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$500 Bounty for English “Vampire”
29 December 2025 - 31 December 2027
A journal editor is offering $500 to anyone who can find the earliest use of the word vampire in English. Anthony Hogg, president of the Vampire Studies Association and editor of the Journal of Vampire... Read moreThe Baum Rabbit: the Lancashire and British tradition of Phantom Killer Bunnies
15 April 2026 - 16 April 2026
Rochdale's Baum Rabbit was one of Britain's most famous supernatural Victorian and Edwardian spirits. It appeared not only in local writing and the classics of Lancashire dialect, but in national reference... Read moreCollateral Data: Ethnographic Material in Dictionaries
23 April 2026 - 24 April 2026, Bergen, Norway
Collateral Data: Ethnographic Material in Linguistic Dictionaries and EncyclopediaThe two-day Collateral Data symposium (23–24 April, Babelstuen, University of Bergen Library) brings together scholars... Read moreWhitby Hand of Glory Folklore Festival
1 May 2026 - 3 May 2026, Flowergate Hall, Whitby, England, YO21 3BA
The inaugural Whitby HAND OF GLORY Folklore Festival, 1/2/3 May 2026. Performance, music, workshops, retail, literature, art, poetry and more. All events will be free to attend (access subject to capacity)... Read moreHoax: A Ghost, a Witch and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment
7 May 2026 , Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Here lies Fanny Lynes, who, after death, became the notorious scratching ghost of Cock Lane, London. Here swings Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch and apocalyptic prophetess who died a murderer. Here... Read moreEncounters with Landscapes
22 May 2026 , Oxford
An inaugural evening of short films, talks and conversation about landscape and the relationship between people and place, hosted by Northern Earth, the long-running quarterly exploring the relationships... Read moreLolly Willowes at 100
29 May 2026 - 30 May 2026, University College London
The international conference, ‘Lolly Willowes at 100’, to mark the centenary of Warner’s best-known novel, Lolly Willowes, will be held at University College London on Friday 29 May and... Read moreMythos as MythUs summer school
20 June 2026 - 30 June 2026, Athens and Naxos island, Greece
The Mythos as MythUs summer school studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as humanity’s long-shared voice in response to times of crisis and distress that impact entire... Read more