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Belief and Superstition in the Area of Runcorn and Widnes

Charlton, C A

1973

A study of traditional belief in Runcorn and Widnes, based on interviews with friends and relatives, letters to local newspapers, the circulation of a questionnaire amongst friends, relatives and acqu...

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The Folk Lore of Wild Flowers in the Parish of Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Collected in the Summer of 1970

Hammond, Penelope Ruth

1970

A presentation of folklore associated with wild flowers, based on information gathered from people living in Leckhampton in Gloucestershire. Interviews were conducted with schoolchildren, middle-aged ...

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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...

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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...

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Folklore Survey (Goathland)

Green, R J

1963

A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...

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Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800

Drury, Susan

1984

M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and ...

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