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Ballowall Barrow: in the old days the miners used to see strange lights here - fairies! #TombTuesday

The Hunter's Moon closely aligns with the liminal festival of Samhain (the precursor to Halloween). In Celtic lore, the veil between the physical world and the spiritual realm is at its thinnest, making it a sacred time for honouring our ancestors. Art my own. #FullMoon #OctoberMoon #Folklore

In Irish mythology, Oweynagat, the Cave of the Cats at Rathcroghan in County Roscommon, is associated with the Otherworld. Later tradition links it to Samhain and supernatural beings emerging from beneath the earth. One of Ireland's most mysterious doorways leads underground. #FairyTaleTuesday

The Devil at Botallack After four hands had been played there was a knock at the door of the mill. They welcomed the stranger in out of the rain and invited him to join their game. The enigmatic stranger spoke with an unusual accent and was not so much as damp, despite coming in out of the rain.

The Avenue, Avebury #standingstonesunday

A dark and twisted tale of love in the far-west of Cornwall #spooky #cornwall #cornishfolklore #Halloween #AllhallowsEve

Oooh mushrooms for tea #growyourown #oystermushrooms

This magnificent stone row stands near Wadebridge as part of a bronze age complex of sites. The monument leads to a fallen menhir, The Magi Stone, and several bronze age burial barrows that sit upon the highest point of the ridge. #standingstone #megalith #kernow uncannycornwall.com/2026/04/05/e...

The spirits of Baldhu come in many forms - the unlikely history of Baldhu church. #cornishhistory #Truro uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/04/t...

Sitting on a ridge near Padstow is one of Cornwall's lesser known megaliths, an imposing portal dolmen built by Cornwall's stone age inhabitants. Dolmen are known as quoits in Cornwall, from folktales of giants using their giant capstones ... #megalith #cornwall uncannycornwall.com/2026/04/13/p...

The hooting Carn found in the far-west of Cornwall, known as such for the unearthly sound the wind makes as it whistles through the granite crags. #superstitionsaturday #folklore #cornwall uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/11/t...

Osteomancy is a broad term for divination using bones. Methods vary across cultures, from casting small bones to examining their arrangement. The remains of animals could become instruments for asking questions about the living. #WyrdWednesday

The Magic of the Mystical Rowan Tree The rowan tree, also known as Mountain Ash, is not well known for its medicinal benefits but has a long tradition as a ward against evil and the supernatural. Traditionally known as ‘care’ or ‘care-tree’ #folklorethursday uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/14/t...

One of the highlights of autumn, mushroom hunting #fabulousfungi

“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

Part 2 of last Sunday's path-hunting expedition in East Galway - more traces and echoes of Ireland's lost network of footpaths in an landscape now overwhelmingly off-limits to the public. #ThePathlessLand

The grand Nine Maidens stone row. Every stone is a geological wonder, each a mini ecosystem of lichens and moss. #cornwall #standingstonesunday #prehistoric #ancientbritain

Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/11/t... #folkloresunday #cornwall #folklore #cornishfolklore #britishfolklore #giantlore

The Giant Bolster of St. Agnes Beacon #folklorethursday It was said he could step from The Beacon to Carn Brea in Redruth in one huge stride. The giant of Carn Brea angered the Bolster so much he cleared his own hill of stones throwing them at Carn Brea so it became covered in granite boulders.

uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/04/t... #wyrdwednesday #paranormal #cornwall

Wyrdlings! "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague”, Poe famously wrote and for the anniversary of his own death, we give you: “Sometimes they come back – Return from the Great Beyond” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, tell tales of the living dead! 💀

Classic Callanish for #StandingStoneSunday

#kernow #cornwall #standingstonesunday #megalithic uncannycornwall.com/2026/10/03/e...

The Gnome Artist, Heinrich Schlitt.

🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle

Carn Kenidjack known as the Hooting Carn where the wind whistling between the craggy outcrop of stones makes an unearthly sound. Local folklore tells of the devil appearing in the guise of a hooded rider hunting lost souls across the Penwith Moors. #folkyfriday #cornwall #folklore #folkhorror

I finally got round to watching this raw and eerie Cornish folk horror film by Mark Jenkins. 10/10

Map of 300 years worth of mining tunnels underneath Cornwall, UK. [Keith Russ / abandonedminemodels. com] Original post

Nine Maidens stone circle, Wendron. Sadly not intact with only four standing and two built into the field wall. Originally there were two circles here. #cornwall #standingstonesunday #bronzeage

Nature is not a place to visit. It is our home

She took the time to #Nurture the small birds, And told the bees Of loss and joy... She knew the seasons By leaf and movement Of moonlight and air - Even as age Bent her bones She walked the Hedgerows Of memory, Tending the broken things Sheltering there. #VSS365 #Writing #Poetry

The River Fal not looking too inviting today but I still braved the swim. 🥶🩱🏊

Chun Castle, Penwith Cornwall #hillfortwednesday

One of Cornwall's most important stone circles, still in use ceremonially today. Personally I always feel nauseous and a little dizzy inside it.

The magnificent Pawton Quoit #cornwall #kernow #neolithic #standingstonesunday

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Wheal Maid - Goon Gumpus #cornwall #kernow A typical rugged vista in Cornwall's historic mining districts. The relics of Cornwall's mining past pepper a landscape formed from spoil heaps.

Piskey Hall, fogou. Not technically a standing stone, the Cornish fogou stands in a category all of its own. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday #prehistoric #megalithic #ancientsitesunday #sundaystonework @megalithic.bsky.social

On a fogou quest yesterday #ancientbluesky #ironage #cornwall

Whatever you believe about crop circles, there's no doubt they bring people joy. (except the farmer 🫤) A sort of third space where you'll meet a diverse range of wonderful, interesting people.

For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Another view of the larger cross pillar at Reask monastic site, Dingle, Kerry, Ireland Image: 2018 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #EarlyChristian #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

Chun Quoit, Pendeen, Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Someone's enjoying the sun

A whopper for #StandingStoneSunday 😮 - of all the stone rows of Dartmoor, Drizzle Combe has some of the largest terminal stones This stone is set at right angles to the row, with a prominent lug (head? Face?) at the top 🤔 An incredible Late Neo/Bronze Age complex 🤩 📷 My own, last week

We cross the threshold of a stone circle and are engulfed by a sense of ongoing ritual. Engulfed by a sense of intimate lithic conversations, power dynamics unfolding across slow centuries. The Long Neolithic is palpable. The Long Neolithic is living. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday