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Author Archives: Sam George
Charm for St Valentine’s Eve
On going to bed, place your shoes in the form of the letter T and repeat the following verse. Then reverse the shoes, and say three times more. I place my shoes like a letter T In hopes my true … Continue reading
CFP: BBEC Conference, University of Timișoara, Romania, 23th-25th June, 2016
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the Keynote Speakers at the Second International Conference ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’ (BBEC) at the West University of Timișoara in Romania on 23th-25th June 2016. Professor Clive Bloom will also … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged belief, Dracula, folk Gothic, Folklore, Gothic literature, Romania
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Does 2016 Mark the Return of the Troll?
Apparently a Troll Doll is also known as a Dam Doll after their creator Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam, or as a Gonk Troll outside the US. There is a Danish connection for you here Kaja. Again, in Cumbria we would use the word ‘Gonk’ to … Continue reading
Trolls and Tree people
In response to Kaja’s entertaining and informative post about trolls comes this picture which I love from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, published by Constable in 1909. A wonderful example of one of Rackham’s anthropomorphic trees which has some similarities to the Norwegian troll … Continue reading
It’s A Kind of Magic: The Books of Renaissance Magician John Dee Go On Display
One of the courses I was teaching last semester was Renaissance Literature and the most enjoyable part was the exploration of magic on stage from Dr Faustus to The Tempest and the magical statue scene in A Winter’s Tale. The … Continue reading
Magical Skins: The Selkie’s Transformation
As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy George Mackay Brown ‘Pictures in the Cave’ In response to … Continue reading
YA Shapeshifters: The Selkie
The ‘Animal Kinship’ panel at OGOM Company of Wolves included some discussion of the ‘Selkie’ or shapeshifting seal. This elusive creature was discussed in Peter Le Couteur’s paper ‘Sealskins: Finns, Seal Wives, and Mythmaking’. We were rather excited to receive … Continue reading
The Alchemy of Young Adult Fiction
By some additional alchemy that this genre alone brings […] infusing the cankered souls of the rest of us – they will make me read as if I were young again – in one mad, open-minded, unstoppable rush. What delight. What … Continue reading
Sexualising the Witch: Magic, Witches & Devils #jrlmagic
The majority of convicted witches in early modern Europe were women, and two female stereotypes became particularly powerful: the alluring young woman, and the dried-up old ‘hag’. Regardless of age, female witches were believed to be in sexual thrall to … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, exhibitions
Tagged devils, john rylands library, witches
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Young Adult Classes about Werewolves
As we have just begun the Generation Dead module which includes some werewolf texts and following the sad demise of Alan Rickman I thought I’d post a link to Severus Snape teaching the dark arts class about werewolves. It seems … Continue reading