Dr Delyth Badder

Welsh folklorist and author

Dr Delyth Badder is a folklorist, author, and antiquarian book collector who has channelled a lifetime’s interest in Welsh folklore into academic study, and an extensive library of some of Wales’s rarest antiquarian folkloric texts. She has expertise in Welsh death omens and apparitions, with a particular academic interest in the appearance of spirits within the Welsh tradition. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Welsh folklore at Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales), and is currently pursuing a masters degree in this field at Cardiff University. She also has an academic interest in the nineteenth-century neo-Druidic movement in Pontypridd, and the life and work of archdruid and surgeon, Dr William Price.

As well as being a regular contributor to discussions on Welsh folklore in the media, Delyth has co-authored 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' with researcher and podcast host Mark Norman - an exciting new study of Welsh ghost-lore through the ages examined through a contemporary lens, using rare, unpublished and never before translated material.

Delyth also works for the NHS as the world’s first Welsh-speaking Consultant Paediatric and Perinatal Pathologist, and as a Medical Examiner for the Welsh Medical Examiner’s Office.

Based in Pontypridd, Wales, Delyth lives with her husband, award-winning children’s author Dr Elidir Jones, and their two rescue dogs, Magi Mai and Mostyn Madog (along with an unconfirmed number of ghosts) in their nineteenth century roundhouse cottage built by Dr William Price.