Reviews of FolkLore Scholarship: “Whyler Pystry”: A Breviate of the Life and Folklore-collecting Practices of William Henry Paynter (1901–76) of Callington, Cornwall
@article{Semmens2005ReviewsOF, title={Reviews of FolkLore Scholarship: “Whyler Pystry”: A Breviate of the Life and Folklore-collecting Practices of William Henry Paynter (1901–76) of Callington, Cornwall}, author={J. Semmens}, journal={Folklore}, year={2005}, volume={116}, pages={75 - 94} }
William Henry Paynter (1901–76) was active as a folklore collector in Cornwall during the 1920s and 193076s. He specialised in collecting witch beliefs at a time when folk concepts of illness as arising from ill-wishing and of its cure by cunning-folk were fast disappearing. Today, he is largely forgotten as a folklore collector and his publications are little known or read. This paper focuses on his folklore collecting and related activities and on his attitudes to witch beliefs and charmers… Expand
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