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Folklore: Beliefs, traditions & culture of the people. Traditional folklore themes from around the world. One episode each month features a special guest from the field of folklore. Recallin...
Folklorist and author Mark Norman, the creator of The Folklore Podcast, looks at the imagery of the fairy, in conversation with illustrator...
The first of two episodes featuring interviews recorded live at the UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby in February 2026. In this first part, h...
In this episode, recorded on location, host Mark Norman meets members of the Turning Tides Project to talk about their Arts Council funded p...
A very special feature length episode of The Folklore Podcast, with a panel consisting of the cream of those people associated with the clas...
In this episode we visit the 2025 UK Ghost Story Festival, which was held at the Museum of Making in Derby. Host Mark Norman meets some of t...
Folklore Podcast host Mark Norman chats with special guest, broadcaster and author Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and oth...
Mark Norman is joined by broadcaster, author and medievalist Dr Eleanor Janega to look at the role of the ghost in the medieval period. What...
The Folklore Podcast returns to its original first principles for the first show of Season 11, with an episode written and presented by crea...
Want to know what to expect from the show as we head to 2026, and where to find the content you enjoy? Listen to this short announcement fro...
Welcome to the 2025 Folklore Podcast Christmas Special. Folklorist Mark Norman, the creator and host of The Folklore Podcast for the last 10...
In this episode of the podcast, host Mark Norman discusses some points relating to the folklore of rivers, with a particular focus on their...
I chat with author Michelle Paver about all things ghost story. What makes a good haunt? Which are her favourites and which doesn't she like...
The British ritual year is full of fascinating public events, sports, games, processions and festivals. Whether long-running or modern, revi...
I gather together a gaggle of witchcraft historians to discuss the cult TV gameshow 'The Traitors'. To what extent do the machinations of th...
While there are many famous names associated with the ghost story, some are less commonly linked, and even fewer are women. In the episode o...
Returning guest to the podcast, witchcraft historian Professor Marion Gibson, discusses her book 'Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials'. The b...
Folklore Podcast creator Mark Norman once again meets up with children's author Claire Barker, this time to discuss the final version of her...
In May of 2025, I was honoured to be asked by the British Academy to chair the final panel in their 'Folklore Reimagined' series, 'Lore of t...
In this episode of the podcast, host Mark Norman takes an in-depth look at the White Witch of Exeter. Most times, when we speak of 'white wi...
The Seven County Witch Hunt Project podcast mini-series collaboration comes to a close. In this final episode, Professor Marion Gibson and D...
Mark Norman is in conversation with medical herbalist Jenny Carden, who practices as The Dartmoor Herbalist. In an interview recorded live i...
Our six part mini-series examining the seventeenth-century witch hunts across the eastern counties of England continues with a discussion lo...
In this episode, Professor Marion Gibson and Dr Tabitha Stanmore turn their attention to the families involved in the witch hunts. Were all...
In this mini-episode of The Folklore Podcast, recorded live at the UK Ghost Story Festival 2025 in Derby, UK, I chat with Professor Bob Edga...
The third episode of our mini-series looking at the witch hunts headed up by Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne looks at the most stereotypica...
In the second episode of the Seven County Witch Hunt Project podcast mini-series, we look at the accusations that were being levelled agains...
Scotland has a broad mix of folklore. Some is found elsewhere, or has variations in other areas, and some is unique to the country. Some is...
In the years 1645–1647, when England was embroiled in a traumatic and bloody Civil War, roughly three hundred people in the South East were...
This episode of The Folklore Podcast is an interview of two halves, as host Mark Norman sits down to chat with herbalist and writer Su Brist...
Award winning author, historian and occultist Liz Williams discusses her book 'Miracles of our own Making: A History of Paganism', published...
Folklore Podcast creator and host Mark Norman delves into the topic of folk music and performance with special guests Lunatraktors. The duo,...
In this 'Meet the Author' bonus episode of The Folklore Podcast, creator and host Mark Norman introduces a conversation between literary cor...
Folklore Podcast creator and host, Mark Norman, explores the rumours that the author of 'Dracula', Bram Stoker, found inspiration for his fa...
Folklore Podcast creator and host Mark Norman meets with Ronnie Turner. author of the gothic and folk horror novel 'Small Fires' in this epi...
We chat with Bram Stoker and International Latino Award Winning horror author Cynthia Pelayo as her latest book, 'Vanishing Children' is rel...
Folklore Podcast creator and host Mark Norman chats with Kat the Lore Mistress about using folklore and folk horror themes in tabletop rolep...
We welcome back onto The Folklore Podcast musician and composer Einar Selvik, founder of the band Wardruna and expert in Old Norse music and...
We meet British fantasy author Alexandra Beaumont, who specializes in utilizing folklore and the gothic in her writing. She discusses themes...
RETURN TO 10th KINGDOM: We chat with actor Scott Cohen, who played Wolf in the mini-series 'The 10th Kingdom' about possible plans for a seq...
In this bonus episode of The Folklore Podcast we shine a light on another fantastic folklore audio project as we meet Charlie Dobres, the wr...
We return to the subject of vampires on The Folklore Podcast, a subject which we last covered in detail way back in Season 2 with a two-part...
In this new strand of The Folklore Podcast, we delve into the archives and pull out old interviews from previous seasons that never made it...
It all starts when two friends are invited to the home of a mysterious spiritualist medium to experience a seance in their search for eviden...
In this special edition release of The Folklore Podcast, we chat with the New York Times Bestselling horror author Grady Hendrix about his f...
Folklore in the Field is the bonus episode strand of The Folklore Podcast where we chat with people out on location about their work and int...
In this episode, the first show of the 10th anniversary season of The Folklore Podcast, we look at the classic TV mini-series 'The 10th King...
The old Irish tradition of using enormous stones in the landscape, sometimes known as testing stones, as a feat of strength has been all but...
In this bonus interview from The Folklore Podcast, recorded live at the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 40th annivers...
As listeners in the US celebrate Thanksgiving, this bonus minisode takes a look at what we actually know about the history of this celebrati...
In this episode of The Folklore Podcast we enter the secretive world of the circus and the carnival sideshow - a community with much traditi...