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This week's theme is the ancestors in traditional and contemporary folklore.

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October 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This week's theme is the harvest in traditional and contemporary folklore.

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October 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Resharing this week's folklore post on thresholds and Neolithic sites as a meme because it's a little easier to follow than the individual images were.

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October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I'm so excited to be working with Serendipity and especially with @kellythomaslit.bsky.social, and I can't wait to see where we go together on this journey.

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serendipitylit.bsky.social Serendipity Literary Agency @serendipitylit.bsky.social · Aug 7
Join us as we welcome #author Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran (@csmaccath.com) to the #SerendipityLit team!

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August 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Sites like Wayland's Smithy are rich examples of layered folklore of place, and you can use this sort of folkloric layering in your fiction.

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September 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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It is my delight and joy to announce that I have signed with @kellythomaslit.bsky.social and @serendipitylit.bsky.social for The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore and my fiction and non-fiction to follow it.

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July 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This week's ancestors theme continues with an invitation to acknowledge ancestors in the natural world.

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October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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In just a few weeks, I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention! If you'll be there too, here's where you can find me.

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October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I'm delighted to announce that I will be a guest at Sydney Comic Con next weekend. I'll be delivering two workshops on folklore and storytelling, and I'll be available all weekend to inspire storytellers to include folklore in their work.

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September 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Now that you know a bit about the harvest in folklore, how about a writing prompt?

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October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This month's Folkbyte has news about my new agent, progress on the book, a new academic book review, and more. You'll find it at the link below.

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Folkbyte Newsletter August 2025
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In this edition: my proposal for the ISFNR 2026 Reykjavik conference, my plans for the World Fantasy Convention, and a few other bits of news.

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September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This month's video is a discussion of didacticism/preachiness in climate fiction and ways to navigate it. #STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #writing #climatefiction

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Climate Fiction Methods: Making a Point Without Preaching
This month's video is a discussion of didacticism/preachiness in climate fiction and ways to navigate it. #STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #writing #climatefiction
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May 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Now we get to see Monday's wee birds in action! Here they are, singing grief away in an Irish folktale.

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September 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Welcome to the inaugural post of a new weekly series on folk narrative for storytellers. Check back on Wednesday and Friday of this week to learn more about our wee magic bird.

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September 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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And now we meet the dreamers themselves in a Japanese folktale about an honest man and an evil man who both dream of treasure.

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September 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Now that you know a bit more about the folklore of ancestors, how about a writing prompt?

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October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This week's Threshold theme continues with an invitation to discover thresholds in nature and write about them.

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October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This month's video takes you down, down, down by the river to find the folklore in my Baldur's Gate III camp library #STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #writing #bg3 #baldursgate3 #gamergirl
Folklore and Pop Culture: Reading the Books in Baldur's Gate III
This month's video takes you down, down, down by the river to find the folklore in my Baldur's Gate III camp library #STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #writing #bg3 #baldursgate3 #gamergirl
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July 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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This month's video is a discussion folkloristics and the ethics of cursing in historical and contemporary magical practice. Earlier discussions of charms and curses can be found here:

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Folkloristics, Magical Practice, and the Ethics of Cursing #FolkloreStudies #Witchcraft
Folklore of Spellcraft: Charms I: https://youtu.be/qaWHFNAm9n0?si=SvAYreD_NBdRDHg8 Folklore of Spellcraft: Charms II: https://youtu.be/UfIZjoSOF10?si=sWUQ25EYNKltt3UJ Folklore of Spellcraft: Charms III: https://youtu.be/kgeoMZxaGhA?si=sHLLyRXpDOHucvMY Folklore of Spellcraft: Curses I: https://youtu.
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April 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Dream logic can do wonders for a story if it's written well. This week's Wednesday Wonder invites you to try your hand at it.

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September 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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ICYMI: The "Tam Lin" episode of the Folklore & Fiction podcast was all about feminism and fictional magic systems. You can find it here: folkloreandfiction.c...

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September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This week's motif is all about dreaming of treasure and the ways you might bring both the dream and the treasure to a story.

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September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Monday's witch is Friday's stepmother, who has turned the poor children in this ballad into a laily worm and a machrel of the sea.

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September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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So let's say you give in and reach for something on Monday's dangerous fairy table. What would it be, and how would it taste?

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September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM