Tag: folklore

We’ve recently digitised a 350-year old manuscript. Nothing very unusual in that, but this one is really rather special. MS 3658 is a record of men and women accused of witchcraft in Scotland in 1658, at a time when the… Continue reading

A chilling tale resides in an 1895 issue of the journal Folklore, in which a woman in Ireland, Bridget Cleary, was tortured and burnt to death by her husband trying to drive out the fairy he believed had replaced her.… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight explores the figure of Folkore collector Edward Lovett, whose collection lies at the heart of the current Wellcome Collection exhibition Charmed Life. Illustrated by personal correspondence held in our archives, the session will seek… Continue reading

Last week saw the opening of Miracles and Charms, two exhibitions at Wellcome Collection – Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings and Felicity Powell: Charmed Life – which explore faith, hope and chance. As part of a season of events to… Continue reading

The archives and manuscripts cataloguing highlights from September bring together a rich mix of brand-new cataloguing and expansions of old listings, of twentieth-century material and older, and – for the first time – of paper and born-digital material. Professor Hans… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library’s Ross MacFarlane will be giving a talk at the Cuming Museum, London, on Saturday 16th October, titled ‘London’s Lost Collector: Searching for Edward Lovett and His Magical Collection’. Lovett was a folklore collector in the early 20th… Continue reading