Hookland 3/3/21 9:21:44

Tomorrow, at 5:30pm GMT, a gentler kind of #HookWatch begins with The Pogles. Get yourself a mug of tea and a chocolate biscuit and take 10 minutes out of the day to watch some utter nonsense in company of other tea drinkers and biscuit munchers. https://t.co/xH5KIh6jvG

Hookland 3/3/21 19:23:14

Herbs in bottles is the default of kitchens, not of witches. You cannot bottle awe, reverence and connection. You cannot hear the song of the land through those herbs behind glass. – #EmilyBanting #WitchWednesday

Hookland 3/3/21 19:40:09

@BmillsBilly Well, Hookland is all about dissecting the bucolic lie. Always has been. My sense of folklore is as a living thing found in pubs, playgrounds or bus stop graffiti. You find it as much along the bruised-lip of city canal as you do wild wood. Folklore itself is rarely into pretty.

Hookland 3/3/21 19:44:16

@BmillsBilly I‰Ûªd argue that most with an interest in folklore don‰Ûªt have an expectation of pretty. What many folkloric folks respond to in Pre-Raphaelite work is a sense of the legendary, a response to a sense of an enfolding world of magic.