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The Katharine Briggs Award 2024: Short List

— Posted on 4th October 2024

We are pleased to announce the short list for the Katharine Briggs Award 2024 

SHORT LIST

(alphabetical by first author surname)

Willem de Blécourt and Mirjam Mencej (eds), Werewolf Legends (Palgrave Macmillan).

Cecily Gilligan, Cures of Ireland: A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies (Merrion Press).

François-Marie Luzel, The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany; ed. & transl. Michael Wilson (Princeton University Press).

Peter Shepheard, Jock Duncan: The Man and his Songs (Rymour Books).

John Sloan, Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect (Oxford University Press).

Tabitha Stanmore, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Bodley Head).

Erin E. Stiles, The Devil Sat on my Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah (Oxford University Press).

Matthew Townend, The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore (Oxford University Press).

Weird Walk, Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year (Watkins Publishing).

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 12 November at Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 7AY, after the Katharine Briggs Lecture, which is hosted jointly this year by The Folklore Society and The English Folk Dance and Song Society.

Our speaker this year is Dr Doc Rowe: ‘Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our Cultural Traditions’ and the lecture begins at 18:00.

Following the lecture, The Folklore Society President, Prof. David Hopkin, will read out the judges’ report on the Katharine Briggs Award short list and will announce the winner and present the prize. There will then be a presentation of The Folklore Society’s Coote Lake Medal for folklore research to Prof. Ronald Hutton.

Afterwards, drinks and snacks will be served, there will be music, we will celebrate Doc Rowe’s imminent 80th birthday, and all the books entered for the Katharine Briggs award will be on display for our guests to browse.

Tickets: £6.00 (£4 for Folklore Society and EFDSS members with the Discount Code: just log on to the Members area to find the Discount Code) from: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/14065-katharine-briggs-2024?