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the sight of people performing actions that seem superficially strange prompts an inquiry into not only what they are doing but why. In the context of folklore the participants often do not know the answer. They are repeating a ritual inherited from generations of ancestors, and often the explanations they give are decidedly garbled. By probing deep, however, it is usually possible to discover some grain of logic behind what may seem to be absurd behaviour or belief. The author has written a number of volumes on folklore, and in this book he attempts to inspire readers to look further for themselves, confident that in the quest they will arrive at a deeper understanding of human behaviour, and how myth and folk practices hint at a much older deeper base of belief , animism, celtic belief, pre Roman and pre saxon parctices in the UK.
Phaidon Press, 1979. Illustrated.
