Owen Davies & Ceri Houlbrook: Folklore

We are looking forward to being joined by two leading experts, Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook on Thursday 13th November at 7pm as they discuss their remarkable new book, Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present.
From village rituals and fairy tales to UFO legends and internet fanfiction, travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men, Owen and Ceri reveal how folklore has been researched and written about in the past and show how it continues to be lived in the present. At the same time, they provide the reader with a valuable toolkit for understanding how to interpret the diverse examples given.
The book's key message is that folklore is much more than the fossilised remains of a distant, rural past. Folklore is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political. It is a living tradition that draws from many sources, including migrant communities, and is forever being renewed and updated.

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• This Thursday, 31st July, 07:00 pm, M. K. Hardy: The Needfire in Edinburgh
• This September, 22nd September, 07:00 pm, Manni Coe: Little Ruins in Edinburgh