Dr Delyth Badder
@delythbadder
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Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow @amgueddfacymru • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts @calonbooks • Represented @wolfiegoethe • Rheibio'n Gymraeg
Pontypridd
Joined August 2009
Sometimes you stumble upon the Holy Grail of folklore finds (short of finding the Grail itself). A while back, I was contacted by an antiques dealer in Ceredigion who’d found two envelopes tucked away in the back of an old chest of drawers on which they wanted my opinion… [🧵]
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RT @theowenstaton: New Christmas episode of Time between Times is available. Ghosts of Christmas Past features a few spooky real ghost stor…
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RT @theowenstaton: Storytelling Advent calendar day 12 The Robbers Grave Earlier in the year I had the pleasure Of speaking with @delyt…
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RT @calonbooks: Christmas is just around the corner and we have the perfect presents for your book-loving friends and family! Not quite s…
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RT @theowenstaton: Wonderful to receive this fantastic book through the post this morning from Storyville Books today . An amazing festive…
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them in the aftermath.
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RT @theowenstaton: An incredibly caustic and creepy tale from Welsh folklore surfaces in this weeks Time between Times Podcast . An evil en…
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Just received my author’s copy of Lowri Haf Cooke’s wonderful new book Amser Nadolig (Christmas Time) which includes my chapter on the magic of the season, from my own childhood memories to weird Welsh Yuletide traditions such as the dark origins of Sion Corn, and the Mari Lwyd.
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Settling in for day one of the #FolkloreWithoutBorders symposium this morning with a baby who’s just discovered how to babble and grab, and where its mouth is. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
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Two of my very favourite people on the same podcast discussing gardens, ghosts and genius loci. One with a questionable penchant for black daps and the other who dons golden winklepickers to visit long barrows. What’s not to love? 🍂
This weeks Time between Times sees me meet with @MelanieHick a good friend and garden designer and writer . Melanie and I discuss gaining a sense of place and belonging in a hectic world and I tell some of her favourite tales . Join us for a firepit fable
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RT @RKbookpublicist: Many congratulations to all esp @calonbooks - great titles, great authors @NeilCollins86 @welshindie @folklorepod @del…
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To hear some morbid Welsh #folklore, you can catch my interview with @CatrinNye for @BBCRadioWales ‘The Idea’ in the link below, where we delve into sin eating, mourning customs and death omens off the back of my recent seminar for @TheLastTuesdayS 💀
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At 9pm, Wales’s foremost storyteller @theowenstaton will be sending shivers up spines all over the world. Join him at the fire pit to keep the dark at bay with some of the most terrifying Welsh ghosts for company this Nos Calan Gaeaf 👻
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RT @A_N_Coward: In case you missed it, my #Halloween blogpost this year is on fairies as evil spirits in 18th-century Wales, inspired by my…
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RT @cardiffuni: 🎃@CUSpecialColls Engagement Officer, @sara_huws has dusted off some spellbinding treasures from #CardiffUni’s creepiest col…
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