After four (very) long years, I’ve finally completed my MA in Welsh and Celtic Studies @cardiffuni.bsky.social! 🎓 Incredibly grateful and proud to have graduated last month, and to have been awarded the Sioned Davies prize for my dissertation… … on Welsh ghosts, naturally.

As if that weren’t enough, you can also catch me discussing my research with Martin from @threeravenspod.bsky.social as part of their newest series delving into the folklore of the historic Welsh counties, where we chat all things ghosts, language, culture, and my favourite misunderstood monster…🦫

Dr Delyth Badder@folklorewales.com · 4mo ago

Quick trip to London to catch up over the proofs of my new book with the most wonderfully supportive team @thamesandhudson.bsky.social before nipping over to @britishlibrary.bsky.social to cast an eye over the earliest known copy of Rev. Edmund Jones’s ghost accounts for my latest project.

Quick trip to London to catch up over the proofs of my new book with the most wonderfully supportive team @thamesandhudson.bsky.social before nipping over to @britishlibrary.bsky.social to cast an eye over the earliest known copy of Rev. Edmund Jones’s ghost accounts for my latest project.

For those of you, like me, who prefer to dog ear, scribble over and highlight their books (but draw an arbitrary line at defacing hardbacks), a newly edited paperback edition of ‘The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts’ is now available to pre-order! www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-fol...

Ar raglen Aled Hughes ar BBC Radio Cymru bora ‘ma i drafod cewri Cymru. Ewch draw i @bbcsounds.bsky.social i wrando (tua 1:12 i mewn i’r rhaglen). ***** A pleasure to be back on Aled Hughes’s show this morning on BBC Radio Cymru, this time to discuss the folklore of Welsh giants. Fee-fi-fo-fum.

folklorewales.com has a shiny new look 👀 Find my books, book an event, or share your own ghosts and folklore with me. Link in bio ☝️

My interview with @nation.cymru following the publication of the Collector’s Editions Welsh Folk & Fairy Tales. We briefly discussed the art of storytelling in Wales, and the importance of sharing these tales with a wider audience. #Welshfolklore nation.cymru/culture/new-...

New Collector's Edition of Welsh Folk and Fairy Tales book released

Ella Groves A new hardback Collector’s Edition of ‘Welsh Folk and Fairy Tales’ has been published this week. The publishers, Flame Tree Publishing, were established in the 1990s and have spent the las...

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It was an honour to be asked to write the introduction for this beautiful new hardback volume - with gilded edges, no less - of Welsh Folk & Fairy Tales by Flame Tree Publishing as part of their Collector’s Editions series. Available in all good bookshops as of today 💫

Wishing a belated blwyddyn newydd dda from our favourite little snowed-in farmhouse in Sir Gâr ❄️

According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻 This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time! #WelshCulture #ghosts

Always a pleasure to join @owenstaton.bsky.social at the fire pit for another episode of Time Between Times. We discuss The Welsh Fairy Book (1907) and my favourite legend. An exciting first for TBT: this discussion is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 BILINGUAL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Come for Owen’s Burton-esque tones, stay for the extra vowels.

Owen Staton - Time between Times@owenstaton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join @folklorewales.com and I as we discuss the Welsh Fairy book and some of the wonderful tales within on the latest episode of Time between Times storytelling podcast . Be lovely to see you at the firepit #owenstaton #storytelling #fairies podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

It’s the ghostly part of the year… 16% of people in England today say that they have had an extraordinary experience of some kind, including witnessing the presence of a ghost. Fascinatingly, almost one in five of those people have not shared that experience with anyone, not even family or friends.

Apparently my dulcet tones could be heard across all Global radio stations throughout yesterday discussing various Nos Galan Gaeaf traditions. Here’s a quick excerpt from @lbc.co.uk 🎃

For the love of Owd Scratch, someone give this woman her own series - I could honestly listen to @g0blinegg.bsky.social wax lyrical about the restless dead all day long 👻

NearlyKnowledgeable@g0blinegg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm excited to share that the latest episode of 'Gone Medieval' podcast features the Shropshire Witches! We talked about medieval ghosts and all things spooky! Teenage me would be pinching herself! open.spotify.com/episode/303k... #history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist

A spooky Nos Galan Gaeaf to you all 🎃 While lacking ancient provenance, this winter’s eve was the eeriest of the ‘tair ysbrydnos’ (three spirit nights), where the veil between worlds was at its thinnest and the wind blowing over the feet of corpses bore sighs to the homes of those destined to die…

I hope fans of stiles know that they are notorious for attracting ghosts and malevolent spirits on Halloween, as such creatures are drawn to boundary lines. Many mentions in @folklorewales.com book on Welsh ghosts!

Stiles@lakesstiles.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A stile for the red squirrels.

Roedd hi’n tu hwnt o braf cael siarad am rhywbeth twtsh yn wahanol efo Aled Hughes ar BBC Radio Cymru ddoe - llên y milod ac ofergoelion bwystfilaidd. Here’s an interview for BBC Radio Cymru from yesterday, all about the folklore of birds and beasts in Wales (in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Aled Hughes - Yr anifeiliaid sy'n cael eu hystyried fel argoelion - BBC Sounds

Delyth Badder sy'n trafod tylluanod, sgwarnogod a draenogod gydag Aled.

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Can’t quite believe it’s done but it’s done. Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd. Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.

Quick stop over in Cardiff to talk The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts with the lovely staff at the National Museum this week. Lovely to chat spooks, as always, but the highlight was getting up close and personal with Catrin here behind the scenes in the painting conservation studio. Phenomenal.

Right. Apologies for the delay. Really didn’t expect so much interest in a grumpy little Welsh owl so thank you for all the kind words - I’ve loved reading some of your own rescue stories. Lots of you had rehab-related questions so thought I’d tackle the big ones here in one looong thread… 🧵

Dr Delyth Badder@folklorewales.com · 10mo ago

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

It’s important to say if you ever find an injured bird of prey, you should always contact your local wildlife charity / rehab centre before handling them. That option wasn’t immediately available to us, but as soon as we found a professional willing to help, they were involved each step of the way.

Dr Delyth Badder@folklorewales.com · 10mo ago

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Finally able to contribute to #OwlishMonday with a real, legitimate owl. This is Cowlyd, our little rescue tawny, who’s boarding with us while his broken leg heals. Named after the ancient and wise owl of Welsh lore, turns out he’s a bit more Gwilym. (highly niche Welsh joke there, sorry) 🦉

Catching up with some of the newest additions to the library… My favourite recent purchase is this vanishingly rare essay from the 1851 Newport eisteddfod by Merthyr Tudful preacher, the Rev David Rhys Stephen, concerning one of Wales’s most infamous hauntings - the tale of Pwca’r Trwyn 👻

Foster an owl while writing a book and caring for a child, they said. It’ll be fine, they said. Feeling a little like poor Cowlyd having just submitted the manuscript for my newest book this evening. Looking forward to seeing both in the wild over the coming months 🦉

Yfory yng Ngŵyl Arall, Caernarfon! Tomorrow in Gŵyl Arall, Caernarfon! 👇 📚Sgwrs yn y Gymraeg gyda chyfieithu ar y pryd ar gael. Discussion in Welsh with simultaneous translation facilities available. 🎟️Tocynnau/Tickets: gwylarall.com/calendr/2025... Dewch yn llu! All welcome! @folklorewales.com

Ghosts – Delyth Badder a Llŷr Titus

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Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Digwyddiad Newydd! | New Event! Ymunwch â Delyth Badder mewn sgwrs â Llŷr Titus am ei chyfrol 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' yn Gŵyl Arall 👻 Join Delyth Badder in conversation with Llŷr Titus about her co-authored book 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' at Gŵyl Arall 👻‬ @folklorewales.com

🗓️ Sad 12ed / Sat 12th ⏰ 13:30 📍Llety Arall, Stryd y Plas 🎟️ £6 via gwylarall.com/calendr/2025... Dydd Sadwrn, fydda i’n trafod ysbrydoedd Cymru o bob lliw a llun sydd i’w canfod yn fy nghyfrol ‘The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts’ efo’r anfarwol Llŷ Titus. Dewch yn llu! (Translation services available.)

Ghosts – Delyth Badder a Llŷr Titus

12 Gorffennaf. Llety Arall

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Digwyddiad Newydd! | New Event! Ymunwch â Delyth Badder mewn sgwrs â Llŷr Titus am ei chyfrol 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' yn Gŵyl Arall 👻 Join Delyth Badder in conversation with Llŷr Titus about her co-authored book 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' at Gŵyl Arall 👻‬ @folklorewales.com

Slowly dragging myself out of the mat leave bubble so here are some folky updates: Folklore Wales HQ has relocated to Pwllheli. Book 2 and a couple of bits and pieces are in progress; book 3 is on the horizon. And all this with Eryri as my backdrop. There’s few better places to begin new chapters.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, bawb! 💫 Happy New Year, all!