Month: July 2020

Hookland 7/6/20 4:33:11

There are secret paths through the wood, feral navigations carved by badger shuffle, fox sneak. These are the paths favoured by the tree spirits, the faeries of the thorn. https://t.co/6gS2cthcmm

Hookland 7/6/20 6:11:20

There’s a lot of ghosts in those villages the army took from people in the war and didn’t give back. Not the dead, but other ghosts, things that haunt deep. Lives broken, meals not cooked that would have knitted things back together. Lost happiness. Deep ghosts. – Tom Rudd #VOH https://t.co/KOmgW8Iwh1

Hookland 7/6/20 6:32:29

@AJJarvisWrites @PhilH86835657 However, UFOs – that modern cloak of faerie, that perturbed as a child. Not least because the older lore always came with ways of avoidance, means of warding.

Hookland 7/6/20 6:48:44

@WormwoodQueen @AJJarvisWrites @PhilH86835657 A shuck is not actually a dog, it is just one of the most common forms it likes to take, but shucks and grims feature heavily in English folklore and have for centuries. One of the ones I grew up two miles from was known for bursting into flame when approached – demonic indeed.

Hookland 7/6/20 17:03:42

As the author C.L. Nolan was noted to have said: ‰Û÷A proper English village is known by three things – a good pub, a good ghost and good gossip. – from the introduction to ‰Û÷The Phoenix Guide to Strange England County by County: Hookland‰Ûª.

Hookland 7/6/20 18:25:35

They say that faeries weave nests for certain birds. Place magic in the weaving so nests remain invisible to fox, so that no harm comes to anything placed within it. The faerie cost for this – as there is always cost for dealing with faeries – is to hatch one egg for them. https://t.co/r7loaoyNSl