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Strangways, A. H. Fox

Cecil Sharp London; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 255 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 S531 S897

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Whittier, John Greenleaf

The supernaturalism of New England / Edited and with an introd. by Edward Wagenknecht.  [1st ed.]. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. 133 pages ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 S959 W625

Superstition — New England
New England — Social life and customs.

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Gardner, W W.

With fanfares and music Hantsport : Lancelot Pr. 57 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 G228

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Gomme, Alice Bertha (Merck)

The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom / Collected and annotated by Alice Bertha Gomme. Introd. by Dorothy Howard.  New York, Dover Publications 1964. 2 v. illus. 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR480 T763 G634

Games — Great Britain.

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Fowke, Edith

Sally go round the sun : 300 songs, rhymes and games of Canadian children / collected and edited by Edith Fowke.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 160 pages : col. illustrations ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 S169 F784

Includes music, principally for voice and piano, arranged by Keith MacMillan.

Children's songs, Canadian.

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Ring around the moon / compiled by Edith Fowke ; illustrated by Judith Gwyn Brown.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 160 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 R581 F784

Includes index.

Fowke, Edith Fulton, 1913-

Children's songs, Canadian.

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Leach, Maria

Riddle me, riddle me, ree / Illustrated by William Wiesner.  [1st ed.] New York : Viking Press, 1970. 142 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 R543 L434

Wiesner, William, ill.

Riddles — Juvenile literature
Riddles.

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Leach, Maria

Noddles, nitwits, and numskulls / Maria Leach; drawings by Kurt Werth.  1st ed. Cleveland : World Publishing, 1961. 96 pages: illustrations; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 N816 L434

Tales
Riddles

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Newell, William Wells

Games and songs of American children / collected and compared by William Wells Newell ; with a new introduction and index by Carl Withers.  New York : Dover, 1963. xxvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 G192 N547

Includes index. Unabridged republication of the second (1903 edition ... first published ... 1883--T.pages verso.

Games with music
Children's songs — United States.

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Ives, Edward D.

The tape-recorded interview : a manual for field workers in folklore and oral history / Edward D. Ives.  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1980. xiv, 130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR45.5 I93

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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Folklore studies in honour of Herbert Halpert : a festschrift / edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg ; with the assistance of Richard E. Buehler, Sonia Paine and Leslie Prosterman.  St. John's : Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980. ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR15 G624 F666

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

Stewart, W Grant

Popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland London : Ward Lock Reprints, 1970. 293 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR145 H6 S85

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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

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

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

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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Sherwood, Roland H.

Legends, oddities and facts from the Maritime provinces Hantsport : Lancelot Pr., 1984. 120 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 S554

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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

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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Dawson, John William

Fossil men and their modern representatives : an attempt to illustrate the characters and condition of pre-historic men in Europe, by those of the American races 2nd ed. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1883. viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN741 D27

Prehistoric peoples
First Nations of North America.

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Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1910?

Latrines of the East 1893. 18 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN455 .T67 .M84

bound with his A curious aino toy.

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Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1910?

Curious Aino toy 7 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN455 .T67 .M84

bound with his Latrines of the East.

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