Occult studies
For anyone interested in studying the occult
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@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
@gothicauob.bsky.social
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham. Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway. Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
@alexcarabine.bsky.social
🗝️𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 🗝️𝐏𝐡𝐃: 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 🗝️𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 Dark Aesthetic, She/Her, views my own
@drnickliterski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Depth Psychology and Creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Jungian scholar, professional spiritual guide, ceremonial magician, and collector of rare esoteric books. Host of The Reflective Soul Podcast.
@smaugish.bsky.social
Final year PhD candidate in English Literature @ Lancaster University. Researching asexuality in fin-de-siecle ghost and Weird fiction. Big ol goff.
@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social
Professor of History; author of Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; journal co-editor; higher ed consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer; home is Cleveland, Madrid, Atlanta email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
@orphicastrology.bsky.social
𓁛 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔬𝔤𝔲𝔢 • 𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 • 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔯 • 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔢 𓁞 𐌈 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 Φ ☿ 𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶, 𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔦𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶, 𝔤𝔢𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶 ♄ .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔠 .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔧𝔶𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔥 .𖥔 ݁ ˖ 📍𝔬𝔲𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔥, 𝔡𝔞𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔶 (𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔫 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔠) linktr.ee/orphicastrology
@memizon.bsky.social
They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
@doubleproficiency.com
Natural history & folklore, astronomy, TTRPG. Authors of #AphelionRPG, Herbalist's Primer, and more! By @annaurbanek.bsky.social and @jakubwisz.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/2xproficiency https://www.doubleproficiency.com 🌐 Tampere, Finland
@helleborezine.bsky.social
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social. 🌍 Now shipping worldwide from www.helleborezine.com
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 https://joanpassey.co.uk/
@g0blinegg.bsky.social
Amy - Part-time Goblin 🐸 Folklorist researching the Folklore and Ghostlore of Shropshire 👻 Teacher of Religious Studies Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇 - Currently working on a book about The Devil in Shropshire Folklore
@atarbuck.bsky.social
Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they.
@robincdouglas.bsky.social
Historian of religions and esotericism. Author, 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024, Exeter University Press, co-author Francis Young). Forthcoming: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 (Equinox Publishing). Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
@michalyoudoing.bsky.social
History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
@elirubin.bsky.social
"only humility is revolt" —Aaron Zeitlin Existential historian of religion, rupture, kabbalah, hasidism, philosophy, literature, and modernity 📘*Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism* elirubin.online
@drfloraposte.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at RGU; Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle Sociology. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things. Book forthcoming with MUP.
@mikkibrock.bsky.social
historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor at W&L | views mine | she/her.
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
@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
@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
@kirstinmills.bsky.social
The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻 Senior Lecturer & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series She/Her https://kirstinmills.com
@mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com/portfolio-page 📖 helleborezine.com
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩🎓 Cats 🐈⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her
@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.
@tatiana1979.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. I am researching Patrick McGrath's Gothic Fiction. MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Published by Luna Press Publishing. Posts in English and in Spanish.
@profstorm.bsky.social
Professor, author, former rocker. My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," and "Metamodernism" http://bit.ly/3dzW6ux
@odavies9.bsky.social
Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, and popular medicine.
@dreframss.bsky.social
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
@jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social
Horror film & game PhD researcher with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see. @ Newcastle University 💜
@jenniferashby.bsky.social
Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Outgoing PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer
@emmamerkling.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Art at the University of Manchester | Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art and science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | she/they
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)