Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sauce…

Thread: We really need your support at the East Anglian Folklore Centre 🙏 We are a self funded venture and have achieved a lot this year...but our pockets only stretch so far... #folklore justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

Just found a note I made some time ago, late at night, while researching abundance deities. The lady with the meadcup managed to become 'lady with the madcap'

Have you ever tried giving a boggart kombucha? We did! Rory and Anna ceremonially close off the AHRC-funded Lincolnshire Folk Tales project at NTU by thanking Tiddy Mun, the spirit of flooded landscapes, on River Glen. Watch & read in full on our IG: instagram.com/reel/DMLvernJS…

But here we are, finish line in sight. Thank you. And anyone reading this who has enjoyed this project, who will continue to enjoy it and its legacies: a lot of that is down to Anna. She’s a remarkable person and young scholar. Follow Anna at Dr Anna Milon 🦌. Rory (end)

The guiding spirit of my book 'Village' & of the wonderful Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project is Mrs Rudkin, pioneering archaeologist & folklorist. Now a range of extraordinarily candid photos from her collection can be seen & often copied thanks to volunteers & North Lincolnshire Museum! LINK IN COMMENT

The project’s funded period is OVER! Thank you Arts and Humanities Research Council, NTU’s School of Arts & Humanities & NTU School of Social Sciences, our partners, friends, participants, etc. More is forthcoming. The bookshop The Rabbit Hole Brigg was not a partner, but is great. Buy a book from them! linktr.ee/therabbithole.…

Revisiting the Horned God (and Goddess?) Join Dr Anna Milon 🦌 on 26 August at The Bell, E1, for a talk on the many facets of the Horned Goddess and who she might be. Details and tickets: wegottickets.com/event/672095/

An interdisciplinary, ethnographic funded PhD on co-creation within a community theatre? Sounds like a project for a folklorist! jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE756/f...

While in Cornwall: Lanyon Quoit, Mên-an-Tol, & the Boskednan Nine (actually 11) Maidens

So glad to have visited the Ithell Colquhoun exhibition Tate after a holiday in Cornwall. Reading The Living Stones with an evocative intro from Edward Parnell revisiting all the places I've seen only a week ago.

In 'Living Stones' Ithell Colquhoun writes: 'the newly instituted department for folklore at London University [so not the FLS] is collecting traditions concerned with hunting'. Is this a collection that still exists in some self-contained form? Folklore Thursday

The Urisk is a creature from Scottish folklore, described as half human and half goat. It lives in remote glens, near waterfalls, and by lochs, often choosing caves or rocky shelters as its home. Unlike the friendly household brownies, the Urisk is a lonely spirit that seeks

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore 22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm Conway Hall and live-streamed Icy Sedgwick : Northern Ghosts: The Bargest and Gytrash Tales of the barguest and gytrash haunt the landscapes of northern England. conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event… 7/10

Herne was hailed by 'witchfather' Gerald Gardner as the British example par excellence of the Horned God of the witches. Gardner also suggested the Wild Hunt might have been witches riding to the sabbat

Feeling Halloweenish? You might like to listen to my lovely chat with Three Ravens Podcast about #witches, #ghosts and other things that go bump in the night 🎃threeravenspodcast.com/podcast/episod…

📢📢 Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Find out more 👇manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10/2…

If you read 'The Hunter Will Take You' backwards, you'll get Pat Mill's 'Slaine The Horned God': degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…