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Folk Britian: A Field Guide to Curious Customs

Folk Britian: A Field Guide to Curious Customs

Howells, Tom

Hardcover

AnthropologyGreat BritainBritish History

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1917719442
ISBN13: 9781917719445
Publisher: Hoxton Mini Press
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Language: English
A pocket-sized, iluminating field guide to Britain's brilliantly bizarre folk rituals and esoteric customs.

Each May in Gloucestershire, contestants embark on an ankle-shattering pursuit of an enormous wheel of cheese down a 26-degree hill. In August, a man utterly covered in burdock seeds and burrs ambles 9 miles through Queensferry, getting progressively drunker on whisky offered by locals. On Bonfire Night, November 5th, foolhardy residents of Ottery St Mary process through the streets with flaming tar barrels on their backs. These are just a few of Britain's folk customs, many of them centuries old. From the profound to the baffling, this handbook brings together over 100 rituals and traditions that mark changing seasons, unite communities and offer insight into Britain's wonderfully weird cultural identity.

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