Jack Hunter- Folklore of the Tanat Valley

Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat - The Folklore of the Tanat Valley

Dr. Jack Hunter

This presentation gives an introduction to the varied folklore of the Tanat Valley - Dyffryn Tanat in North Powys, bringing together stories and traditions from the valley and putting them into conversation with a wider social, cultural and ecological context. The presentations highlights the importance of stories and experiences in establishing positive relationships with the land and in fostering a magical understanding of the natural world in the present day.

Bio: 

Dr Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ module. He is the author of Manifesting Spirits (2020), Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020), Ecology and Spirituality (2023), and The Folklore of the Tanat Valley (2025). He is the  editor of Deep Weird (2023), Greening the Paranormal (2019) and Damned Facts (2016), and co-editor of Talking With the Spirits (2014), Mattering the Invisible (2021), Folklore, People and Place (2023) and Sacred Geography (2024). He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family.