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culture4
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manners and customs4
social life and customs4
rites and ceremonies3
supernatural3
animals2
english language - dialects2
holidays2
literature and folklore2

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Cook, Catherine4
Brown, Miss1
Calvert, Mrs1
Jones, Garnett1
Longthorne, Fred1
Metcalfe, George1
Rispin, George1
Stoney, Edward1
Swales, John1

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970/1971]

Fred Longthorne, recorded at home, talking about practical jokes; the supernatural experiences of others in ?Gill How mine; a local legend concerning John Kay's grave; lead mining - death of miner, ac...

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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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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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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...

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