Watch out for witchery tonight! 🧙‍♀️ We will be closed tomorrow on Sun 1 Nov, as we move to winter opening hours. 📷 'Witch stone' used by an Orphir woman for rubbing along the spine of cattle refusing to give milk; believed to charm cows to give more milk, and for the milk to give more butter.

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Chan eil am peapag a-staigh. Tha e a-muigh.

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A bold and IMHO well-argued proposal by Alan Avdagić in today's packed Comparative Indo-European Linguistics seminar @leidenhumanities.bsky.social: #Proto-Indo-European "mediae", traditionally *d etc., were not plain stops or glottalised, but prenasalised, /ⁿd/ etc. 🐦🐦

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Listen to Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s poignant poem “Hallowe’en” to Jim Reid’s setting 🖼️: Edward Docker, “Making Lanterns”, (1858–1932) #Halloween #poem #song www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fisd...

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But gin the auld fowks’ tales are richt An’ ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht, O freend o’ freends! what wad I gie To feel ye rax yer hand to me Atween the dark an’ caun’le-licht? —Violet Jacob, “Hallowe’en” (COUNTRY LIFE, 1920) Jacob’s son, Harry, was killed at the Somme in 1916 #Halloween #poem

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