A two-day conference on Health and Healing in Legend and Tradition will be held on Saturday 1^st and Sunday 2^nd September 2018 as the thirteenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at the Spa in Scarborough, Yorkshire YO11 2HD.

If you’re interested in shrew ashes, zanies, plague pits, smallpox goddesses or illness as metaphor, this is for you.

There will be speakers on the legends of plague and blood-letting, holy midwives and the King’s Evil, passing-through rituals and short-sightedness in ballads, with the medical lore of saints, ghosts and witches.

The conference fee is £50 (day rate £30), cheques payable to Folklore Society.

To book, contact Jeremy Harte, Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1UF – 020 8394 1734 – [log in to unmask].

For more details, see http://folklore-society.com/events/.