The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas

Christmas isn’t just a season of jollity and feasting – for most of history, it’s been the time when monsters prowl and ghosts return.

Join Sarah Clegg for a talk exploring the dark side of Christmas, from Krampuses to Christmas ghost stories.

Learn especially how that most Halloween-associated practice – trick-or-treat – was a Christmas practice first, and how it brought with it a whole host of terrifying monsters that would come knocking at the door’s of homes across the Christmas period, demanding money, drink and food – and often causing chaos, violence and destruction.