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animals10
persons10
community life9
folklore9

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Aldous, Leonard1
Bachelor, Danny1
Bell, Wendy Marion1
Bradley, Mr1
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Bury, Jack1
Cherry, Jane1
Crowther, S1

Archive Sub-series

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...

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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...

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Treatment of Warts

[ca. late 1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopied extracts from medical journals outlining wart treatments (dated 1927, 1940and 1965-1968). The date when the photocopies were made is not known. These include Bruno Bloch...

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Folk Medicine

Brook, Josephine

1964

A collection of traditional remedies gathered in a survey of five people living in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. The remedies are arranged in four chapters, the first concerning prevention (use of onions...

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Folk Medicine in the Wirral Area

Willan, Susan

1974

An investigation of the folk remedies known by people living on the Wirral peninsula on Merseyside (not all of whom were born and brought up in the area). The Introduction describes the place of tradi...

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Preliminary Report on Popular Cures for the Wart

University College London. Survey of English Folklore

1965

This file contains a copy of the preliminary report of the Survey of English Folklore on research into popular cures for warts. The report is based on the examination of around 500 responses relating ...

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Folk Medicine in Lancashire

Bell, Wendy Marion

1976

A study of folk medicine (prophylactics, customs, beliefs and cures), past and present, in Lancashire. Research was based on fieldwork interviews and the consultation of printed sources. Ten chapters ...

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Farming Folklore in the Area of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Cherry, Jane

1975

A study of the treatments known by eight farmers from the Mansfield area of Nottinghamshire for ailments afflicting their livestock. Sections deal in turn with remedies relating to an animal's head, n...

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Folk Medicine

Crowther, S

1964

A study of folk medicine, based on information provided by informants living in three West Yorkshire villages - Hartshead, Roberttown and Clifton.

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Folk Medicine from Leicestershire

Smith, Pamela R

1970

A collection of traditional cures, gathered through fieldwork interviews in Leicester and villages on the outskirts of the city, and consultation of printed sources. The study has two main sections, t...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Haltwhistle, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 Feb 1953

[Side 1] Ned tells series of anecdotes about horses, recalls horse stumbling while carting stones from Lees Hall quarry, describes journey to Hindleysteel over old fell road, winning several races wit...

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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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