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Black Dogs and Black Cats - Some preliminary thoughts on my new project
I invariably find it fascinating the sheer weight of cultural baggage associated with areas deemed fringe or edgy in research. Often I find it is to the point where analysis is crippled to a level akin to the possibility of a web debate on Palestine/Israel doing anything but descending into acrimony and name calling. Subjects like phantom Black Dogs, Ghosts, Witchcraft etc become marginalised and then become this site of unease marked by bizarrely aggressive scepticism on the one hand and naïve New Age credulity on the other. Generally this pattern continues until a figure like Prof’ Ronald Hutton or the like brings an area of research in from the cold and to the realms of academic respectability.
New Review from Dark Dorset of “Shock! the Black Dog of Bungay”
New Review from Dark Dorset of “Shock! the Black Dog of Bungay”
A new review of “Shock! the Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore” is now up at Dark Dorset.
Bungay Book launch part one
Bungay launch of “Shock! the Black Dog of Bungay” on Youtube - Part One
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Thylacines, the landscape and shared guilt.
Written by David Waldron"let us therefore advise our friends to gather the specimens in time, or it may come to pass when the last Thylacine dies that scientific men across Bass straight will contest as fiercely for its body as they did for the last Tasmanian Aboriginal man not long ago".Read more... -
The Rollright Stones - occultebooks archive:2
Written by Francis BreakspearThe Rollright Stones This is one of those awkward things to write; to talk about a place of peace and beauty and encourage people to visit it- which place may then not be so beautiful nor peaceful if loads of people then go there to see how beautiful and peaceful…Read more... -
Alien Big Cats - Trying to make sense of the empirical claims
Written by David WaldronOne key difference between my research into Black Dogs in the UK and the folklore of Big Cats in the Australian bush is the importance of science or at least the appropriation of scientific rhetoric.Read more...
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Bungay Book launch part two
Written by David WaldronShock! the Black Dog of Bungay book launch - part twoRead more...
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From the occultebooks archive: 1
Written by Dave EvansSo how old is Witchcraft really? The role of Margaret Murray in stirring the muddy waters of Witchcraft history This essay, again adapted-edited here from Master's degree studies (hence the writing style) will attempt to outline the debatable place and role of Margaret Murray in our understanding of the continuing…Read more...