{"id":553,"date":"2012-05-07T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:36:42","slug":"older-patterns-of-popular-belief-in-the-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/05\/07\/older-patterns-of-popular-belief-in-the-midlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Older patterns of popular belief in the Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The persistence of older patterns of popular belief was much stronger than is commonly allowed [from the 1860s to the 1960s]. Reporting from a late vantage, Hoggart noted how his grandparents, moving into Leeds in the 1870s, brought with them and long retained the remedies, sayings and &#8216;superstitions&#8217; of a rural life. Later still J. Seabrook [the sociologist Jeremy Seabrook] records the memories and beliefs brought by his country kin into the industrial settlements of the Midlands and long surviving there&#8221;<br \/>&mdash; Jason Marc Harris. <em>Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction<\/em>.  Ashgate, 2008.  (quote is actually Footnote 47, which is from the following source: Joyce, Patrick. <em>Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class 1848\u20131914<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 1991.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The persistence of older patterns of popular belief was much stronger than is commonly allowed [from the 1860s to the 1960s]. Reporting from a late vantage, Hoggart noted how his grandparents, moving into Leeds in the 1870s, brought with them and long retained the remedies, sayings and &#8216;superstitions&#8217; of a rural life. Later still J. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}