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Folklore in action : essays for discussion in honor of MacEdward Leach / edited by Horace P. Beck.  Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1962. xii, 210 pages : illustrations, port. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR74 F666 B393

Beck, Horace Palmer, 1920-

American Folklore Society.

Folklore.

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Weekend book of ghosts / edited by Richard Whittington-Egan.  Associated Newspaper Group, 1975. 127 pages: illustrations, port.; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR580 W394 W626

Whittington-Egan, Richard, 1924-

Ghosts

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A sigh and a wish Helen Creighton's Maritimes Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, 2001. 1 videocassette : 74 minutes ; Dolby Surround, stereo.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C7 S54 2001 - Video

Leach, Maria

Whistle in the graveyard: folktales to chill your bones / Illustrated by Ken Rinciari.  [1st ed.]. New York : Viking Press, 1974. 128 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 W576 L434

Rinciari, Ken, ill.

Ghosts — Folklore
Tales
Ghost stories
Folklore
Ghosts — Fiction.

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Leach, Maria

The thing at the foot of the bed: and other scary tales / by Maria Leach.  1st ed. Cleveland : World Pub. Co., 1959. [8], 126 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 T443 L434

Ghost stories
Tales, American.

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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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Lambert, Richard S.

Exploring the supernatural : the weird in Canadian Folklore / R.S. Lambert.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 Ex96 L222

Folklore — Canada
Supernatural.

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Dorson, Richard Mercer

The British folklorists; a history / by Richard M. Dorson.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1968. x, 518 pages : illus., ports. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR50 B862 D718

Folklorists — Great Britain
Folklore — Great Britain.

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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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Lee, Hector H.

Lore of our land: a book of American folklore / by Hector H. Lee and Donald Roberson; illustrated by Don Madden.  Evanston, Ill. : Harper and Row, 1963. xxiii, 328 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR46 L868 L478

Folklore — United States

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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

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

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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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

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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