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Dave Arthur - Dancing Fox, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Dancing Fox

Magical Folktales told in Kent and Sussex

Av Dave Arthur

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Beskrivning
The Dancing Fox is a fascinating collection of magical, thought-provoking and often amusing folktales relating, with one exception, to the folklore-rich counties of Kent and Sussex.Foxes dance on the Ashdown Forest; half human, half hedgehog Pricklebacks are common; animals speak; wishes are granted, and Death cuts a deal with Jack, hero of many British folktales.If you cross your fingers, touch wood, salute a lone magpie, wear a St Christopher and avoid walking under ladders, you are performing folk magic, prophylaxis, to avert bad luck. Despite a veneer of sophistication and modernity we still share many of the fears and superstitions of our ancestors. The countrymen, women and children who told, listened to, and passed on folktales like these through the generations. You, as a reader, are the latest link in the chain.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-20
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 164 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 142
  • Förlag: Country Books
  • ISBN: 9781919388410
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Dave Arthur is a storyteller, writer and musician. His books include: A Sussex Life: Memories of Gilbert Sargent, Countryman (Barrie and Jenkins), Bert: The Life and Times of A.L.'Bert' Lloyd (Pluto Press), and a poetry collection, Memento Mori (Chapel Press). His plays (some written with Toni Arthur, David Wood and Tim Arthur) such as Robin Hood, Jack the Lad, Bold Nelson's Praise, Rama and Sita, and The Pied Piper have been performed in major regional and London theatres. Some published by Samuel French Ltd. For a number of years he edited the national storytelling magazine Storylines, and is an ex-Director of the Society for Storytelling. As a storyteller he has worked in Africa, India, Hong Kong, Japan, France, the USA, and all over the British Isles. For twenty years he edited the English Folk Dance and Song Society's magazine English Dance and Song. He has recorded a dozen albums of traditional English and Appalachian music, originally with his ex-wife, Toni, and more recently with Rattle On the Stovepipe string band. He also plays in Shirley Collins' Lodestar Band, and the bluesy trio The Long Runners. He has written several Radio 4 folk music and folklore series, and for ten years wrote educational and general children's TV programmes and series for the BBC, Thames TV, and BSkyB TV. He now lives with his lurcher, Quinn, in a flint cottage, in a small Norfolk village on the edge of Fen country.

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"A delicious read out aloud book."Geraldine Beskin, Atlantis Bookshop"I can't remember being so taken with a book before. There is something profound at work here."Shirley Collins MBE

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