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Catherine Gogerty

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I had the absolute honour of being Beltane May Queen at Blackthorn Ritualistic folk groups celebration last night and it was wonderful 🔥 I hope I bring a bountiful harvest

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Hereditary and VVitch digital prints just re-stocked! 🐐🖤

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Plenty of fun to be had in town

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Christmas Eve from West Kennet long barrow 🔥

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My father in law built this great shed/house, I thought it deserved a picture

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John Barleycorn must die

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In Yorkshire witch-posts made of Rowan were built into farmhouses to make them safe against witches, the meaning of some of these elaborate carvings and symbols have been lost to time #FolkloreThursday

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In Slavic folklore Rusalki are women who died violent deaths and dwell in bodies of water luring men to their deaths, in early June it is 'Rusalki week' where they are especially active, swimming is forbidden during this week as it will result in certain death #FolkloreThursday

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The strange Victorian dead bird Christmas card tradition, the cards were “bound to elicit Victorian sympathy and may reference common stories of poor children freezing to death at Christmas.” #GothicAdvent

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I love this painting I did last year inspired by the fields we live in, I made a version of the corn dolly to sit in our fireplace

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She's always that little bit closer every time you look back #folkhorror

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Lughnasagh on Hay Bluff, perfect

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Final details added to Borley Rectory 👻 #borleyrectory #hauntedhouse

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A spooky painting for Halloween season 'The Stalls of Barchester'

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Happy May Day ☀️🔥 summer is icumin in

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Wassail with Blackthorn ritualistic folk last night 🍎🌞

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Inspired by Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk Beltane celebrations

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Puck Fair in County Kerry, Ireland, a wild goat is crowned and worshipped for the 2 day festival, with a girl crowned as queen, it is thought to be linked to the Celtic festival of Lughnasa, the beginning of harvest.The goat was a symbol of pagan fertility. #FolkloreThursday

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'The Turn of the Screw,' four illustrations for the darker season

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All hail the May Queen

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It's pretty special outside this morning ❄

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The Mari Lwyds arriving for the wassail

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It was a little spooky going out to open the gates this morning

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Blessed Samhain

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Wassail!! 🍎🌞

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My imagination is running wild at this old cottage, I'd love to know who's lived here

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All 3 originals from my latest collection have now gone to new homes, but I still have afew prints of each one left

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Weather beaten old church tucked away in woodland on a headland looking out to sea

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The hearth is ready for the upcoming harvest

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Work in progress painting Blackthorn's Beltane sun ☀️

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Boxing day

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"Take the flame inside you, burn and burn below" 🔥🌞 Photos by Adam Philip Photography

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I had to capture this based on the #uncanny podcast episode The Return of Elizabeth Dacre, the description of this moment truly chilled me and I had to get it on paper @danny_robins #UncannyCommunity

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The book of miracles, illustrated manuscript from 1550 depicting wondrous and eerie phenomena from biblical and folk tales, often involving celestial wonders and fires in the sky #folklorethursday

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The magnificent 12th century door to Kilpeck church, carvings include a wonderful array of beasts, devils, angels, Saxon warriors and the tree of life in the centre

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Lady Anne Montagu died in 1675 and was placed in a vault, a Sexton tried to rob her and while removing a gold ring her body stirred, he fled in terror. Lady Anne awoke, picked up the grave robbers lantern and walked back to her house, where she lived for another 44 years.

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He will haunt your dreams

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Happy Halloween

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Finally finished my largest work to date, Wheel of the Year, circular painting, Acrylic on paper, 23inches in diameter

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Left a gin glass in the garden.. it has a new occupant

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The grave of Kitty Jay, Kitty was an 18th century orphan who fell pregnant and committed suicide, as with all suicides at the time she was buried at a crossroad. Her grave is always decorated with flowers, no one knows who places them there #FolkloreThursday

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A weird little painting I did of my favorite tree branch during winter

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Throughout the 1920's my family took part in annual fancy dress parades in their Worcestershire village, here are some wonderful pictures of my Grandfather Peter in his many guises over the years #FolkloreThursday #familytradition

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Ghosts, Ink on paper

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We took the lads to the pumpkin patch this morning 10 out of 10 for this scarecrow

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Happy Easter, here is a beautiful, ancient carving of a Hare in Elmley Castle church down the road from us. Photo from:

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We have been to visit a new addition to our family today! A lovely little red lab, any name suggestions? @RealBobMortimer

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Struwwelpeter, the terrifying book of cautionary tales for children, what happens if you suck your thumb, or refuse to eat your dinner, it's all here in gory detail to terrify and delight #FolkloreThursday

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A corpse road 'coffin road', 'lyke way' or 'lych way'. Was a route on which a coffin would be taken to burial, to prevent the dead returning the routes would often cross water, as it was believed a spirit could not cross running water, painting - Frank Holl #FolkLoreThursday

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Sin eating, A piece of bread would be placed on the chest or the face of a dead person, this food would absorb all of their sins: and a sin-eater would eat the sins of the deceased by consuming the bread #folklorethursday painting A Highland funeral by Sir James Guthrie

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I've been and will be quiet on here for a while as we had our little one last Tuesday

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Some of the stunning gravestones in the churchyard at Much Marcle

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M.R. James cards re-stocked ready for Christmas, plus 'Lost Hearts' the only original left from the set and one of my favourites #horror #folkhorror #ghoststoriesforchristmas

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A Cornish giant Bolster fell in love with St Agnes but she didn't reciprocate, to get rid of him she asked him to prove his love by filling a hole with his blood, knowing that the hole was bottomless she watched him bleed to death, local villagers re-enact the story each year

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Sheela-na-gig the exhibitionist female carving who's pagan origins have been lost to time, there are many theories around about her meaning and there are 45 in England, this one I photographed at the wonderful Kilpeck, Herefordshire #FolkloreThursday

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A bonfire in Malvern in the 1950s

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Cities of the dead, winters touch upon the land

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Yep, our home town is a wonderland

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We found an abandoned walled garden whilst out walking today 😍 I couldn't get enough of the stone arches

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This tree is just perfect for such a small amount of time each year, but tonight it was on form 😍

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Looking back over my work from the last couple of years, really missing painting and itching to start again #art #artist #folkart

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Happy Solstice! 🏵☀️

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My favourite folk belief surrounding Yew trees in churchyards is that the trees help absorb the putrefaction of rotting corpses and the roots entwine through the eye sockets of the skulls, keeping them from rising up #folklore

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This is genuinely terrifying!

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Fungi Xylaria Polymorpha aka dead man's toes.

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The leaves have made a golden moat this morning 🤩🍂

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Has your child been swapped for a changeling by the fair folk? Visit Men-an-tol, Cornwall and pass the changeling through the central hole to bring back your child #FolkloreThursday

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Great haunted house close to where I live, ghosts include a lady who was murdered while sheltering from a storm, and a cavalier whose skeleton was found up a chimney. Books on black magic were discovered in the attic and human bones have been dug up in the garden 👻

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Llyn Cwm Llwch, Brecon Beacons, legend tells of a fairy island, a door appeared every May day to access the island for a day, the fairies requested nothing be taken away, but one visitor pocketed a flower and when he left the door vanished, never to return again #folklorethursday

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Bleeding gravestone, Sidmouth churchyard

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Llyn Cwm Llwch has a legend of an invisible island that could only be reached by a door that appeared in the rocks every May day, one day a visitor picked a flower and took it off the island, ignoring warnings not to, and the door had never appeared since #FolkloreThursday

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This morning I was admiring this magnificent chair in our employers Medieval manor house

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The atmospheric, disused church in Hertfordshire where the scattered gravestones are said to belong to local children who were wiped out by a particularly cold winter in 1802 and continue to haunt the area, giving the hamlet nearby it's name 'Cold Christmas' #GothicAdvent

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Very much a work in progress to get the composition right but I quite like this stage of the dancing ghostly stick figures

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A beauty

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The fleece inn, Bretforton, early 15th century pub complete with Witch marks in the fireplace, the circles were thought to trap witches as they tried to enter down the chimney, here I am sat next to them along with a painting I did depicting a trapped witch #FolkloreThursday

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Close to finished now #QuarantineLife

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The field throughout the night

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Happy St Mark's Eve, It was the custom in villages in England on April 24th to sit in the church porch in silence from 11.00 p.m. until the bell struck 1.00 a.m. when it was said that the ghosts of those who were to die during the year would be seen coming into the church.

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Just imagine having to walk through the trunk of a tree to enter and leave your home! These guys have that privilege

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Our group shot for the #gettymuseumchallenge 😂 Head of John the Baptist

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I went to visit a local folklore destination and took some pictures - the Edmondthorpe Witch, she was said to be able to change herself into a cat. A reddish mark on her effigy is said to show where a butler struck her with an axe while she was in cat form #folklorethursday

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Necromancer

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Procession, my interpretation of the Dorset Ooser inspired partly by the Blackthorn Border Morris wassail

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'Tis the season of the winter ghost stories, here's my painting of Borley Rectory to get in the spirit of things

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Seeing as this week's #FolkloreThursday theme is art and creativity I can't resist a shameless plug of my work, inspired by history, folklore, ghost stories and fairy tales, happy Folklore Thursday all!

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Painting the tiniest sun with my new miniature brushes

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'The one with the white hand' is a Somerset spirit that appears from a Birch tree, if she touches a man's head he will go mad but if she puts her hand on his heart he will die. Illustration from the book 'Faeries' by Brian Froud and Alan Lee #FolkloreThursday

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My coven meet tonight 🔮

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In Northern England witch posts are carved wooden posts often marked with the cross of St Andrew and other markings with meanings lost to time, placed near hearths to prevent witches coming down the chimney into the house (image: Ryedale folk museum) #FolkloreThursday

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The green children of Woolpit - In 12th century Suffolk 2 children with green skin were found next to a wolf pit. Taken in by locals, only the girl survived. She slowly learned English and explained that they had come from an underground land where everyone was green like them

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"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, illustration by John Leech #GothicAdvent

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Wintry gardens

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I popped into the Ancient Ram Inn today, supposedly one of the most haunted places in the uk, I've experienced items being thrown across a room and doors slowly opening by themselves.. also a beautiful, atmospheric building

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Merry Christmas, I hope none of you had a visit from these guys last night

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One of my paintings for @manoghosts story Grotter from NYCTOPHOBIAS

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The summer solstice seems like as good a time as any to reveal my wheel of the year work now it's finally finished #folkart #wheeloftheyear

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Magnificent font carved around 1170, Castle Frome, Herefordshire

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I went back to finish a painting I started 3 years ago, cruel sister, the story of a girl who is drowned by her own sister over a man, the dead girls ribcage is made into a harp by a wandering minstrel and it sings of her fate #FolkloreThursday

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