"I believe that what we should try to do nowadays is to preserve all the knowledge that we can about our old traditions, in a way that future generations will be able to see the origins as we have been able to establish them. We also, however, have a right - one might say an obligation - to use this material to entertain, enlighten and inform, adapting and embellishing it in whatever way we, the current custodians, see fit." - from the books' Preface by Pete Chadbund