All Old Strange Things
Francis YoungReflections on my life as a historian and insights into my research on some of the stranger byways of Europe's religious history and folklore...
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On the unclassifiably weird
The Child’s Dream of Pantomime, by Alfred Crowquill (Wellcome Collection)
One of my favourite folklorists is wont to observe that the most interesting cases of strange things happening to people fall somewhere between the wholly stereotype...
Facing the indeterminate
In defence of human translation
Studying philosophy at university is something I usually find myself regretting – largely because I wasn’t especially good at it, and I could have used my time a lot better studying something else. But there...
The king and the cardinal
Tracking down a relic of St Edmund – a minor detective story
I have recently been consulting with Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds for their upcoming exhibition ‘Edmund and the Great Heathen Army’ (which will run 6 June–4 October thi...
Schrödinger's paganism
Religion, nationhood and the ‘supernaturalised secular’
A few weeks ago Elizaveta Chukharova published a fascinating article about the Ossetian religion of Uatsdin, ‘the most successful pagan faith in the world’. The article itself qualifi...
Children of the (inscribed) stones
The Bodvoc stone (detail) in Margam Stones Museum
If you visit on the right day, you can walk into a small former schoolhouse next to Margam Abbey parish church in a suburb of Port Talbot – there’s no entrance fee, and no staff at the door...
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