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Paganism Persisting

Robin Douglas and Francis Young. Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity (Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief. University of Exeter Press (8 October 2024)

Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted to revive various kinds of pre-Christian religion – beliefs and practices that we have come to label as ‘paganism’.

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Supernaturally Social

Simon Young and Davide Ermacora. (Editors) The Exeter Companion To Fairies, Nereids, Trolls And Other Social Supernatural Beings. Exeter University Press. (20 August 2024)

For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these beings who lived much like humans in their own communities. This ‘social supernatural’ world mirrored ours with troll weddings, pixy battles, nereid picnics, dwarf migrations, and the like. 

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The Green Children

John Clark. The Green Children Of Woolpit. Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England. University of Exeter Press. (13 August 2024)

Two medieval chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, reported the mysterious appearance of a pair of ‘Green Children’—with green skins and speaking an unknown language—in the Suffolk village of Woolpit in the mid-twelfth century. 

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