Profs & Pints Baltimore: Folkloric Felines
Thu, Nov 06
|Guilford Hall Brewery
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Folkloric Felines,” a look at cats in folklore and fairy tales, with Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University and co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic!
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Event Details
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Folkloric Felines,” a look at cats in folklore and fairy tales, with Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University and co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]
As any cat owner (servant) will tell you, cats are special in ways that make them more than mere domesticated pets. Moreover, humans’ fascination with felines is nothing new, dating back to well before the worship of cats in ancient Egypt.
Join Brittany Warman, a folklorist who has earned a devoted following among Profs and Pints fans, as she explores how our spoiled housecats have inspired the human imagination.
She’ll discuss how cats have been associated with a huge variety of folk beliefs, folk magics, and folktales. They were feared as an agent of the Devil in early…