Just launched in the last few days, http://humphreywithhisflail.blogspot.com/ by fellow folklorist, Paul Cowdell. Paul's current researching ghost belief in contemporary England, much to my delight! So far he has a couple of witty limericks and a May Day observation. Paul's a graduate of Sheffield University, and now doing his PhD at Hertfordshire. He is also a committee member of the Folklore Society in England.
I met Paul at the Third Postgraduate Ethnology Students' Conference when we hosted it at Elphinstone. He and the Sheffield contingent really inspired the foundation of this blog, and you'll probably see his photo amongst the others at the beginning of the blog. We're all now communing on Facebook, which is a much better alternative than a forum! Anyway, do visit Humphrey with His Flail (no, I don't know what that means either, you'll have to go look!!!) and support a fellow folklorist!!
And, as this is May Day, here's a link to Dale Jarvis, folkorist and storyteller in St John's, Newfoundland, who is looking for May Bushes!
Dale is also planning a storytelling conference in NF next July. Details to follow.
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Hey F-J, thanks for the write-up.
Humphrey With His Flail's a work in progress, so it'll probably expand and morph a fair bit over the next few months. In particular I'm looking for ways to advertise/spread the ghost research via the blog.
I think the Aberdeen Graduate Conference was technically the fourth, although it was definitely the third regular one. (There'd been a couple of years break before the Edinburgh one that got us all fired up to do it regularly). And now it's a real living thing.
I will (well, may) get round to explaining the phrase 'Humphrey with His Flail' at some point, but a knowledge of southern English folk song will help.
Cheers
Paul
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