SELFS

Herschell Hershey One for conspiracy theorists, UFOlogists, skeptics, folklorists and the generally curious tomorrow at SELFS as Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor talks on The Abuses of Enchantment. With a new book coming out called Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs Mark …

The gates of Cross Bones burial ground, Southwark Next Thursday, SELFS celebrate London’s ‘outlaw borough’ with a free spring shindig at the Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery on Borough High Street. Southwark’s steeped in stories so expect them spun, sung, scary, hairy, chilling and thrilling courtesy …

It is, as some worldly sage once put it, ‘a funny old game, Saint’. Football tends to attract more superstition, folklore and ritual than any other sport. This month’s gathering of the South East London Folklore Society looks at the phantoms and fantasies of the …

Last night at 7pm a torrential downpour drenched a hardy bunch of walkers gathered beneath the trees on Camberwell Green. But the first Straycation went ahead regardless. A spate of precipitation wasn’t going to stop these story hungry folklore seekers pursuing tales of myth and …

By Evie.E via the Londonist Flickrpool Straycation is the ingeniously named free walking festival run by South East London Folklore Society exploring south London’s hidden spaces and history this August. To some, south London is a oily streak of endless fried chicken franchises and pit-bull …

The Holly King from the Lions Part There could be few better venues for this the first, of hopefully many, annual celebrations of London folklore. A powerful cast of authors and other experts on some of the stranger legends of London town assembled at the …

“Hmm, moon landings next, I think.” David Boyle is ‘open minded about the existence of fairies’. He’s made a lifelong study of the wee fellows and tonight presents a talk entitled ‘Fairy Superstition: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the little people and other visitors’. Fans of evidence …

Whether we’re flicking through the latest issue of One Eye Grey, rushing off to an event at the South East London Folklore Society or wandering round a cemetery in a mask at night, should talk stray into the area of unexplained occurrences, our ears prick …

With the new One Eye Grey hitting a bookshop, website or walk near you soon, it really is getting increasingly tricky to draw the line between actual and folklore London, with stories blurring into each other across time and imagination (verdict on the latest OEG: …

Just how far are you from a rat? We’ve all heard the urban legends but delve a little deeper into them with ratman Paul Cowdell at the next meeting of the South East London Folklore Society tonight. He’ll be talking about his research into rat …