Folklore back issues from August 2006:
The Holy Thorn Ceremony: revival, rivalry and civil religion in Glastonbury.(PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS GIVEN TO THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY, MARCH 2005)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Glastonbury and the Holy Thorn Ceremony Glastonbury is a small market town (population approximately 9000) that rises up steeply from the Somerset Levels, an area of drained marshland, in the south west of England. The centre of the town is dominated by the ruins of the once ...
Bede's Caedmon, "The Man Who Had No Story" (Irish Tale-Type 2412B).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Abstract Although various analogues have been cited to Bede's account of the poet Caedmon, none are very close. The plot of a tale well known in modern Irish and Scottish tradition, however, "The Man Who Had No Story" (Irish type 2412B), resembles the first part of Bede's ...
"Mad" Elves and "elusive beauty": some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology [1].(Research Article)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Abstract Contrary to Tolkien's refutation of "Celtic things" as a source for his own mythology, this article attempts to show how his work has been inspired by Celtic folklore and myth. The article is not just a source study. It concentrates on one main example from Tolkien's ...
The translation of the unseen self: Fortunatus, mercury and the Wishing-Hat.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Abstract This article examines the popular early German prose text Fortunatus both as folktale and as mercantile myth, concentrating on the hitherto critically neglected Wishing-Hat, which is regarded in this essay as a descendant of the Petasus of Mercury. In the original ...
Cryptozoology in the medieval and modern worlds.(RESEARCH PAPER)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Abstract Popular interest in cryptozoology (the study of unconfirmed species, such as bigfoot and chupacabra) has been fuelled by a recent publishing frenzy of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and guides devoted to the subject, as well as by unprecedented opportunities for ...
Martin and the Green Children.(TOPICS, NOTES AND COMMENTS)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Introduction In his wide-ranging discussion of the origins and significance of the festival of Martinmas, published in this journal a few years ago, Martin Walsh alluded to the medieval story of the Green Children of Woolpit, and their reported claim to have come from a place ...
Hilda Ellis Davidson (1914-2006).(In memoriam)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson, who died in January 2006, had for many decades been a distinguished scholar in the field of Scandinavian mythology and religion, whose books reached a wide readership and whose enthusiasm for her subject was an inspiration to many--myself included. Time and again, ...
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. By John D. Niles. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 280 pp. Illus. 32.50 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-8122-3504-5 In Homo Narrans John D. Niles offers a stimulating and compelling ...
Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History. By Owen Davies. London: Hambledon and London, 2002. 256 pp. Illus. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-85285-297-6 This excellent study examines the liminal world of cunning folk in England. It follows a welcome trend begun by a ...
Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. Edited by Burt Feintuch. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 248 pp. 15.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk), 42.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-252-07109-3 (pbk), 0-252-02806-0 (hbk) In 1995 The Journal of ...
Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Edited by Thelma Fenster and Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. 240 pp. Illus. 13.95 [pounds sterling]/$19.95 (pbk), 36.95 [pounds sterling]/$52.50 (hbk). ISBN 0-8014-8857-5 (pbk), ...
Performing Medieval Narrative.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Performing Medieval Narrative. Edited by Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005. 261 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-84384-039-1 The first three essays of this collection examine late-medieval statements about ...
Folktales from Iraq.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Folktales from Iraq. Edited and translated by C.G. Campbell, illustrated by John Buckland Wright. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 246 pp. 8.16 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-8122-1913-9 This recently released paperback book was originally published as ...
Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK. By Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane. Edited by Bruce Haines with an essay by Jeremy Millar. London: Book Works, 2005. 156 pp. Illus. 14.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1-870699-81-5 This book is basically the catalogue of an ...
Keats and Romantic Celticism.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Keats and Romantic Celticism. By Christine Gallant. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 174 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-4039-4851-8 The usual image of Keats is of a man educated and sensitive beyond his status, aspiring to the not-yet-formed life of the ...
Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries. By Allyn Miner. Performing Arts Series, VII. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1997. vi +265 pp. Illus. 16.50 [pounds sterling] (hbk), 9.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 81-208-1299-9 (hbk), ISBN 81-208-1493-2 (pbk) Allyn Miner's ...
Choctaw Tales.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2006; ... Choctaw Tales. Collected and annotated by Tom Mould with a Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 256 pp. Illus. $20.00 (pbk), $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 1-57806-683-2 (pbk), ISBN 1-57806-682-4 (hbk) The rich oral tradition of the ...
Books received.(Bibliography)
Aug 01, 2006 ... Abrahams, Roger D. Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 296 pp. $47.50/31.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk) ISBN 0-8122-3841-9. Altmann, Anna E. The Seven Swabians and other German Folktales. Englewood, Colo.: ...