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The Folklife of South Warwickshire: A Field Collection with Comparative Annotations and Commentary
Wharton, Colin S
1974
This Ph.D. thesis is divided into three parts. The first (Introduction) defines the word folklore, describes the purpose of the work and the method of approach. The second (The Folklore of South Warwi...
Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
Toffler, Lenora Clare
1967
A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...
An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962
Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald
1962
A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...
The Romance of Sassi: A Critical and Comparative Study
Shan, Harnam Singh
1964
A study of the Indian tragic romance legend of 'Sassi Punnun', submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Indian Lore and Literature) in the Arts Faculty of the University of London, through th...
Folk Museums of the British Isles
Orton, W R
1968
This survey of twenty-five British folk museums comprises an introductory section which presents a definition, history and thoughts on the function of the folk museum, followed by individual descripti...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
The Phonology and Grammar of the Dialect of South Zeal, Devonshire
Harris, Martin Best
1967
A thesis which describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of the Devonshire dialect spoken in the village of South Zeal, based on a corpus of tape recorded material (c. 20 hours) collected through...
Symbolic and Magical Uses of Plants in Connection with Birth in Modern Greece
Papamichael, Anna J
1974
This Ph.D. thesis comprises an Introduction, and chapters on the symbolic and magic uses of plants in the procreation of children in Greece, the begetting of male offspring, the causing of sterility, ...
A General Survey of the Folklore Collected in the Area Between and Including Lichfield and Walsall
Higgs, Judith
1973
A descriptive study (contemporary rather than historical) of the folklore of South Staffordshire, in the area between Lichfield and Walsall, based on folklore collected through a newspaper survey and ...
A Survey of Annual Bonfires in England 1900-1910
Molloy-Morley, Carolyn
1967
A report outlining the findings of a survey undertaken collaboratively between the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and the Department of English at University College, London . Th...
Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Ejagham (West Cameroon), with an Ethnographical Introduction
Ebot, Wilson Atem
1978
This Ph.D. thesis describes beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery among the Ejagham, West Cameroon, in the context of development and change. It is divided into five sections, subdivided into eighteen cha...
Quarry Bank Mill: The Development of a Folk Museum
Price, Sarah M
1978
A dissertation describing the development of Quarry Bank Mill as a museum, tracing the history of the village of Styal where it is situated, the mill and, briefly, the Lancashire cotton industry. In d...