Deborah Hyde

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Weird in the Wade
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Weird in the Wade

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Day of the Medieval Dead
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Day of the Medieval Dead

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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley
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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley

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Fabulous Folklore with Icy Sedgwick
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Fabulous Folklore with Icy Sedgwick

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The Torrelaguna House
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The Torrelaguna House

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Werewolf Legends
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Werewolf Legends

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Folklore of the malign and macabre. Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.

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18 Jun

A great morning with @AnthonyNolan, meeting stem cell donation recipients and talking about their experiences.

Get yourself on the blood stem cell donation register!!

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ghostcatcherelh Emma LH: Ghost Catcher Isles @ghostcatcherelh ·
18 Jun

2/2 Featuring insights from Dr Juliette Wood, Stevyn Colgan, Mark Page and Clive Harper, it's a wonderful example of folklore research bringing a lost story back into view.

It also made me want to visit Wyrd Wycombe next year.

https://youtu.be/aHZhArPasjg

#wycombewyrm #folklore

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ghostcatcherelh Emma LH: Ghost Catcher Isles @ghostcatcherelh ·
18 Jun

1/2 Planning a visit to West Wycombe this Sunday, so I've been watching @jourdemayne's excellent film Wyrd Wycombe and the Wycombe Wyrm.

It's a fascinating investigation into a largely forgotten dragon tale from Hughenden near High Wycombe.

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18 Jun

Today we went to see the donkeys and this one was happier about being cuddled than it appears in this photo. Last time I went, I inadvertently electrocuted one on the nose by leaning on the fence. I think they may have been talking about me in the interim.

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