Telling the Bees and Other Customs (eBook)

The Folklore of Rural Crafts

Mark Norman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9533-7 (ISBN)

Infos

As featured in The New York Times... Throughout the history of civilisation, traditional crafts have been passed down from hand to skilled hand. Blacksmithing, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting and weaving: these skills held societies together, and so too shaped their folklore and mythology. Exploring the folklore connected with these rural crafts, Telling the Bees examines the customs, superstitions and stories woven into some of the world's oldest trades. From the spinning of the Fates to the blacksmith's relationship with the devil, and the symbolism of John Barleycorn to a ritual to create bees from the corpse of a cow - these are the traditions upon which our modern world was built.

MARK NORMAN is a folklore author and researcher. He is a council member of The Folklore Society and has been on the judging panel for the Katharine Briggs book awards for the last 3 years. He is also the creator and host of The Folklore Podcast and Founding Curator of The Folklore Library and Archive. Listened to around the world, the podcast looks at all aspects of traditional folklore. It has received over 1.5 million downloads and is listed in the top 5% globally in its genre for audience share. Mark speaks around the country on folklore-related subjects, and also writes newspaper and magazine columns plus web articles on the subject. He lives in Devon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Handwerk
• Schlagworte: baking • Beekeeping • blacksmith • Brewing • cow corpse • Crafts • Customs • Fairy tales • Folklore • Folktales • Folk Tales • John Barleycorn • Knitting • Milling • professional storyteller • rural crafts • Spinning • spinning of the fates • Storytelling • storytelling, fairy tales, folk tales, professional storyteller, folklore, folktales, crafts, rural crafts, weaving, spinning, knitting, wool, yarn, customs, • storytelling, fairy tales, folk tales, professional storyteller, folklore, folktales, crafts, rural crafts, weaving, spinning, knitting, wool, yarn, customs, blacksmith, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting, weaving, the folklore of rural crafts, traditional trades, superstitions, spinning of the fates, john barleycorn, cow corpse • superstitions • the folklore of rural crafts • traditional trades • weaving • Wool • Yarn
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-9533-5 / 0750995335
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9533-7 / 9780750995337