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Ülo Valk is Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is the editor of Numen: International Review for the History of Religions. His publications include The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion and Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas (co-edited with Daniel Sävborg).

Marion Bowman, Religious Studies, The Open University, UK has written widely on vernacular religion, and contemporary spirituality in Glastonbury. Publications include Religion in Cathedrals: Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication co-edited with Simon Coleman, and Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe (Numen 67:5-6) co-edited with Dirk Johannsen and Ane Ohrvik.