Event 31/10 Tabitha Stanmore and Joan Passey introduce Cunning Folk
We're excited to welcome the bewitching Tabitha Stanmore and Joan Passey to discuss Cunning Folk, Tabitha's fascinating study of life in the practical era of magic where she transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life’s day-to-day problems, as well as some of deadly importance.
Date:
Thursday 31st October 2024
Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU
Time:
Doors at 18:30, Discussion starts at 19:00, Finish at approximately 20:00
Tickets:
£5.50 ticket only
£10.50 ticket with paperback book (Cornish Horrors)
£20 with hardback book (Cunning Folk)
£1 Pay What You Can
(Please only choose the PWYC tickets if you need to, they are limited and intended for those who really need them.)
50p from each ticket goes to Caring In Bristol
You don't need to bring a ticket with you, we will have a list of names on the door. The books will be available to purchase at the event.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Cunning Folk -
It’s 1600 and you’ve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they’ve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever.
Or you’re facing trial. Maybe you’re looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.
Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, as well as a commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.
Cornish Horrors -
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.
Edited by Joan Passey with stories by Gothic luminaries such as Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe, this new collection also features chilling yarns of the haunted peninsula from a host of underappreciated writers from the past two centuries.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tabitha Stanmore is a social historian of magic and witchcraft at the University of Exeter. She is part of the Leverhulme-funded Seven County Witch-Hunt Project, and her doctoral thesis was published as Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. She has featured on Radio 3’s Free Thinking and BBC 4’s Plague Fiction, and her writing has been published in the Conversation.
Joan Passey is an academic, writer, and broadcaster. She is a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She regularly appears on BBC radio and has edited anthologies for the British Library. She researches the representation of seas and coasts in literature and culture and is an expert on nineteenth-century Cornwall.