New Books in Folklore

An interview with author Veronica Strang about her book 'Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis', exploring cultural and spiritual relationships with water across human history.

This episode features an interview with author Erika Engelhaupt about her National Geographic book 'Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations', exploring real-world locations that resemble or are believed to be portals to hell.

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This episode features an interview with Professor John Blair about his book 'Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World,' exploring historical vampire folklore and epidemics.

This episode features an interview with Andrea Kitta about her book 'The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore', exploring how folklore intersects with concepts of disease and contamination.

This episode features an interview with author Fiona J.

This episode features an interview with author Stuart McCarty about his book 'Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight,' exploring ancient Scottish beliefs and cultural heritage through oral histories, stories, songs, and landscape.

This episode features an interview with Professor Spike Bucklow about his new book 'The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac', exploring the historical and cultural connections between the zodiac, ecology, and material culture.

This episode features an interview with author Dom Ford about his book 'Mytholudics: Games and Myth', exploring the intersection of games and mythology.

This episode features an interview with scholars Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler about their new book examining the complex transmission and versions of the classic text Kalīla and Dimna across Syriac, Arabic, and early Persian traditions.

This episode features an interview with author Kirstie Macleod about her book 'The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch,' which explores a global art project centered around a red dress and collaborative stitching processes.

This episode introduces the massive 26-volume critical edition of Carl Jung's works, featuring an interview with editor Sonu Shandasani about the project's scope and his background in Jungian psychology.

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This episode features an interview with Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, a folklore professor at the University of Iceland, discussing her new anthology of Icelandic folk legends about ghosts, trolls, and hidden people.

This episode features an interview with author Christian Shepard about his book that connects baseball to ancient wisdom from Homer's Odyssey and the World Series.

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This episode features an interview with David Gordon White discussing daemons, Tantra, and cultural exchange within the context of Buddhism, Asian medicine, and embodied spirituality.

This episode features an interview with Aydin Kus about his new academic book 'Adventures on the Play Ritual Continuum' exploring the relationship between play and ritual in anthropology.

This episode features an interview with scholar Sara Burdorff about her book exploring themes of maternity, monstrosity, and heroic immortality from Homer to Shakespeare.

This episode features an interview with historian Vaughn Scribner about his book 'Merpeople: A Human History,' exploring the cultural and historical significance of mermaid mythology.

This episode of the Nordic Asia podcast features an interview with researcher Rodolfo Maggio about his four-month fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and his upcoming book project on Sino-Pacific relations.

This episode features an interview with author Tabitha Stanmore about her book 'Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic', exploring historical witchcraft and magic practices.

This episode features an interview with author Thersa Matsuura about her encyclopedia 'The Book of Japanese Folklore' exploring spirits, monsters, and yokai in Japanese mythology.

This episode features an interview with Jason Ramsey about his book exploring how communities in Yucatán's former haciendas navigate changing relationships between past, present, and future through histories of care and threat.

This episode features an interview with historian Greg Eghigian about his new book examining the global history of UFO phenomena and flying saucer sightings.

This episode features an interview with Julia Kindt about her book exploring how ten ancient creatures, including the Trojan Horse, reveal aspects of human nature and culture.

This episode features an academic interview with anthropologist David Zeitlyn about his book on Mambila divination practices, exploring how questions are framed and answers constructed in this cultural context.

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This episode features an interview with Professor Fabio Rambelli about his edited volume 'Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan', exploring his academic background and the book's focus on Japanese spiritual traditions.

This episode features an interview with author James B.

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This episode features an interview with authors Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux about their book 'The Three Ravens Folk Tales', which presents new retellings of forgotten folklore stories from England's 39 historic counties.

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This episode features an interview with Philip Carr-Gomm about his book 'A Brief History of Nakedness', exploring the cultural and historical significance of nudity.

This episode features an interview with author Manchán Magan about his book 'Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape,' exploring how Irish language reveals connections between history, culture, folklore, and the natural environment.

This episode promotes the New Books Network's audience survey while introducing an upcoming interview with Ann Schmiesing about her biography of the Brothers Grimm.

This episode features an interview with Leah Lowthorp about her book on Kutiyattam, a traditional performing art from Kerala, India, exploring its dynamic tradition and global heritage preservation.

This episode features an interview with Jessica Campbell about her book 'The Brontës and the Fairy Tale', exploring the connections between the Brontë sisters' works and fairy tale traditions.

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This episode features an interview with authors Tracey Norman and Mark Norman about their book 'Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910', exploring the overlooked history of witchcraft in Devon during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This episode features an interview with Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth about his book exploring the relationship between musical instrument makers and the mountain forests of Appalachia through folklore and anthropology.

This episode features an interview with Sharonah Esther Fredrick about her book analyzing political ideology and insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and Andean Huarochiri Manuscript.

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This episode begins with a promotional segment for the New Books Network's 2026 audience survey, explaining its importance for listener engagement and institutional partnerships, before transitioning into an interview with Shakuntala Gawde about her book on Bhagavata narrative analysis.

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Matthew Sparks and Olivia Sizemore talk with Yana Byers about Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers, a 2024 University Press of Kentucky collection of Appalachian oral stories.

New Books Network's conversation with Nicholas Jobber about Monsterland: A Journey Around the World's Dark Imagination follows monsters from Cornwall's granite hills to shrines in Japan and festivals in Mexico.

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["Miranda Melcher speaks with Paul Robichaux about Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany, published by Reaktion in 2026.", "Robichaux says his interest began with Doctor Who, In Search Of, a Stonehenge book from his grandparents, and a first prehistoric-site visit to Calanish on the Isle of Lewis.", "He traces early stories from Pythias and Diodorus Siculus through Guthlac at Crowland, the Newgrange tradition of the Dagda and Angus, and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Merlin account of Stonehenge.", "He also explains how John Aubrey, William Stukely, the Romantics, and folklorists built lasting associations among Druids, fairies, giants, and standing stones even after archaeology began to answer how the monuments were made."]

Caleb Zacharin speaks with naturalist Priyanka Kumar about The Light Between Apple Trees, her 2025 Island Press book about apples, feral orchards, and the "micro wild" around Santa Fe.