Tag Archives: witches

Why Are Witches So Popular?

Posted on 17th September 2018 by Sam George

The Guardian Newspaper has just featured an article entitled Coven Ready: from Instagram to TV:Why are Witches so Popular? It appears that there is a spate of new occult dramas about witches. A Discovery of Witches, an adaptation of Deborah Harkness’s novel about a … Continue reading →

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Happy Walpurgisnacht!

Posted on 30th April 2018 by William the Bloody

I know I’ve posted this previously, but I made some slight changes and additions–my poem celebrating OGOM and Gothic Studies and general witchiness: Night of the Gorgeous Goth Girls: A Paranormal Romance. (for Sam George, Alison Younger, and their students … Continue reading →

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Press Release: OGOM and Supernatural Cities to Host ‘The Urban Weird’, 6th-7th April

Posted on 2nd April 2018 by Sam George

University of Hertfordshire to host ‘The Urban Weird’, a two-day programme of events on the theme of supernatural cities ‘The Urban Weird’ will take place at the University of Hertfordshire on the 6 and 7 April. The event will explore … Continue reading →

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OGOM: Tales from Gothic Hertfordshire 1

Posted on 8th June 2017 by Sam George

I have decided to introduce a new searchable feature on Gothic Hertfordshire on the blog ahead of Supernatural Cities 3 which OGOM will co-host in March 2018.  (‘Gothic Hertfordshire’ is now a Category, found on the right-hand side here.) I’ll … Continue reading →

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Journal; Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

Posted on 1st June 2017 by William the Bloody

I’ve come across a peer-reviewed journal which may be well be of interest to OGOM followers: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. A rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft draws from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering … Continue reading →

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Images of Witches

Posted on 22nd May 2017 by William the Bloody

Some excellent articles on witches today. First, Chloe Buckley, in ‘Hag, temptress or feminist icon? The witch in popular culture‘, looks at images of witches in popular culture, both positive and disparaging. She notes the contemporary feminist rehabilitation of the … Continue reading →

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May Day for Goth Girls

Posted on 1st May 2017 by Sam George

I’m posting this wonderful image for all the goth girls, to celebrate May Day, and because it is half way to Hallowe’en!! Also because I was named after Sam played by Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched (my sisters also have witchy … Continue reading →

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Witches and Walpurgis Night

Posted on 30th April 2017 by William the Bloody

Happy Walpurgisnacht! Here’s an excellent article by Prof. Owen Davies of the University of Hertfordshire, ‘Witches and Walpurgis Night‘. He traces the folkloric origins of the supposed sabbat of witches through Goethe and Bram Stoker to contemporary popular culture.

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Ring-a-ring-a Widdershins: It’s Walpurgis Night and Halfway to Hallowe’en!

Posted on 30th April 2017 by Sam George

  It’s Walpurgis Night  (Walpurgisnacht or Valborgsmässoafton),  the night that marks the transition from winter to spring, falling on the eve of the first of May. It’s also halfway to Halloween!! Kaja will like that!  In folk tradition, witches and … Continue reading →

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100 Must-read Books about Witches

Posted on 22nd April 2017 by William the Bloody

S. Zainab Williams has compiled a great reading list here on witches in fiction.

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