The Interdisciplinary Witches Research Group @interdiscwitchysj.bsky.social We are a group of academic researchers from different disciplines – Art, History, Literature, Religion – brought together by a shared interest in the figure of the Witch
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
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
FOLKLORIST DALVA LAMMINMÄKI @dalvalamminmaki.bsky.social FOLKLORIST |SAUNA CULTURE🍃
PhD RESEARCHER @uniuef
🧹FOLK healing, rituals, magic&mythology
🎓Väitöskirjatutkija/Saunakulttuuri
📧 Contact lamminmakidalva@gmail.com
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
K.L. Johnson | Author @kljohnsonwrites.bsky.social Writing a NA/Upper-YA fantasy featuring
Irish folklore, romance, fae, and found family.
Project StoryMachine @storymachine-ht.bsky.social Project StoryMachine: “Exploring implications of recommender based spatial hypertext systems for folklore and the humanities” • An AHRC and DFG funded research project. • http://storymachine.iisys.de
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Spiritus Loci @spiritusloci.bsky.social History, folklore, religion, mythology, design and all things queer and magical. Lives in Oxford.
Seeräuber Áine @seerauberaine.bsky.social Diabolical witchcraft in Middle French romance | Medieval Studies PhD at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the Edinburgh Doctoral College | CEU and University of Buenos Aires graduate | James Tait Black Prize (fiction) reader | Translator.
Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her
https://tinyurl.com/idasbooks
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Susan Ray, Writer @creativewordcraft.bsky.social Author of multiple books (poetry, folklore, family activity books, history, foodie everything). Designer and host of programs that encourage individual creativity. Book crafter. All around daydreamer.
www.SusanRayWriter.com
She/her 💙💜🏳️🌈ally🌲🫂🪶📖🎨🎙️
Deborah Hyde @deborahhyde.bsky.social Dark folklore.
Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore. She/her.
ida.tolgensbakk@norskfolkemuseum.no
East Anglian Folklore Centre @shuckhappens.bsky.social 
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
WEIRD WALK @weirdwalk.bsky.social Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles…
https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social A freelance writer exploring the intersection of history and folklore. Bylines: The History Channel, The New York Times, BBC, etc. Also @HistoriumU (Historium Unearthia); Grieving mom of Adam.
muckrack.com/crystal-ponti
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
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
Tracey Norman Author @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library.
http://traceynormanauthor.com/
Loremen Podcast @loremen.bsky.social Loremen is a funny podcast about local legends and forgotten folklore. Support us on patreon.com/loremenpod. Watch stuff on youtube.com/loremenpodcast.
Access Folk @accessfolk.bsky.social Exploring ways to increase and diversify participation with folk singing in England.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Rachel Kitchen @rkitch91.bsky.social ⭐️ Folklorist
✍️ Writer
✨ Support the EAFC https://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/east-anglian-folklore-centre
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social Knitting, jam making, bread baking, gardening, mending, writing, tea drinking, antifascist wife and mom and author/teacher from Western New York. Blogging since 2010 (no ads, no AI) at www.poemfarm.amylv.com 💙
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
Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social Postdoc at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩🎓 Cats 🐈⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her https://linktr.ee/tabithastanmore
University of Surrey Archives and Special Collections @archives-unisurrey.bsky.social We hold the University archive, collections related to the artist E H Shepard, the collections of the National Resource Centre for Dance and other Special Collections.
University of Surrey Library @surreylib.bsky.social Welcome to the Library.
Website: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/library
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/surreylib
Kalin Kadiev Art @kadievart.bsky.social Professional Illustrator and RPG Nerd from Bulgaria 🇧🇬
🎨 Portfolio: https://kadievart.carrd.co/
💶 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kadievart
📝 Blog: https://gorgonbones.bearblog.dev/
Open for commissions! See pinned post for details.
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.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
SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social Arts, spiritual, folklore, occult...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
Dani Lucas @daniellamlucas.bsky.social Freelance consultant, writer and editor in gaming. Bylines in PCGamer, The Guardian and others. Loves FFXIV, stationery and lunch. She/her Email: dmlucasfreelance (@) gmail . com
Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). MA in Folklore Studies. #KDrama Addict. Learning 中文. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social Research Associate/lecturer at Cardiff Uni School of Journalism, Media and Culture; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; @fanstudies.bsky.social. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos, cancel culture and other fun stuff.
The Folk Archive @thefolkarchive.bsky.social Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future
The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods.
Sarah L Miles @iamgiantwoman.bsky.social Professional nerd
- Writer
- Reader
- Panel moderator (taking 2026 bookings): upcoming: PrideCAF, MCM, ThoughtBubble
previous: Portsmouth, SDCC
- Bookseller
Fandom-Made.com: SARAH15
https://linktr.ee/iamgiantwoman
Signe Maene @signemaene.com Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
MythCrafts @mythcrafts.bsky.social We are Mythologists who also love folklore, history, pop culture and anything weird and unusual. Mythcrafts.com
Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk Welcome new followers, thank you for joining me. I tell tales, I speak lies, this is like breathing for me.
Don’t come to me for truth today, for it maybe a lie tomorrow. #NoAI #Folklore #FolkloreAgainstFascism
The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social Witch of the SwampLands. Creator & Curator of #FolkWitchFriday. Folk Witch, Cunning Woman, Pellor. Folklore, Magic, Herbs & Trees, Raptors, Stones & Bones. Diviner. Olorisha. Monankisi in Quimbanda de Angola.
https://linktr.ee/theswampwytch
The Keeper of the Bees @beefolklore.bsky.social www.beefolklore.ie
IG: eimear_beefolklore
Sharing folklore & pictures of things I like. Lover of nature, bees, animals & the wonderful world of myths & legends across all folk traditions.
Eimear Chaomhánach, author of 'The Keeper of the Bees' #booksky💙📚
Madeleine D'Este @madeleinedeste.bsky.social Dark Mysteries are my thing.
The House on Rookery Rock. Black Soil White Bread. Radcliffe.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
No DMs.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
Emily Dragonfly @dragonflytales.bsky.social Emily Hanna-Grazebrook✨
Storyteller and podcast host
Folk & fairytales around the 🌍
Original songs 🎶
Linktr.ee/Dragonflytales
VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social Sharing the wonders of flowers and nature, gardening, plant history, folklore, art, and poetry. Bedfordshire photographer for the National Garden Scheme charity. #SolaceInNature #DailyBotanicalBeauty
https://www.venetiajane.co.uk
FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social #FolkloreThursday is a hashtag day for sharing folklore facts, and a website filled with articles! Founded by @deedeechainey.bsky.social & @willowwinsham.bsky.social. 
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
Vital Bloom @vitalbloom.bsky.social For a safe future
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social Flotsam and Jetsam. Folklore, customs and odd guilds, gangs and groups.
Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social Folk ✨Folklore ✨
Folk singer/songwriter
Sussex UK
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
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.
M. G. Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social 🖋️Author - Time Keys🎶 - Portly 🦦- The Ice Children ❄️- The Twitchers 🦅- Adventures on Trains 🚂- Beetle Boy🪲
She/Her
🪲Posting about author-y book-y nature-y stuff.
🐞Agent: Kirsty McLachlan
❓Use my website for ALL enquiries: www.mgleonard.com
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Kirsty ⚜️ @cursed-tea.bsky.social Heath Ledger lookalike/medieval lion MA Folklore Studies at Uni of Herts 2024/25
Investor in Big Shark
Storyteller Fran @storytellerfran.bsky.social ✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. Author of Folk Tales of Scottish Saints, published by The History Press 2027 ✨✨
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
Aine Corr @ainecorrart.bsky.social Painter of dreamscapes. Essex grown & folklore fed. Childhood memories, history, nature & pop kitsch collide. www.ainecorr.art
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Sussex Wildlife Trust. For everyone who cares about nature in Sussex. Become a member, volunteer & support our campaigns. Header photo - Sprat shoal © Paul Parsons
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Touchwood @greenmanmorris.bsky.social Folklore, folk music & storytelling. Permaculture, deep ecology & ecocentrism. Tree planter & wildlife gardener. Neo-Luddite. Resist the machine!
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
How Haunted? Podcast @howhauntedpod.bsky.social I'm Rob. A Geordie ghost hunter, author, and the host of the How Haunted? podcast 👻
www.how-haunted.com
https://how-haunted.dashery.com
Gardener🪴 @lat611.bsky.social Nature loving, tree hugging, cat mom.
Ian Taylor @bookwormian.bsky.social Writer who needs to start 'getting my stuff out there' again, walker, vegetarian, green-anarcho-socialist-something-or-other, Liverpool-loving Fall and Lynch obsessive.....
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall).
All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light!
IS IT BIN DAY?
Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social PhD Theology candidate at Durham University researching the paratext of Codex Amiatinus, exploring palaeography, philology and manuscript cultures.
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own. 
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
@ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social she/they • professor • person • MEDIEVAL ROBOTS & NECESSARY INVENTIONS (coming out soon)
Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Jule Meyer @julemeyer.bsky.social 📖 PhD researcher in Medieval Latin @Uni Heidelberg: Development of Carolingian script in 9th century Mainz.
| Medieval manuscripts | palaeography | medieval latin | digital humanities | archives & libraries | epigraphy |
Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social Lecturer in Irish Cultural Heritage & Early Irish, Maynooth University.
Early Irish language, literature & the Irish manuscript tradition.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/chantal-kobel
Raphaëlle Goyeau @biblioraphic.bsky.social Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…
Alison Beach @alisonibeach.bsky.social Medieval Historian at the University of St Andrews. Leader of #TeamNun and the Word of Mouth AHRC-funded project. Works at the intersection of history and archaeology. Humanist with a trowel and a microscope!
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Josh O’Driscoll @jodriscoll.bsky.social Manuscript curator at the Morgan Library, among other things.
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.