Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 'Instinctive and Resistant' Portrayals of Folklore; Knowledge, Belief, and Cultural Progress; Progress and Its Discontents; Historical Precedents of Customs and Beliefs; Folklore and Myth; Chapter 2: Belief: Overlooking, Sympathetic Magic, Hag-Riding, and South's Tree; Overlooking; Sympathetic Magic; Hag-Riding and 'The Withered Arm'; South's Tree; Chapter 3: Acts of Disapproval: Skimmington Riding; Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure; Chapter 4: Acts of Approval: The Portland Custom
Avice II and Avice III: Degeneration and RegenerationChapter 5: Winter Customs: Bonfire Night and Mumming; Mumming; Chapter 6: Summer Customs: May Day and Midsummer Divination; Midsummer Divination; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Primary Sources: Writings of Thomas Hardy Novels; Stories; Poems; Life, Letters, Notebooks, and Miscellaneous Writings; Secondary Sources; Index
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Thomas hardy, folklore and resistance.
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Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928-- Knowledge-- Folklore
Folklore-- England-- Dorset
Dorset (England), Social life and customs, History