Folklore; A Quarterly Review Of Myth, Tradition, Institution & Custom Incorporating The Archaeological Review And The Folk-Lore Journal (Volume I) 1890

Unearth the ceremonies that shaped Victorian life.This is Victorian folklore, reawakened.Volume I of Folklore brings together the earliest numbers of a nineteenth-century periodical dedicated to myth, tradition, institution and custom, incorporating archaeological commentary and material from the Folk-Lore Journal. A Victorian folklore anthology and myth and tradition collection published as a folklore quarterly journal, it traces the impulses that turned local practice into scholarly question. Its pages show the interplay between archaeological observation and oral tradition, and the disciplined curiosity that turned local anecdotes into comparative evidence. Contributors and correspondents recorded everything from seasonal rites to municipal ritual; articles and notes chart how belief lived in cottages, markets and parish institutions. The collection rewards both casual curiosity and sustained inquiry: vivid cultural narrative for general reading sits beside primary material that supports comparative mythology studies and the study of ritual and ceremony history across Victorian England traditions and beyond.Historically significant as a folk-lore society journal, this volume documents the debates, methods and discoveries that helped formalise classic folklore studies in Britain. Held together, the issues reconstruct the intellectual networks that exchanged notes, contested origins and mapped correspondences between ritual practices, making the set useful to social historians as well as specialists. As an academic folklore reference and a folklore researchers resource it remains useful to students of nineteenth century folklore, scholars of comparative mythology studies, and anyone tracing the social life of custom. Casual readers will be drawn to immediate accounts of british folk customs and local belief; classic-literature collectors and antiquarian enthusiasts will prize its period voice and provenance. Libraries and university departments seeking primary material in classic folklore studies will find a durable resource. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.