I am back with another symposium, this time on Whit Monday (May 25th, 12.00-20.00 Brussels time / CEST / UTC+2) to discuss and create eco-myths, this time blending botany and Catholic female saints’ stories. I […]
Tag: folklore
ECO+MYTHOLOGY 2026: Call for contributions for our online NSU winter symposium (Deadline 31 october 2025)
The Word of 2026 will be Eco+mythology (home+narrative). Co-create an eco-mythology with us in the weekend of 17-18 January 2026 Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human […]
Spinning Hemp in Tyrol – bioregionalism, commoning and re-enchantment
In May 2025, I organised a two-day workshop in Innsbruck, exploring science fiction prototyping as a method to imagine alternative futures. This workshop is part of a series of feminist SFP workshops that I organize […]
Digging in the stones, trees, mud, wetlands and folklore surrounding the Belgian Black Madonna (de Zwarte Madam)
(Originally I planned this as an academic article, but I decided to rewrite it into a blog and share it publicly on this website; I refer to previous work by other researchers. I am exploring […]
The Kappa, a Japanese mythical urban water engineer?
And I found another water spirit, this time in Asakusa in Tokyo, when I visited Japan in March 2023. Do you know an urban water engineer? An urban water engineer specializes in the design, implementation, […]
Amelberga, the river and the sturgeon’s lifecycle
In May 2021, my father found a good book from the 1980s: Roeck and Marquet (1980). “Belgian sagas and legends”. Illustrations by Henri Lievens. In the chapter “the virgins,” Dymphna came back, who has inspired […]
Rewilding Cinderella
One of the outcomes of the global pandemic is that people discover that digital technologies can create a new space of gathering and storytelling. Today I attended an event organised by the George Ewart Evans Storytelling […]
‘Bergtatt’ – my new favourite Norwegian word
Bergtatt: the word itself is captivating, enchanting and encompassing the images I have from Norwegian folklore. I have not written for a long time. I had some good reasons: finishing PhD (not there yet) and […]
When a Nordic forest bath becomes a fairytale
Last weekend I accompanied my Russian friend on her first forest bath. I had found another guide with ANFT that guides in Ekebergparken in Oslo. Two weeks earlier, I had asked the guide before what […]
A Gravestone for the Witch tree and church bells: a call for a new world
Today I went bicycling in my paternal grandparents’ region. Some time ago, an old friend from university, a linguist with a big passion for history, who is born in the same village as my grandfather, […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 