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Folk Life File
1836-1998
This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...
I: Popular Belief and Practice
1966-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of popular belief and practice. This includes items on popular beliefs and superstitions; a paper on superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria; the script o...
J: Mythical Tradition
1955-1978
This series contains items relating to mythical traditions, including supernatural beings, ghostly apparitions and legends.
K: Historical Tradition (Legend)
1961-1979
This series contains items on legends based on historical tradition. The subject matter includes pagan and church legends, legends linked with historical events, legends about historical figures, and ...
P: Children's Traditions
1954-1982
This series contains items relating to children's customs and traditions. The main focus is on children's games, songs and rhymes.
F: Nature
1947-1981
This series contains items on subjects relating to the natural world, including folklore and terminology. The subject matter largely covers weatherlore, natural formations and the landscape, and plant...
Principles and Methods
[1964-1981]
This subseries includes printed and photocopied papers relating to the principles and practice of research into various aspects of folklore and folklife.
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Popular Belief: Miscellaneous
1968-1981
This file contains a photocopy of Miss Wilelmine M. E. Fowler's paper on Yorkshire folklore, from 'Memorials of Old Yorkshire', ed. by T. M. Fallow (London: George Allen, 1909), pp. 286-305; a copy of...
Mythical Beings
1955-1978
This subseries contains items relating to mythical and supernatural beings. The subject matter includes pagan and Christian mythological beings; and fairies, in particular the Cottingley Fairy photogr...
Pagan and Church Legends
1961-1972
This file contains items relating to pagan cult places, and legends and traditions connected with church history. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' and 'John Peel Jottings', ...
Folk Tales
1964-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects and types of folktales. The subject matter includes folk tales generally, Maori folk literature, African folktales, Gaelic storytelling and folktales,...