Additions to “The Games of Argyleshire.”

IN two previous articles in Folklore (vol. 100, 1989; vol. 101, 1990) I explored some themes of folk humour and satire in the pictorial arts and verbal idioms of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the present paper I shall discuss the erotic symbolism associated with certain animals during these periods.     

Folk-Tales of the Aborigines of New South Wales

THE WITCH-CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE. A STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY. MARGARET ALICE MURRAY. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1921. Pp. 303. Price 16s. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

THE SEMA NAGAS. By J. H. HUTTON, C.I. E., M.A., I.C.S. Published by direction of the Assam Administration. London : Macmillan &; Co. 1921. Price 40s. net. Reviewed by A. C. Haddon.

ANCIENT TALES FROM MANY LANDS : A COLLECTION OF FOLK STORIES. By R. M. FLEMING. With an Introduction by H. J. FLEURE, D.Sc. London: Benn Bros. 1922. Price 10s. 6d. Reviewed by A. Hingston Quiggin.

ASPECTS OF ANCIENT INDIAN POLITY. By NARENDRA NATH LAW, M.A., B.L. ; with a Foreword by ARTHUR BERRIEDALE KEITH, D.C.L., D.Litt. Oxford University Press. London: Milford. Reviewed by H. A. Rose.     

Books received

FOLKLORE STUDIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENARY CONFERENCE OF THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY. Ed. VENETIA J. NEWALL. D. S. Brewer, 1980. Pp. 463, ill. £35.00. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

NINE LIVES: CATS IN FOLKLORE. By KATHARINE M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London and Henley, 1980. Pp. 222. ill. £7.95. Alicia C. Percival.

THE FOLKLORE OF STAFFORDSHIRE. By JON RAVEN. Batsford, London. 1978. Pp. 222. £4.95. Reviewed by Derek Froome.

A GUIDEBOOK TO ARTHURIAN BRITAIN. By GEOFFREY ASHE. Longman, 1980. £7.50. Reviewed by Richard Barber.

ÖSTERREICHS MÄRCHENSCHATZ by KARL HAIDING. Vienna 1980 (Kremayr &; Scheriau) 448 pp. ill. Reviewed by Ruth Michaelis-Jena.

PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND HEALING: A STUDY OF FOLK-MEDICINE IN NORTH EAST BRAZIL. By PAUL V. A. WILLIAMS. Brewer. Cambridge 1979. 212 pp. £12.00. Reviewed by Douglas Gifford.

ITALIAN FOLKTALES. Selected and retold by ITALO CALVINO. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. New York and London, 1980. Pp. 763. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

TOCHER: TALES, SONGS, TRADITIONS 33. School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, 1979. Pp. 71 £0.50. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

DER UNBEKANNTE BRUDER GRIMM. Edited by GERD HOFFMANN &; HEINZ RÖLLEKE. Düsseldorf (Verlag Eugen Diederichs) 1979. Pp. 144. 2 plates and 3 facsimiles. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DAS ALTE VOLKSSCHAUSPIEL DES BURGENLANDES. By LEOPOLD SCHMIDT. Theatergeschichte Österreichs vol. viii. Burgenland 1. Vienna (Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1980. Pp. 358. 6 maps, 15 plates (1 coloured). ZUNFTZEICHEN; ZEUGNISSE ALTER HANDWERKSKUNST. Salzburg (Residenz Verlag) 1973. Pp. 160, 54 plates (48coloured). Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Reviews of Folklore Scholarship

AN INTERIM CHECKLIST OF CHAPBOOKS CONTAINING TRADITIONAL PLAY TEXTS, by M. J. PRESTON, M. G. SMITH and P. S. SMITH, History of the Book Trade in the North, Newcastle, 1976, £1.50: MORRICE DANCERS AT REVESBY, CECTAL Facsimiles No. 1, University of Sheffield, 1976, 75p: THE PACE EGG : THE MIDGLEY VERSION, Introduction by H. W. HARWOOD and F. H. MARSDEN, 2nd ed., David Bland, Halifax, 1977, 75p. Reviewed by Derek Froome.

FOLKLORE TODAY: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR RICHARD M. DORSON. Edited by LINDA DÉGH, HENRY GLASSIE and FELIX J. OINAS. Bloomington, Indiana University. 1976. xx+537 pp. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

THE MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE 1206–1370. By JOHN ANDREW BOYLE. Variorum Reprints, London. 1977. 316 pp. Reviewed by C. R. Bawden.

SCOTTISH PLACE-NAMES, THEIR STUDY AND SIGNIFICANCE. By W. F. H. NICOLAISEN. Batsford, London. 1976. 8vo, xxix+210 pp. £4.95. Reviewed by John McNeal Dodgson.

AMERICAN FOLK MEDICINE. Edited by WAYLAND D. HAND. University of California Press. Reviewed by Eric Trimmer.

ORAL POETRY. Its nature, significance and social content. By RUTH FINNEGAN. Cambridge University Press. 1977. Pp. 300. £7.50. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

THE FAIRIES IN TRADITION AND LITERATURE. By K. M. BRIGGS. Routledge &; Kegan Paul. £2.95. Reviewed by Alicia C. Percival.

THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE: FRANCES TOLMIE AND HER CIRCLE. By ETHEL BASSIN, ed. by DEREK BOWMAN. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London. 1977. Pp. 227. £5.95. Reviewed by E. B. Lyle.

PROBLEME DER SAGENFORSCHUNG. VERHANDLUNGEN DER TAGUNG VERANSTALTET VON DER KOMMISSION FUR ERZÄHLUNGSFORSCHUNG DER DEUTSCHEN GESELLSCHAFT FÜR VOLKSKUNDE … 1973 IN FREIBURG IM BREISGAU. Ed. by L. RÖHRICH. Freiburg, Forschungsstelle Sage. 1973. Pp. 219, 3 illustrations. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

B. P. SCHLIEPHACKE, MÄRCHEN, SEELE UND SINNBILD. Ed by E. KRACHT. Vol. 5 of the Schriften der Geselhchaft zur Pflege des Märchengutes der europaischen Völker. Münster (Verlag Aschendorff). 1974. Pp. 143. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

INDEX OF MEXICAN FOLKTALES. By STANLEY L. ROBE. Folklore Studies vol. 26. Berkeley (University of California Press), 1973. Pp. xxiii+276. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Collectanea

DANSK FOLKE DIGTNING. Edited by ERIK DAL. Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1967. Pp. 363. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

PEDER LÅLE OG COD. BASIL. A. xi. 67. By IVER KJAER. (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier, nr. 5.) Copenhagen, 1964. Pp. 18 + English summary. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

DET STORE SKIB OG DEN STORE GARD. By GUSTAV HENNINGSEM, (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier nr. 6.) Copenhagen 1964. Pp. 17 + English summary. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

AHASVERUS IN DANEMARK. By ERIK DAL. (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier nr. 7.) Copenhagen, 1964. Pp. 26. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

TRIBES AND FORMS IN AFRICAN ART. By WILLIAM FAGG. Methuen, 1965. Pp. 24, plates 122, double spread; End Maps. 6 gns. net. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

RESEARCHES INTO THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF FOLK BALLAD. By LAJOS VARGYAS. Budapest, Academy of Sciences, 1967. Pp. 303. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

THE FAIRIES IN TRADITION AND LITERATURE. By K. M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. 42s. Reviewed by Roger Lancelyn Green.

GARNERS GAY, Folk Song Today, No. 2; English Folk Songs collected by FRED HAMER. London, E.F.D.S. Publications, 1967. Pp. 80. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

SCRIPTA INSTITUTI DONNERIANI ABOENSIS, I: Studies in Shamanism, edited by Carl-Martin Edsman. II: Fatalistic Beliefs in Religion, Folklore and Literature, edited by Helmer Ringgren. Stockholm, 1967. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

PAGAN SCANDINAVIA. By H. R. ELLIS DAVIDSON. Thames and Hudson, 1967. Pp. 214. 42s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

WITCHCRAFT IN IRELAND. By PATRICK E. BYRNE. The Mercier Press. 5s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY OF THE FLATHEAD INDIANS. By ALAN P. MERRIAM. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1967. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology (edited by SOL TAX), no. 45. Pp. xvi + 403. Reviewed by Peter Crossley-Holland.

EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE VIKING AGE. By JACQUELINE SIMPSON. London B. T. Batsford Ltd., and New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Pp. 208; 15 plates. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

DEUTSCHE VOLKSMÄRCHEN AUS RUSSLAND UND RUMÄNIEN. By A. CAMMANN. Monographien der Wittheit zu Bremen 6. Göttingen, Verlag Otto Schwartz &; Co. 1967. Pp. 456; Photos 35; Maps 3. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DIE WEIHNACHTSSCHÜTZEN DES BERCHTESGADENER LANDES UND IHR BRAUCHTUM. By RUDOLF KRISS. Berchtesgaden, Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, 1967. Pp. 196; 40 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DANISH BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS. Edited by ERIK DAL. Translated by HENRY MEYER. Copenhagen, Rosenkilde &; Bagger, 1967. Pp. 303, 49, 50 kr. Reviewed by Aage Jørgensen.

THE COUNTRY LIFE BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH CUSTOMS. By Roy CHRISTIAN. Country Life. 35s. Reviewed by Mary Hudleston.

THE GIANT OF CERNE ABBAS. By H. S. E. DEWAR. West Country Folklore, No. 1 (General Editor: Theo Brown). Mount Durand, St Peter Port, Guernsey, the Toucan Press. Pp. 10, 1 plate. Price: 2s. 6d. Reviewed by Hilda R. Ellis Davidson.

FABELDYR OG SAGNFOLK. By BENGT HOLBEK and JØRN PIØ. Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 1967. 512; Illus. 200. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.