Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A242r
Creator(s): Cook, Catherine
Site Location(s): Subject - Greenhow Hill, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0735, -1.82911 )
Date(s): November 1970
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 05".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414291
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Winter Snow'; anecdote re. grandfather poaching hares in Merryfield, brother poaching at Fell Beck - both frightened by a supernatural presence; witch doctor at Ripon; disappearance of shepherd on Pateley Moor; murdered woman buried in Hebden Wood; grandfather seeing a ghost; sightings of missing shepherd at Four Lane Ends; female [? Mrs. Calvert, John Swales' sister] relates ghost dog story; reference to boggarts in relations' dairy; ghost sighting in house that sister now lives in; JS starts the story of Dead Mans Hill; sings 'Poor Married Man'; ?Mrs. Calvert recites the words to and sings ? 'Bolton Yard'; JS continues the story of Dead Mans Hill - Scottish peddlers buried on a hill in Nidderdale; anecdotes re. fishing and rabbit dealing as a child; ?Mrs. Calvert relates story of pregnant woman
and husband fetching a doctor; recites a piece re. a person ?Sandy; talks of unlucky eggs in the henhouse - thrown over the shoulder to prevent bad luck; afterbirth put in thorn tree after horse has foaled; first milk (beastings) sent in unwashed jug, to bring luck to the recipient; bidding at funerals, funeral food, clothes, describes cortége, feast afterwards, women bearers for deceased women; John Swales relates story of disappearing shepherd; ?Mrs. Calvert reads from a book re. the disappearance of a peddler/draper (Poor Sandy).
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