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the seven gnomes
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The wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social have signed copies of 'Hookland Fragments Volume One' with a free Right To Reside card back in stock if you want to buy from one of my favourite bookshops. www.treadwells-london.com/product-page...
Hookland Fragments Volume One - David Southwell | TreadwellsDiscover the Fortean mysteries and folkloric history of Hookland, England's lost county. Created by David Southwell and documented extensively on social media for many years, the fictional Hookland ha...www.treadwells-london.com
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There are paths around White Leaf where shadows move against the sun, dance to something other than the breeze. Paths where you risk walking out of time's normal flow. Mystically aligned say the ley hunters. Faery-bordered say the locals. A statistical anomaly for missing persons say the police.
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Yorkshire artist Atkinson Grimshaw's atmospheric nocturnes have graced many a ghost book (and #PhantomsFriday post). His home city of #Leeds is very haunted - its Town Hall, Courthouse, a library, a museum and two theatres are all said to have their ghosts. And in #Scarborough [Cont: #art #landscape
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#WyrdWednesday Because the sun was considered divine, it was thought to be unlucky to point at it. In Hungary, if a girl threw sweepings in the sun's direction, she would never marry. In Cornwall, it was believed that a perjuror cannot see the sunlight or feel its warmth. (image Artus Scheiner)