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thesweetcheat
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Re: Witch Burial Site Under Threat
Aug 01, 2012, 21:18
Rhiannon wrote:
Interesting though that the version they're propagating now, you've subsequently found wasn't the "true" version. So out it goes into the world to get repeated.


Which is perhaps how a lot of folkore got started (not by internet propagation, obviously) by versions and chinese whispers, half-remembered truths, etc. I think that's quite fascinating.

Although, in this case unfortutely it seems to be more of a symptom of lazy "research" by the author of the book.
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