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manners and customs9
superstition9
culture8
supernatural7
community life6
folklore5
english language - dialects4
literature and folklore4
traditional medicine4
well-being4

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ashton, John1
Daniel, Tom1
Dunn, Ginette1
Ewing, Bill1
Fowler, Wilelmine M E1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Hill, Bill1
Hudson, Mrs.1
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)1
Mahoney, Kathryn C1

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Cottingley Fairies

1967-1977

This file contains items relating to the Cottingley Fairy photographs, and includes a photocopy of an article from the 'Times' (3 March 1921); a photocopy of a page from Harry Houdini's 'A Magician Am...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...

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Pagan and Christian Mythology

1955-1976

This file contains items relating to pagan gods and legends, giants and Christian mythology. The file includes a copy of Stewart Sanderson's paper, 'Abitanti Soprannaturali delle Acque Scozzesi / Supe...

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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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Essex Witchcraft - A Review

Mahoney, Kathryn C

1973

A study of witchcraft in Essex, comprising five chapters. The first concerns origins, and looks at possible beginnings of the witch cult, with a discussion of the social climate of the time when the w...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

[1975]

Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...

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SED Phonological Map: Moon
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SED Phonological Map: Moon

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.6.3, Moon, mapping the various vowel forms in responses collected in the Northern Counties. The map is labelled Northern E...

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The Fowler Manuscript

Fowler, Wilelmine M E

[1960s-1970s]

Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded at home in Leeds, sings 'Little Mother of Mine', 'Bonny Irish Boy'; singing style (adornment); sings 'The Shannon Golden'; learning songs; sings 'The Woman from Wexford'; the sto...

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