🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃
@_KateCrouch
Mortuary archaeology | Museums | Death | Folklore | she/they | Dr | Folk horror enthusiast | Bit of a goth 💀⚰️🏛️📚
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Exciting find of a Roman bed burial - extending the funerary use of beds in England back in time by at least three centuries. Different to the 7th cent ones (with a male, for a start). But wooden construction raises questions about what we're missing theguardian.com/science/2024/f…
Amazing work with the first forensically excavated iron age bog body in northern Ireland and C14 dating with QUB C14 lab Best info direct from PSNI
Archaeologists within the Police Service of Northern Ireland have uncovered ancient human remains dated over 2,000 years old in Bellaghy. orlo.uk/XolLe
Come along to our next online talk: The History of Halloween by Ronald Hutton 18th July How old & how pagan is Halloween? Was it the ancient pagan feast of the dead? Come and find out! It's never too early to get thinking about Halloween! tinyurl.com/5n7a25av #folklore #pagan
I had A LOT OF FUN playing this! Anyone with an interest in folklore/history/archaeology will find much to enjoy in this folk horror adventure game, as it draws its inspiration from real people, places, and folk beliefs! ✨ 💀 ⛏️
It's the last few hours to grab The Excavation of Hob's Barrow at 20% off on Steam! 💀⛏️ Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Throughout July, visitors to Arthur’s Stone will be able to witness excavations being undertaken by experts including @juliant1959 of @UoMCAHAE which aim to unearth the mysteries surrounding the site manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/… @EnglishHeritage
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Witness archaeology in action at Arthur’s Stone
Throughout July, visitors to Arthur’s Stone will get the chance to witness excavations taking place that aim to unearth the mysteries surrounding the evocative site. Tours will be run by a team of...
We spoke to @Dazed about paganism, re-enchantment, mysticism, and antidotes to capitalist realism. dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…
"More than a hundred of the puzzling objects — hollow, 12-sided geometric shells of cast metal about the size of baseballs, with large holes in each face and studs at each corner — have been discovered in Northern Europe over the past 200 years." buff.ly/3HxMMXl
"Gypsum burials have been found [...] in Europe and North Africa but were particularly notable in Britain, with at least 45 recorded in the York area since the late 19th Century." buff.ly/42IzK0g
This morning I discovered the little display in the office of material taken from but eventually returned to #Pompeii by guilt-ridden visitors over the years. #sorry
Humans have been scratching names into monuments for many centuries and future historians may appreciate this, but please don't do it. Still... "only after what regrettably happened did I learn of the antiquity of the monument”? The colosseum? What? WHAT? theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…
Can any of you lovely folk pinpoint this spooky old show? It rings no bells with me, but it sounds fantastic!
In case you missed this last Friday, I've got a new book coming out this October about hands-on ritual year #folklore called Everyday Folklore! 🥳 and if you want to try some ritual year folklore tonight 1/2 #EverydayFolklore #WyrdWednesday liza-frank.com/the-cats-out-o…
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The Cat's Out of the Bag | Everyday Folklore
I’ve written another book, it’s called Everyday Folklore: An almanac for the ritual year. And it’s being published in October!
Come along to our next talk by Dr Helen Frisby: A Brief History of Burial Grounds! 4th July, 6pmGMT online! We’ll explore how people have expressed relationships with their dead through body disposal practices💀 tinyurl.com/355pp979 #burial #folklorethursday
It's #MidsummersEve and almost time to rattle those bones again! 💀 🌳 ✨
Each year at midnight on Midsummer’s Eve, skeletons are said to rise from the roots of an old oak tree near Broadwater Green in Worthing, Sussex. They dance to the rattling of their own bones around the tree until sunrise, before sinking back into the soil 💀🌳 #SuperstitionSat
My regular reminder that to have the ‘mubble fubbles’ (16th century) is to experience a bout of melancholy such as the Sunday evening blues, combined with a vague sense of impending doom.
Episode 133 DEATH FOLKLORE IN 19th CENTURY ENGLAND Listen free on your podcast app or at thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-133.ht… Podcast host Mark Norman is joined by @NonFictioness to discuss her research into 19th century British death customs and rituals. #folklore #Death
The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't bbc.in/3MjRppe
#MuseumsHeritageDeath, edited by @DrTrishBiers & @DrMaryClary will be released July 26, 2023! The book includes 35 chapters: a comprehensive examination of death, dying, & human remains in museums & heritage sites around the world from 60+ contributors. tinyurl.com/MHDBook2023
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