Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain

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a b Harte, Jeremy (2 March 2018). "Superstitious observations: fortune-telling in English folk culture". Time and Mind. 11: 67–88. doi: 10.1080/1751696X.2018.1433357. S2CID 165848305– via Taylor & Francis Online. Jonas, M. C.; Partridge, J. B.; Leather, Ella M.; Potter, F. S. (1913). "Scraps of English Folklore, VII". Folklore. 24 (2): 234–241. doi: 10.1080/0015587X.1913.9719566– via Taylor & Francis Online. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales" (1849), by James Halliwell, a discussion on the origin of English folk tales and rhymes. Warner, M. (1998). "Why do Ogres Eat Babies? Monstrous Paternity in Myth and Fairytales". Paternity and Fatherhood. pp.195–203. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-13816-6_18. ISBN 978-1-349-13818-0– via Springer Link.

Monroe, Alexei (15 January 2019). "The Wild Hunt: Nationalistic Anarchism and Neofeudalism Unleashed". Third Text. 32: 620–628. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1555302. S2CID 150174959– via Taylor & Francis Online.Ditmas, E. M. R. (1974). "The Way Legends Grow". Folklore. 85 (4): 244–253. doi: 10.1080/0015587X.1974.9716563. JSTOR 1259622– via JSTOR. Ogres are usually tall, strong, violent, greedy, and remarkably dull monsters and they originate from French culture. In folktales they are likely to be defeated by being outsmarted. [29] During the Renaissance in the 16th century, England looked to more European texts to develop a national identity. English folklore has continued to differ according to region, although there are shared elements across the country. [2] As I walked on and the eerie crunch, crunch, sounded behind me, I was seized with terror and took to my heels, staggering blindly among the boulders for four or five miles,” Collie told a meeting of the Cairngorm Club in 1925. Cornish piskies The Grimm brothers' publications such as German Legends and Grimms' Fairy Tales were translated from their original German and distributed across Europe in 1816. Their stories inspired publishers such as William Thoms to compile legends from within English folklore and without to compose an English identity. The stories that the Grimm brothers collected were integrated into the English school curriculum throughout the 19th century as educators of morality. [2] Characteristics [ edit ]

Keegan-Phipps, Simon (29 Mar 2017). "Identifying the English: essentialism and multiculturalism in contemporary English folk music". Ethnomusicology Forum. 26: 3–25 – via Taylor & Francis Online. Cunning folk was a term used to refer to male and female healers, magicians, conjurers, fortune-tellers, potion-makers, exorcists, or thieves. Such people were respected, feared and sometimes hunted for their breadth of knowledge which was suspected as supernatural. [46] a b c Cheeseman, Matthew; Hart, Carina, eds. (2022). Folklore and nation in Britain and Ireland. New York. ISBN 978-1-003-00753-1. OCLC 1250431455. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) If this introductory look at Britain’s wealth of fascinating legends has inspired you, you can learn more about British folklore over at Mysterious Britain. If you come on an Oxford Royale Summer Schools course, you can also look forward to visiting some of Britain’s famous landmarks, such as mysterious Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain – said, in one tale, to have been constructed by none other than the magician Merlin of Arthurian legend… The wild hunt was a description of a menacing group of huntsmen which either rode across the sky or on lonely roads. Their presence was a hallmark of the perception of the countryside as a wild and mystical place. [47] Practices [ edit ] A maypole dance held at Winterbourne Houghton in 2006.

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Hutton, Ronald (3 November 2010). "How Pagan Were Medieval English Peasants?". Folklore. 122 (3): 235–249. doi: 10.1080/0015587X.2011.608262. S2CID 162281749– via Taylor & Francis Online. Tatar, Maria (2010). "Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative". Western Folklore. 69: 55–64 – via ProQuest. Guiley, Rosemary Ellen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. New York: Facts On File, Inc. On May Day, the first day of May, a tall, decorated pole is put up as a symbol of fertility called a maypole. The maypole represents a phallic object impregnating the earth at the end of spring to ensure a bountiful summer. The maypoles were decorated originally with flowers and carved from the branches of trees about to bloom to symbolise the birth of new life. Eventually the flowers were replaced with ribbons and May day became a day for celebration and dancing in which a May queen and sometimes a May king would be crowned to also symbolise fertility. [48] For the last fifteen years, John Freeman has had his finger firmly on the literary pulse. Until recently, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Granta, and part of the panel that put together their most recent, much discussed, once a decade list, Best of Young British Novelists. He's reviewed thousands of books and profiled some of the world's most influential writers from Doris Lessing to John Updike. These encounters have now been collected in his latest book How To Read A Novelist.