Folk Around & Find Out: A Panel of Folk Magicians Discuss What We Do & Why

Folk magic is everywhere. From the small everyday practices and observances – the horseshoe over your door, the salt over your shoulder - to ‘helping yourself’ with more specific rites, charms, and ‘tricks’ of empowerment against struggles, to the myriad magics performed around the special occasions of births, weddings, and funerals (“hatches, matches, and dispatches”) by community magical workers. The problems folk face – both the day-to-day grinds and the acute crises - are often similar, but the spiritual and magical strategies for solving such human problems – for securing health, prosperity, success, love, and so on – can both accord and differ widely between specific traditions. So it is with great pleasure we invite you to join us for what promises to be not only a collegiate but downright lively panel discussion between experienced conjure doctors,

contemporary cunning-folk, professional magicians, practitioners and scholars all, from a wide variety of…