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Tag Archives: Folklore
How Did I Choose Me My Witchcraft Kin? My Past and Future in Witches
‘My Nannie says I’m a child of sin. How did I choose me my witchcraft kin?’ (Waterhouse, ‘The Magic Circle’, 1886, thanks to Janette for this) I found myself in the north of England at the weekend for the Gothic … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged botany, Children's literature, Folklore, poetry, witches
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Witch-Finding, Marina Warner
Set your alarms for 10.00pm tonight (or head to BBC iPlayer tomorrow) in order to hear Marina Warner’s edition of Radio 3’s Free Thinking, ‘Witch-Finding’. The show includes Catherine Spooner talking about the history of witchcraft trials. If you are … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff
Tagged Catherine Spooner, Folklore, Gothic, Marina Warner, witches
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CFP – Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic
Kingston University are holding a joint conference with The Folklore Society on the 15th – 17th April 2016. They have released a CFP and require the abstracts in by the 31st December 2015. The subject matter is incredibly fruitful and … Continue reading
The First Global Fairy Census Wants To Hear About Your Close Encounters
A fascinating account by Jess Zimmerman of investigation into the existence of and encounter with fairies.
Posted in Resources
Tagged anthropology, ethnography, Faeries, fairies, Folklore, science, sexuality
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Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature
More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.
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Tagged anthropology, Bram Stoker, Byron, Calmet, Carmilla, Dracula, Folklore, John Polidori, Southey, Tournefort, Vampires, Varney the Vampyre
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Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’
An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading
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Tagged Bram Stoker, Calmet, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Folklore, Marx, Vampires, Voltaire
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After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic
This is an early nineteenth-century vampire fiction that I’d not come across before: After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic (1860), by the Serbian Milosan Glivic, and newly translated into English by James Lyon. It appears unusual … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, MA Reading the Vampire module news
Tagged Eastern Europe, Folklore, Serbia, Vampires
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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015)
Over on the OGOM facebook page, Stacey Abbott has drawn our attention to the recently published The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015) as an incredibly useful resource (and Dr. Abbott know what she is talking … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, MA Reading the Vampire module news, Resources
Tagged Film, Folklore, Gothic, Gothic novel, popular culture, TV, Vampires
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Witchy Vampires
This is a little light, but fun, and a starting point for those who want to explore the folkloric vampire/witch figure from outside the usual Western literary paradigms. (Though calling these kindred bloodsuckers ‘vampire’ and universalising them thus opens up … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, chordewa, Folklore, India, jigarkhwar, myth, obayifo, Vampires, West Africa, witches
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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography
OGOM luminary and vampire scholar Stacey Abbott has drawn our attention to this bibliography of vampire representations by J. Gordon Melton and Alysa Hornick. It looks very comprehensive and would be a brilliant resource for all those studying the multifarious … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, Folklore, History, TV, Vampires
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