Centre for Myth Studies 10th Anniversary Symposium: The Old & the New
2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex.
Folk Crafts: Handmade Textiles and Folk Costumes in Poland
Poland is a country where the diversity and presence of textile traditions in folklore derives from the country’s long and complicated history.
Fairy Folklore: The Unchanging Appeal of Changelings
The notion of fairy changelings, whilst dating back centuries, in many ways feels like a modern concept. That a human might be stolen away by the little folk and replaced with a worn-out fairy or stock of wood, enchanted to look like them, is reminiscent of the human-seeming aliens in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. […]
Happy Birthday #FolkloreThursday!
On 18th June 2016, #FolkloreThursday turned a year old!
Fairies and the Folklore Society: 1878-1945
The great Victorian fairy fascination held its grip over culture into the early 20th century. In the wake of the Cottingley photographs, the dark folkloric sprites had seemingly transformed into benign nursery beings.