Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2154502
W. de Blécourt
Abstract Engelbert Heupers’s ‘folktales’, collected in the 1960s, form the second largest collection in the Netherlands. Although they relate to ‘superstition’, they should be regarded as fragments of oral history, albeit on legendary subjects, rather than legends, or even memorates. They were told as genuine memories. Especially the witchcraft texts, analysed here, referred to past events and some were corroborated by newspaper reports. Heupers’s work suffered from his supervisor’s lack of knowledge of or interest in legends. The reminiscences were influenced by press reports on witchcraft which persuaded some people to remain silent or only divulge commonplace information about the subject. There was a striking difference between Roman Catholic and Reformed Protestant interviewees. Local witchcraft texts need to be understood as a patchwork of stories which sometimes enabled the identification of a witch and a reconstruction of historical events.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2104518
M. Quirk
Abstract This article considers the Australian ‘bunyip’, a cryptid that has captured the colonial imagination since the European invasion. In doing so, the article will track the transformation of the creature through the invasion of Australia, and subsequently raise concerns regarding the application of an ‘apolitical’ bricolage in cases of myths translated across knowledge systems, especially in the context of colonialism. It considers the relationship between cryptozoology and the natural sciences, as well as the origins of the bunyip within Indigenous cosmologies. Ultimately, this article demonstrates the transformation of the bunyip from Indigenous contexts to its current position as a pseudoscientific cryptid.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2093966
Dorian Jurić
Abstract This article traces the history of scholarly analysis of the South Slavic vila. By asking a simple question, ‘where does the vila live?’, I return to that scholarship to weed out problematic older theories and clarify historical conjecture. I offer a refinement of the analysis of origin by returning to the art and assertions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century peasant storytellers, singers, and other tradition-bearers.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2055368
Alf Arvidsson
Abstract The present article focuses on how storytelling events serve as a tool in reinforcing local identity. The case study presented here centres on Bjurholm, a small rural town in northern Sweden, where a local storytelling society called Bjurholms Berättarakademi has been emphasizing municipal community building as a singularly important task. Initially offering public storytelling evenings and festivals celebrating prominent local storytellers, it soon shifted strategy and instead concentrated on storytelling in schools and villages, by pupils and villagers, and addressing urgent local topics at special events. The tenuousness of relying on only a handful of activists and the problem of continuity has been countered through collaboration with other local societies, as well as by embracing new media.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2127662
Timothy R. Tangherlini
Michael Chesnutt passed away in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2022. His contributions to the field of folklore are wide-ranging
迈克尔·切斯纳特于2022年5月在丹麦哥本哈根去世。他对民俗学的贡献是广泛的
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2130617
I. Russell
Abstract The current traditions of Christmas carolling in the Derbyshire Peak District were well established by the end of the eighteenth century. The main centre of activity was and is the Hope Valley with its several settlements based on upland farming, small-scale industries, quarrying, and mineral extraction. These communities nurtured distinctive repertoires of local carols over two centuries and through into the twenty-first century. The research into this phenomenon draws on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken during the past fifty years and aims to understand it in terms of historical development, social context, performance dynamics, musical characteristics, and individual participation.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2077562
P. Horák
Abstract This article analyses how pagan Slavic religion and mythology were assembled in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the example of folklore research in the Czech lands. It demonstrates how imaginings of the original nature of Slavic religion and mythology, and speculations about the Indo-European past, contributed to Czech nation-building. Reviewing the shift from amateur folklore research to the establishment of institutionalized disciplines, the article argues that Christian theological assumptions enabled the ‘discovery’ of Slavic religion and gave it a peculiar shape through secularization of the original theological ideas.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2064058
Tuukka Karlsson
Abstract Researchers in the field of Kalevala-metric poetry have regularly connected types of incantations called communicative and origin incantations with Finno-Karelian ritual specialists known as the tietäjät. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this view, the assumption has never been empirically tested. This article reports a methodological experiment aimed at investigating the connection between ritual specialists and the two incantation types, based on an index of users of incantations from Viena Karelia. The analysis shows that a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods facilitates empirical investigation of the phenomenon. The results of the analysis give some empirical support to general assumptions made in earlier research, but also demonstrate difficulties of such etic categorizations. In addition, the methodology could potentially be used with materials extending beyond those examined in the present article.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2123131
J. Wood.
Abstract The colourful urban legend that surrounds the Nanteos cup features escaping monks, secret tunnels, and a crusader, but perhaps more than any other factor, it is a tribute to the power of the Internet. This damaged medieval mazer bowl, unearthed during renovations at a monastic site, found its way into a stately home in Wales. It was exhibited at an archaeological meeting, gained a local reputation for ‘healing’, and was absorbed into early twentieth-century speculations about the holy grail. At the end of the twentieth century, references to the object could be found in a handful of paper scraps recording cures, occasional accounts in local newspapers and guides, and a series of family letters in the National Library of Wales, plus hints in popular works about the grail. In the twenty-first century, Internet notices have risen exponentially, and the object is now on display at the National Library in Aberystwyth.
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