A Handbook Of Folklore

by Charlotte Sophia Burne

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

Genres: Folklore

374 pages, Hardcover

Published March 29, 2014

Reviews

[MisterFweem · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think if I were Welsh, this book might offend me -- because Charlotte Burne constantly refers to the Welsh as she writes about "lower races" and the cutesy little bits of folklore they follow.

But no matter. Though written in 1911 -- I have to remind myself of this; it's from a different era -- the book is a deeply satisfying guide to human folklore, and a must-read for people who want to create their own folklore as they write stories, novels and such. Every writer should have a copy of this book on his or her bookshelf, because in it Burne outlines the basics of folklore in an accessible, easy to fathom format that can work as a handy guide for writers.

Additionally, this is a wonderful book for amateur cultural anthropologists who might wonder why Burne isnt' bothering to study the folklore of the -- to use her phraseology -- "higher" races, because it's not only the primitives who have folklore.

[Durga Joshi]

very good