Folkways in Thomas Hardy /

Folkways in Thomas Hardy / / Ruth A. Firor.

A veritable source book of superstition, this volume seeks out the abundant examples of belief in the forces of magic and the survival of old customs among the Wessex peasantry as revealed in the works of Thomas Hardy. the fear of falling mirrors and single magpies; the belief that horses found in a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Firor, Ruth A.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1931]
©1931
Year of Publication:1931
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • I. OMENS, PREMONITIONS, AND FATALITY
  • II. DIVINATION
  • III. GHOST AND FAIRY LORE
  • IV. MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT
  • V. FOLK-MEDICINE
  • VI. WEATHER LORE AND THE LANGUAGE OF COUNTRY THINGS
  • VII. SEASONAL FESTIVALS AND CUSTOMS
  • VIII. SPORTS AND PASTIMES
  • IX. FOLK-SONGS, COUNTRY-DANCES, AND FOLK-DRAMA
  • X. FOLK WIT AND WISDOM
  • XI. FOLK-LAW
  • XII. PREHISTORY AND SURVIVALS OF ANCIENT RELIGIONS
  • XIII. MEDIEVAL LEGENDS AND NAPOLEONANA
  • XIV. HARDY’S USE OF FOLKLORE AND FOLK-CUSTOM
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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