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Spirit photography, ghost-seers, and the "Night-side of Nature": our interview with Dr @DrEframSS

https://t.co/lZP4U4og8F

#NewPost

"I came to understand that Nubian pilgrimages to and activities at the sacred site of Philae were actually older than the extant temple of Isis that was built under Ptolemy II…”

-from our interview with Professor @BumbaughSolange:

https://t.co/jusOKOfpmM

“Praetorius’s world and his work were constructed of wonderment at the magical universe...”

We spoke to Professor Gerhild Williams about the #earlymodern news reporter and demonographer Johannes Praetorius:

https://t.co/SMwjT7RWOS

#hextag

"Re-enchantment allows us to imagine better alternatives, draw meaningful relationships, and have more fulfilling lives."

-from our NEW interview with @helleborezine editor @mjpcuervo

https://t.co/QRXl1HAcl6

“In #Auvergne they also believe that priests, if they are willing, can conjure storms by employing prayers and exorcisms.” - Lambert d'Aubert de Résie

#FolkloreThursday

https://t.co/uZolZodBHC

"Mermaids...have been shoaling around the sunless depths of the human psyche since the time of the ancient Mesopotamians."

From the archives: our interview with @Sarah_Peverley. https://t.co/hp8q3QIgCx

"The striped hyena is believed to confer magic powers, and his flesh, hair, and teeth are objects of contention."

ref: Popular Science Monthly, March 1885 #folklorethursday

According to one writer, Parisian miners in the 19th century hoped to find the "liard de pharaon", a coin from the time of Ancient Egypt.

Whoever unearthed it would be destined for a life of luxuriance. #folklorethursday

Ref: Les merveilles du monde souterrain (1868)

"In olde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons speake great honour, All was this land full fill'd of faerie...But now can no man see non elves mo..."

-from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. #folklorethursday

"It is a vulgar proverb, that it is easy to raise the devil but difficult to bury him." #folklorethursday

ref: Letters of S. Taggart. Original Latin 16th-cent aphorism: "Facile vocaveris Cacodæmona, sed vocatum non facile repuleris."