Review: Books: The lore of supply and demand Many of England's `ancient folk customs' are not that ancient at all, says Noel Malcolm

The Sunday Telegraph London | July 16, 2000| | Copyright

A Dictionary of English Folklore

by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud

Oxford, 411 pp, pounds 20

pounds 17 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222

ONCE UPON A time there was an old, old man with a long white beard, and his name was Sir James Frazer. He wrote a big book - The Golden Bough - in so many volumes that no one could read them all, so everyone said it must be true. In this book he explained that folklore and religion and magic all came from fertility cults, and so it was that corn dollies and morris dancing were believed to have something to do with ancient Mesopotamia, which is what people thought ...

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