Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland
Author: Walter GregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Folk-lore Record
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Folklore
Author: Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
Author: Sarah DunniganPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748645411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present. Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland's rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.
The Handbook of Folklore
Author: George Laurence GommePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
Author: James George FrazerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Stations of the Sun
Author: Ronald HuttonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191578428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.
Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs
Author: James Murray MackinlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Folklore
Author: Joseph JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Magical Medicine
Author: Wayland D. HandPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311779
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away"--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America. Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times. Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.