Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/001
Creator(s): Toffler, Lenora Clare
Site Location(s): Subject - Crowland, South Holland, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6757, -0.16849 ); Subject - Helpston, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6323, -0.34676 ); Subject - Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.558, -0.13016 ); Subject - Glinton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6392, -0.29629 ); Subject - Maxey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6584, -0.33404 )
Date(s): 1967
Size and medium: ii, 68 unbound typed leaves; 6 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410037
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first presenting a historical and topographical introduction to the Fenland area. This is followed by chapters covering illnesses and cures (medicinal herbs, local remedies), animal and weather lore, beliefs (regarding ghosts) and sayings, stories and jokes and historical tales. Two appendices include information on the legend of Hereward the Wake and the site of Alrehede Castle (the scene of the routing of William I's army).
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