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Sadducismus triumphatus: or, A full and plain evidence, concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. The first treating of their possibility. The second of their real existence

Glanvill, Joseph (1636-1680); More, Henry (1614-1687); Horneck, Anthony (1641-1697)

1726

With two final leaves of advertisements.

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Maori Folk Literature 1

Dewes, Koro

1974

This file contains photocopies of two typed papers by Koro Dewes, being 'Maori Literature: A Tentative Framework for Study' ( Victoria University of Wellington, Department of Anthropology and Maori), ...

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Pregnancy and Birth

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...

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Welsh Placenames

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains papers relating to folklore in Welsh placenames. It includes a photocopy of G. Melville Richards' 'Barclodiad y Gawres: the Derivation and Meaning of the Name', which forms Appendix...

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Myths and dreams

Clodd, Edward (1840-1930)

1885

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Places and Districts: Cuttings, Etc.

1961-1978

This file contains items relating to specific locations. It includes magazine cuttings from 'The Countryman', 'Country Life', 'John Peel Jottings' and 'The Ridings', on the placenames Curnow and Lurke...

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Crime

[1972-1983]

This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...

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Topping Out Ceremony

July 1967

Topping out ceremony at a new block of flats near Swiss Cottage, London. The ceremony is traditional in the building industry, and marks either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in t...

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Booklists

1951-1980

These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

22 February 1980

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

30 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men ...

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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...

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