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Ballads for Halloween

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Oct 03, 2023
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We’ve done books for Halloween, so now let’s look at something a little more unusual: some of the best traditional British ballads to read and listen to during the season of the witch. There’s a lot of suitable material — any book of English folk songs will be full of murder, ghosts, and marauding faeries — but I’ve picked just three for now.

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