One could grow fat and die on the footnotes alone. I suspect The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth is a similar wormhole. Throughout which such totems found themselves everywhere in folklore: all ceremony and symbolism trace back to that Eurasian jaunt. Such was disseminated thousands of years ago by the Scythians and their travels both east and west. He pokes and ponders, parses and sifts until he finds that mushrooms are the answer. Ginzburg ponders why Witch Trials all sounded similar across three centuries and throughout Europe. This was a perfect book to roll around with for two days, discouraged from leaving the house by winter break and true winter weather. What a Borgesian proclamation! My head spins with the density and erudition displayed in this ethnohistory of an idea, the Sabbath. What we have tried to analyze here is not one narrative among many, but the matrix of all possible narratives.
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