A two-day conference on Health and Healing in Legend and Tradition will be held on Saturday 1^st and Sunday 2^nd September 2018 as the thirteenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at the Spa in Scarborough, Yorkshire YO11 2HD.

There will be speakers on the legends of plague and blood-letting, holy midwives and the King’s Evil, passing-through rituals and short-sightedness in ballads, with the medical lore of saints, ghosts and witches.

The conference fee is £50 (day rate £30), cheques payable to Folklore Society. To book, contact Jeremy Harte, Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1UF – 020 8394 1734 – bhallmuseum@gmail.com. For more details, see http://folklore-society.com/events/.