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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...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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The Calvert Manuscript

Calvert, George

[1960s-1970s]

Photocopy of a manuscript compiled by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside, and completed by his son, Alfred Calvert, for Sir Martin Stapleton. The original manuscript (dated 1823) consists of a collecti...

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Easter Witch
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Easter Witch

April 1965

Young girl dressed up as an Easter Witch, Hög (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). Her costume consists of a head scarf, skirt and apron, boots, yellow embroidered shawl, and a basket. Many Swedish children dr...

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Miscellaneous Folklore Papers

1964-1979

Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...

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