I think I'll have add this book to my reading list! Quite a backlog there already - I'm currently on with Ginger Geezer - The Life & Times of Vivian Stanshall; next up is Folk by Bob 'Only in it for the Money' Pegg; after that Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton. Add to which The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown and whatever new Phil Rickman novel that might emerge in the meantime...

Where the feck do all these stupid stories come from

Folklorists have been trying to answer that one for generations...