Books received

Folklore, August, 2004

Reichl, Karl. Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv 221 pp. $45.00/33.95 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 8-014-3736-9.

Rountree, Kathryn. Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xii 223 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-415-30360-5.

Roud, Steve. The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland. London: Penguin Books, 2003. xx 546 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-141-00673-0.

Roud, Steve, Eddie Upton, and Malcolm Taylor. Still Growing: English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection. Additional research by Bob and Jacqueline Patten, preface by Shirley Collons, introduction by Vic Gammon, select bibliography by David Atkinson. London: The English Folk Dance and Song Society, in association with Folk South West, 2003. 121 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-85418-187-3.

Spinage, Clive. Myths and Mysteries of Wayland Smith. Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Wychwood Press, 2003. viii 91 pp. Illus. 10.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1-9022799-16-6.

Stanfield, Peter. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. x 177 pp. No price details available (pbk). ISBN 0-252-07049-6.

Thomas, James. Diana's Mourning. A People's History. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002. vii 211 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-7083-1753-7.

Thompson, Anne B. Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. 236 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-7546-3293-8.

Trachtenberg, Joshua. Jewish Magic and Superstition: Studies in Folk Religion. Foreword by Moshe Idel. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2004. xxx 356 pp. $19.95/ 14.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-8122-1862-0.

Tucker, Holly. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 232 pp. Illus. $34.95 (hbk). ISBN 0-8143-3042-8.

Vaughan Williams, R., and A. L. Lloyd. Classic English Folk Songs. Revised by Malcolm Douglas, foreword by Martin Carthy. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, in association with The South Riding Folk Network: 2003. xxii 154 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-85418-188-1.

White, James Boyd. The Edge of Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 269 pp. $17.00/12.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-226-89480-0.

Williams, Fionnuala Carson. Wellerisms in Ireland: Towards a Corpus from Oral and Literary Sources. Burlington, Vermont: The University of Vermont, 2002. [Supplement Series of Proverbium, Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. Edited by Wolfgang Mieder, vol. 12]. 321 pp. 7.00 [pounds sterling]/10.00 [euro] (pbk). ISBN 0-9710223-2-1.

Willughby, Francis. Francis Willughby's Book of Games: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on Sports, Games and Pastimes. Edited and introduced by David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, and Dorothy Johnston. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. 364 pp. 65.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-85928-460-4.