Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates sayings associated with luck, omens, visitors, death; Mr. Sykes sings 'Who Killed Cock Robin'; recites harvest rhymes; marriage customs - running [for bride's garter]; recites, then sings, 'All Jolly Good Fellows that Follow the Plough' [sung at Martinmas]; Wetwang Fair, wagon driving competition (1913-1914); Waggoners' Reserves monument, Sledmere Church; women's Pancake Tuesday race; Shrove Tuesday skipping; children's games - marbles, cricket, hopscotch, ball games. [Tr. 2]


Female [? Mrs. Love] talks about plants and weatherlore, animal behaviour as weather sign; plantlore; weather rhymes/sayings; moonlore (moon names); sayings/beliefs regarding luck, colours, birds, trees, flowers; colour and marriage rhyme; day of birth rhyme. [Tr. 3]


Mrs. Frear relates various sayings/rhymes regarding cutting (finger) nails and shaving; a proverb; first day of the month and saying white rabbits; beliefs associated with Beardy's Grave and [?Blubbard] Hill (between Fridaythorpe and Blixendale); talk of Wold Rangers - itinerant workers working on the land - lists nicknames, early twentieth century; anecdote regarding a lad courting with a lantern; [ Mrs. Cross] relates a rhyme/belief associated with cutting (finger) nails; Mr. Freardescribes the Christmas house-visiting custom in Wetwang, known as going Christmas boxing. Recites the words of an accompanying song, sung by boys on Christmas Day morning, and girls on New Year's Day. [Tr. 4]

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Related material

A notebook containing the collector's numbered ms. list of items of folklore, and transcriptions of folk tales, is held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/004.


Typed transcriptions of extracts from Chamberlain's notebook, and relating to tape A097r, are held in the Folk Life File at LAVC/FLF/10/5. Photocopies of same held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/004.


John Chamberlain's M.A. thesis on the development of research into children's folklore (1961) is held at LAVC/SRP/1/095.

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