Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire and Vice President of the Folklore Society (he was President 2020-2023). He has published widely on the history and folklore of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, medicine and popular religion. His most recent books are Art of the Grimoire (Yale 2023), and Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum (Oxford, 2023).