ReptonGuide 3/1/20 5:15:47

The Repton carnival of fools was worse than ever before. The undertakers of the area joined in the hobby horse parade. Their actual horses pulling a coffin on which small skeletons seemed to dance a jig. – extract from the diary of Arthur Blatchford, 1877 https://t.co/FefZLExKRS

ReptonGuide 3/1/20 22:49:11

People are most upset that book is kept in a cage in the crypt. Many claim it is because it contains nine secret names for God and refuse to believe the antiphonary is held their simply because it is so fragile. – Rev. Paul Wilson, Rector of Our Lady of Repton, 1921-1934 https://t.co/DnubdlUlJO

Hookland 3/1/20 0:35:59

@knotgirl1 Ah, but do you know he isn‰Ûªt being snarky about a specific male historian attacking the validity of paying attention to folklore in 1934? A statistical analysis would show Nolan uses they rather than he or she when referring to professions in more than 80 percent of his works.

Hookland 3/1/20 1:02:51

England of the mediaeval then was formed from a network of saints‰Ûª bones and shrines. A relay of relics and circuits of pilgrimage. It was, as it has always been, a map of magics. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1976

Hookland 3/1/20 1:07:58

@knotgirl1 Well only post 1889 and his recovery from ether addiction do you see any sign of that and even then, you don‰Ûªt really strongly notice it till the 1920s.

Hookland 3/1/20 2:06:50

They teach you in school that old King Ethelbert believed that the wind could blow away bad magic, keep spells from landing where they were cast to go. They teach it to laugh at him, but the cunning don‰Ûªt laugh at such things. – Tom Rudd #FolkloreThursday