In this programme Pete will tell a selection of stories in which walking is the key to everything else which happens.

What is ‘Folk Horror’? Who bothered to define it and why and how useful is it to see it as a sub-genre?

This presentation explores that shift through imagery and storytelling.

The museum ethos today espouses the medical humanities, recognizing the importance of understanding human health in all its manifestations.

In this lecture we will travel back in time to the origin of the clown as an entertainment figure and as the icon of the travelling circuses.

Carl Abrahamsson ponders the occasional occurrence of Satan in various guises

A rather more salacious re-telling was filmed by Ken Russell as ‘The Devils’ starring Oliver Reed in 1971

David Heathfield tells The Serpent Wife, an old Ukrainian wisdom tale, and other strange Serpent Stories from around the globe.

This lecture ventures back to 1926, the year of Alex Sanders' birth, set against the backdrop of the impending Great Depression

Tells the tale of the fourth branch of the Mabinogion from the perspective of the Flower Queen who became the Owl.

Sylvia Pankhurst was raised in a socialist household and sought to lead a creative life.

This talk is designed to show how it was created, and dispersed, and to reveal the rich literary tradition that it had inspired by the nineteenth century

This discussion examines how gender has informed traditional life and folklore in the Balkans for generations

Bones are the framework of the body, the thing that keeps us upright.

This talk discusses the various meanings of hair in both Greek and Roman warfare

This talk aims to examine the themes and structure of the novel, leading to a deeper understanding of Clarke’s enthralling alternative past

Join Ben Edge for this Zoom talk as he takes you into the heart of British Folklore and shares his own journey as an artist and gives insights into his creative practice

These are stories of beauty, horror, comedy, and the way people act.

I will focus therefore on Folk Horror’s concern with the otherness of the landscape, nature, failed/misguided agency, and rural culture

I will be looking at love magic in particular, even though very little of it measures up to modern standards of what love means

This Halloween join Jon Dear and learn about the history of Dracula and vampires on the small screen. Enter freely and of your own free will!

Plant lore and mythology have a tale for every malaise – including menopause and midlife crisis.

This richly illustrated talk traces an itinerary from the ruins of Mendes in Egypt via the tophets of Tunisia to the hills of Dublin

Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) was an artist, illustrator and writer who was associated with the bohemian and avant-garde circles of the London

In many 17th century houses, they may have been immured to act as guardians for the home but whose prey may have been ‘spiritual’ vermin.

Storyteller Fiona Eadie brings you wisdom and humour in a programme full of fools and sages

Join Belgian writer Signe Maene for this dark Zoom exploration of the shapeshifters, spirits, gnomes and witches that haunt Flemish folklore.

In this talk, artist, magician, technologist, and podcaster Heather D. Freeman will survey the history of magical experimentation with digital technologies.

Eileen Mayo (1906–94) was a dedicated and multi-talented artist – at once a painter, print-maker, tapestry designer, engraver and illustrator

This talk traces the uneasy relationship between fashion and folk horror. It shows how the costumes of folk horror films

Sarah Rundle will unfold these stories for us, and teach us how to find our way home.

This lecture will chronicle Sanders' departure from London in 1972 to Bexhill and the avenues he pursued in the final chapter of his life

Our heart occupies a central role in the way we think about feelings and emotions.

This talk is designed to show why this is, and what forms it takes. Three patterns are very clear.

Guto Dafis delivers this ancient Welsh tale of enchantment with a sense of immediacy and awareness of the relevance of its themes for today

This illustrated Zoom talk will explore one of the most popular and long-lived of all the mythical creatures that humans have invented.

Professor Gosden will discuss his book 'A History of Magic ' (Viking 2020)

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

This talk weighs up Sharp’s deeply peculiar cultural achievement, probing the role that ‘Fiona’ played in his complex life.

Sacha Coward takes us on an illustrated Zoom talk through the hidden queer history of myths and monsters.

Katy will be telling the tale of Sigurd and Fafnir, a bloodthirsty, gripping legend and the original story of the Ring

Welcome to an evening where we get to know the different ghost stories from the countries in the north

Traditional tales gathered in Greenland, on Baffin Island and in Labrador by Danish explorers Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen

This talk will explore the film's ongoing influence and legacy.

The phenomenon of old, worn-out leather shoes having been deliberately concealed within ancient buildings is now an attested practice

Tales that explore the theme of ageing from various traditions.

In Tudor times the ‘common sort’ were no different from us, laughing together, mocking each other and sharing bawdy tales in tavern yards

Explore the authentic folklore, history and contemporary practices associated with the Krampus with Al Ridenour

Join witch Lucya Starza for this talk about the customs, tales and rituals for the Winter Solstice and Christmas

Hannah will tell a collection of European tales to both chill and warm the heart for a Winter’s night.

This lecture aims to demonstrate how folk horror operates as a mode in Thai cinema with a view to finding alternative definitions.

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

This talk sets out those sources, explaining why they are just as problematic—if not more so—than the classical accounts.

This talk will explore the impact of the Occult on David Bowie's art, moving between conjecture and overt displays of his interest

Tonight, we delve into the mysterious depths of the Scandinavian folklore

This evening Mr. Wynd will tell some takes of the Medieval trickster Reynard the Fox and how he does horrible things to his supposed friends

This talk will highlight some of the specific problems of folk horror, while also distinguishing between folk horror as a genre

Today the chief source of medieval alicorn, the narwhal, is an endangered species that engages our concern for the environment

In his talk, Dr Stiùbhart will introduce us to Kirk’s life and works, comparing the beliefs presented in the ‘Secret Commonwealth’

This lecture brings us to the post-Alex era, tracing the expansion and evolution of Alexandrian Witchcraft since Alex’s death in 1988

In this special six-part series, Professor Marguerite Johnson takes us on an uncanny journey across time and space into the wilds of human imagination.

In this illustrated talk, Professor Marguerite Johnson considers the mindboggling topic of vagina dentata (or toothed vagina).

This illustrated zoom talk will cover a brief survey of the history of the tarot and its influence in art and fashion.

Created and performed by Kerima Mohideen these stories address issues of global heating, climate justice, land rights, gender and inequality

Perhaps the oldest and most enduring of all myths is the Nekyia: the descent to and return from the underworld.

This first session introduces the alchemical nekyia—a narrative journey evoking the archetypal iconography of underworld

Unsurprisingly, the folk tales of Mexico often reflect this embrace of the other world

This lecture introduces the original sources describing this beloved divinity, and explores how the image of her in contemporary culture

The Bogomils are less well known than the Western European Cathars, but are arguably more influential on European spirituality.

Tonight we will open up that portal to a creepy and chilling world filled with demon-like characters and ghosts and spirits

In this talk, I clarify some misconceptions about Hopi cosmology and explain how collaborative research

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Believe it or not, some people – including doctors and scientists – believed that a womb possessed a mind of its own

In this lecture series Lena will tell the once so controversial stories from the secret journal known as “Kryptadia” published and distributed in Europe in the 1800’s.

The presentation focuses on the vision of Ibn Umail, illustrated by the spectacular text

In Old Norse culture, there is a number of stories about peculiar conceptions and births

This talk introduces and contextualises the Four Branches of the Mabinogi as a whole, explaining how they are a rich blend of native lore

The Four Branches of The Mabinogi a branch-by-branch (i.e. tale by tale) introduction to the quartet of stories that form the luminous highpoint of medieval Welsh storytelling

Imagine losing your penis. Imagine someone – a woman, naturally – stealing your penis.

We move to the 16th century Hermetic Renaissance exemplified by the Rosarium philosophorum

This lecture delves into the more shadowy side of Norse magic.

This lecture traverses the same territory in a different way, focusing on the themes of concealment, national identity, and violence.

Detecting the so-called ‘witch’s mark’ or ‘devil’s mark’ was a means of proving someone was a witch.

The presentation continues with a focus on one of the most famous and splendidly illuminated texts of the Hermetic Renaissance

The third branch is the most folktale-like of the the four, taking as its subject the travails of the shrewd nobleman Manawydan

This lecture unpacks stories around women giving birth to animals, from rabbits to pigs.

This session delves into the mysteries of perhaps the most extraordinary of all alchemical texts, the Atalanta Fugiens of Michael Maier.

The final branch of the four is the most bewilderingly magical of all, featuring incest, punitive shapechanging

This lecture considers hair as a marker of monstrosity, beginning with ancient accounts of the hirsute women

This session focuses on alchemical and hermetic themes in brief selections from poetry of the Elizabethan era and early decades

This talk looks at one of the most frightening and unsettling tragedies to survive from classical Athens.

This lecture serves to introduce this gorgeous, complex poem and to demonstrate its relevance to us today.

The cultural transformations of the Enlightenment, or Early-Modern Era, involved the psychologicizing of alchemical mythologies

One of the secret undercurrents of the literature of the American Renaissance in the mid 19th century

At the same time that renewed interest in alchemy and hermeticism was being explored in both Freudian and Jungian circles

The reduction to the fundamental elements of aesthetic composition—geometrical figures like the rectangle, square, circle

Jung’s engagement with alchemy began in the late 1920s and dominated his late work

Leonora Carrington’s traumatic breakdown and incarceration in the Spanish asylum at Santander,

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

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

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit