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Folklore, Ecology and Re-Enchantment

 

16 May 2026   10:00 - 12:00

Dolydd Gobaith, Pen-y-Garnedd, SY10 0AW

£120 (concessionary pricing available, please get in touch)

Please email hello@dolydd-gobaith.cymru

Dolydd Gobaith

Event Description

A six week course exploring the role of folklore and tradition in re-enchanting our relationship with the natural world.

Over the course of six two-hour in-person seminars we will examine a combination of cross-cultural and theoretical perspectives on human-nature relations through traditional knowledge and take a deep-dive into the folklore of Dyffryn Tanat to explore ancestral and contemporary worldviews. All seminars will take place at Dolydd Gobaith – with spectacular views up and down the Tanat Valley – giving the stories and ideas we will be discussing a grounding and relevance in the living landscape.

Key Details

Duration: the course will run over six Saturdays from 16th May until 20th June.

Timings: each session will start at 10am and last for around 2 hours.

Cost: the course costs £120. We may be able to offer some concessionary places; please get in touch to discuss these.

Course outline

Week 1 (16th May)

Folklore and Ecology: An introduction to folklore, in a broad sense, and its connections to ecological understanding, traditional ecological knowledges, and so on.

Week 2 (23rd May)

Giant Lore: introduces giants in a cross-cultural context, before considering the giants of the Tanat Valley and their role in the shaping of the landscape.

Week 3 (30th May)

Fairy Folklore and the other-than-human: introduces fairy folklore and other-than-human beings in a broad context, before digging into the specific traditions of the Tanat Valley, and their particular connection to place.

Week 4 (6th June)

Ghosts and Strange Lights: introduces the theme of ghosts and their connection to place, as well as weird-lights and UFOs, and explores their prevalence in the Tanat Valley.

Week 5 (13th June)

Conjurors and Pobol Hysbys: introduces the role of the cunning person/conjuror/medicine man/witchdoctor in a cross-cultural context and explore their role in mediating between humans and the world of spirits, before examining them in the context of the Tanat Valley.

Week 6 (20th June)

Folklore, Re-Enchantment and Nature Connection: Focussing on the role of stories and traditions in the present day to help establish a renewed sense of connection to the natural world, and as a socio-cultural response to climate change, etc.

About your tutor

Dr Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal.

He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ module, and teaches ‘The Varieties of Anomalous Experience’ for the California Institute for Human Science.

He is the author of Manifesting Spirits (2020), Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020), Ecology and Spirituality (2023), and The Folklore of the Tanat Valley (2025). He is the editor of Deep Weird (2023), Greening the Paranormal (2019) and Damned Facts (2016), and co-editor of Talking With the Spirits (2014), Mattering the Invisible (2021), Folklore, People and Place (2023) and Sacred Geography (2024).

 

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