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Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend / Maria Leach, editor ; Jerome Fried, associate editor.  New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. xv, 1236 pages ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR35 F82 1972

Reissue of the 1949-1950 edition with minor corrections. Key to countries, regions, cultures, culture areas, peoples, tribes, and ethnic groups: pages [1197]-1236.

Leach, Maria
Fried, Jerome.

Funk & Wagnalls.

Folklore — Dictionaries
Mythology — Dictionaries
Manners and customs — Dictionaries
Rites and ceremonies — Dictionaries.

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Creighton, Helen

The best of Helen Creighton / selected & introduced by Rosemary Bauchman.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1988. 143 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR20 C914

DeGaris, Marie

Folklore of Guernsey / by Marie De Garis (nee Le Messurier).  Channel Islands, U.K. : Mrs. Marie De Garis, 1975. xiii, 351 pages, [4] pages of plates: illustrations, 1 map, ports

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR153 G9 F666

Folklore — Guernsey
Ballads — Guernsey

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Mélanges en l'honneur de Luc Lacourcière : folklore français d'Amérique / sous la direction de Jean-Claude Dupont.  Montréal : Leméac, 1978. 485 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR15 M517 D938

French or English Includes index.

Dupont, Jean-Claude, 1934-
Lacourcière, Luc, 1910-1989.

Canadians, French-speaking — Folklore
Folklore, French — United States.

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Kane, Alice

Songs and sayings of an Ulster childhood / by Alice Kane ; edited by Edith Fowke.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 254 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR148 B44 S698

Briggs, Katharine Mary

British folk tales and legends: a sampler St. Albans Eng. Granada Publishing, 1977. 315 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR142 B862 B854

Tales, British.

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Chansons acadiennes de Pubnico et Grand-{83}tang: tir{nonjoin}es de la collection Helen Creighton = Acadian songs from Pubnico and Grand-{83}tang: from the Helen Creighton Collection / sous la direction de/ edited by Ronald Labelle.  Dartmouth : Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2008. 96 pages: ports.; 23 cm. +1 compact disc (12 cm.)

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.7 F73 C914 2008

Compact disc includes original versions of songs. Includes bibliographical references.

Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, French — Nova Scotia
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore
French Canadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore.

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Robertson, Marion

The chestnut pipe : folklore of Shelburne County / Marion Robertson ; foreword by Clary Croft.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 271 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 N935 R651 1991

Nunn, Bruce

History with a twist : unusual stories from Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All / Bruce Nunn.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1998. xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 N69

Tales — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History.

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Creighton, Helen

A folk tale journey through the Maritimes / Helen Creighton : edited with an introduction by Michael Taft and Ronald Caplan.  Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1993. xi, 249 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23 c

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 M37 C73 1993

Caplan, Ronald, 1942-
Taft, Michael, 1947-

Tales — Maritime Provinces.

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Island of ghosts : folklore & strange tales of the supernatural from Cape Breton / text compiled by David Lloyd Samson with Reed Wooby ; photographs by Warren Gordon.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 66 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 I82 S193

Chiasson, Anselme

The seven-headed beast and other Acadian tales from Cape Breton Island / collected by Anseime Chiasson ; translated by Rosie Aucoin Grace.  1st ed. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1996. 190 pages (large print) : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C43 C4413 1996

Translation of: Contes de Chéticamp.

Acadians — Folklore
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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MacNeil, Joe Neil

Tales until dawn : the world of a Cape Breton Gaelic story-teller / Joe Neil MacNeil ; translated and edited by John Shaw.  Kingston ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. xxxvii, 267 pages : 2 maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C36 M26

Cape Breton book of the night : stories of tenderness & terror / edited by Ronald Caplan.  Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1991. xi, 162 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C36 C237

Caplan, Ronald, 1942-

Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)

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Another night : Cape Breton stories, true & short & tall / edited with an introduction by Ronald Caplan.  Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1995. x, 210 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C36 A66 1994

Caplan, Ronald, 1942-

Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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Tales told in Canada / collected by Edith Fowke.  1st ed. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1986. 174 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 T143 F784

Fowke, Edith, 1913-

Tales — Canada.

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Fowke, Edith

Folktales of French Canada Toronto : NC Press, 1979. 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 F666 F784

A Folklore sampler from the Maritimes : with a bibliographical essay on the folktale in English / edited by Herbert Halpert.  St. John's : Published for the Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University by Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Publications, 1982. xix, 273 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 F666

Explorations in Canadian folklore / compiled by Edith Fowke, Carole H. Carpenter.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1985. 400 pages ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 E96 1985

Carpenter, Carole Henderson

Many voices : a study of folklore activities in Canada and their role in Canadian culture / Carole Henderson Carpenter.  Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1979. x, 484 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C295

Spine title: A study of folklore activities in Canada. Summary in French. A Diamond Jenness memorial volume. Includes index. At head of title: National Museum of Man.

Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
National Museum of Man (Canada)
National Museums of Canada.

Folklore — Canada
Canada — Social life and customs.

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Canadian folklore and folk tales : collected as one of the functions of the Nova Scotia Summer School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, summer of 1971 / compiled by Hector H. Lee, Ruth Kearney Carlson.  Halifax : 1972. 2 v. ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C212

Campbell, Hector

Luirgean eachainn nìll : a collection of folktales told by Hector Campbell / transcribed and translated from the original Gaelic by Margaret MacDonell and John Shaw.  Stornoway Hebrides : Acair, 1981. 90 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C188

Text in English and Gaelic. Cover subtitle: Folktales from Cape Breton.

Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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Gardner, Emelyn Elizabeth

Folklore from the Schoharie hills, New York / by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner.  Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1937. xv pages, 1 ., 351 pages illus. (incl. map, music) fold.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR110 N4 G226 F666

Includes index.

Folklore — New York (State) — Schoharie County
Schoharie County (N.Y.) — Social life and customs.

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Dorson, Richard Mercer

Negro tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Clavin, Michigan New York : Kraus, 1968. xviii, 292 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR103 N393 D718

Negro tales.

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Dorson, Richard Mercer

American folklore Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1959. 328 pages 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR100 A512 D718

Folklore — United States
United States — Social life and customs.

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