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animals27
manners and customs27
nature27
supernatural27
culture25
folklore24
community life15
occupations9
social life and customs9
superstition9

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Palmer, Kingsley5
Cook, Catherine3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Brown, Miss2
Edge, Christine2
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth2
Rispin, George2
Tongue, Ruth (1898-1981)2
Ashford, Tom1
Bachelor, Danny1

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

George Rispin and Miss Brown relate various anecdotes concerning unidentified noises, the Devil, Bouthwaite Hall, haunting at High Lofthouse, local preachers; also talk of a witch's chimney seat, glas...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth

1976

Five adults (3 men, 2 women), recorded in Leeds, relate their versions of the same narratives: a shaggy-dog story, a contemporary legend concerning the building of the Rotunda in Birmingham, a local s...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth

1976

Child and adult groups, recorded in Leeds. First session Children's Group: 5 schoolchildren relate their versions of the same (humorous, supernatural) narratives. Second session Children's Group: sa...

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Ghost Stories of Salford and District

Gardiner, Margaret Alison

1979

An examination of supernatural legends about people associated with locations within the Metropolitan District of Salford.

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Palmer, Kingsley

1969

Female informant relates stories regarding local old women; the arrival of the Methodists; and a young man riding a horse. Miss Pavey of Walford, recorded 2 April 1969, talks about tunnels to caves ...

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Visions and Sounds

1967-1971

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life', including 1 photocopy, on ghostly apparitions and sounds. The subject matter includes phantom horse-drawn coaches, ghostly music, phan...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset and Dorset

Palmer, Kingsley; Reid, M

[1968-1969]

Female informant [possibly conclusion of interview with Mrs. Brown from the end of tape LAVC/SRE/A234r] talks about a grey dog ghost at The Grange; and the Churchills' house. Mr. J. Hodges of Blandf...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserv...

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Folk Medicine

Wood, Richard

1965

An examination of some of the medical beliefs and practices of the past in North Yorkshire, based on printed sources (including the writing of Eliza Gutch and Richard Blakeborough), and interviews wit...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Palmer, Kingsley

[1968-1969]

Mr. E. Hallet relates the Dick Turpin legend; and the origin of the place name Allowenshay. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A233r. Mrs. Collings of Dowlish Wake talks about a w...

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Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland

Toffler, Lenora Clare

1967

A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...

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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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