Fascinating thread on the history of the Globe Theatre(s). 🎭

St. George, pray for us!

Some say they’re demons. But we know better: they’re a kind of parasite.

They’ve been feeding off human souls forever. Trapped first in lakes, now in #mirrors . They mimic us so we think they’re just our reflections.

But they feed off us. And when we die, they escape.

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' #Mirror , mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?' the Queen asked.
'Well, by 'fairest', do you mean the one who treats everybody equally without prejudice or do you mean the one with the lightest skin colour &/or hair? Or,...',
***(the sound of breaking glass)
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Legend has it that upon Dragon Hill in Oxfordshire, St George slew the dragon.

It's blood was so poisonous, it scarred the earth and left a white mark where the grass never grew again.

Photo: Hugh Mothersole #StGeorgesDay

When my students doubt how powerful a comma can be, I write these lines by Ezra Pound on the board:

“There’s a monster in those fields,” I’d warn the youngsters of the village.

They’d dismiss it as empty #folklore .

I’d see them become less sure when the cattle carcasses piled up, teeth marks all over them.

Meanwhile, I got my raw meat, and no-one suspected me.

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When we moved house, a black cat 'adopted' us. #Folklore in Britain concerning black cats is they are lucky. Elsewhere, they're bad luck because of their connection with Witches.
'Millie' is so cuddly but when I tried to get rid of an old broomstick I found,she went wild!
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Atheists, agnostics, and secularists often claim that the Church has always been against science. However, notable figures like Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest credited with formulating the modern big bang theory, and Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian prelate

Who can resist wandering down a woodland path when it looks like this?

I dreamt something #crawled in my ear.

I woke in a sweat. Relieved, I went back to sleep.

But whatever woke that morning wasn’t me. I’m conscious, but “it” controls me. My every move.

It keeps making me lift up knives, guns. I dread to know what it has planned for me.

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It was only after I escaped from Prison by #crawling through the sewers on Curry Night, that I discovered the Prison Guards had gone on strike & I could have just walked through the Prison gates.
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“Here’s what your kid would look like at 5, without our input,” said the gene editing doctor, holding a photo of a grinning boy.

During the consultation, we #manipulated the image: perfect teeth, hair.

I’m hugging my beautiful boy now. But the original image haunts me.

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Geppetto, my father, has attached strings to my arms & legs to #manipulate me like a puppet. I am not allowed to talk & even have to sleep hung up on a wall hook.
Yet, he has cut the strings off his favourite marionette, Pinochio, & treats him like his real live son.
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This thread is just incredible. I love Charlotte O’Farrell's writing and, if you want to know why, look no further than this absolute masterclass in how to do horror properly.👏👏👏

The compass is spinning wildly... we can't tell which way is North.

Please tag #vssGhostShip .

Our sixteenth #prompt is #direction or #direction s. (#16) 🖤🏴‍☠️👻

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They had been in #Lock Down in the Nuclear bunker for decades but when the Techies said their instruments indicated that it was OK to unlock the shock-proof doors to return to the outside World, nobody could remember where they had put the key.
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“You know what’s wrong with the modern world? Not enough #sagas . None, in fact.”

“You think epic poems would solve everything?”

“Well, it would make life more colourful.”

“But what months-long journey would they chronicle? It would just be about airport delays.”

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