Hello, I invite list members to preview the online guide to Notts folklore and customs that I was asked to prepare for the Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway...
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During the 'redevelopment' of the Isle of Dogs, there was a legend circulating that the Island was sinking under the weight of the new buildings. Phil Cohen...
I am pleased to say that the guide to Notts folklore and customs which I invited list members to preview has now gone public on the Nottinghamshire Heritage...
A somewhat slight piece but some links of note. http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/ See entry for 7 June. ... Mag. Stephen Miller Oesterreichische...
I agree with the religious/social interpretation of the Mowing Devil pamphletproposed by Mercurius. and would add that there is a Biblical text 'the labourer...
Yes, I have read several accounts where they reaped round in a circle and ended up with a mass slaughter of rabbits and rats, although I can't rememember for...
Most certainly there are people who believe that crop circles have either extra-terrestrial or supernatural origin. Despite the fact that the two original...
"As Britain’s first concerted attempt at a “folk” museum, the London Museum elevated everyday objects—what James Deetz has referred to as “the small...
... As someone who did a Masters thesis on crop circles and folklore, I'm finding the discussion so far somewhat unfolkloric. There seems to be an a-priori...
I find this excerpt slightly misleading as it suggests that there were no attempts to establish a 'folk' museum in the UK until the formation of the London...
Were any of the collectors of popular antiquities collecting objects as well? Some of the seventeenth century cabinets of curiosities probably had objects that...
I've just read the whole article and must confess a slight overreaction on my part. Bailkin's insistence that the London Museum marked the inception of...
Bound copies of Man: the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1928-1937 FREE Just come and get them from The Folklore Society Library, c/o Warburg...
Cabinets of curiosities are certainly related to the later notion of popular antiquities, but it seems to me that the intellectual purpose is a little...
Hi Becca, There all yours whenever you want to come and pick them up. You'll need transport unless you cart them away by hand in several goes--they're quarto...
Hi Caroline, That's great :-)) I'm next in London in a 2 weeks time, on Tuesday 2nd July. I'd like to pick them up then if possible as that is the earliest I...
I'm not sure I agree with that, to ignore factual events such as the claims of hoaxers is also a deliberate act with an 'a priori' intention behind it. It is...
"It has been a much-loved part of the cultural heritage of many communities across the country for generations. But now folk dancers fear the centuries-old...
Dear Steve, There was a theory put forward some years ago by Dr Terence Meaden that the crop circles were a natural phenomena caused by something called...
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One of my students once asked me 'is there anything which isn't folkloric?', to which I answered, 'in potential, no'. Even materialist empirical science has...
John's point is exactly the point I was making. What I think is interesting about crop circles from a folkloristic viewpoint are the narratives and patterns of...
Whilst I would whole-heartedly agree that science has its own orthodoxy which also follows established patterns of belief this does not call into questions the...
This is turning into a very familiar debate! Speaking for myself, I wasn't talking about crop circles per se. All I was intending to say was that this...
Jacqueline says it precisely. A further example: Russian peasants in the nineteenth century thought that green or brown circles found in fields of cereal crops...
Hello everybody, I was just wondering if anybody could recommend a British or European university at which one could do graduate studies in myth and folklore....
Joanna, I am currently following the MA Welsh Ethnological Studies at Cardiff University, which may be of interest. It includes general modules reserach skills...
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