Saints, Poets, and Rubber Ducks:  Crafting the Sacred at St Nectan’s Glen

Ceri Houlbrook

doi:10.1080/0015587X.2016.1197593

Saints, Poets, and Rubber Ducks: Crafting the Sacred at St Nectan’s Glen

Ceri Houlbrook

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This paper focuses on St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall, where layers of ritual deposition imply a long history of spiritual significance – an implication that is debunked by a diachronic examination of the site, which reveals a relatively recent, and conscious, crafting of the sacred.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	344-361
Journal	Folklore
Volume	127
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2016.1197593
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2016

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