Cecil Sharp London; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 255 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 S531 S897
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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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With fanfares and music Hantsport : Lancelot Pr. 57 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 G228
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
Riddles — Juvenile literature
Riddles.
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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
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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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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
Folklore — Field work
Oral history
Magnetic recorders and recording
Folklore — Theory methods, etc.
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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.
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
Goldstein, Kenneth S., 1927-
Halpert, Herbert, 1911-
Rosenberg, Neil V., 1939-
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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
Includes index.
Folk songs, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Children's poetry, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Storytellers — Canada — Biography
Belfast (Northern Ireland) — Social life and customs.
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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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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
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs.
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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-
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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
Gordon, Warren, 1951-
Samson, David Lloyd
Wooby, Reed.
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Ghosts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Pictorial works.
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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
Also published in a bilingual (Gaelic-English edition
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County) — Folklore
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Storytellers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Cape Breton
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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
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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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
Carpenter, Carole Henderson, 1944-
Fowke, Edith, 1913-
Folklore — Canada
Folk music — Canada
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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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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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