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By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies.The Folklore Society (FLS) is a learned society, based in London, devoted to the study of all aspects of folklore and tradition, including: ballads, folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, childlore and children s folklore, folk arts and crafts, popular belief, folk religion, material culture, vernacular language, sayings, proverbs and nursery rhymes, folk medicine, plantlore and weather lore.A SIEF Archives Working Group Conference Archives, Access, Ethics and Fraud will take place in Amsterdam, October 21 – 23, 2020.The Call for Papers can be found here: http://www.theomeder.nl/SIEF2020/CfP.pdf.The deadline for abstracts is April 1st, 2020....Interdisciplinary workshop entitled Celtic Myths and Folkores in the Anglophone World , organised by Noémie Beck (the University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France) and Frédéric Armao (the University of Toulon, France), Senior Lecturers in British and Irish History, specialised in Celtic myths and folklores.The workshop will take place on November 6, 2020 in the Universit...Hidden Charms 3Start date: 21st Nov 2020End date: 21st Nov 2020St Mary s Creative Space, Chester, CH1 2DW.Hidden Charms 3 - Chester.We are very pleased to announce that Hidden Charms 3 will take place in Chester on Saturday 21st November 2020. The venue for HC3 will be St Mary s Creative Space which is a wonderful medieval church with theatre style seating and a stage area.Our theme is the magical protection of buildings and related topics and you can see the list of speakers an...Because of the Covid-19 situation it has been necessary to postpone the talk we had planned, ‘Brother Workmen: Solidarity in Trade Folklore’ by Jeremy Harte, until 2021.We are delighted, however, to be able to announce that the well-known American performer, Jeff Warner, has agreed to give the 2020 Roy Palmer Lecture from his home in the USA as an online event.His tal...Special Blog Series: We Herts FolkloristsThis is the first post of a special weekly blog series we ll be running over the next few weeks, showcasing some of the wonderful talent of people who have recently completed the MA in Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. Throughout this series you will see some great folklore-inspired work, ranging from blogs to...Virtual Special Issue: DragonsOur latest Folklore Virtual Special Issue is on Dragons With an introduction by Dr Juliette Wood and a selection of articles from Folklore on this theme. From Fafnir to Smaug, to the pearl-chasing Chinese long and the dragons that stalk the world of Internet games, these mythical creatures, whether traditional or literary, carry great symbolic value. The mound-dwelling,...More from Whitby Folk Week at HomeJohn Hall s Horngarth film, about the Whitby Penny Hedge, was due to be screened at Whitby Folk Week this year. The film can be downloaded from here: https://vimeo.com/439517043Doc Rowe s Locked-Down Freed-Up [email protected] 2020Doc Rowe has published this lovely video on YouTube for Whitby Folk Week 2020 under lockdown. Enjoy! Doc Rowe s Locked-Down Freed-Up [email protected] 2020AnnouncementsCalendar Customs in FictionSophie Parkes-Nield, a PhD student at the Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University, is searching for calendar customs represented in fiction. If you ve spotted a custom in a novel or short story, please email her at [email protected] or tweet her via https://twitter.com/sophparkesFund-Raising for The Folklore SocietyFollowing our move to 50 Fitzroy Street, the Society s annual costs for office accommodation have significantly increased, so we are inviting all members and friends of The Folklore Society to support us by making donations via our Charities Aid Foundation page at CAF Donate: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/11322The Folklore Society office has moved to 50 Fitzroy StreetOur new office address is: The Folklore Society, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT, tel. +44 (0)203 915 3034 Office hours: Tuesday to Friday from 13:30-5:30 pm (and at other times by appointment). Our staff are part-time, so please let us know in advance of your visit in case we re working away from the office...MA in Folklore Studies at University of HertfordshireExciting news for anyone wanting to turn their interest in folklore into an academic qualification: the University of Hertfordshire are now offering a Folklore Studies MA, which will run both part-time and full-time. For further details on the programme of study and how to apply, please see: https://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/ma-folklore-studiesConcealed revealedThe Concealed Revealed, a strand of the Inner Lives: Emotion, Identity and the Supernatural, 1300-1900 Project, is hoping to produce an extensive catalogue of concealed objects and domestic apotropaic devices, from shoes and cats to timber marks, across Britain. Dr Ceri Houlbrook, of the University of Hertfordshire, is not only seeking information about these objects but is also aiming to...Folklore query? Ask the FolkloristsIf you have a folklore enquiry, email us at thefolkloresociety @gmail.com and we will try our best to answer it or to refer you to someone else who can. Follow us on Twitter @FolkloreSociety and on our Folklore Society Facebook page

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