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Total number of records: 71
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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.
E: Human Life: Social Customs and Rites of Passage
1962-1980
This series includes items relating to various aspects of human life and the human life cycle. The subject matter includes the human body, childhood, and customs and beliefs associated with birth, mar...
The Human Being
1969-1974
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to the human body. This includes a photocopy of a short article from 'The Guardian' on left-handedness (5 May 1974); and a mounted mag...
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...
Sports and Athletic Games
1961-1974
This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....
"Gypsies: General"
1966-1975
This file contains two photocopies of Stewart Sanderson's typed 'Gypsy Bibliography' (August 1974); mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', 'The Countryman' and the 'Northumberlan...
Popular Beliefs: Houses, Etc.
1970
This file contains items relating to beliefs concerning the house, with particular reference to luck. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' on the concealment of footwear (in par...
Current Superstitions Television Script
Jay, Catharine
[1970s]
This file contains a transcript of television recordings made for a programme on contemporary popular superstitions and beliefs. The main part of the transcript is typed, and consists of eight rolls o...
Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.
1966-1979
The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...
Legends About People
1963-1979
This file contains items on legends relating to people, both legendary characters and real people. This includes photocopies of ms. papers by Trevor Lloyd Weedon on the Fianna Finn and the legend of F...
Games and Pastimes
1969-1976
This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the g...
Oral Tradition
1954-1982
This subseries contains items relating to oral traditions amongst children, and includes items on children's songs and rhymes; Peter Millington's collection of Nottinghamshire rhymes; papers by Gwenda...