John Barleycorn Must Die
The history and symbolism of harvest festivals
Folklore
A collection of 14 Posts
Folk Cookery from the English Countryside
Lally Macbeth on the binding importance of the English Cake
Decoding The Voynich Manuscript
Garry J. Shaw on the efforts to decode the world's most mysterious manuscript
How to Make a Monster with Surekha Davies
Surekha Davies's new book sweeps back through human history in a quest to find the monsters and tell us what they mean
The Ghosts That Haunt the British Museum with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
The Mummy as Medicine, the Mummy in Medicine
Angela Stienne on the stories behind Egyptian mummies in museums
The Ruin of All Witches
Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation