East Riding of Yorkshire Superstitions and Folk Customs

By: Eliza Gutch

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

I have formed the opinion that the folk of the East Riding are more reticent of tongue and pen than are those of other parts of Yorkshire, for I cannot believe that they are freer from superstition than their neighbours—are less sufficingly suckled in a creed outworn," which seems destined to assert itself to the end of Time. Ethnic influences may account for their reserve. Looking round on the company among which he found himself at Routh, Walter White had little difficulty in discovering the three principal varieties of Yorkshire men : " There was the tall, broad-shouldered rustic, whose stalwart limbs, light grey or blue eyes, yellowish hair, and open face indicate the Saxon; then there was the Scandinavian, less tall and big, with eyes, hair and complexion dark, and an intention in the expression not perceptible in the Saxon face; and last, the Celt, short, swarthy and Irish looking. The first two appeared to me most numerous in the East and North Ridings, the last in the West." The special blend of diverse blood which circulates hereabout tends, perhaps, to check self-revelation : the result may sharpen the interest of the anthropologist, but it foils that of the lover of folk-lore.