I am the spooks 🧛🏻♀️🍷
PhD candidate in public law, non-fiction author, multilingual translator, senior lecturer, annoying folklorist, art nerd.
I run #dailyspooklore & #swampsunday (feel free to join me).
Also, I often post about vamps #vampiresweekly
Natalja Saint-Germain
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I’m yet to return fully as I’m a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in the world on top of my own life being a mad carousel of unforeseen events, but thank you everyone so much for your kind words!
I missed you too guys 🪻🖤🪻
Hope to come up with something interesting to post soon! Cheers!
This will now take place on 20 May at 1.30. You can still find details on the site below!
In Scottish lore, the Bean-nighe (Fairy Woman) was found in all the lonely places washing the linen of those about to die. If a person caught her unawares, she would tell them all what would happen after life. But if she saw them first, they lost the power of their limbs... 🎨Brian Froud #MorbidMarch
Known as "Murder-Logs," the American alligator is a staple of Southern rootwork. Their paws & teeth are prized in luck magic—not just for power, but for the dark, resilient energy of a creature that has survived since the dinosaurs. Truly the ancient guardians of the Okefenokee. #SwampSunday
Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky
Artist: Tijana Lukovic @tijanadraws.bsky.social
#MementoMoriMonday #WorldOptometryDay
Death and the Doctor, carved ivory spectacle case, c. 1500
The doctor holds a pair of eyeglasses in one hand and with the other seeks to stay Death's scythe.
wellcomecollection.org/works/bqx6zzue
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring
New release for March ~
Moss Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology by Robert Dale Rogers
A comprehensive illustrated guide to bryophytes
Also explains how bryophytes have environmental benefits, such as in remediation of our increasingly polluted planet
#Booksky
Next Tues! Virtual! Free! Let's talk about our favorite spectral women of NYC! Trailblazers, sensitives, reformers & more... A great #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomenInHorror Month offering thanks to @untappedny.bsky.social!
#WiHM
Natalja Saint-Germain
Olivia
Coffin Boffin
Coffin Boffin
The Swamp Wytch
The Swamp Wytch
Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
Chris Woodyard
Susan DuBose
Leanna Renee Hieber
LITERATURE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Join me for a free online talk on 25 March at 1.30
‘The Luck of the Ningyō: Japanese human-fish Yokai and the rise of the fake museum mermaid’
Abstract & joining instructions below. All welcome.
www.opengravesopenminds.com/events/liter...
Coffin Boffin
It's #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomeninHorror Month, so let's talk about these intersections with @untappedny.bsky.social 3/24 6pmEST! Join this FREE illustrated virtual talk hosted by yours truly + Andrea Janes, founder of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social RSVP:
www.untappedcities.com/spectral-wom...
