Delyth Badder

Delyth Badder is a Welsh folklorist, writer and antiquarian book collector. She co-wrote The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts with fellow folklorist Mark Norman. She is also a medical examiner, National Health Service consultant and the world's first Welsh-speaking consultant paediatric and perinatal pathologist.

Biography Badder was born in Llwyn-hudol near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales.

Medical career Badder studied at the Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff University School of Medicine). She works part-time to divide time between pathology and folklore. She is an Honorary Research Fellow with Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales).

Badder co-wrote The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) with fellow folklorist Mark Norman, curator of the Folklore Library and Archive in Devon, England. Rare Welsh folk stories were collected in their original Welsh language versions from manuscripts, with several printed and translated into English for the first time. Famous ghosts are also included in the book, like Gwynedd's Cadi’r Forwyn (Cadi the Maid), the Bwci Melyn Bach y Cwm (The Little Yellow Bogey of the Valley), the soldier Owain Lawgoch, whose ghost was supposedly captured in a bottle then flung into the deep of the River Dulas in Ceredigion, Wales, tell traditional ghost stories at Halloween, share old Welsh rituals and traditions of the Christmas season, cover how birds are presented within Welsh folklore and legend, and to discuss the life and work of the "eccentric" Welsh Archdruid, physician and political activist William Price. She had been a guest on podcasts She has delivered talks at Welsh language-events, including a talk on "Charms and Magical Powers of the Welsh Common Folk" at Bangor University in Bangor, Wales.

Personal life Badder is married to Welsh children's author Elidir Jones. She plays the harp and the piano.