on local Folklore and legend. We look forward to dancing for you, or with you.
Enigma Morris @enigmamorris.bsky.social All inclusive Border Morris side from South Somerset founded in 2014.
Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Karl Sinfield - Folk Music @karlsinfield.bsky.social Folk music, author/editor/owner of Sing Yonder books & albums. Links.sindesign.co.uk
Alex Stone @alexstone1.bsky.social Bit of writing. Bit of dealing in decorative arts. Food. Music. Poetry. Books. Foraging. Ceramics. Art. Folk stuff. Ducks. Cheshire.
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Marc C. Green @owillowwaly.bsky.social Painter and digital illustrator of haunted landscapes and folklore. Nature lover. No AI trash. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@dartmoorrocks.bsky.social @dartmoorrocks.bsky.social 30+ years of adventures on the Moor.
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/
Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & £. Re-enchantment is resistance.
Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social I’ve an award winning podcast about all that’s weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
Owen Staton - Time between Times @owenstaton.bsky.social Storyteller , Performer Voice artist and the Host of the Time between Times Podcast
Scott M | Chocopro 🍫 @voxparlour.bsky.social Multi-award-winning TTRPG author and folklorist. Wrote Romance of the Perilous Land, Quill, The Terror Beneath, USR. Co-designer, Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age.
Carrd profile: https://scottmalthouse.carrd.co/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/scottmalt
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
The Essex Witch Museum @essexwitchmuseum.bsky.social Help us to create a museum about the witch trials held in Essex during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
EssexWitchMuseum.co.uk
Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social Award-winning Beer Historian & Author | PhD | Writing About Beer, Folklore, History, & Power| Author: FILTHY QUEENS & THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES Order Filthy Queens: https://tinyurl.com/Ninebeanrowsbooks
Mark Sheerin @criticismism.bsky.social Blogging on art since 2009 at criticismism.com and travel since 2023 at marksheerin.substack.com.
See also The Arts Desk, Hyperallergic, Plaster and Disability Arts Online.
Core interests: prehistoric caves, replicas, representations, immersive art, XR.
Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social Writer and author. Love Classics, folklore, food, and philosophy.
A Feast of Folklore is out now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Folklore-Bizarre-Stories-British/dp/180018316X
Kemp’s Men @kempsmenofnorwich.bsky.social Morris dance side based in Norwich, Norfolk. We dance Cotswold Morris and have our own tradition.
Eynsham Morris @eynshammorris.bsky.social 'This colourful, rumbustious yet precise team dance with great energy and a real love of the dances of their village' - Oxford Folk Festival.
Hemlock Morris @hemlockmorris.bsky.social We are a friendly mixed side based in Bedford. We dance #cotswoldmorris and #bordermorris styles, as well as our own choreographed works. Practice Tuesday evenings 20:00 - 21:45 at the Gordon Arms, Bedford MK40 3QY. Come and join us!
Dolphin Morris Men @dolphin-morris.bsky.social Cotswold Morris side based in Kingston on Soar and dancing in parts of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire, with occasional trips further afield. Founded 1968. We dance, we sing, we play, and sometimes drink beer.
Weird Weald @weirdweald.bsky.social 𝕊𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝 ● 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕜𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕊𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕩
#weirdweald
Eerie Edinburgh @eerieedinburgh.bsky.social Author of the best selling Hidden Haunts books and Ghostly Tales of the NC500, and creator of the Eerie Edinburgh YouTube channel, where I explore Scotland’s haunted history.
Join me as I uncover the eerie side of Edinburgh and beyond.
National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social UKRI AHRC funded project based at the Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk
The Belles of London City @bellesoflondoncity.bsky.social 21st century morris dancing. Probably shenanigans. Founded 2009.
Clonehenge @clonehenge.bsky.social Stonehenge replicas. That's it, since 2008. We have endless lists of them, large and small. !!DON'T SEND THE BUTTERHENGE!! Your homemade henges are welcome though and will be enthusiastically retweeted or launched into the blue sky or whatever
Superstition Sam @superstitionsam.bsky.social Superstition Sam discusses heritage, folklore and superstitions, exploring their connections to human creativity, psychology and cross-cultural friendship 🐾 🐈⬛🍀
#Superstitiology
https://superstitionsam.com/links/
Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social Undisciplined academic. Currently writing about inland mermaids, wetlands, politics, nationalism, and the environment. Sociology|Criminology|Folklore. Regular human, too. In spite of the current profile pic not much of a beer drinker.
CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social Promoting and supporting research into folklore, vernacular traditions and cultural practices and performances, and expressions of communal identities across all disciplines at The University of Sheffield. Based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Apotropaios @folkmagicman.bsky.social Researcher of strange things found in walls and under floors since 1999... FSA. Author of Magical House Protection & Bredon Hill. Guitar player!
www.apotropaios.co.uk
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/
Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social Claire. Feral folklorist, museums worker & DHeritage researcher at the University of Hertfordshire exploring Pagan interactions with historic sacred sites. She/they. All views my own.
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
GREEN LUNG @greenlungband.bsky.social 𝔉𝔬𝔩𝔨𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢, ℜ𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔏𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫 👹
https://greenlung.bfan.link/necropolitan
Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator & illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. All photos mine unless on shared posts www.mythicalbritain.co.uk
English Heretic @englishheretic.bsky.social English Heretic, The Astral Geographic, Enter the Cineplasm!
Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social Adventures in a historic landscape. Dark tales and photography from Northern Britain. #Scotland #NorthernBritain #Galloway #history #legend #folklore
Richard Daniels @occultaria.bsky.social Occultaria of Albion - zine/podcast combining horror, folklore & hauntology. Terror awaits! Join in and become a paranormal scrutineer!