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Total number of records: 124

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SubjectCount
manners and customs124
superstition124
culture110
folklore92
supernatural56
nature49
community life43
social life and customs41
persons40
occupations39

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Griffiths, Frances (1907-1986)5
Wright, Elsie5
Green, Anthony E (1943-)4
Dunn, Ginette3
Edge, Christine3
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Chamberlain, John S2
Cook, Catherine2

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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 ...

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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...

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A General Survey of the Folklore Collected in the Area Between and Including Lichfield and Walsall

Higgs, Judith

1973

A descriptive study (contemporary rather than historical) of the folklore of South Staffordshire, in the area between Lichfield and Walsall, based on folklore collected through a newspaper survey and ...

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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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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...

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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...

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A Study of Language and Folklore in Batley and Surrounding Areas

Holdsworth, Valerie M

1971

A Special Study submitted as part of an unidentified course at Eaton Hall College of Education, Retford, in 1971. The study comprises a collection of folklore items, gathered from eleven informants li...

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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...

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Women of the Rhondda Valleys Between the Wars

Crook, Rosemary

1980

M.A. study of the women of the Rhondda Valleys and their roles as wife, mother and neighbour, on both a practical level in terms of physical comfort and support, and on an abstract level in terms of p...

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Birth, Marriage, Death and Initiation Customs and Beliefs in the Central Sudan

Hamid, Sayed

1966

M.A. study of customs connected with the life cycle in central Sudan. The aim has been to put these in their proper social setting and to give them possible interpretations, whilst also attempting to ...

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Some Aspects of Bakossi Rituals

Alobwede D'Epie, Charles

1974

M.A. dissertation on the ritual life of the Bakossi tribe in south-western Cameroon. The rituals are presented in the light of Bakossi original beliefs and thinking, that is, they are described as the...

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Marriage and Death Ceremonies in Derna, Eastern Libya

El-Darrat, Nasser

1975

Research study, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a Master's degree in English Literature, which describes and analyses the customs associated with death and marriage in the town...

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