The Folklore of The Wicker Man
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.38Keywords:
Neo-Paganism, The Wicker ManAbstract
The emergence of Neopaganism in the second half of the 20th century seems to be leading to a shift in the emotional associations of the Wicker Man image, inspired, I believe, by the cult popularity of The Wicker Man.References
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Catterall, Ali & Simon Wells, “Three great horror movies were made in 1973: The Exorcist, Don’t Look Now—and The Wicker Man. The who?” The Guardian, 8 Jan. 1999.
Chadwick, Nora. 1966. The Druids. University of Wales Press.
Cross, Tom Peate and Charles Slover (eds.). 1969. Ancient Irish Tales. Barnes & Noble.
Dalton, G. 1970. “The Ritual Killing of Irish Kings”, Folklore 8:1-22.
Fletcher, Richard. 1997. The Barbarian Conversion from Paganism to Christianity. Holt.
Fraser, Robert. 1990. The Making of The Golden Bough. Macmillan.
Frazer, J.G. 1913. Balder the Beautiful: The FireFestivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul. 2 vols. Macmillan.
Ginzburg, Carlo. 1991. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath. Pantheon.
Gwynn, Edward. 1924. Metrical Dindshenchas. 4 vols. Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.
Harvey, Graham. 1997. Contemporary Paganism, New York University Press.
Hopkins, Ellen Evert & Laurence Bond. 1995. People of the Earth. Destiny.
Hutton, Ronald. 1996. Stations of the Sun. Oxford University Press.
Hutton, Ronald. 1991. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Blackwell.
Jones, Leslie Ellen. 1998. Druid Shaman Priest. Hisarlik Press.
Jones, Gwyn & Thomas Jones. 1974. The Mabinogion. Dent/Everyman.
Kendrick, T.D. 1966. The Druids. Frank Cass.
MacNeill, Máire. 1982. The Festival of Lughnasa. Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann.
McCone, Kim. 1990. Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature. An Sagart.
Nagy, Joseph F. 1998. Conversing with Angels and Ancients. University of California Press.
O Hehir, Brendan. 1983. “The Christian Revision of Eachtra Airt Meic Cuind Ocus Tochmarc Delbchaime Ingine Morgain” in Patrick Ford, Celtic Folklore and Christianity, 159-179. McNally & Loftin.
Ó Cuív, Brian. 1973. “The Motif of the Threefold Death”, Éigse 15:145-50.
OGrady, S.H. 1892. Silva Gadelica. Williams & Norgate.
Piggott, Stuart. 1975. The Druids. Thames and Hudson.
Radner, Joan N. 1983. “The Significance of the Three-Fold Death in Celtic Tradition” in Patrick K. Ford, ed., Celtic Folklore and Christianity, 180-199. McNally & Loftin.
Rees, Alwyn and Brinley Rees. 1961. Celtic Heritage. Thames and Hudson.
Ross, Anne and Don Robins. 1989. The Life and Death of a Druid Prince. Rider.
Simpson, Jacqueline. 1994. “Margaret Murray: Who Believed Her and Why?” Folklore 105:89-96.
Tolstoy, Nikolai. 1985. The Quest for Merlin. Little, Brown.
Ward, Donald J. 1970. “The Threefold death: An Indo-European Trifunctional Sacrifice?” in Jaan Puhvel, ed., Myth and Law among the Indo-Europea
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2000-11-01
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Jones, L. E. (2000). The Folklore of The Wicker Man. Pomegranate, 14(Autumn), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.38
