Today’s adventure in folklore was difficult to pin down even though it’s Low Sunday, aka Little Easter Sunday, aka Hock Sunday, aka Balaam’s Ass Day,…
18 April 2020 – The Heffle Cuckoo Fair
Today I’ve been making a feather. A cuckoo feather. Because today was the date of the Heffle Cuckoo Fair, Heffle or Hefful, being the old…
17 April 2020 – The Friday Before Hocktide
Today I learnt that macaroni cheese, aka macrows, aka maccherone, has been around in England since c.1390. And that I suck at making it. It’s…
16 April 2020 – Fork
I’m not feeling at my creative best today, so I just did this: Resources Daniels, C.L. & Stevans, C.M (eds) (2003) Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and…
15 April 2020 – Shapeshifters
Today I have spent a delightful hour and a half learning all about shapeshifters. Having a horror obsessed film critic father who used to brandish…