Saints, Poets, and Rubber Ducks: Crafting the Sacred at St Nectan’s Glen

Houlbrook, Ceri (2016) Saints, Poets, and Rubber Ducks: Crafting the Sacred at St Nectan’s Glen. Folklore, 127 (3). pp. 344-361. ISSN 0015-587X
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This paper focuses on St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall, where layers of ritual deposition imply a long history of spiritual significance – an implication that is debunked by a diachronic examination of the site, which reveals a relatively recent, and conscious, crafting of the sacred.
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Identification Number 10.1080/0015587X.2016.1197593
Additional information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Folklore on November 11, 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0015587X.2016.1197593 The Accepted Manuscript is subject to an embargo period of 18 months. Embargo end date: 11 May 2018
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