County Folk Lore Volume I Gloucestershire

Author : Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330270806
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book County Folk-Lore written by Edwin Sidney Hartland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from County Folk-Lore: Printed Extracts; No; I. Gloucestershire The study of Tradition has at length won a recognised place in antiquarian research. Nobody now disputes that the superstitions, the customs, the tales, the songs, and even the proverbial sayings of a people may throw unexpected light upon its history; and from the investigation and comparison of such things as these, once deemed unworthy of notice, scientific men have begun to reconstruct the unrecorded past of humanity, and to interpret in a surer manner the records too often misread, or for which all previous guesses have failed to find an intelligible meaning. To a nation like ours, welded together out of elements so many and so diverse, the science of Folk-lore has a special interest. The examination of traditional customs and institutions, as well as of traditional beliefs, and what, by a happy contradiction of terms, has been called traditional literature, has proved that human thought under very different conditions is everywhere essentially the same. No sooner, however, has this been done than the question arises whether distinctions of race may not be discovered, in spite of - nay, interwoven with - this very identity. When a people is itself of composite origin, or when, though physically pure, it has been subjected to alien influences, can we assign to each component part, or to each alien influence, its due share in the civilisation finally attained? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.