The Mountain Who Stumbled, the Lake Who Eats Girls, and The Beast Who Guards the Plantation: Some Notes on the Other-than-Human Beings who Inhabit Guatemala’s Verapaz A Folklore Society Online Talk by Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Tuesday 3 June 2025, 19:00 BST This talk will focus on stories about...
Seafarers and Sea-Fearing: Nineteenth-Century Maritime Folklore A Folklore Society Online Talk by Dr Karl Bell (University of Portsmouth) Tuesday 20 May, 19:00 BST Focusing on maritime folklore in the 19th-century Atlantic, this talk considers the ocean as both a natural and supernatural space, one full of signs, omens, and otherworldly encounters. Given the way mariners...
Scandinavian Changelings A Folklore Society online talk by Tommy Kuusela Tuesday 6 May, 19:00 BST A Scandinavian belief in changelings can be traced from the Middle Ages until fairly recent times. Stories about changelings were still being recorded by folklore collectors as late as the 1900s. People have actively believed that a supernatural being could...