Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Suffolk Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: Lincolnshire Notes and Queries
Author: Gloucestershire Notes and Queries
Author: William Phillimore Watts PhillimorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The Notts. and Derbyshire Notes and Queries
Author: John Potter BriscoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine
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ISBN:
Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Superstitions
Author: Edwin RadfordPublisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760702284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Containing more that two thousand supersitions of Britain ranging over the past six hundred years, and extending down to the present day,this book demonstrates that superstitions are world-wide and inherent in all peoples of the world in exactly identical forms of fear and avoidance.
Folklore and Book Culture
Author: Kevin J. HayesPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172523646X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out, there are many instances where the two intersect, and exploring those intersections is the purpose of this fascinating and provocative study. Hayes shows that the acquisition of knowledge and the ownership of books have not displaced folklore but instead have given rise to new beliefs and superstitions. Some books have generated new proverbs; others have fostered their own legends. Occasionally the book has served as an important motif in folklore, and in one folk genre--the flyleaf rhyme--the book itself has become the place where folklore occurs, thus indicating a lively interaction between folk, print, and manuscript culture. The author begins by examining the tradition of the Volksbucher--cheaply printed books, often concerned with the occult, whose powers are said to transcend the written text. Hayes looks in depth at one particular Volksbuch--The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses--and proceeds, in subsequent chapters, to discuss a variety of folktales and legends, placing them within the context of book culture and the history of education. He closes with an examination of flyleaf rhymes, the little verses that book owners have inscribed in their books, and considers what they reveal about the identity of the inscribers as well as about attitudes toward book lending, book borrowing, and the circulation of knowledge. Solidly researched and venturing into areas long neglected by scholars. Folklore and Book Culture is a work that will engage not only folklorists but historians and literary scholars as well.
British Folk Tales and Legends
Author: Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 0203217896
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, sour-faced witches and kings with hearts of gold. Each tale is a masterpiece of storytelling, from the hilarious 'Three Sillies' to the delightfully macabre 'Sammle's Ghost'.