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Author | : Steve Roud |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 2006-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0141941626 |
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Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.
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Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : 9780140515466 |
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Author | : Stephen Roud |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
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Download A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first major new book on British superstitions and their history in over a generation, this survey not only explains what people have believed and why, but when superstitions arose, which parts of the country adopted them, how they evolved and what people believe today. Drawing extensively on literary sources from medieval times to the present, the book settles many arguments, debunks many myths and provides in the process a fascinating sideways view of social customs and beliefs over the centuries.
Author | : Steve Roud |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 879 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141021063 |
Download The English Year Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The English Year' is a month-by-month, day-by-day guide to all the customs and festivals of England, from the national celebrations to herald the New Year down to small local traditions such as duck racing in Oxfordshire.
Author | : Henry Glassie |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780140175813 |
Download The Penguin Book of Irish Folktales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Roy Vickery |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826444180 |
Download Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation. This vivid account introduces readers to a rich variety of British and Irish plant folklore, drawing on Roy Vickery's own unsurpassed archives collated over forty years, and a wide range of historical and contemporary literature. Unlike other books which re-use material collected in the Victorian era, this book is based on new material collected by the author, and shows that while some of the wilder superstitions have faded we still cling to the symbolic importance of plants. Putting conkers in wardrobes keeps moths away, and parsley - the Devil's plant - only germinates if sown on Good Friday. A potato in the bed helps do away with cramp and in Cornwall crawling under a bramble bush was considered a cure for blackheads. From plants that foretold births and deaths, to herbal remedies, planting and harvesting rituals, friendship bushes and festive garlands this is a book of rich and living social history and folklore.
Author | : Roy Bainton |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1472137477 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Superstition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in more thought-provoking areas. He offers an overview of humanity's often illogical and irrational persistence in seeking good luck and avoiding misfortune. While Steve Roud's two excellent books - The Penguin Dictionary of Superstitions and his Pocket Guide - and Philippa Waring's 1970 Dictionary concentrate on the British Isles, Bainton casts his net much wider. There are many origins which warrant the full back story, such as Friday the thirteenth and the Knights Templar, or the demonisation of the domestic cat resulting in 'cat holocausts' throughout Europe led by the Popes and the Inquisition. The whole is presented as a comprehensive, entertaining narrative flow, though it is, of course, a book that could be dipped into, and includes a thorough bibliography. Schoenberg, who developed the twelve-tone technique in music, was a notorious triskaidekaphobe. When the title of his opera Moses und Aaron resulted in a title with thirteen letters, he renamed it Moses und Aron. He believed he would die in his seventy-sixth year (7 + 6 = 13) and he was correct; he also died on Friday the thirteenth at thirteen minutes before midnight. As Sigmund Freud wrote, 'Superstition is in large part the expectation of trouble; and a person who has harboured frequent evil wishes against others, but has been brought up to be good and has therefore repressed such wishes into the unconscious, will be especially ready to expect punishment for his unconscious wickedness in the form of trouble threatening him from without.'
Author | : Ceri Houlbrook |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 331975517X |
Download The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced for folk-medical and dedicatory purposes. Today, the custom is widespread, with over 200 coin-trees distributed across the British Isles, but is more akin to the casual deposition of coins in a wishing-well: coins are deposited in the tree in exchange for wishes, good luck, or future fortune. Ceri Houlbrook contributes to the debate on the historic relationships between religion, ritual, and popular magic in British contexts from 1700 to the present.
Author | : Steve Roud |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0571309739 |
Download Folk Song in England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.
Author | : Melusine Draco |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1846944627 |
Download The Dictionary of Magic and Mystery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every good reference book is both a product and a reflection of its time. The Dictionary of Magic & Mystery is not just another compendium or dictionary of occultism: it is a jumping-off point for further research. Here, the reader will find the ancient and modern interpretation for magical and mystical terms, together with explanations for the differences between the varied (and often conflicting) approaches to magic.