#IrishHistory Podcast: The Irish Catholic Church: How did it become so powerful?
https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/irishhistory/e/678fbd81c4926bdc794d0bf4/media.mp3?tk=eyJ0ayI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJhZHMiOnRydWUsInNwb25zIjp0cnVlLCJzdGF0dXMiOiJwdWJsaWMifQ==&sig=rbv4d0o7_Fg33ShYze9AY7SBPYJmM5e0TdORHZRA0bU

The third day of my Edwardian advertisement advent calendar … today features Foot’s bath cabinet…
All adverts appeared in the strand magazine between 1900 and 1903. #edwardian

Happy December! The first day of my Edwardian advertisement advent calendar … today features claxtons ear cap.
All adverts appeared in the strand magazine between 1900 and 1903. #Edwardian

On this snowy day here in England, I thought I'd share this post about the Devil's Footprints. In 1885, a long meandering trail of marks was left in the snow in Devon. Though they seemed to have been made by a two-legged animal, they resembled hoofprints. They wound through churchyards & across fields, went up the sides of buildings & over roofs, & jumped estuaries - as if the uncanny being who made them had flown. Sometimes they stopped on one side of a haystack & continued on the other, without the hay being disturbed. Elsewhere the creature seemed to have jumped impossibly high walls or wriggled through tiny pipes. The prints went on for between 40 & 100 miles and were reported in the national press. The marks have been blamed on escaped monkeys & kangaroos, on austere Protestants trying to frighten religious rivals, on untethered balloons, UFOs, sea monsters & swans in padded shoes. My article: https://www.davidcastleton.net/devils-footprints-devon-snow-england-hoofmarks-hoofprints/ #folklore #history #weird #gothic #Devon #snow

One strange London legend speaks of a motley band of Dickensian-type characters who colonised the Tube network in the late 19th century and never returned to the surface. Their descendants are said to still inhabit the Underground system today. Strangely mutated, they live off rats and mice, discarded food and the occasional late-night passenger. #weird #urban #folklore #history #London #psychogeography #gothic

Oaks near Sheepstor this week #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mosstodon

Norsworthy bridge at Burrator yesterday, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography