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Romance of Britain: The Marcher Lands, Land of the Red Dragon, Reivers and Makkars

Romance of Britain: The Danelaw, England's Heartland, Norsemen's Kingdom

Romance of Britain: The Witch Country, The Pilgrim Counties

The seed and the harvest, to the sea in ships, the day's work, a song of Britain, health/sickness/medicine, death and burial, the gap in the curtain, ghosts/gods/, the old gods, unquiet graves, the anatomy of witchcraft, the hidden people, fee fi fo fum, fabulous beasts

The brink of life: pregnancy, protection, purification, unbaptised children
Come out to play: games with hidden meanings, sacrificial victims, the laws of the playground,
Superstitious lovers: wedding fantasia, the charmed circle, man and wife, the language of flowers,
House and home: spirits by the hearth, portents in the fire, kitchem magictable manners, the daily round, the lore of living

The water-guardians: cure for sterility, venegeful gods, cure for toothaches, wise old trout
Hollow lands and hilly lands: litter of fairies, trials of strength, turned to stone, creatures of the wilderness, the magic of stones
Green magic: symbolic tree, magic of the trees, power of plants
The fantastic ark, evil omens, the devil and holy ghost, witches familiars,

The soverign sky: Magic and moonlight, stars of destiny
Seasons and festivals: the calendar reformed, timeless festivals remembered
The Sea's edge: encounter with a mermaid, a fisherman's choice, water bulls and water horses, the guardian of the cove, sea witches, lost lands and cities