Cheers, Museum of Folklore. MRAU - but do check my earlier apology & recent post which I hope you find more considered. That I wish you well in the venture goes without say & I hope our paths do cross one day. Maybe we need another thread - What is Folklore?. In which case, all lore is Folklore - I ain't ever seen no horse go guising; at least not a living one...

Here's something I read earlier on the Heart of Albion Press website that might have a relevance here:

Explore Folklore shows there is much more to folklore than morris dancing and fifty-something folksingers! The rituals of 'what we do on our holidays', funerals, stag nights and 'lingerie parties' are all full of 'unselfconsious' folk customs. Indeed, folklore is something that is integral to all our lives – it is so intrinsic we do not think of it as being 'folklore'.

The implicit ideas underlying folk lore and customs are also explored. There might appear to be little in common between people who touch wood for luck (a 'tradition' invented in the last 200 years) and legends about people who believe they have been abducted and subjected to intimate body examinations by aliens. Yet, in their varying ways, these and other 'folk beliefs' reflect the wide spectrum of belief and disbelief in what is easily dismissed as 'superstition'.