Folk Britian: A Field Guide to Curious Customs

A pocket-sized, iluminating field guide to Britain’s brilliantly bizarre folk rituals and esoteric customs.

Each May in Gloucestershire, contestants embark on an ankle-shattering pursuit of an enormous wheel of cheese down a 26-degree hill. In August, a man utterly covered in burdock seeds and burrs ambles 9 miles through Queensferry, getting progressively drunker on whisky offered by locals. On Bonfire Night, November 5th, foolhardy residents of Ottery St Mary process through the streets wi...