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SEASONS GREETINGS- Hoping you all have the 2022 that you all richly deserve
#NewYearsDay
EIRÉ-Set of four stamps depicting tales from the Ulster Cycle(1981)
THERE BE DRAGONS- 4 Stamps from the off shore aggressive tax haven of Jersey
BACK FOR 1 DAY ONLY!
A special Limited Edition,all singing,all dancing,social bubble safe return to the fold after 2 exhausting months of protracted house moving,work wrangling & General Covid dodging shenanigans.After today, FHC transmogrifies into other distinct forms.Yay!
NUT NAN-Burnley and its environs are the only known haunts(so far)for this legendary entity who could be said to be the Protective Spirit of the area's chief commercial export:the hazel nut. She terrified children with screeching & ear bashing who dared to pick her nutty yield
ERIC RAVILIOUS(2): Familiar bird illustrations to anyone moderately visually literate: a much imitated visual style over the years
#folkhorror
WICKER MAN-4 covers from all the major 'official' soundtrack releases: 1997-2013
#wickerman
DIABOLUS IN MUSICA-The sound of folk horror from at least 1383 onwards(see Brughal's musical 'Easter eggs' below): known variously as the Tritone,Devils interval,triad & flattened fifth,this sinister tone has provided the soundtrack to 600 years of human tragedy and folly alike
LADYBIRD BOOK-Children in the 1950s craving a Folk Horror fix had no need to look any further than the Ladybird Books shelf of the local lending library(always next to Noggin the Nog). Strange & eerie visions of rural life where death and waking terror were just a page turn away
ENGLISH DRAGONS-A small selection of the many beasts that have plagued English villages down mythic time until the curtain fell on the age of the knight errant.
The Dragon of Loschy Hill;the Bignor Hill dragon;The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh;The Longwitton Dragon