104pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light wear to covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Katharine Briggs (1898 – 1980) was a folklorist, sometime President of the Folklore Society and and author of The Anatomy of Puck, a four-volume dictionary of British folk stories and other works on fairies and folklore. This volume contains and selection of papers presented at a symposium in her honour in the early 1990s and includes essays such as Reimund Kvideland on Establishing Borders: The Narrative Potential of a Motif; Alan W. Smith on Crossing the Other Line: Some Arctic Analogues of the Traditional Equator Ceremony; Patricia Lysaght on Bealtaine: Irish Mavtime Customs and the Reaffirmation of Boundaries and many more.
