Chris Wood

Chris curates the Ickeny Collection (a developing East Anglian Museum of Magic and Mythology: www.ickeny.co.uk) and is currently Interim Chair of the Religion, Collections & Heritage Group (a UK-based, international museums and heritage subject specialist network: https://religioncollections.wordpress.com). He has helped run Norwich Pagan Moot (www.norwichmoot.co.uk) since the mid-1990s and serves on the committee of Norwich InterFaith Link (www.norwichinterfaith.co.uk). Chris is an independent researcher on mythology, magic and the land, writing regularly for Quest magazine. Current, on-going research and writing projects include the evolution of deities, animist Paganism and re-indigenisation, Pagan perspectives on ‘Seahenge’ (the Bronze Age timber circle controversially excavated in NW Norfolk in 1999), the use of the X as an apotropaic sign, past responses to climate and environmental change through the lens of mythology, and the common basis of consecration and ensoulment rituals in responses to human birth and death.