The Pattern Under the Plough by George Ewart Evans

The Pattern Under the Plough by George Ewart Evans

In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. He soon realised that below the surface of their stories were the remnants of an ancient, rural culture previously ignored by historians. In the detail of village architecture, the of superstitions of tree-planting and rituals house-building, in the esoteric practices of horse cults or the pagan habit of 'telling the bees', The Pattern Under the Plough unearths the rich seam of customs and beliefs that this old culture has brought to our communities. Even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was a matter of life or death.

George Ewart Evans is the author of Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, The Days That We Have Seen, From Mouths of Men, The Pattern Under the Plough, and Where Beards Wag All.

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ISBN 13	9781908213099
ISBN 10	1908213094
Title	The Pattern Under the Plough
Author	George Ewart Evans
Series	Nature Classics Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little Toller Books
Year published	2013-10-21
Number of pages	256
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