Month: February 2021

@Josh_Merritt1 We are all made of bruises at the moment. Take your balm and joy where you can. Signed 51 on Monday.

We are all made of bruises at the moment. Take your balm and joy where you can. Signed 51 on Monday.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

Ghosts cling on like scared kids to dad‰Ûªs legs or their mum‰Ûªs neck. In Ashcourt you get an usherette swinging her torch, telling long-gone patrons of the old Egyptian Electric Cinema to ‰Û÷Shush!‰Ûª even though it‰Ûªs been a bingo hall for twenty years. – Billy Frost #VOH

Ghosts cling on like scared kids to dad’s legs or their mum’s neck. In Ashcourt you get an usherette swinging her torch, telling long-gone patrons of the old Egyptian Electric Cinema to ‘Shush!’ even though it’s been a bingo hall for twenty years. – Billy Frost #VOH

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@ChrisJosiffe @cultauthor I am always on the naughty step – except with @PhilH86835657 – when I confess I find most of Kenny Grant funny because I hear it all in my head with a Kenneth Williams voice.

I am always on the naughty step – except with @PhilH86835657 – when I confess I find most of Kenny Grant funny because I hear it all in my head with a Kenneth Williams voice.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo This is at the heart of the Old King concept in Hookland.

This is at the heart of the Old King concept in Hookland.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@SydMoore1 Even if you discount the modern projections mapped onto it without much evidence, it also still has importance as local pagans use it as a focus – attested by the offerings you will often find at it.

Even if you discount the modern projections mapped onto it without much evidence, it also still has importance as local pagans use it as a focus – attested by the offerings you will often find at it.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@SydMoore1 It is to me a glacial erratic rather than ‰Û÷remnant of standing stone‰Ûª as some claim, but that doesn‰Ûªt deny it a folkloric importance. It‰Ûªs contextual placement is important, it‰Ûªs role as an anchor for stories is as important as anything else locally including Shrieking Boy Wood.

It is to me a glacial erratic rather than ‘remnant of standing stone’ as some claim, but that doesn’t deny it a folkloric importance. It’s contextual placement is important, it’s role as an anchor for stories is as important as anything else locally including Shrieking Boy Wood.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@SydMoore1 Yes and no. The Thor stone/bird stone/Druid‰Ûªs/Devil‰Ûªs stone of Thundersley – much like the etymology of Thundersley is much contested. As no less than Bernard Cornwell can attest, it was certainly known as the Devil‰Ûªs stone as far back as the 1930s.

Yes and no. The Thor stone/bird stone/Druid’s/Devil’s stone of Thundersley – much like the etymology of Thundersley is much contested. As no less than Bernard Cornwell can attest, it was certainly known as the Devil’s stone as far back as the 1930s.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@pvalentine592 It blooming well is.

It blooming well is.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@Midge_UK I’d be giving it is offerings.

I'd be giving it is offerings.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021

@Communista2 Wade.

Wade.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) February 12, 2021