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Articles in August, 2003 issue of Folklore

• "Good fences make good neighbours": history and significance of an ambiguous proverb - The Twenty-First Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture, November 2002
• Handbook of Norse Mythology - Book Review
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2002: Judges' Report
• Women and Tradition: a Neglected Group of Folklorists - Book Review
  by Leila Rasheed
• Healing Plants: Medicine of the Seminole Indians - Book Review
  by Gabrielle Hatfield
• From stage to folk: a note on the passages from Addison's Rosamond in the "Truro" mummers' play - Topics, Notes And Comments
  by Tom Pettitt
• Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: the Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America - Book Review
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• The nightmare experience, sleep paralysis, and witchcraft accusations - Focus on "the Nightmare"
  by Owen Davies
• Last Cavalier: the Life and Times of John A. Lomax 1867-1948 - Book Review
  by David Atkinson
• Medieval foliate heads: a photographic study of Green Men and Green Beasts in Britain
  by Tina Negus
• Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Brazil - Book Review
  by Elaine Bradtke
• Encyclopedia of Urban Legends - Book Review
  by Sandy Hobbs
• Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England - Book Review
  by Julian Goodare
• Books received
• Cheese gives you nightmares: Old Hags and heartburn - Focus on "the Nightmare"
  by Caroline Oates
• Medieval Herbals: the Illustrative Traditions - Book Review
  by Susan Drury
• Bedding the nightmare: somatic experience and narrative meaning in Dutch and Flemish legend texts - Focus on "the Nightmare"
  by Willem de Blecourt
• The Occult Laboratory. Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts - Book Review
  by Lizanne Henderson