Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail, and may this bread choke me if the moon landings were not filmed on Mars. When the crows flew off, they lifted the tree over nine red-hot ploughshares. Helen was never at Troy at all, she was hidden in an old manuscript drawer disguised as Duke Gorlois....
Invitation to apply for membership of The Folklore Society Council 2025
Council is the decision-making body of The FLS. Council has a maximum of 20 members, and holds hybrid meetings at least 3 times a year. Members can be invited to take part in working groups, and will be expected to take part in running FLS events, conferences and initiatives from time to time. Council works...
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts & Other Folklore Creatures, illustrated by Fee Greening. This new edition of Katharine Briggs’ Dictionary of Fairies will be published by Octopus on 11 September 2025. It includes a foreword by Sophia Kingshill, Honorary Secretary of The Folklore Society, to whom Katharine Briggs...
Newer Researchers in Folklore Day
26 Sept 2025, 10:00 – 16:00 Centre for Folklore, Todmorden, 65 Halifax Rd, Todmorden OL14 5BB, UK The Newer Researchers Day brings together researchers from all disciplines with an interest in folklore practice and study. It is a workshop intended to celebrate, share, and develop skills in the innovative ways in which many researchers are...
Echoes of Padstow project website now live
The Echoes of Padstow project is inspired by the incredible audio-visual collection of Doc Rowe, who first visited Padstow in 1963. It has become Doc’s life-long work dedicated to recording, collecting and preserving traditions such as Padstow’s May Day. The Echoes of Padstow website celebrates Padstow, its people and their Obby Oss May Day tradition....
The Folklore Society’s Doc Rowe Award 2025
We have renamed, revised and relaunched our biennial non-print media award’ as ‘The Doc Rowe Award’ in honour of his six decades of recording, filming and photographing seasonal events throughout the UK. Submissions are invited for the 2025 Doc Rowe Award, to be presented in November after this year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture. For more details...
Folklore Reimagined: 2025 events at The British Academy April-May 2025 British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AH How have global folklore traditions, stories, and customs shaped our identities? And what does contemporary folklore look like? Delve into fascinating topics like the lore of our landscapes, the importance of sung history, and how crafting...
Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2025
Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2025 We are very pleased to announce that three post-graduate applicants received bursaries for their research projects in 2025: Rawan Alfuraih (University of Oxford): ‘The Epic of Najd: Rebirth of Bodies in the New Environment of Saudi Arabian Urbanisation.’ Maximilian Bowden (University of Essex): ‘Mapping the Deadverse: Worldbuilding and Narrative...