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@folkhorrormagpi Folk Horror Magpie 🌾🏵️💪Folk Horror Magpie 🌾🏵️💪 posts on X about the british, british museum, wax, aztec the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence travel destinations XXXXX%
Social topic influence the british #761, british museum #44, wax #775, aztec 13.33%, red 6.67%, shell 6.67%, pantheon 6.67%, collection 6.67%, aesthetics 6.67%, costume XXXX%
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"✳ Wax copy of the death mask of Oliver Cromwell; the Civil War and its religiously-charged turbulence is the backdrop to many of the best folk horror films from Witchfinder General to A Field in England and his cult-like leadership means Cromwell casts a long shadow (G46)"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:53Z 15.7K followers, XX engagements
"✳ Dr John Dees obsidian scrying mirror and wax seals; used by the Elizabethan polymath and mystic in his role as official conjuror to the Queen. The Seal of God supported Dees shew-stone (crystal ball) and the mirror determined in 2019 to have been an"
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"✴ Mosaic head of Tezcatlipoca; a human skull encased in turquoise and lignite and a nasal cavity lined with red thorny oyster shell in veneration to Smoking Mirror one of four powerful creator Gods in the Aztec pantheon (G27)"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:08Z 15.7K followers, XX engagements
"Intended as an exploration of the aesthetics of the genre. Indeed many folk horror filmmakers and writers have taken direct inspiration from the collection and from a cultural reservoir that includes traditional costume decorative arts and archaeological artefacts"
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"and this non-sequential list is offered in the same spirit of creative and syncretic admiration and joy. No suggestion that any of these objects are necessarily within a particular folk tradition - or are in any way horrifying - simply that the galleries of the British Museum"
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"✳ Okakagbe masquerade costumes; Ancient Mother a female ancestral spirit of regeneration and Little One a child dancer commissioned in 2013 from master Okpella craftsman Lawrence Ajanku (G25)"
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"✳ Prints from the Nordic Noir exhibition; Jeff Olssons work Trdet (The Tree) and Orvar-Odd by Sverre Malling. Both reference Norse mythology as applied to Scandinavian social history (G90 until March)"
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"Aztec cult object assisted in his spiritual conferences with angels translating from their Enochian language (on loan but back in G1 soon)"
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"📸 The Trustees of the British Museum / me #folkhorror #folkhorrormagpie #britishmuseum #starcarr #johndee #cromwell"
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"✴ Pazuzu heads demonic deity of the southwest wind in Mesopotamian religion. These apotropaic house amulets protected against child-snatching demoness Lamashtu. Pazuzu often has the face of a dog bird-like wings and talons and a snake-headed penis - not depicted (G55)"
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"📸 The Trustees of the British Museum / me #folkhorror #folkhorrormagpie #britishmuseum #moldcape #bunraku #samurai #frankscasket #pazuzu #aztec #lindowman"
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"symbolic dance with chanting and drums to narrate stories of spirits ghosts and legends (G93)"
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"🧿 Monster AKA the Wolf-God of Woodeaton; composite statuette of a number of different animals this hulking Romano-British creature is depicted devouring a human; the head is in the mouth whilst the rest of the body hangs limp. Its meaning remains enigmatic (G49)"
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"🧿 The unlucky mummy; actually a painted wooden mummy-board or inner coffin lid that obviously did not sink with the Titanic but the mummys reputation of bringing misfortune grants it the status of a myth-making object (G62)"
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