Protection and Punishment: Beliefs About Angels in Tudor and Stuart England

by Dr Laura Sangha
Botticini’s painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary depicts the angelic hierarchy. Detail from Francesco Bottincini’s L'elezione della Vergine. The National Gallery, London. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACoro_di_angeli_-_Francesco_Botticini.jpg

In Tudor and Stuart England, angels were believed to deliver messages, protect the godly, carry souls to heaven, punish sinners, and carry out God’s will.

Swan Folklore: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

by Kerry Andrew
The Swan maiden) by Helena Nyblom 1908. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svanhamnen_i_Bland_tomtar_och_troll,_1908..jpg

What is it about swans? They feature heavily in Western European folklore, a graceful animal for a human to be transformed into as a curse, or shapeshifting into humans at will.

‘Terra Incognita’: Tracing Literary Occult Pathways in North London

by Dr Romany Reagan
Woman in forest

North London has captured the imagination of gothic writers through the ages, exploring both sides of the region’s possibly: one a promise, one a threat.

Old Tails in New Bottles: Folklore’s Influence on Pulp Fiction Werewolves

by Kaja Franck
Illustration for Sabine Baring-Gould’s The Book of Werewolves (1865)

Werewolves are considered to be a traditional monster in the twenty-first-century popular culture.

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