Touchstones of belief: a rich legacy of Charms and Amulets in Scotland by Professor Hugh Cheape

This lecture by historian Dr Alexander Cummins analyses some of the techniques contained within this manuscript source

Rochelle Roberts writes about her personal experience with the lingering ghost of grief and the ways in which she uses visual art

This talk by historian Dr Alexander Cummins investigates the roles and powers of the dead in Western occult philosophy and magical practices

In this talk Dame Marina Warner will discuss her book 'From The Beast to The Blonde - on Fairy Tales and their Tellers

Michael Fitzgerald talks about The Hollow Earth theory

This lecture will focus on Abercrombie’s solitary Surrealism and how her still, isolated art offers us glimpses into marvellous worlds that feel excitingly alive.

This talk looks at its history, in those three nations and in Scotland and at its wider context, as a possible ancient pan-Celtic

She will discuss the turbulent times, colonisation and the enslavement of people, human sacrifice and the culture that permeates all of this

In this talk, Christopher McIntosh, author of two books on the Rosicrucians, will explore this movement and its many-faceted impact.

This talk examines the important if overlooked esoteric and feminist contributions of three American women

Taliesin is the super-poet of Welsh tradition, the shapeshifting bard who has been everywhere and in everything

The Spiritualism Symposium by Shannon Taggart : Linen Veils and Lightning Masks: Theurgical Mediumship of Late Antiquity, Leonard George

An illustrated Zoom lecture on H. P. Lovecraft, the New England writer of weird, science-fiction and horror fiction, by S. T. Joshi.

This presentation will explain the differences between the broad categories of esoteric marks found in old buildings

In this illustrated Zoom talk, Mark will discuss some of the themes which he explores in his most-recent book, 'Dark Folklore'.

Who was Rudolf Steiner? My lecture will go some way to answering that question

Emily Rapp Black is a New York Times-bestselling author. Her most recent book, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

This illustrated lecture will specifically revolve around Schiaparelli’s Zodiac Collection, exploring her fascination with the Solar System

This talk is designed to ask when it originated, how it developed, and whether there was a real man behind it.

In this talk I will review some of the recent work on the remarkable cognitive capacities of food-caching corvids

The integrative approach of Depth Relational Process is an attempt to maintain some core values of psychedelic inquiry through a framework that supports diversity, integrity and me

Michael Fitzgerald talks about The Occult Foundations of Nazism: The Thule Group and the Vril Society

Louise will show examples of how it was represented during this time and how the zombie began to be detached from its cultural origins

In this talk we will be going on a walking tour of the “Gwithti a Pystri” via a short film produced by Gemma Gary and Jane Cox of Troy Books

The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: England's Best Documented Witchcraft Case by James Sharpe

Join Dr Catriona McAra for a lecture on Dorothea Tanning

In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley on the development of Austin Osman Spare's artwork

Mark Cocker draws on examples explored in his massive and massively acclaimed book Birds and People

A Zoom talk by Dr Simon Young on the boggart, a much-feared, little-studied supernatural being from the north of England

Dr David Walsh gives us an illustrated Zoom talk on fourth-century Rome and its complex transformation from paganism to Christianity.

This evening’s presentation maps out their history, and that of the rituals associated with them

Welsh Fairy Tales featuring real fairies, myths and monsters from traditional storyteller Viktor Wynd

In this illustrated lecture Dr. Asma will explore how monster culture has played a role in antisocial representation of humans outside one’s

Ghislaine Wood will discuss her influential 2007 exhibition at The V&A

Many of us consider ourselves animal-lovers, so why is our society bad at making life better for animals?

This talk introduces the most tragic of Welsh heroines, whose story is found in the second of the Welsh Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Spiritualism Symposium, curated by Shannon Taggart : Nature, Enchantment, and the Paranormal, with Jack Hunter, Ph.D.

Join Kevin on his personal journey through Buddhism as he shares with you; tales from previous lives, tales both ancient and modern

Her navel is a pool of water lilies": the fluid world of Ithell Colquhoun - Dr. Richard Shillitoe - hosted by Dr. Amy Hale

Dreaming Ahead of Time is a personal exploration of precognition, synchronicity and coincidence drawing on the work of thinkers

The late Alex Sanders, "Ascent to the Numinous" might not at first be the term that springs to mind when considering his heritage

James Machin gives an introduction to Welsh writer Arthur Machen, ‘The Flower-Tunicked Priest of Nightmare’

The Spiritualism Symposium, curated by Shannon Taggart : Spiritualism, the Science of Crime and Early Forensics, with Cathy Gutierrez

This talk by Jason Semmens on two Cornish Folklorists who specialized in collecting Cornish Witchcraft in the early 20th century

You are invited this evening to explore the original sources of his legend, and see if we can understand where it began and how it developed

In this illustrated lecture Dr. Asma will examine the essential philosophical issues surrounding the existence of alien life, UFOs

This talk concerns the history of the dark side of witchcraft since c. 1800. The notion of mystic interpersonal harm, of bestowing misfortune

A live, illustrated Zoom lecture with Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand, Master of Literature and Language.

The Spiritualism Symposium Shannon Taggart : The Ancient Oracles Revived: Sibyls, Spirits, and the Power of a Woman's Voice, Marjorie Roth

William Bottrell was one of the main informants of the folklorist Robert Hunt

An illustrated Zoom talk by Jeremy Harte in which he examines the folk Devil – an inconsistent character who is frightful and wicked, but also silly, combative, vengeful and vain.

In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley discusses Kenneth Grant's presentation of Austin Osman Spare

In this talk Lucya Starza will reveal the secrets of the scryer’s art, and explain methods that can help you cultivate second sight

The Spiritualism Symposium by Shannon Taggart : The Moment of Revelation: Cases from New York's ‘Burned-Over District’ - Joscelyn Godwin

This talk is to discover what the actual evidence is of both and to see whether a closer relationship can be made with either in the process

A Short History of Modern Occultism in Three Lectures - Lecture 3 of 3 is C.G. Jung, Lord of the Underworld

R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker talk about the master of 'strange stories', Robert Aickman (1914–1981).

He will discuss the prophetic model, its relevance to the psychedelic state, and advantages over the mystical unitive approach.

He has been involved in hedgehog research ever since and will describe aspects of its natural history

This third talk turns to writers in English, and looks at how the Irish gods were resuscitated and reimagined in modernity as symbols

A Short History of Modern Occultism in Three Lectures - Lecture 2 of 3 is Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Magician in the World

In this lecture Dr Louise Fenton will take you on a journey through the history of Voodoo

In this illustrated lecture, Professor Asma will examine the transition from traditional external monsterology (e.g., creatures, demons, etc

This Zoom lecture explores the role of the evil stepmother in early American popular culture

This talk is designed to look at the evidence for both goddess and saint, and the possible relationships between them.

Surrealist sewing machines and the surrealist movement’s interest in female masturbation as a form of social-sexual resistance

This talk will offer insights into Spare’s art, mind and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him

This second talk takes listeners through a magnificent saga from the ninth century, The Second Battle of Moytura

In the twinkling of an eye: a brief history of the magic mushroom

During the evening we will – Discuss herbal aphrodisiacs, explore the individual plants and preparations in the passion potion

‘Let us catch the sea-wolves falling on their prey’: Folklore and Strange Tales of Cornwall’s Seas - Zoom Lecture

Join award-winning drinks writer Henry Jeffreys for a journey through history and alcohol.

Dennis McKenna presents an exclusive lecture discussing brand new reflections, theories and findings on the theory based on his ‘Stoned Ape'

This talk is intended to discuss the origins of Freemasonry, and the development of its ritual, and its relationship with the occult

This illustrated presentation will consider Michael Jackson’s curious dead/alive status and explore him as the ultimate liminal figure

Birds Britannica was described as ‘a triumph’ and as ‘a bird book like no other’ when it was published in 2005

Tagney will tease out some of the interwoven threads of place and story, landscape and culture in this Zoom Lecture

This first talk introduces what we know of Irish pre-Christian religion through archaeology

A Short History of Modern Occultism in Three Lectures - Lecture 1 of 3 is Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society

In this lecture Dr. Asma will explore some of the dominant types of monsters in ancient Western literature, natural history, and philosophy

The author to the best-selling A Natural History of Ghosts' tells some personal stories from his own life, not all of them in the book

Welsh Fairy Tales featuring real fairies, myths and monsters from traditional storyteller Viktor Wynd

Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin

Simon Costin, live from the museum in Cornwall where he will show and discuss some of his favourite treasures from the collection

The wolf’s strange imaginative hold over us is reflected in the wealth of spurious falsehoods that persisted about it long after the species

The first intimate behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens of the Tower, the Ravenmaster himself shares the folklore and history

Join Matthew Holness and Edward Parnell as they talk about their favourite ghost stories and tales of the weird and eerie.

Prof. Ronald Hutton will reveal a complex and fascinating world rich in magical tradition, in which cunning folk and charmers flourished

The story of this holy house and its ‘wondrous flittings’ in relation to ideas about losing home and remaking it, exile & settlement

Zoom lecture to learn about the material evidence of witchcraft beliefs which have been discovered in the fabric of building throughout the

Lodder reveals how tastes and technologies have affected the type of images being tattooed; how innovations in both style and method percola

In Leonora Carrington´s oeuvre, fantastic animals and beings inhabit magical worlds.

One of the central concerns of the Mabinogi is the uneasy relationship between this world and Annwn, the Otherworld, performed over zoom

In this lecture Dr. Asma will explore some of the dominant types of monsters in ancient Western literature, natural history, and philosophy

Owen Davies illuminates the many fascinating forms these recondite books have taken and exactly what these books held. Zoom Lecture

Can't wait till next Halloween? Join Richard Suggett for a fascinating look at the people and places associated with witchcraft in Wales

The cult of Mithras was an esoteric religion that existed in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th centuries CE

Lecture on one of the most interesting, dynamic, and theoretically sophisticated women Surrealists & Occultists by Dr.Amy Hale

Irish Fairy Tales featuring real fairies, myths and monsters from traditional storyteller Viktor Wynd

Explore the history of Halloween—from its murky pagan past and supernatural associations—with Professor Ronald Hutton on Zoom

CABARETS OF DEATH - Playing with Death and the Afterlife in Popular Amusements A Live, Illustrated Zoom Talk with historian Joanna Ebenstein

Alessandra Pino will dissect how food and consumption symbolise more than just sustenance in Gothic literature / Zoom lecture

Just in time for Halloween, Professor Malcolm Gaskill shines a light on a decade rife with self-professed witchfinders in England and abroad

Join author and screenwriter Lisa Morton on Halloween's explosive growth - it's all about canny retailing, uncanny art, and what scares us

Louise Fenton’s lecture will explore two collections of mysterious dolls within the city of Edinburgh

Join Professor Carolyne Larrington on an exploration of the strange folkloric world of animal transformations / Zoom lecture

In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley discusses Spare’s vision with particular reference to a number of pictures

Join Vivian Nutton to learn about the most-celebrated doctor in the ancient world: Galen of Pergamum (129-ca. 216 CE) Zoom Lecture

Bird migration remains perhaps the most singularly compelling natural phenomenon in the world.

So, let us explore the Cornish Pobel Vean, just how harmless are they really? - Zoom Lecture hosted Dr Amy Hale

Join Professor Jonathan P. Eburne to explore how crime informed the surrealist movement in Europe

Witchcraft and witch-hunting in New England in the seventeenth century

In this lecture Dr. Asma will explore some of the dominant types of monsters in ancient Western literature, natural history, and philosophy

This talk will explore the historical development of magical Cornwall in the cultural imagination - Zoom Lecture

Examining the older, darker, more scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies

Encounters with the uncanny: the land beyond the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic - Zoom Lecture

Although much has been written about the historic folk-magic practitioners known as cunning-folk in recent years, in-depth accounts of

The UnNatural History of Cornwall - on artist Tony 'Doc'Sheils 'the Weirdest Family in The Land

Once the official creed of mighty Persian Empires, Zoroastrianism probably had an influence on the religious ideas of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Charles Waterton used his texidermy skill to fabricate imaginary creatures,

Lecture on the collection of curses and cursed objects at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cornwall

Eleanor Tirtasana Chubb - leading tortoise conservationist, keeper and breeder discusses the European History of Pet Tortoises

Gary Lachman will look at how occult thought and ideas influenced some of the most important and influential writers and poets of the past two centuries

Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy with Mexico based curator, author and co-founder of Morbid Anatomy

Susan Owens on her book - The Ghost - a Cultural History - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid anatomy

Join Viktor Wynd in Cornwall via Zoom) for a Guided tour of his Cornish UnNatural History Museum - nestled within The National Maritime Museum Falmouth

How the Nazi Party was infected with the belief that occult skills could be used to gain dominion over the world

Step into the fascinating world of bird watching as award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker lays out its history and practice

Live on Zoom from Mexico City Teresa Arcq will discuss her LACMA exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and The United States

Professor Ronald Hutton examines Dragons in Myths & Legends

Join Manon Hedenborg White for a Zoom Lecture on Babalon and her meaning in modern occultism as a goddess of ego-death, eroticism, and transgressive femininity.

Leonora Carrington's Son - Gaby Weisz - talks about his recent memoir of his mother with Viktor Wynd - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy

Join art historian Dr David Boyd Haycock to explore the fascinating history of the Surrealist movement in Britain

This talk will explore the ways in which plants have informed artists, mystics and scientists throughout history and around the world.

The science and social science of butterflies just gets better and better. Our love affair with these fickle sprites of the sunshine hours continually deepens

Join writer and translator Philip Terry to learn about France's Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or Workshop of Potential Literature

Often misrepresented, stereotyped and misunderstood, this talk will discuss the history of Haitian Vodou.

In this Zoom Lecture Prof. Ronald Hutton opens a door onto a world in which ritual nudity has been, since ancient times, a constant feature of Magic & Initiation

Philip Hoare on how to depict the impossible, a monster more bizarre than any medieval Apocalypse or engravings of krakens and rhinoceroses?

This zoom talk is a psychonautic scientific trip to the weirdest outposts of the psychedelic terrain

This evening Mr.Wynd will choose some of his favourite tales picked up on his travels across Papua New Guinea. Strange, Wondrous Tales.

Join Professor Alyce Mahon to trace how the Marquis de Sade became an icon of free expression and explore his influence on Surrealist art

Join Deanna Petherbridge to explore European witchcraft from the ancient world to present day through a rich survey of images

Join Dr Alexander Cummins to explore the history and magic of melothesia: the practice of understanding occult influences on the human body

Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic

Professor Marzluff will examine the interaction between Ravens, Wolves & People

Join Dr Stephen Asma, author of "On Monsters", as he examines the human condition by looking at what scares us most

Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art - Zoom Lecture in Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy

Prof.Hutton on how and when the modern Western world came to have its most common image of what a goddess should be

Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.

Zoom Lecture - Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Join Dr Pat Morris for a fascinating tour through the history of taxidermy, from its earliest examples to modern incarnations

This evening Mr.Wynd will choose some of his favourite tales, Princesses will suffer strange enchantments, evil stepmothers will plot and scheme, shapes will change....

Join Dr David Bramwell on Zoom to uncover what drives some to con, deceive and pull pranks and explore the changing role of the trickster over time

Join Viktor Wynd for an illustrated zoom lecture on his new book, hear about fairies, mermaids, ghosts, shrunken heads and his dead friends.

Ronald Hutton zoom lecture on the main form of male divinity found in modern Paganism: the horned god of nature and of fertility

Irish Fairy Tales featuring real fairies, myths and monsters from traditional storyteller Viktor Wynd

In an illustrated zoom lecture Marina Warner will uncover the long associations of balm with the pleasures and solace of the East.

The Director of Cornwall's Museum of Witchcraft & Magic will discuss the extraordinary history of the institution and look at some pieces

Join Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith on a fascinating journey to the depths of the ocean to learn how nature became aware of itself

Join author and screenwriter Lisa Morton to explore how our fascination with talking to the dead grew and evolved

Zoom Lecture Series Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy, Mark Cocker - the pre-eminent nature writer of our times discusses Crows

Prof.Hutton Will examine our Magnificent Pre-Christian Heritage and examine how much of this it is possible to recover - Zoom Lecture

Join Sam Lee and Viktor Wynd for a nightcap, let them tuck you into bed, tell you fairy tales, sing ballads and a sweet lullaby on zoom

Let Viktor Wynd tuck you into bed and tell you strange Irish Fairy Tales with a changeling, Mermaid, talking corpse & of course real fairies