We’re thrilled to welcome our friend Viktor Wynd as our very special speaker at the Norfolk Folklore Society with a magical evening of Dark Fairy Tales from his new book: be warned, these are not the Ladybird or Disney versions and may not be suitable for the most tender ears…
On a winter’s night, Mr Wynd will be telling some of his favourite tales which have been collected on his world travels and which include nasty Europeans chopping up people and eating them and disgusting and macabre (yet delightful) tales from Borneo.
You may learn about the birth of the leeches, the reason mosquitos are always buzzing around human ears, why it is best not to suckle caterpillars – or indeed strange babies - and something about bedbugs that might give you nightmares.
There could be tales of giant octopuses, man-eating pigs and a buried moon from Papua New Guinea, or possibly shapeshifting magical creatures from Wales, the Good People of Ireland, the Sea Merrow, a Scottish Selkie, Scandinavian trolls and an illicit love affair with an Ice Bear.
The tales will be accompanied by live music from Walberswick legends The Blackshore Collective.
Viktor Wynd is proprietor of London’s eponymous (nay infamous) Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and UnNatural History, and Chancellor of the pataphysical Last Tuesday Society and he has spent the last 25 years telling stories to audiences across the globe.
Fascinated by traditional fairy tales, his repertoire includes tales from the Brothers Grimm, Arabian Nights, Scandinavia, Russia, Italy, France, Ireland, Africa, Papua New Guinea and North America – so far.
Viktor Wynd's Dark Fairy Tales is published by Prestel on September 9 and he is also the author of The Cabinet of Wonders (Prestel 2014) and The UnNatural History Museum (Prestel 2020).
He will be selling signed copies of his book on the night.
In 2020 he was the subject of a major exhibition, Viktor Wynd's UnNatural History Museum at The National Maritime Museum. When not leading expeditions to New Guinea, West Africa and the Amazon, he lives with his family, ever-growing menagerie, overflowing botanical and other collections just outside Halesworth.
www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org
