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Routledge Library Editions

THE WITCH FIGURE

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Routledge Library Editions
Anthropology and Ethnography

WITCHCRAFT, FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

In 6 Volumes

I	Japanese Rainmaking Societies	Bownas
II	Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations	Dougla
III	The Life-Giving Myth	Hocart
IV	The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism	Leach
V	Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa	Middleton &
Winter
VI	The Witch Figure	Newall

THE WITCH FIGURE

Folklore Essays by a Group of
Scholars in England Honouring
the 75th Birthday of
Katharine M Briggs

EDITED BY VENETIA NEWALL

First published in 1973

Reprinted in 2004 by
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The Witch Figure

ISBN 0-415-32556-0 (set)

ISBN 0-415-33074-2

ISBN 978-1-136-55180-2 (epub)

Miniset: Witchcraft, Folklore and Mythology

Series: Routledge Library Editions - Anthropology and Ethnography

Katharine M. Briggs

THE WITCH
FIGURE

Folklore essays by a

group of scholars in England

honouring the 75 th birthday of

Katharine M. Briggs

Edited by

Venetia Newall

Routledge & Kegan Paul
London and Boston

First published in 1973

by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane,

London EC4V 5EL and

9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, U.S.A.

Printed in Great Britain by

W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham

in their respective contributions

Venetia Newall, Ruth Michaelis-Jena,

Carmen Blacker, H. R. Ellis Davidson,

Margaret Dean-Smith, L. V. Grinsell,

Christina Hole, Geoffrey Parrinder,

Anne Ross, Jacqueline Simpson,

Beatrice White, John Widdowson

No part of this book may be reproduced

in any form without permission from the

publisher, except for the quotation of brief

passages in criticism

ISBN 0 7100 7696 7

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 73-83077

To

Katharine M. Briggs

in recognition of the great debt owed
to her by English folklore

As I write, it is almost exactly four years since the first Anglo-American Folklore Conference at Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, an occasion initiated by Katharine Briggs and Professor Richard M. Dorson to establish new guide lines for the future of English folklore. Professor Dorson's book The British Folklorists appeared at the same time and in it he paid special tribute to Katharine Briggs as a herald of the new era in folklore studies beginning in this country.

At the Ditchley Conference, which it was my privilege to help organise, there were scholars not only from the United States and England, but also from the other countries of the British Isles in which folklore studies have achieved a status well in advance of that in England. The situation has already improved during the few years since the ConferenceKatharine Briggs herself has received the degree Doctor of Letters from Oxford University in recognition of her own workyet vigorous efforts are still needed to press ahead along the lines which Katharine Briggs has done so much to establish. Dr Briggs herself shares this view. For this reason, and not because of any parochialism, the essays contributed to this volume are confined to scholars resident in England.

As her many friends and admirers know, Katharine Briggs herself could never be described as parochial. Her special ties with Scotlandher training of Scottish children during the war years is well knownare acknowledged by a contribution from Anne Ross and the appreciation by Ruth Michaelis-Jena, and the span of these papers is as wide as Katharine Briggs's own links throughout the world.

The Witch Figure is a collection of folklore essays by a group of scholars in England honouring the seventy-fifth birthday of Katharine Briggs. The theme, the witch figure as a malevolent intermediary in folk beliefand here the term witch figure is used in its broadest sensewas carefully chosen to reflect the aspect of Dr Briggs's own scholarship exemplified in her own distinguished study of witchcraft, Pale Hecate's Team. John Widdowson writes in his essay: 'Witch figures of various types, whatever their sex or function, share characteristics which mark them out as not only abnormal but also frightening.' The scholars who have contributed to this volume, and for whose co-operation I am deeply grateful, bring the complementary disciplines of archaeology, comparative religion, sociology and literature to augment folklore in exploring and throwing fresh light upon this theme.

It has been a great pleasure for me to edit these essays, paying tribute to Katharine Briggs. She was President of the Folklore Society from 1967 to 1970, during my first three years as Honorary Secretary, and was a constant source of strength and encouragement, as she has been to so many folklorists starting out on their careers. She read the manuscript of my first book and her thoughtful comments were not only invaluable but of direct help in gaining publication. Since first I knew her, I have come to regard her as among my dearest friends.

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