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G: Folk Medicine
1962-1978
This series contains items relating to traditional medicine. The subject matter largely covers kinds of treatments and cures, in particular cures for warts.
Cures and Causes
1962-1978
This subseries contains items relating to the causes and curing of ailments and diseases, and includes items on healers and traditional cures, and a photocopy of Jean Gessler's 'Stromata Mediae et Inf...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Common Diseases and Ailments
1960-1979
This subseries contains items relating to the treatment and cure of common diseases and ailments. This includes a file of information on traditional cures, and items relating to the treatment of warts...
The Folklife of South Warwickshire: A Field Collection with Comparative Annotations and Commentary
Wharton, Colin S
1974
This Ph.D. thesis is divided into three parts. The first (Introduction) defines the word folklore, describes the purpose of the work and the method of approach. The second (The Folklore of South Warwi...
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...
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...
Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
Some Aspects of Folk Life in the West Riding Village of Westend [sic] in Washburndale
Ferguson, I D B
1964
A Study of folk life in the West Riding village of West End (also known as Thruscross, and now in North Yorkshire). An introductory section provides a history of the village and surrounding area, foll...
The Folklore of the Northumbrian Fishing Communities
Robson, Joanne
1967
A study of crab, lobster and salmon fishermen, and the communities in which they live, covering the length of the Northumberlandcoast. In collecting folklore of the area and the industry, the collecto...
Holmewood. Portrait of a Village: A Survey of the Customs, Traditions and Beliefs in a Derbyshire Mining Village
Rodgers, L J
1967
A study of the folklore of Holmewood in Derbyshire. Its sections provide a brief description of the old village, with particular reference to places and objects which are part of the life and traditio...
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 ...