"In Traditional Music we might marvel at the compositions [...] in full knowledge that someone, somewhere, somewhen, wrote these tunes we call traditional, and that someone else, somewhere else, somewhen else, adapted them. We can be sure that these people knew what they were doing - as told of in The Legend of Knockgrafton, where, bored with the song of the little-people, the hunchback Lusmore adds his own variant to make it more interesting, so pleasing the little-people with his musical skill they remove his hump. But woe betide Jack Madden! Who thinking to lose his own hump, ends up with two humps for his own efforts."

Lovely analogy SO'P. And I so wish I still had the storybook I recall this tale from too.. As even now, a relative newcomer to folk - and with no axe to grind of my own, I must say I'm finding the heretics reasoning on these discussions, increasingly persuasive.