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Are all the Gefs dead? What one talking mongoose can teach us about the Disenchantment of the World (Isabelle Doyle)

Are all the Gefs dead? What one talking mongoose can teach us about the Disenchantment of the World (Isabelle Doyle)

Posted on 11 March 2026 by Jan Machielsen

Our modern age is, by many accounts, a disenchanted one - comparatively lacklustre and drained of supernatural substance from the time of the Reformation onwards. This, as Max Weber suggested, […]

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Sioned Birchall)

Posted on 31 October 2024 by Jan Machielsen

In this second Halloween special, Sioned Birchall takes us to Norway and Brazil, showing how werewolf beliefs were the result of a complex interplay between folklore and fear across the […]