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Legends, Folktales, and Witches

Archive File: LAVC/FLF/10/5

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Legends, Folktales, and Witches

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/10/5

Date(s): [1971-1974]

Size and medium: 1 file of photocopied and typed papers, and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410709

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This file includes a photocopy of questionnaires from the University College Dublin Department of Irish Folklore questionnaire, including sections on banshees, beverages, bonfires, local songs and wellerisms (undated); typed transcriptions of extracts from John Chamberlain's field notebook, accompanying sound recordings made at Wetwang, East Yorkshire, on local legends and folktales (2 copies; undated); and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from the 'Sunday Telegraph' and 'Country Life', on the curse of the Kennedy family , Alice Nutter and the Pendle witches, and the witches' memorial fountain in Edinburgh.


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

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