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Total number of records: 56

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manners and customs56
supernatural56
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culture50
folklore42
social life and customs17
community life16
nature16
persons16
folk music15

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Griffiths, Frances (1907-1986)5
Wright, Elsie5
Edge, Christine3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Mahoney, Kathryn C2
Neale, Brenda Ann2
Palmer, Kingsley2
Ross, Mr2
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)2
Swales, John2

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Sound Recording, [Essex]

Mahoney, Kathryn C

September 1972

Mr. Stuart and Mrs. Stuart discuss witch beliefs, the occult and Wicca.

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Fairies

Robinson, S J

1974

S. J. Robinson's attempt to produce a realistic photograph of fairies, after the Cottingley fairies photographs, in a garden in Enfield (Greater London). The photograph shows four (paper) fairies appa...

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Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Ejagham (West Cameroon), with an Ethnographical Introduction

Ebot, Wilson Atem

1978

This Ph.D. thesis describes beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery among the Ejagham, West Cameroon, in the context of development and change. It is divided into five sections, subdivided into eighteen cha...

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The Cottingley Fairy Photographs

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1973

This file contains an offprint copy of Sanderson's Presidential Address to the Folklore Society at their Annual General Meeting, 21 March 1973. Entitled 'The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: A Re-Apprais...

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Fairy Papers

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1973

This file contains two papers by Stewart Sanderson on fairies and fairy belief. These comprise 'A Prospect of Fairyland', a paper on Robert Kirk's 17th-century treatise 'The Secret Common-wealth', on ...

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The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle

Gardner, Martin

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of Martin Gardner's typed paper (with ms. corrections) on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualism, including his involvement in the publication and investigation of the Co...

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Cottingley Fairies: Elsie Wright
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Cottingley Fairies: Elsie Wright

[1960s]

Copy of one of the Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken between 1917-1920, and reproduced from Edward L. Gardner's 'Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945). I...

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Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths
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Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths

[1960s]

Copy of one of the Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken between 1917-1920, and reproduced from Edward L. Gardner's 'Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945). I...

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Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths
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Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths

[1960s]

Copy of one of the Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken between 1917-1920, and reproduced from Edward L. Gardner's 'Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945). I...

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Cottingley Fairies
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Cottingley Fairies

[1960s]

Copy of one of the Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken between 1917-1920, and reproduced from Edward L. Gardner's 'Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945). T...

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Cottingley Fairies: Elsie Wright
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Cottingley Fairies: Elsie Wright

[1960s]

Copy of one of the Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken between 1917-1920, and reproduced from Edward L. Gardner's 'Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945). I...

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Sound Recording

British Broadcasting Corporation

1976

Interviews with various people regarding the Cottingley Fairies [possibly a copy of the soundtrack from the television programme 'Nationwide', broadcast on 25 November 1976]; the presenter [ Martin Yo...

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