HKA-001679Belief
Rowan Berries and the Protective Tree Tradition
Rowan Berries and the Protective Tree Tradition in the historical record and folklore.
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HKA-001678Belief
The Brownie as an Unseen Household Worker
The Brownie as an Unseen Household Worker in the historical record and folklore.
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The Brownie’s Departure After a Gift of Clothes
The Brownie's Departure After a Gift of Clothes in British folklore and historical tradition.
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Women’s Care Work and Witchcraft Suspicion
Research using Richard Napier’s early seventeenth-century casebooks has examined how women’s work in childcare, sick care, household medicine and livestock management could place them close to moments of illness, infant death or unexplained animal…
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Changeling Belief and Child Abduction Traditions
British and Irish fairy traditions include stories in which supernatural beings take a child or adult and leave a substitute behind. Changeling narratives could become explanations for illness, disability, failure to thrive or sudden…
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Fairy Mounds and Older Monuments
In parts of Britain, prehistoric monuments and prominent earthworks later acquired reputations as fairy places or mounds. The archaeological structure and the supernatural explanation can belong to very different periods while occupying the same…
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Respectful Names for the Fair Folk
British regional traditions preserve respectful collective names for fairy beings: the Good Folk, Good People, Fair Folk and People of Peace among them. Scottish Gaelic tradition includes expressions associated with Na daoine sìthe, while…
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Frank Green’s Threat to Haunt Treasurer’s House
Frank Green, the industrialist who acquired Treasurer’s House in 1897 and later gave it to the National Trust, was remembered as exacting about the arrangement of his rooms and collections. The house preserves a…
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Giving Clothes to a Brownie Ends Its Service
Folklore collections preserve a recurring motif in which a household spirit or brownie is given clothing and then leaves. In different tellings the garment may release the helper, delight it, offend it or simply…
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Misfortune After Harming a Lone Hawthorn
Some British and Irish traditions warned that harming a particular old or solitary hawthorn could bring misfortune. Such stories are strongest when attached to an individual tree, mound, well or other locally significant place.…
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Rowan Planted Near Houses for Protection
Rowan was associated in several British regional traditions with protection around houses, farms and other significant places. Accounts describe trees planted or retained near dwellings in the hope that they would help guard people,…
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Hawthorn Blossom Was Considered Unlucky Indoors
A widely repeated strand of British plant folklore warned against bringing fresh hawthorn, or “may”, blossom into the home. Recorded versions associate the act with bad luck, illness or death, although the warning varied…
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