Bathing Mystery at Lahinch October 21, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
In 1892 Laurence Gomme gave a presidential address to the Folklore Society. Gomme was particularly interested in the parallels between British (by which was meant at this date British and Irish) folklore and the folklore of the ‘savages’. If he could snap some branches from the golden bough while proving that the Aborigines and the […]
Accidental Hanky Panky in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland August 31, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
This was a cute little story that turns up in a late nineteenth-century folklore collection from Ireland. A visitor is out and about looking for the ‘bed’ of ‘Dermot and Grania’, the mossy bower where a mythical couple from Irish legend escape to love and live away from society. Dermot for those who have never […]
