Santa - I think it's misleading as to the 'true' nature of both ballads, especially as these days I hear more people singing 'The Cruel Sister' as 'Lay the Bent' than I do as (say) 'Binnorie'. And I've never heard anyone singing Lay the Bent as 'Riddles Wisely Expounded' so something's wrong somewhere.

Perhaps if people were prepared to dig a little deeper then the legacy of the folk revival will be more than people singing stuff they've got off records and actually doing the research themselves? Surely half the fun of a song is the sourcing the provenance of the thing? And once you've sickened yourself with the soda-pop superficialities of Pentangle and Steeleye Span et al, surely you begin to yearn for a drop of the hard stuff?