Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Extraordinary Ordinary Landscapes A Folklore Society Online Talk, by Dr Susan Kilby (University of Nottingham) Tuesday 9 April 2024, 18:00 BST Situated at the heart of Castor’s early twelfth-century rural church in modern Cambridgeshire, a beautiful set of Romanesque capitals depicts an array of creatures, encompassing both the...
Fact, Fiction and Folklore in Film and Television A Folklore Society Online talk by Dr Diane A. Rodgers (Sheffield Hallam University) Tuesday 26 March 2024, 18:00 GMT Folklore brings us tales of witches, ghosts and ghouls, myths and legends. How these are communicated in the media can influence our beliefs, actions and understanding of the...
‘…A Big Grey Wolf came out of the Forest’ A Folklore Society online talk by Dr Juliette Wood (Cardiff University) Tuesday 12 March 2024, 18:00 GMT This talk examines traditional folklore, both ancient and modern, relating to wolves, and their canid cousins – dogs, foxes, and coyotes. ‘…A Big Grey Wolf came out of the...
Sir John Schorn: The Man who Conjured the Devil into a Boot A Folklore Society online talk by Wayne Perkins Tuesday 27 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 GMT ‘Sir,’ ‘Master’ or ‘Maister’ John Schor(e) was the Rector of North Marston in Buckinghamshire in the 13th – 14th centuries. After his death, his shrine became the third most...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Digging for Folklore Gold in the Social Science Mine A Folklore Society online talk by Prof. Richard Jenkins Tuesday 13 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 GMT Folklorists are accustomed to searching for folklore material in newspapers, legal records, fiction and historical research. This talk will suggest that there is another useful potential source:...
The Fairy Tellers A Folklore Society online talk by Nicholas Jubber Tuesday 30 January 2024, 18:00-19:30 A journey amongst some storytellers who collected, transmitted & in some cases invented fairy tales, showing how the form changed over time This talk focuses on three key tellers of traditional tales: Giambattista Basile, the Neapolitan courtier and soldier-of-fortune...
Ghosts of the Goldfields A Folklore Society online talk by David Waldron (Federation University) Tuesday 5 December 2023, 19:00 GMT In this talk, Dr David Waldron will discuss his research into ghost beliefs and stories of the 19th-century goldrush in colonial Victoria, Australia. He will draw on his research into ghost stories as a cultural...
Ribbons, Flowers and Locks: A Review of some Contemporary Practices A Folklore Society online talk, by George Monger Tues 21 November 2023, 18:00 GMT George Monger looks at ribbons, floral tributes, love-locks and other customary practices which came to prominence in the 20th century. ‘In 1971, I witnessed a bride-to-be being decorated and paraded around...