Peeping Tom
A Possible Baltic Parallel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Venetia Newall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 161-173 |
| Publication date | 1969-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1969.9716633 |
| OpenAlex | W2039311509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
IN the course of her remarkable paper, The Legend of Lady Godiva, read to the Folklore Society on 16 April 1969, Dr H. R. Ellis Davidson referred to problems surrounding the traditional figure of Peeping Tom. The subject is rich with possibility, and the purpose of this short essay is to suggest, very tentatively, that perhaps here we have the simultaneous migration,and remigration, of a popular symbol. The wooden figure, currently housed in Coventry's Leofric Hotel, traditionally dates from about I6oo,1 and it has been suggested that originally it may have been adapted, from some other usage, to become a Peeping Tom.2 Both forearms are now missing, but the positioning of the stumps suggests that they once held two unequal objects. A beard, together with armour and helmet of the late Elizabethan period, are the only other distinguishing features. The figure, of martial appearance, is somewhat taller than life, and the obvious assumption is that it once bore military accoutrements, such as a sword and a shield
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Folklore · Legend · Literature · Period (music · Subject (documents · SWORD · Symbol (formal · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 1992 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |