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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

1970-1971

Male informant talks about his father visiting a witch doctor at Ripon, and a cure involving a jar of nails taken from shoes; also refers to a ritual at a local church at midnight, and black cats. [Tr...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

November 1970

John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...

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