Luka Šešo was born in 1977 in Zagreb, Croatia. He works as an associate professor at the Catholic University of Croatia at the Department of Sociology, where he teaches courses from cultural anthropology and history. His professional interests focus on traditional beliefs, religious syncretism, witchcraft and prosecutions, mythology, marginal groups throughout history, religion in modernity. He researches traditional beliefs and vernacular religion in Croatia and Central Europe. He is the author of the book Živjeti s nadnaravnim bićima. Vukodlaci, vile i vještice hrvatskih tradicijskih vjerovanja (Living with the Supernatural Beings. Werewolves, Fairies and Witches of Croatian Popular Beliefs).