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In a land not so far away, the natives wear suits made of burrs and straw. They stitch their clothing with hundreds of shiny buttons and paint their bodies green. They celebrate primal rituals using ...

This excerpt from Ben Gazur’s book ‘A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food,’ out September 19 in the UK and November 19 in the U.S., dives into some delectably strange ...

Britain is named after a refugee from the Middle East who arrived here in a small boat. After Troy fell, Aeneas fled the ruins with his young son Ascanius and settled in Italy. Ascanius’ son Brutus ...

THIS volume is an attempt to present in concise and summarized form some of the lesser facts and circumstances of British mythology which, although dealt with in some detail by writers in the more ...

To any historian buff, it should be a known fact that Britain’s “special relationship” with Washington has been a tough one, subjected to periods of bruising and disagreement. States caught in a web ...

BOTH these books appeared opportunely. Their date of publication falling near the jubilee congress of the Folklore Society, they served to supplement the proceedings of that congress in demonstrating ...