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Folk Horror from Newcastle

Sat 15 Oct

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Todmorden

An afternoon of talks from Newcastle's finest! Icy Sedgwick- North Country Sprites: Fairies or Ghosts? Darren Charles- Urban Witchcraft Rich Blackett- Occult Tyneside: the Legacy of Black Jacky

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Folk Horror from Newcastle
Folk Horror from Newcastle

Time & Location

15 Oct 2022, 15:00 – 18:00

Todmorden, Centre for Folklore Myth and Magic, 65, Halifax Road

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Icy Sedgwick- North Country Sprites: Fairies or Ghosts? 

This illustrated talk explores the slippery crossover between the way particular figures are described as both fairies and ghosts in a handful of folk tales from northern England. Fairy or spectre...you decide!

Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the . She also writes fiction – dark fantasy, supernatural mysteries, Gothic horror and Westerns.Fabulous Folklore podcast

Darren Charles- Urban Witchcraft 

Darren Charles takes a look at the myriad screen depictions of the urban witch. Starting in the earliest days of cinema through the films of Georges Méliés and Benjamin Christensen to modern television and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, whilst also encompassing a host of interesting and revolutionary television and film in the years in between. Darren takes a look at the way in which the witch has been portrayed on screen and how this image has altered over the years…

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