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The Fate of the Dead: A Study in Folk Eschatology in the West Country after the Reformation
1979 · D. S. Brewer for the Folklore Society
ISBN 9780859910490
A study of popular beliefs about the dead in the West Country after the Reformation removed purgatory from official doctrine. The Folklore Society describes it as arguing that the abolition of purgatory gave rise to the popular ghost story and the idea of hauntings, with many ghost stories drawn from Brown's field research. Published by D. S. Brewer for the Folklore Society in 1979.
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