Abstract
If either Miss Simpson or I had been interested in showing our wide learning, I suspect we could have done so. I have been coll cti g ferences t the topsy-turvy world as it relat s t folktales, the English folk play, Schlaraf enland, and so forth, fo far too many years. I carefully eschewed a long list of irrelevant references i my paper, and I think Miss Simpson also tried to restrict herself to the terms she set. But I might have adde , for example, this very interesting article: Jonathan Z. Smith, Birth Upside Down or Right Side Up? History of Religions: An International Journal for Comparative Historical Studies, 9 (May, 1970), 281-303. Miss Simpso was trying to point out that my claim that the upsi e-down world was not in popular tradition was mistaken, and she did so successfully. The study f symbolic inversio is erfectly legitimate, but should not be dragged in by its heels unless the occasi n calls for it.
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