Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Biographic Data
| ID | 713612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Pyeatt Menefee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Pyeatt |
| FAMILY NAME | Menefee |
| SIGNATURE | MENEFEE S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Nuclear Security Administration |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folklore and Felony: The Case History of Joseph Brown
LIKE anthropologists, folklorists and social historians increasingly realize the importance of the individual and the study of his or her role in the maintenance of belief and society.' This represents at once an advance both from the concept of the 'folk' or 'vulgar multitudes' of certain scholars and from the no less group-dominated studies of their Marxist brethren. Unfortunately, in the absence of diaries, letters, or surviving subjects, it i…
Master and Servant’: A Divinatory Class Dream
LOVE divination, the discovery of one's future spouse by recourse to certain ritual procedures, was widespread throughout the British Isles. While only the bare bones of the process are found in most surviving accounts, in-depth study of several rituals concerned with the summoning of 'fetches has uncovered a number of statements dealing with the specific results obtained by these prognostications. These accounts may be divided into two groups. T…
Circling as an Entrance to the Otherworld
shirtsleeves; others are warming up with the intricate rituals known only to the athletic. A hush falls as the chapel clock strikes the first stroke of twelve. In a rush, runners are off, impelled by the cheers of fellow students, reaching, striving to complete a circuit of the quad before the last stroke of the clock.' Kit's Coty House at Aylesford, Kent, on the other hand, consists of the remains of a chamber tomb. Here, It is a persistent trad…
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
A Further Note on A Cake in the Furrow
SINCE compiling my article on the traditional fairy legend of 'The Broken Peel' (Folklore 91, 1980:ii, 173-92), my attention has been drawn to some further examples of this motif from Germany and Poland. I am grateful for the assistance of Lotte Motz, who kindly provided me with this additional material from areas not listed in the Stith Thompson Motif Index, which is valuable both in supporting my argument and in providing examples of the practi…
A Cake in the Furrow
T HE 'Broken Peel' is a fairy story in the true sense of that term; that is, it concerns the fairies. It has figured in a number of folklore anthologies and in general studies of fairy belief, most particularly in Katharine M. Briggs' The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature.' But perhaps because of widespread coverage and its belying simplicity, the story of the broken peel and its mending, of the cake in the furrow, has never been closel…
The ‘Merry Maidens’ and the ‘Noce de Pierre’
PREVIOUs discussions of the folklore of megalithic monuments have taken the form of general surveys or have concentrated upon the beliefs of a specific area. This study will limit itself to two common petrification beliefs, the 'Merry Maidens' and the 'Noce de Pierre'. Not only will available versions of these beliefs be considered, but connections and possible sources from religious exempla, general folklore, and witchcraft will be examined in a…
Circling as an Entrance to the Otherworld
shirtsleeves; others are warming up with the intricate rituals known only to the athletic. A hush falls as the chapel clock strikes the first stroke of twelve. In a rush, runners are off, impelled by the cheers of fellow students, reaching, striving to complete a circuit of the quad before the last stroke of the clock.' Kit's Coty House at Aylesford, Kent, on the other hand, consists of the remains of a chamber tomb. Here, It is a persistent trad…
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
The ‘Merry Maidens’ and the ‘Noce de Pierre’
PREVIOUs discussions of the folklore of megalithic monuments have taken the form of general surveys or have concentrated upon the beliefs of a specific area. This study will limit itself to two common petrification beliefs, the 'Merry Maidens' and the 'Noce de Pierre'. Not only will available versions of these beliefs be considered, but connections and possible sources from religious exempla, general folklore, and witchcraft will be examined in a…
The ‘Merry Maidens’ and the ‘Noce de Pierre’
PREVIOUs discussions of the folklore of megalithic monuments have taken the form of general surveys or have concentrated upon the beliefs of a specific area. This study will limit itself to two common petrification beliefs, the 'Merry Maidens' and the 'Noce de Pierre'. Not only will available versions of these beliefs be considered, but connections and possible sources from religious exempla, general folklore, and witchcraft will be examined in a…
A Cake in the Furrow
T HE 'Broken Peel' is a fairy story in the true sense of that term; that is, it concerns the fairies. It has figured in a number of folklore anthologies and in general studies of fairy belief, most particularly in Katharine M. Briggs' The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature.' But perhaps because of widespread coverage and its belying simplicity, the story of the broken peel and its mending, of the cake in the furrow, has never been closel…
A Further Note on A Cake in the Furrow
SINCE compiling my article on the traditional fairy legend of 'The Broken Peel' (Folklore 91, 1980:ii, 173-92), my attention has been drawn to some further examples of this motif from Germany and Poland. I am grateful for the assistance of Lotte Motz, who kindly provided me with this additional material from areas not listed in the Stith Thompson Motif Index, which is valuable both in supporting my argument and in providing examples of the practi…
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
Circling as an Entrance to the Otherworld
shirtsleeves; others are warming up with the intricate rituals known only to the athletic. A hush falls as the chapel clock strikes the first stroke of twelve. In a rush, runners are off, impelled by the cheers of fellow students, reaching, striving to complete a circuit of the quad before the last stroke of the clock.' Kit's Coty House at Aylesford, Kent, on the other hand, consists of the remains of a chamber tomb. Here, It is a persistent trad…
Master and Servant’: A Divinatory Class Dream
LOVE divination, the discovery of one's future spouse by recourse to certain ritual procedures, was widespread throughout the British Isles. While only the bare bones of the process are found in most surviving accounts, in-depth study of several rituals concerned with the summoning of 'fetches has uncovered a number of statements dealing with the specific results obtained by these prognostications. These accounts may be divided into two groups. T…
Folklore and Felony: The Case History of Joseph Brown
LIKE anthropologists, folklorists and social historians increasingly realize the importance of the individual and the study of his or her role in the maintenance of belief and society.' This represents at once an advance both from the concept of the 'folk' or 'vulgar multitudes' of certain scholars and from the no less group-dominated studies of their Marxist brethren. Unfortunately, in the absence of diaries, letters, or surviving subjects, it i…
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