Eric Maple (1916–1994) was an English folklorist and author known for his studies of witchcraft and folk magic in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Essex, in particular his first-hand research into the folklore surrounding the cunning men James Murrell and George Pickingill.
Born in Essex to a family of Kentish ancestry, his mother was a Spiritualist medium.[1] Having little formal education, he has been described as a "self-made man".[1] In the early 1950s, he discovered the scholarly field of folkloristics, and decided to use a folkloric methodology to explore the folk stories of his home county.[1]
This resulted in the publication of four research articles in Folklore, the journal of The Folklore Society: "Cunning Murrel" (March 1960), "The Witches of Canewdon" (December 1960), "The Witches of Dengie" (Autumn 1962), and "Witchcraft and Magic in the Rochford Hundred" (Autumn 1965).[1] The folklorist Alan A. Smith would later describe these papers as "a perhaps unique contribution to the literature of English witchcraft. Totally jargon-free, they are the raw stuff of folklore, stories told by real people about still remembered (reputed) witches and their doings."[1] These articles and others would be reprinted in Essex Countryside[2]
in a series, "Legends of the Essex Witches".
He then embarked on authoring a wide range of books about folklore and the supernatural for a popular audience, which proved sufficiently financially successful that he became a full-time writer.[1] However, these books eschewed any academic standards, with Smith noting that they lacked "the strength" of his earlier papers in Folklore.[1]
^ abcdefgSmith 1995, p. 87.
^"Cunning Murrell Bibliography". Hadleigh & Thundersley Community Archive. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
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