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Thread #59852   Message #959951
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
27-May-03 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Oak Trees in Folklore
Subject: RE: Folklore: Oak Trees in Folklore
Jessie Weston's book is a great read, but, as I discovered thirty years ago when I drew on her ideas quite heavily in an undergraduate essay on something or other, was even then considered extremely unreliable; and would not, I suspect, be considered useful to serious study today except as an interesting side-light on thinking on the subject in the early years of the 20th century. It is, of course, essential to any study of The Waste Land, but that's another matter.