Legend and tradition in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels contain a remarkable amount of Dorsetshire legend and tradition. This material includes countrymen's proverbs, folk-magic, seasonal festivals, and rites descended from primitive religions. Some of the legends are connected with Angle-Saxon and Roman relics -- b...
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McGill University
1960
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| Summary: | Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels contain a remarkable amount of Dorsetshire legend and tradition. This material includes countrymen's proverbs, folk-magic, seasonal festivals, and rites descended from primitive religions. Some of the legends are connected with Angle-Saxon and Roman relics -- barrows, roads, burial grounds, fortifications ethers with old country families. Witchcraft and many sorts of superstition become important themes in several of the novels. |
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