Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz
I scream, you scream, we all scream because monsters are awesome! www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
@nfsengland.bsky.social
UKRI AHRC funded project based at the Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk
@folkloresociety.bsky.social
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@lindajeanlee.bsky.social
Folklorist, educator, instructional designer. Over-educated child-free cat lady who nevertheless persists. She/her. #AskAFolklorist
@debraocchi.bsky.social
Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
@spindlewise.bsky.social
Writer and academic folklorist who lives in Los Angeles. Teaches at USC, opinions my own.
@elizadearnley.bsky.social
Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Editor of DEADLY DOLLS and FEARSOME FAIRIES (British Library). Fairy tales / horror / interactive stories / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
@afwilson.bsky.social
Undisciplined academic. Currently writing about inland mermaids, wetlands, politics, nationalism, and the environment. Sociology|Criminology|Folklore. Regular human, too. In spite of the current profile pic not much of a beer drinker.
@kilravockrose.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor at the University of Wisconsin Press. Acquires in classics, folklore, Nordic studies, and Slavic studies. Cat person and animal lover. Scholar of legends and Nordic witchcraft. Views here my own, etc.
@laurhod.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social justice | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.
@wihtlore.uk
Tales and Folklore based around the ancient magics and cunning of the Wihtlore. Welcome new followers, thank you for joining me. I tell tales, I speak lies, this is like breathing for me. Don’t come to me for truth today, for it maybe a lie tomorrow.
@jasonbairdjackson.bsky.social
Bloomington, Indiana-based Folklorist and Cultural Anthropologist (he/him)
@deedeechainey.bsky.social
Storyteller. Heritage botherer. @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social & @folklorethursday.bsky.social founder; #TreasuryOfFolklore author. #XR and #UX enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/deedeechainey
@beyondnotables.bsky.social
an AHRC funded project (2021-2024) re-evaluating women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in Britain 1870-1950
@stuartdunn.bsky.social
Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member. https://stuartdunn.blog
@mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social
Claire. Feral folklorist, museums worker & DHeritage researcher at the University of Hertfordshire exploring Pagan interactions with historic sacred sites. She/they. All views my own.
@cathbannister1.bsky.social
Visiting researcher TUOS School of Education | uniformed youth orgs | children's digital / non-digital custom + ritual | archives | @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social co-org | fic scribbler l Book: Scouting and Guiding in Britain (2022) I views all mine
@hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
Independent researcher and blogger: Caribbean religious history, anthropology, and things folkloric. Fan of The Byrds and the gothic. Posts about Warwickshire folkore at @warksfolklore.bsky.social
@katikallio.bsky.social
Folklore, oral poetry, anthropology, history, environment. Runo-songs, regilaul, Kalevalaic poetry. Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kati-kallio. Photo: Emma Suominen.
@marionmcgarry.bsky.social
Irish heritage, folklore, material culture, design. Author: Irish Customs and Rituals. Lecturer ATU. Views my own. https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
@witchesetc.bsky.social
Author of Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Simon and Schuster/Scribner, 2023/4). History, folklore, books, archives.
@csmaccath.com
Folklore PhD, author, poet, musician. Presently writing THE STORYTELLER'S GUIDE TO FOLKLORE, a handbook at the intersections of folkloristics and creative writing. Codex and SFWA member. Nordic Animist. Ⓥ 🇨🇦⛵️ https://linktr.ee/csmaccath
@andreakitta.bsky.social
Folklorist, professor, author, horror enthusiast. I study the intersections of legend, conspiracy theory, and medicine and the supernatural.
@taleteller.bsky.social
Storyteller, author, university instructor of comics, storytelling, and Canadian children's literature, and independent researcher of folklore in popular culture. Newest book arriving November 19, 2024: The Watkins Book of Urban Legends.
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Dark fantasy & Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
@nonfictioness.bsky.social
Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Big fan of books, libraries, folklore, history. Also studying for part-time PhD on the folklore of death and dying in 19th century England
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@odavies9.bsky.social
Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, and popular medicine.
@meertens-knaw.bsky.social
Het Meertens Instituut onderzoekt en documenteert taal en cultuur in Nederland, en Nederlandse taal en cultuur in de wereld. https://meertens.knaw.nl/ Meer updates? Schrijf je in voor de nieuwsbrief! https://tinyurl.com/2s383ar9
@wickedtizzy.bsky.social
Folklore Graduate Student | Diasporic Sámi | Queer and Still Here 🏳️🌈 Researching Digital Folklore, Contemporary Legends, Indigenous Artists
@flyingmontana.bsky.social
Storytelling aerialist; professor of folklore, ethnography, research ethics; US Parachute Team (speed skydiving); skeleton athlete. Views are my Bengal cats'.
@normaelia-8.bsky.social
@considerjeoffry.bsky.social
Folklorist and writer specializing in the cultural heritage of the American South. Collector of 78 rpm records and old photos. Fiddler and banjo player. Researching folk gravestone art, Southern pottery history, ghost stories. Catscatscatscatscatscats
@folkloringpodcast.bsky.social
Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return (2021) • Poems in The South Shore Review & The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
@morgandaimler.bsky.social
Independent folklorist, author of nonfiction about irish myth & fairies and fiction (UF & HF), amateur translator of old/middle Irish, general trouble maker
@nataljastgermain.bsky.social
I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷PhD candidate, horror writer, multilingual translator, senior lecturer, annoying folklorist. 🔎 Researching the ethics and legal regulations of AI #researchingAI&beyond #dailyspooklore #swampsunday #vampiresweekly #thesevenofwands
@traceynormanauthor.bsky.social
Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library. http://traceynormanauthor.com/
@laudun.bsky.social
People get around thanks to information. Information gets around thanks to people. It's all people and information.
@kjsoar.bsky.social
PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology. Writer for Hellebore. Co-editor of 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press). Editor 'Circles of Stone' and 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her. I have a dog.
@dianearodgers.bsky.social
Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd 70s TV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President-elect of International Society for Contemporary Legend Research | National Folklore Survey | Dracula Returns to Derby | The Sleazoids | All views my own (she/her)
@alsven.bsky.social
Emerson College Visual & Media Arts Affiliated Faculty / Film & Media Studies PhD / Researching: Horror, Found Footage, Experimental Film & Video, Promotional Paratexts, Moral Panics Recent at New Review of Film & TV: https://nrftsjournal.org/flash-fright
@folklorewales.com
Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk folklorewales.com