"The "peasant" in the title of this thread just about sums up Lizzie's attitude to them - just needs the prefix "ignorant" in front of it to make it perfect."

Didn't those peasants wear the bones of the ancestors through their noses, and caper around naked apart from ferret pelts and strings of ritual turnips? Especially at harvest, when they howled barely understandable spontaneous invocations to the rain gods?