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Some Aspects of Bakossi Rituals

Alobwede D'Epie, Charles

1974

M.A. dissertation on the ritual life of the Bakossi tribe in south-western Cameroon. The rituals are presented in the light of Bakossi original beliefs and thinking, that is, they are described as the...

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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...

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Poems of death

Pool, Phoebe; Ayrton, Michael (1921-1975)

1945

"First published... in mcmxlv." Elegie on the Lady Marckham / John Donne -- Daphnaida / Edmund Spenser -- Lament / Hugh Holland -- Death / W.B. Yeats -- The Unquiet Grave -- The Cherry Tree Carol --...

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