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Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

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Superstitions Concerning Luck: A Structural Analysis

Holliday, Thurza Elizabeth Anne

1977

An analysis of beliefs concerning good and bad luck, gathered through letters to two Manchester newspapers, the Leeds 'Evening Post' and 'The Yorkshire Post', and interviews with those readers who res...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants from Leicesterrelate customs and beliefs known to them: flowers in hospital, new moon, shoes, crossed knives, hawthorn, howling dogs, cutlery, wart cures, death omens, divination (f...

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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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