Finding a Folklore

Authors

  • Ronald Hutton University of Bristol

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.4

Keywords:

Neo-Paganism, folklore, ancient European religion,

Abstract

Wilhelm Mannhardt tended to over emphasise ancient European religions as concerned with fertility rites, and made a leap beyond the evidence to assert that they had been focused upon the concept of animating spirits of vegetation.

Published

2000-05-01

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