In which an old, traditional ceremony – The Ancient Castleton Garland Ceremony – is compared with a new, invented one – the burning of the hare at Sin-Eater Festival and the differences between them that make one spellbinding and the other less so are drawn out.



Music by Sharron Kraus
Sin Eater Festival recorded by John Still



REFERENCES
Dan Jones, ‘Dark Rites’ in New Scientist, 17 January 2015
Alan Dundes, Interpreting Folklore
Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth
Alan Garner, The Voice That Thunders
Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain