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In these darkest days of the year, it’s easy to feel a little on edge, even a little spooked by days when the sun never really seems to rise. The shops may be festooned with tinsel and bright colours, but perhaps there’s a reason we do our best to fill this time of year with so much light and noise: because, if we let ourselves sink fully into an abundance of darkness and quiet, we might find ourselves haunted by what lurks there.

The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson

Every year as the first May bank holiday approaches, I begin to turn green with joy. Folk customs take place year-round across the UK, but the one that makes my

Folklore customs dating back centuries are suddenly cool with a new generation keen to connect with the planet and defy the establishment

Compton Verney is staging Making Mischief - the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to British folk costumes and customs from February 11 until June 11.

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"The Hound of the Baskervilles" and Harry Potter’s "Grim" may come from a common creature in the United Kingdom's folklore.

The artist Ben Edge has spent years chronicling some of this sceptred isle’s oldest festivals. How did he get the locals to allow him in?

John McMahon , June 5th, 2021 07:55 John McMahon previews a new exhibition exploring UK calendar customs, from the Museum of British Folklore and the artist Ben Edge Whittlesea Straw Bear, Ben Edge, 2020 © Ben Edge “The present generation has witnessed the extinction of many observances which our fathers practiced and revered, and doubtless the progress of decay will continue. We have entered upon a diminished inheritance” So wrote the Berkshire Reverend, historian and freemason PH Ditchfi...