#94 / Charles Christian on Werewolves, Vampires and the Wold Newton Triangle

Charles Christian is an English barrister and Reuters
correspondent turned writer, podcaster, award-winning tech
journalist, and sometime werewolf hunter. He now writes, talks
and makes videos mainly about folklore, urban myths, history, and
the weird. He was born a ‘chime child’ with a caul so, according
to legend, cannot drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and
fairy folk without fear of coming to harm...


He is the author of "A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds:
The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle” and “Saints & Sinners in
Dark Age England”. His latest book is “Shuckland: Weird tales,
ghosts, folklore and legends from East Anglia’s Waveney valley” –
volume one of a new haunted landscapes series – and he is
currently writing an almanack of real witches and sorcerers,
along with other practitioners of magic – black and white, from
earliest times through until the modern era.


If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the
bizarre, then you’ll enjoy this fascinating road trip around what
he calls the Wold Newton Triangle, where rather odd events have
occurred, unmatched anywhere else in Britain. We also talk about
the aforementioned werewolf hunting, and a grisly discovery he
made while investigating the Highgate vampire.


In the Plus show we discuss Charles’s upcoming book on Witchcraft
and the legends of the Woodwose, England's analogue for the
Bigfoot. And we wrap up discussing the nature of folklore.


Show notes:
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