Hickey-Hall is a folklorist, researcher and social historian with a long-held interest in the relationship between supernatural experience, local landscape and oral tradition. She was born in Jersey, an island scattered with a network of ancient dolmens and rich in folklore. Partly due to her Irish heritage and the wonderful folktales of her father, Hickey-Hall is particularly inspired by the survival of oral lore in rural communities. In 2015 she gained a Masters in History from the University of Bristol, supervised by Professor Ronald Hutton.Her research focused on the portrayal of the Sidhe in Medieval Irish literature. Together with fellow member of the Folklore Society and author, Mark Norman, in 2016 HickeyHall co-authored a chapter in Simon Young’s widely acclaimed book, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies: 500AD to the Present. Mark and Hickey-Hall had begun researching for ‘Magical Folk’ in 2016 and from there, she created a project called Modern Fairy Sightings. The main motivation of her research is to collate and preserve people’s experiences.In lockdown 2020 she created The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast where people describe their own personal fairy encounters. Website scarlettofthefae.comCome join the California Haunts radio Patreon group. Subscribers get exclusive access to prerecorded shows before they air on the main Youtube Channel, they get to participate in after show talks with guests and special events with Medium Nancy Matz.Visit patreon.com/CaliforniaHauntsRadio
