Abstract
Abstract of international conference paper analyzes contemporary Czech ghostlore, an important part of the folklore of children and adolescents, which represents a unique amalgamation of ritual practices, folk beliefs, and demonological narratives. The paper, using data documented during longitudinal field research of Czech contemporary folklore, presents the growing popularity of ghostlore in Czech setting in the last fifteen years, starting with the late 1990s.
Reflecting global, ever-shifting contemporary culture flows, especially changes in local realities of ""ethnoscapes"", ""mediascapes"" and ""ideoscapes"" during the 1990s, the contemporary Czech childrens's ghostlore seem to be both parallel and the transformation of local practices such as schoolchildren's spiritism and horror stories of the 1970s and 1980s.