Sam Dodds and Ed Lawrence at The Bridge Folk Club – Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom (Trad)

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Sam Dodds and Ed Lawrence at The Bridge Folk Club, 8 July 2024

Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom (Trad)

This is a classic riddling song. Riddling is an ancient folk practice, dating from medieval times or earlier, and common throughout the British Isles and across Europe. Riddles would often have a moral or religious content and they would commonly include an attempt by some evil power to capture the soul or body of a human being

Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom is a Lowland Scots version of ‘Riddles Wisely Expounded’ (Child Ballad number one). Bent (a type of grass or rush) and broom (a shrub) were believed to protect against evil

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