Telling the Bees and Other Customs The Folklore of Rural Crafts

As featured in The New York Times...Throughout the history of civilisation, traditional crafts have been passed down from hand to skilled hand. Blacksmithing, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting and weaving: these skills held societies together, and so too shaped their folklore and mythology.Exploring the folklore connected with these rural crafts, Telling the Bees examines the customs, superstitions and stories woven into some of the world's oldest trades. From the spinning of the Fates to the blacksmith's relationship with the devil, and the symbolism of John Barleycorn to a ritual to create bees from the corpse of a cow - these are the traditions upon which our modern world was built.

ISBN:	9780750992152
Publisher:	The History Press
Imprint:	The History Press
Published date:	13 May 2020
DEWEY:	398.20941
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	2711
Number of pages:	189
Weight:	370g
Height:	135mm
Width:	205mm
Spine width:	15mm

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