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Traditional Threats Review
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1981
This file contains a mounted photocopy of Stewart Sanderson's review of John Widdowson's 'If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland' (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland,...
Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
Pregnancy and Birth
1964-1976
This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...
Animals and Birds
1949-1981
This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...
A Folkloristic Approach to Traditional Educational Processes in Igbo
Oduah, Gabriel Ikechukwu
1981
M.A. dissertation on aspects of the folk life of the Igbo people living in south-eastern Nigeria. The study is divided into three sections, the first containing chapters on the Igbo people (their geog...
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 ...
Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...