Even the concentration's building isinteresting.

Lodged in its own small house, a small grayhome with a flowery yard near Kirkland House, Folkand Myth keeps its library in the former coalstorage area.

And, while concentrators say no generalizationcan capture all 17 of them, many seem to beinvolved in the Harvard-Radcliffe Science FictionAssociation (HRSFA).

"Currently a lot of students who are Folk andmyth majors have a lot of other similarinterests," says J. Adam Holland '94. "They justtend to do things together."

One such activity is the annual "Wyld Hunt"sponsored each Halloween by the Science FictionClub.

According to Millman, "A bunch of Folk and Mythalums and present students joined the localScience Fiction Association" and originated theWyld Hunt, which started three years ago.

The practice is based on Germano-Celticfolklore honoring the god of the hunt.

For last year's Hunt, students removed as muchclothing as they considered advisable and paintedblue designs on one another's skin in the style ofthe ancient Picts.

They then ran through the streets of Cambridge,screaming and chasing someone dressed like a stag.When they caught this unfortunate victim, he orshe was ritually sacrificed in TercentenaryTheatre and carried back across Mass. Ave.

Kaplan said she came up with this idea as asophomore and was surprised to find that she "alsoknew a lot of people who for some reason thoughtthat this was a sublimely good idea."

"We were having a Conan party and we all gottogether and decided that what we all wanted to dowas dress up in blue paint and go howling throughthe streets," says Elena O'Malley '94, also a Folkand Myth concentrator.

Another ceremony in which some folk and mythstudents participate as part of the sciencefiction club is the "Coming of the Hour." Studentsdress in black and perform a candle-lit ceremonyon the steps of Widener in observance of thechange to daylight savings time.

But Folk and Myth concentrators point out thatnot all of them participate in HRSFA activities.

And Sammells, who is a co-chair of HRSFA, says"I don't really think that [Folk and Mythconcentrators] are weirder than everyone else,although we certainly do get that reputation."

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