I am very pleased to
announce the online publication of my fourth academic article, which has
appeared in Folklore, the UK’s foremost journal of folkloristics. The article
is titled “Devil’s Stones and Midnight Rites: Megaliths, Folklore, and
Contemporary Pagan Witchcraft,” and started life as a paper presented
at the first “Popular Antiquities: Folklore and Archaeology” conference held at
the UCL Institute of Archaeology back in October 2011. The (unusually short)
abstract is as follows:
During
the middle years of the twentieth century, British pioneers of Wicca, the
neopagan witchcraft religion, adopted prehistoric megaliths as ‘sacred sites’
and appropriated the folklore that surrounded them for their own
magico-religious purposes. In turn, Wiccan interpretations of such sites
resulted in the creation of a new ‘alternative archaeological’ megalithic
folklore.
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