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.
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Folk Magic
Folk magic texts and practical traditions covering charms, cures, household rites, prayers, talismans, and vernacular magical practice.
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