pedestrienne

lots of nice sea songs & variations on old friends that show up all over the place, in different guises. as far as I can tell, these are very much collected straight from the singers and not "westernized", a term that means one thing to my ear but might not be the correct term.

from the introduction, describing a remote place near Halifaxx: "The houses of the Hartlans are grouped in a circle. In the centre stands the ghost house, ostracised for the unwelcome guest it harbours. Above the entrance may still be seen nails where the old grandfather used to place a board with nine letters taken from the German Bible to dispel witches who pursued them." YES!