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**REVIEW**
Britain’s Folklore Year: A Seasonal Journey Through Our Customs, Celebrations and Rituals by Mark Norman @folklorepod and @nationaltrust
If you’ve ever wanted to know why people chase wheels of cheese down a hill, shout at worms, or eat nettles on purpose (rather than by an unfortunate, tragic salad mistake), then Britain’s Folklore Year is your new seasonal bible.
This book is a magical tour through the UK’s strangest, funniest, and most charming traditions—month by month, spell by spell, maypole ribbon by maypole ribbon. The writing is warm, witty, and knowledgeable, and the linocut illustrations make it feel like you’ve stumbled into an enchanted almanack your nan forgot to tell you about.
Highlights include:
🧀Cheese-chasing with guaranteed bruises plus questionable dignity.
🐛Worm-charming; I kid you not: and you thought karaoke was weird.
🌳Bawming the Thorn; it’s not rude, honest.
💍Spells, charms, and enough folklore to impress, confuse, befuddle or bedazzle your local pub quiz team.
It’s all packaged up and written beautifully by Mark and the National Trust, so whether you’ve got one foot in a scholarship, one in a muddy field somewhere in Somerset or a foot/feet in neither, this book is perfect for you.
In short: this book will make you laugh, gasp, and possibly want to start your own nettle-eating championship—a wonderful, remarkable, incredible, eccentric, and very British journey through the year.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“A Year of Folklore, Fun, and Slightly Dangerous Cheese!”
**OUT NOW** and available from a wide range of bookstores, booksellers, and bookshops. Please do try to support the good & great independent ones if you can.
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