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Thread #143219   Message #3305221
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
10-Feb-12 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Wassailing and other weird folk rituals
Subject: RE: Wassailing and other weird folk rituals
I could go on, but you get the idea.

I sure do get the idea - and I'd call that sactimonious Folk Correctness, seeing that folklife/folkways these days are entirely urban & defined by pretty much everything you react against, although ovbiously you have a computer which rather comtaminates the righteous purity of your thesis. I'm using Folk here in its most Human sense, BTW; one which sees our Cultural Heritage in terms of what it is, rather than what it ought to be. This is why the old folk rituals (or rather their post-modern faux-pagan revival / reinvented versions in all their prosciptive glory) are seen as being weird - simply because they are no longer relevant to human life, saving an elite of well-to-do country-dwelling Folkier Than Thou types who feel they are somehow keeping these things alive by reinventing them.

A Folk Custom dies as one thing, but it is always reinvented as something else entirely...