"...contains details of more than 450 customs of the Irish, Manx, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton Celts. An easy-to-follow day-by-day guide...features the celebrations, ceremonies, feasts, dances, games, crafts and superstitions which, together with many other aspects of folklore, constitute Celtic folk culture today....also contains an array of old recipes for different times of the year."--Irish Echo. "Anyone who wants to learn more about such Celtic festivals as Beltane and Lughnasa will find a wealth of detail here, along with information on other traditions of the Irish, Manx, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton Celts. Appended are recipes for treats like haggis and fortune-telling crowdie."--Booklist..
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Anyone who wants to learn more about such Celtic festivals as Beltane and Lughnasa will find a wealth of detail here, along with information on other traditions of the Irish, Manx, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton Celts. Appended are recipes for treats like haggis and fortune-telling crowdie. The lack of an index makes it hard to locate a custom without knowing the time of year with which it is associated. REVWR
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Brian Day has been researching folk culture for over 30 years and has a specialist knowledge of folk music and ethno-musicology.
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Totally disapointed!,
By nature girl (washington, dc United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chronicle of Celtic Folk Customs: A Day-to-Day Guide to Celtic Folk Traditions (Hardcover)
I was not impressed with this book.I was looking for descriptions of old traditions. The book is more of a calendar. From 1940! It gives very vague descriptions, just enough to tantalize, and then says the last time the custom was observed was in 1940 something... Does include actual photos. This might be useful for a master's thesis on parade practices, but is not of much use to someone wanting to learn about old traditions.
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