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Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts, 1st ser., v 3: Mother Bunch's closet newly broke open, & the History of Mother Bunch of the west. [VillonPetridis, Alexis (2012), ‘Danger! The world’s scariest films!’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/mar/30/danger-world-scariest-films. Gilt bronze head from the cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Temple at Bath, found in Stall Street in 1727 and now displayed at the Roman Baths (Bath). By Hchc2009 [ CC BY-SA 4.0] Reader’s Digest (1973), Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain, London: Reader’s Digest Association.

Rivers enable industry and trade – the growth of Newcastle upon Tyne depended on the export of coal along the Tyne. Our shipbuilding made us an industrial powerhouse. Many other rivers boast similar tales of might or glory.And rivers act like highways across the land.Observations on popular antiquities, [v1] chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies & The Denham Tracts: [v2] A collection of folklore, repr from the original tracts & pamphlets printed by Denham Notices of fugitive tracts: And chap-books printed at Aldermary churchyard, Bow churchyard, etc. [Percy Society] The result was an alternative version of both received history and expected futures; an outlook that insisted on questioning the national story and offered an alternate identity to the coming generation. (The folk horror of the ‘70s, in which traditions became threats and hedge-row spirits became devils, was largely a regressive, religious response to this movement.) It offered a different idea of Britain. Different to the modern world of hovercraft and computers, or the stifling establishment of gentlemen’s clubs and the W.I. British ley lines instead of British Leyland. A place of shadowed, high-hedged and twisting lanes, of half-remembered gods and drowned and forgotten lands. It gave us a sense of place, and a sense of enchantment in that place. It made our country magic.