look, I'm not into folk horror because of the "folk are evil! EVIL people will kill you!" aspect of it I'm in it for the gnarly folk cures and folk magic and weird occult stuff blood and clay and salt in a hex jar, children buried alive in the walls of church as guardian spirits that kinda stuff
Have you seen INCANTATION? I feel like some of the best folk horror lately has been coming from Asia, and that one is a banger.
I got into folk horror for the Morris Dancing.
Alt: a group of men are walking in a line wearing white shirts and hats
This is one of the reasons I love living in the middle of NC because it’s “the spooky part of NC” and weird shit happens on the regular. So I agree.
I’m in for the “magic ALWAYS has a cost” angle.
How about Witch Bottles?
I'm in it for the "the folk did not ask you to come here" also known as "folk around and find out"
So Old Gods of Appalachia is something you’re familiar with I’m hoping Bc it’s dope af
yes! you get it! give me the over the top rituals, the books, and tapestries of old town lore, hexes, and spells! let me gobble it up! horror not because of mere evil, horror because of its oddity!
Snakes under the first two stairs, toads in the foundations, chickens in every wall. Ashes of your ancestors mixed into the mortar, and a chimney anointed with the blood of pig sucklings... Throw the oak and the linden into the fireplace, may the Domači arise, may they dance!
I would much rather be in the cult of the Wicker Man than the Christian virgin cult of the Cop.