This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and mus

"This volume presents an exhaustive survey of those customs and beliefs that in the English and Scottish popular ballads center about religion and magic." -- Pr

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection