Hello all! Our Legends course is in full swing, and we’re so enjoying sharing this new kind of folklore with so many of you! We’ve been talking about fairies, selkies, vampires, ghosts, urban legends, and more, so let us know if you’re sorry to have missed out and we’ll consider doing this course again soon!…
Most of you are here because you love fairy tales and think of us as fairy-tale scholars. While that is absolutely our primary area of scholarly interest, we wear a lot of (elaborately witchy) hats in the realm of Folklore and wanted to share with you some of the reasons why we also *love* to…
One of our co-founders, Sara Cleto, has recently returned from two weeks in Germany, a country with a rich folkloric history. We’d like to share some of her fairy-tale highlights with you! A particularly delightful thing about Germany is that there are little nods to fairy tales everywhere. Between a burger place called “Käppchen” to…
As we were preparing for our next long course on legends, we went off on a tangent about why we LOVE studying and teaching this stuff so much. We thought we should share some of our reasons with you! 10 Reasons to Study Folklore: 1. Because It’s Everywhere: People sometimes think that folklore is either…
Hi all! Spring has officially sprung, and Carterhaugh is dancing with sunshine and the scent of flowers. We hope you too have been feeling renewed and excited about the future! As we mentioned in our last post, registration has officially opened for our new long course on “The Legend” later this summer! You can read…
We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our new long course “The Legend!” The course will take place July 1st – September 2nd, 2017, with one lesson each week. We’ll be talking about everything from fairies to the Internet to urban legends to selkies to King Arthur, so there’s a huge…
Hi guys, just a quick update! We have added quite a few things to the website – 1. The newsletter sign up is now much easier to find, as it now has a page of its own – yay! Please consider sending this to your friends and getting them to sign up too if you…
Hello all! Just a few things to draw your attention to today! First, please note that Sunday, January 15th at midnight is your absolute last chance to sign up for our first long course on the The Fairy Tale! We have been blown away by the positive response and can’t wait to get started –…
We have a tentative schedule for the upcoming fairy-tale course! Some of the individual stories are subject to change, but the themes for each lesson are set! Take a look –
Hello all! As the winds change and winter looms, we are lighting our candles and sharing a few bright things with you today – 1. First, thank you so much to those of who you participated in our short pilot course on “The Folklore of All Hallows’ Eve” – we had such a great time…
