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Total number of records: 34

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Archives30
Books and printed items4

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture31
Brotherton Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
English Literature1

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SubjectCount
folklore34
culture30
manners and customs17
community life14
english language - dialects13
folk music13
literature and folklore11
persons9
social life and customs9
communities8

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bergal, Nancy Ann5
Curtin, John3
Harris, Susan2
Knobloch, Johann (1919-)2
Pattison, Susan2
[Institute For Folk Life Studies, Lund]1
Annis, Paul1
Bland, Cecil1
Cliffe, David E1
Clinch, Angela Jane1

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Romāni-Texte aus dem Burgenland [...]

Knobloch, Johann (1919-)

1943

Inaug.--Diss.--Wien, 1943.

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Folklife Survey - Uppsala

Landsmåls- och folkminnesarkivet i Uppsala

[1960s]

Photocopies of typescript folklife questionnaires [Swedish text], selected English translations of some of these questionnaires, and the Uppsala folklife classification scheme [English text].

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Folklife Survey - Lund

[Institute for Folk Life Studies, Lund]

1968-1969

Photocopies of student (typescript) dissertations and seminar papers deposited in the Folklivsarkivet i Lund[Lund Folklife Archive], covering a wide range of Swedish folklore and folklife topics [Swed...

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Kokoro : hints and echoes of Japanese inner life

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

1972

Reprint of the 1896 ed.

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Síscéalta ó Thír Chonaill = Fairy legends from Donegal

Ó hEochaidh, Seán; Ó Catháin, Séamas; Mac Neill, Máire (1904-1987)

1977

Parallel Irish text and English translation. Second title page in English. Maps on lining papers.

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The Evil Eye: Towards an Exhaustive Study

Lykiardopoulos, Amica

1979

M.A. study which discusses the belief that a glance can damage life and property, with sections on the action of casting the Evil Eye, protection from it, and the process of cure of the affected party...

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"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"

Clinch, Angela Jane

1982

Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aa...

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Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context

Martin, Allan

1970

M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...

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Some Aspects of the Oral Folk-Lore of Macclesfield and its District

Cliffe, David E

1968

A collection of 212 items of folklore, presented in two sections. The first records primary school children's games and rhymes, mostly drawn from the author's memory and representative of the years 19...

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An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930

Fryer, Sheila

1964

A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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