Pagan and Christian Mythology
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Pagan and Christian Mythology
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/11/1/1
Site Location(s): Subject - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2268, -0.53792 )
Date(s): 1955-1976
Size and medium: 1 file with 2 pamphlets, photocopied papers, a mounted magazine cutting and 1 postcard.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410714
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This file contains items relating to pagan gods and legends, giants and Christian mythology. The file includes a copy of Stewart Sanderson's paper, 'Abitanti Soprannaturali delle Acque Scozzesi / Supernatural Inhabitants of Scottish Waters', offprinted from 'Etnografia e Folklore del Mare', (Napoli: L'Arte Tipografica, [1955]), pp. 665-670, on the types of being believed to inhabit the waters in and around Scotland; H. S. L. Dewar's pamphlet, 'The Giant of Cerne Abbas' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1968), 10 pp.; a photocopy of a newspaper cutting from 'The Guardian' on a sea monster caught off Southern Tanzania (26 May 1975); an ms. letter from Frank Weatherill on various topics (10 June 1971), accompanying a photocopy of an ms. by William Millner, said to be a copy of a letter written by Jesus Christ (1795); photocopies of extracts from ms. letters about pagan priests on Iona and their ghosts (14 February 1975 and 18 February 1976); a photocopy of an ms. letter from Joy S. Asquith to
Stewart Sanderson about the appearance of a hovering monk-like figure in a photograph taken at Glendalough (County Wicklow), and dialect (18 September 1975); a mounted magazine cutting from 'Country Life' on the figure of a devil under the eves of a York shop (29 June 1972); and a postcard of the Lincoln Imp at Lincoln Cathedral, with an outline of its legend.
File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
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