The Fowler Manuscript
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: The Fowler Manuscript
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/1/3/3
Creator(s): Fowler, Wilelmine M E
Site Location(s): Subject - Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6833, -1.49768 )
Date(s): [1960s-1970s]
Size and medium: 1 spiral-bound volume of photocopied papers; [2], 147 leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410544
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the 'Folk-Lore Journal', as is apparent from a covering letter included in the copy, dated 28 Feburary 1894. The manuscript consists of information relating to manners and customs, belief and superstition in the Wakefield area, and includes sections on popular superstitions, ailments and traditional cures, marriage customs, funeral customs, wishes, calendar customs, ghost stories, riddles, sayings and rhymes, children's singing games and short glossaries of local terms for plants, animals and birds, and miscellaneous words.
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