Dianne Carr of the Spaniard's Bay Heritage Society. Photo by Terra Barrett. On Tuesday July 31st, as part of the Collective Memories...

Lloyd Pike is a retired teacher whose 32 year teaching career began on remote Pass Island, located off the Connaigre Peninsula on Newfou...

Red sky at sunset. It has been a while since we've posted a folklore photo.  So today I posted a picture taken a couple of years ago...

Petty Harbour During my interviews in Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove I have come across several folk beliefs particularly beliefs about bein...

The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Bay Roberts Cultural Foundation invite you to the official public launch of...

As of this week, our much anticipated booklet Folk Belief & Legends of Bay Roberts and Area is all done and ready to be released to ...

Nicole Penney and I have been busy little elves, working on a project we both love: Newfoundland fairylore! We have had some requests...

The ICH office, and the Bay Robert Cultural Foundation, are starting a project to document folk beliefs, superstitions, charms, and cures in...

Recently, I came across this quote linking blood and luck: "The settlers had many superstitions and were obsessed by a belief in the p...

One of the great, if now somewhat fading, traditions in Newfoundland is that of the May Bush. A few days ago, former HFNL staffer Lara May...

I had two meetings today about future folklore projects in Conception Bay, one in Bay Roberts and the other in Cupids. Perhaps unsurprisingl...

Folklorist and Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer Dale Jarvis introduced the Food, Folklore and Tourism Workshop in Cupids, N...

Earlier this spring, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador hosted its first Young Folklorists Program. Students spent two day...

Happy, glorious bright sunny St. Swithin's Day (at least in St. John's). "July 15th of each year was St. Swithin's Day and ...