Victorian folk belief and plant lore

Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

1848 – 1923

Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer was an English clergyman and Victorian folklorist who served as rector of Bayfield in Norfolk and produced a series of wide-ranging reference works on folk belief, custom, and superstition. His The Folk-lore of Plants (1889), English Folk-lore (1878), The Ghost World (1893), and Folklore of Women (1905) systematically catalogued the magical, superstitious, and symbolic dimensions of everyday life in the British Isles and beyond. His compilations provided occultists, herbalists, and scholars of folk magic with accessible encyclopedic surveys of plant symbolism, ghost lore, and popular superstition drawn from literary and oral sources.

Folklore StudiesFolklore & SuperstitionEuropean folklorefolk customsAmulets and charmsEthnographyFolklore practicesFolk Magicritual documentationMarriage customsFolklore collectionFamily customsVictorian Anthropology / Comparative EthnologyWestern / English AntiquarianSuperstitionsprotective practicesBirth and childhood customscunning craftFolk Beliefsdream interpretation

Works in the Archive2 volumes

Domestic Folk-lore

Domestic Folk-lore

1881

Introductory
Strange Pages from Family Papers

Strange Pages from Family Papers

1887

Introductory

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