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Lizzie BickerstaffEssays on the folkloric and occult
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Folklore for the Superstitious Bird Watcher
Cover image: Martine Bernard
‘Pewit pewit, dee dee dee, grutto grutto grutto, hallloooo, tik tik tik, groor groor, roo roooo roo, chip chip chip chip, wacheeeer cheer, crex crex, quil!’
No better time than a midsummer dawn to hear a heart...
King Arthur, Early Riser
Arthur awakens in Glastonbury.
This short story was originally scribbled on the bus back from a particularly lacklustre trip to Glastonbury. I never intended for it to see the light of day but I had great fun writing it as a silly break fr...
Hell's Teeth! : The Vagina Dentata
The vagina dentata—literally, 'toothed vagina'—appears on every continent except, perhaps, Antarctica, where presumably nobody was having enough sex to worry about it. This particular motif has been gnawing at the edges of world folklore fo...
We Should All Be Good Folklorists
The most important thing in a folklorist’s kit is their principles.
It is abundantly clear that Folklore is having a moment. If this were not true, you would not be reading this piece.
The growing number of people who want to know, urgent...
The Spookiest Woman You've Never Heard Of...
Catherine Crowe, the heart and soul of my early academic career.
N.B. This post contains a summary of my work on a figure lost to the literary canon. I have done my best to condense 20,000 words of research, but will always need more to do...
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Folklorist and storyteller. Essays on the folkloric and occult (sometimes serious, often not). New posts every week. Enquiries: [email protected]
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