“So what do you do?”“I’m a teacher.”“What subject do you teach?”“Folklore!”“Folklore? Huh. So you study, like, quilts?” With absolutely no disrespect to our wonderful colleagues who do study quilts: We could study quilts! We know some badass folklorists who study quilts! Also, quilts are really warm, and we are fans. But folklore is a broad…
Okay guys, so as you have probably heard, our next class, coming up in July, is MYTH AND MYTHIC ADAPTATION – yay! It is focused on Greek Mythology plus the literature and media inspired by Greek Mythology (which is a lot.) This is Mythic Fiction. This is Mythic Arts. This is Mythpunk. When we were…
We’re not going to lie, we are shamelessly excited about the “Witches in Folklore and Literature” course that starts in just TWO days – we’ve been planning, organizing, discussing, and generally geeking out over this for a long, long time (at least since last year!) and are thrilled that it’s finally actually happening! We filmed…
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…
