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...
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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 Regeneration -- Chapter 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
