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Plants in Folklore
[1960s]
This file contains cuttings from the 'Plants in Folklore' series published in 'Amateur Gardening' (?in the 1960s). The series was written by A. J. Huxley and illustrated by G. R. Kingbourn, and each p...
Divination
1966-1967
This file contains items relating to aspects of divination, and includes photocopies of 19th century ms. horoscopes for Betty Snowden, Isaac Pearson, William Pearson and Elizabeth Pearson; a photocopy...
Forestry
1969-1971
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...
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', ...
Spring and Summer Festivals
1963-1981
This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...
Cures
1965-1978
This file includes a typed paper by Mrs. P. Brimson on her grandmother, the wise woman Annie Leech of Bentham (North Yorkshire), including some of her cures and recipes (November 1978); a photocopy of...
Plant Lore
1961-1980
This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...
Christmas Traditions
1964-1972
This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, ...
Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...