A fanatical folklorist has spent a lifetime cataloguing Britain's strangest rites. He picks his five favourites, from blazing barrels and sacred pies to a May Day ceremony bigger than ChristmasDoc Rowe is looking remarkably fresh for a man who has just been for a 10-hour hike around the Lancashire town of Bacup with the Britannia Coconut Dancers. We meet at his archive in Whitby, Yorkshire, where he is surrounded by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM on April 30, 2018