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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

Archive File: LAVC/FLF/13/1/3

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/13/1/3

Date(s): [1970-1973]

Language: Ronga

Size and medium: 1 file of typed, photocopied and ms. papers, and a printed pamphlet.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410730

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, on Zulu folktales, with particular reference to animal tales (undated), 50 leaves; a typed handlist produced by the Haifa Municipality Ethnological Museum and Folklore Archives and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Jewish Studies, of folktale collections containing Israel Folktale Archives texts (undated, ca. 1970); an ms. letter from Jeremy Godwin to Stewart Sanderson on folk and dialect subjects (20 September 1970); a printed pamphlet offprinted from the 'Xironga Folk-Tales' anthology, ed. E. J. M. Baumbach and C. T. D. Marivate (Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1973), including the tale 'Aquzu wethu / Our Splendid Son-in-law!', in Ronga and English, [8] pp; a mounted ms. note on how to use the behaviour of soot to foretell the arrival of a
stranger, collected from Patricia Morris (11 March 1981); and a mounted photocopy of an article from the 'Atlanta Journal' (25 June 1981) on urban legends.


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

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