Author: Marian Roalfe CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An Introduction to Folk-lore
Author: Marian Roalfe CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
“The” folk-lore record
Author: 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.
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 Folk-lore Record
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The English Dialect Dictionary: T-Z. Supplement. Bibliography. Grammar
Author: Joseph WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: T-Z. Supplement. Bibliography. Grammar
Author: Joseph WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publications of the Folk-lore Society
Author: 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.
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx Vol.1 (of 2)
Author: John RhysPublisher: OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCCI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The materials crowded into the earlier chapters mark out the stories connected with the fairies, whether of the lakes or of the dry land, as the richest lode to be exploited in the mine of Celtic folklore. That work is attempted in the later chapters; and the analysis of what may briefly be described as the fairy lore given in the earlier ones carries with it the means of forcing the conviction, that the complex group of ideas identified with the little people is of more origins than one; in other words, that it is drawn partly from history and fact, and partly from the world of imagination and myth. The latter element proves on examination to be inseparably connected with certain ancient beliefs in divinities and demons associated, for instance, with lakes, rivers, and floods. Accordingly, this aspect of fairy lore has been dealt with in chapters vi and vii: the former is devoted largely to the materials themselves, while the latter brings the argument to a conclusion as to the intimate connexion of the fairies with the water-world. Then comes the turn of the other kind of origin to be discussed, namely, that which postulates the historical existence of the fairies as a real race on which have been lavishly superinduced various impossible attributes. This opens up a considerable vista into the early ethnology of these islands, and it involves a variety of questions bearing on the fortunes here of other races. In the series which suggests itself the fairies come first as the oldest and lowest people: then comes that which I venture to call Pictish, possessed of a higher civilization and of warlike instincts. Next come the earlier Celts of the Goidelic branch, the traces, linguistic and other, of whose presence in Wales have demanded repeated notice; and last of all come the other Celts, the linguistic [xii]ancestors of the Welsh and all the other speakers of Brythonic. The development of these theses, as far as folklore supplies materials, occupies practically the remaining five chapters. Among the subsidiary questions raised may be instanced those of magic and the origin of druidism; not to mention a neglected aspect of the Arthurian legend, the intimate association of the Arthur of Welsh folklore and tradition with Snowdon, and Arthur’s attitude towards the Goidelic population in his time.