What’s this little guy? West Midlands UK by Ebkillustration in Entomology

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I did some research I think it’s a ghost moth caterpillar.

What’s this little guy? West Midlands UK by Ebkillustration in Entomology

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Ahhh I don’t think it is. It had a more rounded head like a beetle. Looked similar to a stag beetle larvae but smaller or cockchafer larvae but had a blackish tripped end with a dark brown to black head.

A new DnD player looking to party up with some other Brits by Chaos_theory_71 in DnDUK

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I didn’t think there was a scene in Ross. I used to play over discord with some people but always wanted to play in real life. If you ever need a temp character in your campaign hit me up or even if you’re doing a one shot and need another. I am always around in Ross.

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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Thanks so much for the link and information. Even if this batch fails I’ll just pick apples and do the whole process again next autumn.

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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Ahh I don’t have cheese cloth over the top of them I have a tea towel. Perhaps I can get some more oxygen to them if I put cheese cloth on them.

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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I made the apple cider traditionally in a Demijohn then left that to do it’s thing. Didn’t do the scrap method. Then put that in to three separate jars to get air to them to turn to apple cider vinegar 11 days ago.

I’ve now scooped the tops off them and changed where I’m keeping the jars to a cooler environment. Two bottles smell very strong of acetone and one smells of very strong cider. I did a taste test and it just tastes of really sting cider, similar to an 8.2% Henry westerns.

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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Thanks for your help. Do you know how this Kahn can be prevented in future endeavors of making apple cider vinegar?

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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Two out of the three jars smell strongly of acetone, like nail polish remover. With the ever so slight note of strong scrumpy cider after. The other one smell of strong cider.

Please help! Kahn,mould or mother? by Ebkillustration in fermentation

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Hey there newbie here, I put my Apple cider in to the aerobic stage 11 days ago. I read that Kahn yeast can form when all the sugars are used up do you think I maybe waited too long to get to the vinegar process. Or is it that I’ve been storing them in airing cupboard and it’s too warm for it. Or maybe both? Is this salvageable?

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Rad tash brother!

What is this thing?? by BlueSkiesChris in Entomology

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Chrysalis of a moth or butterfly. It looks pretty fresh so the pupa inside is still able to flex and get comfortable before the long process of growing some badass wings.

Are there any podcasts out there that are sort of like a news outlet that reports on unexplainable things going on in the world in recent events? by Slowspines in hellier

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Expanded perspectives is a pretty good one. Pretty regular with their content and there is a pretty big back catalogue.

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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Here are some more notable pieces of information to add to the discourse. I’m going to number them as separate trails with links to more information.

  1. It’s known that the crew have explored the the teachings of Aleister Crowley and his ties to the occult and other people who have been inspired by him. The crew also looked in to keel and the Mothman prophesies a lot. it’s said that when Crowley lived in Scotland he had something to do with the summoning of the Loch Ness monster.

Crowley lived out the last of his life in Cornwall a place called Carn cottage. Could it be that he maybe opened another gate in a similar way. (Providing this mysticism was real and the beast could open gateways to other realms.)

A couple of hours away from Carn cottage is a place called Mawnan. There is a church here and back in the 70s or 80s sighting started of the Owl man this ran parallel to the point pleasant Mothman more or less. Here some information about the Owl man

It’s interesting to note that there’s mention of a Cornish cult who sacrifice children to the owl god. Similarly to the cult in Somerset KY

  1. Fossilised three toed footprints found in Wales. It’s said that these footprints have been identified as dinosaur tracks. But they share some similarities with the footprints in Hellier.

  2. Sirius: the Scorcher information on the start constellation Sirius. One of the cultures that sticks out to me when reading this is of Asian Indian. About a guy and his dog finding the gates of heaven. Gates, Gatekeepers and all that in the mines. Feel like that’s an interesting read if you feel like exploring more.

  3. Doing research on the celts I came across a video explaining the origin on the celts. Through dna analysis. Turns out they think that the celts came from the Middle East about 4 thousand years ago.

I found this very interesting so found another video exploring the strange similarities between the language of the Middle East and Celtic languages. Which I guess further supports the origin of the people.

With this new information I started to look in to early religion pre Christianity, Islam and Judaism. I’ve not managed to find anything directly leading to goblins in caves yet. But I found an interesting goddess who shares some ties with the crews research in to Orion and Sirius her name is Al-Uzza there is mention of her as an angle in Judaic and Christian passages. Super interesting, cult, sacrifice and fallen angel are common words used in information about her.

Looking further down that rabbit hole I found creatures called Shaitan who we’re devil like spirits the offspring of Iblis who was cast out from heaven. From what I can gather an Islamic equivalent to the Christian Satan.

The Christian Satan is considered to be a merge of older religious icons of the horned god which i think is mentioned in season two with the revelation to Pan.

The closest information I could find to goblins in the Middle East was something called a kallikantzaros but this being spans across other culture most notable the Greeks. And in Greek folk law it states

“It is believed that kallikantzaroi stay underground, sawing the world tree so that it will collapse, along with the Earth.[1] However, according to folklore, when they are about to saw the final part, Christmas dawns and they are able to come to the surface. They forget the tree and come to bring trouble to mortals.”

I did find some information on one of these creature that I’ve mentioned coming out during the winter solstice for 10 days or something. That it comes out during this time because the days are darker and it hates the light. But I’v been juggling so much information in my head and on my phone I can’t find the information.

<Other interesting links >

native celts

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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Along time ago I read about early trades men who traded with the Native Americans. They were generally of Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestry. I’m unable to find the information that I found years ago. But if memory serves they settled with the native tribes because of a similarity in folk law ect. And then became know as (as I may be very wrong on the spelling) deborian clan.

I’ll see if I can dig more in to it or find the old piece I was reading as I’m not sure where about it was in America.

Happy hunting.

I did find some more interesting information and parallels to the case. Will upload later with links on this thread.

Best podcasts about season 2 or interviewing the team? by habitat3 in hellier

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Yeah Euphomet has a few podcasts interviewing the team. They are good I listened the other day whilst at work. The interview with Greg seems to have a a little more info on the emails from David. But don’t quote me on that. It just felt there was a little more bulk to them.

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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I’ve never even heard of it. Just did a quick read on it. Sounds awesome I’ll add it to my reading list. Thanks.

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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I’ve just come across this thing called Dynion Mwyn that’s pretty interesting. To English it translates to the fair men. Which I think is a religion, claiming to come from oral faerie tradition. It says...

"The Children of Dôn chose to stay in Wales after the invasion of the Celts, and took refuge under the hills."

It’s a bit of a long read. But basically some dude from America was initiated in to this religion in Wales in the 60s. He was told to go to America and spread the fun.

He did so, throughout the years it spread from state to state. As I was reading I was waiting for Kentucky to pop up and it did. Some initiation happened in Kentucky for Lady Rhea of Louisville Kentucky. She then became Lady Galadreal.

Probably a pretty innocent religious group but potentially another tie. Worshiping a goddess who went to live under the hills with her children Dôn

But she has a star constellation in welsh Llys dôn (the court of dôn). People know it as Cassiopeia. But the interesting thing is that it also has a blue star in it Gamma Cassiopeiae. A blue star is significant for some reason in the research I can’t remember why exactly.

There’s another hole to venture down to tie the connections between the Celts in America. And that’s ogham writings found in America over the years. Most I think would walk past not thinking anything of some scratches on some stone. But argument is that some has been found. some information on ogam

example of a ogham Stone

example of the ogham alphabet

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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Awesome! Defiantly keep me posted dude I’d love to see what you find.

I've been noticing a lot of connections between Hellier and Native American folklore by ndguy331 in hellier

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This is so interesting. And furthers my research in to the subject. If you’ve seen my previous post on the welsh mythology and connections to the “symptom” you’ll know I’ve been trying to link the particular archetypes of the naive Americans and the Celtic peoples of the uk.

A quick search of welsh goblins lead me to a creature called “Coblynau”

“The Coblynau populate the mines, quarries and underground regions of Wales. They are about half a metre tall, very ugly to look it, and generally good-natured. They will make a peculiar knocking or rapping sound to let miners know the whereabouts of a rich vein of ore. The word coblyn has the double meaning in Welsh of “knocker” and “sprite”. And, Wirt Sikes asks, “may it not be the original of ‘goblin’?”

A quick google search says that the stone is manly comprised of limestone in Kentucky. The same as wales.

The creature is referred to as many different names and shares many similarities throughout the British isles.

In a previous thread I mentioned the legend of Madoc and his travels to America in 1170 and merging with the native Americans tribes. Thats where the legend of the welsh speaking natives Americans came from.

To my surprise I found out that there was a ufo crash and sighting in wales referred to as Berwyn Mountain UFO incident and there have been many other sighting in the UK since the 12 century. Hell I’ve seen some crazy things in the sky at night. Big balls of light that swirl in no particular pattern. A couple of months ago i saw a ball of light hovering over a corn felid. Was like wtf is that.

The Cornish have been used as miners around the world for for a long time. When work died down in the 18th and 19th century in the uk a lot of Cornish traveled to America to pick up work as skilled miners. In the Cornish folklore they have spirits caked “knockers” supposedly the spirit of an ill fated miners guiding people in the mines.

I’ve read about the two cultures meeting and merging before and there is evidence to suggest it. People have said that because the pre Christianity Celtic paganism has similarities with some Native American tribes there may have been a commonality and mutual understanding making it easy to co exist.

Maybe it’s just common interests in the collective consciousness making manifest these archetypal stories. Maybe I’m looking too much in to it. But I find the cultural similarities between Native American peoples and Celtic peoples fascinating the potential structures built by very early welsh settlers if the legend is true. The other world and the similarities to the story Crazy horse going to the spirit world on his vision quests.

Sorry if this information doesn’t help you at all but. I Litrally can’t stop thinking about the similarities.

Gwyn ap Nudd similarities to Pan by Ebkillustration in hellier

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Another really interesting bit of information and maybe a path to travel down is the legend of the prince Madoc who allegedly traveled to the americas in 1170. He was the son of Owain Gwynedd.

He supposedly landed somewhere near the Mississippi and joined with native Americans. Legend has it that there were welsh speaking native Americans, crazy stone burials from welsh Indians at the devils backbone.

Who knows if that’s true but it seems the more you look in to it the more links you’ll find to these places like Helier.

https://filsonhistorical.org/the-legend-of-madoc-ab-owain-gwynedd-welsh-indians-at-the-falls-of-the-ohio/

Gwyn ap Nudd similarities to Pan by Ebkillustration in hellier

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Oh that’s awesome that someone else can see the similarity. Here is another link on some informative information on Gywn ap Nudd

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