Abstract
IN her introduction to this collection of English popular beliefs and customs, the author remarks on the relative poverty of the English tradition in this respect when compared with that of the Celtic-speaking peoples of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. This is in accord with the principle that such peripheral regions as a rule are found' through their conditions to have afforded a favourable environment for the survival of the more primitive elements in a culture composed of diverse elements. The resistance of the Celtic speaking elements in the British population to conquest has also fostered the preservation of tradition.
English Folklore
By Christina Hole. Pp. viii + 184 + 33 plates. (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1940.) 10s. 6d. net.
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English Folklore. Nature 146, 215–216 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146215a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146215a0
