Boundaries & Thresholds

Papers from a colloquium of The Katharine Briggs Club at Maddingley Hall near Cambridge, April 1991.

Contents:

• Hilda Ellis Davidson, Introduction;
• Alan W. Smith, Crossing the Other Line: Some Arctic Analogues of the Traditional Equator Ceremony;
• Patricia Lysaght, Beataine: Irish Maytime Customs and the Reaffirmation of Boundaries;
• Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, Megalithic Movement: A Study of Thresholds in Time;
• Juliette Wood, Another Island Close at Hand: The Irish Immramma and the Travelogue;
• J.R. Porter, Thresholds in the Old Testament;
• Theo Brown, Tom Pearce’s Grey Mare: A Boundary Image;
• Karin Kvideland, Boundaries and the Sin-Eater;
• Ruth Richardson, Death’s Door: Thresholds and boundaries in British Funeral.