Legends, Folktales, and Witches
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Legends, Folktales, and Witches
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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Reproduction
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