The book of seasons : a search for our rural roots / by Pamela Newton ; illustrations by Peter Gamble. North Sydney : Greenfield, 1997. 176 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR930 N48
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Selected Highland folk tales Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1961. 212 pages 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR74 S564 R651
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The rainbow book of American folk tales and legends / Illustrated by Marc Simont. [1st ed.]. Cleveland : World Pub. Co, 1958. 318 pages : illus. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR74 R154 L434
Tales — United States
Legends — United States.
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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
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Ghosts of Dorset, Devon and Somerset / by Rodney Legg; Mary Collier and Tom Perrott. 1st ed. Dorset, England : Dorset Pub. Co., 1974. [2], 147 pages; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR580 G427 L513
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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
Public performance rights.
Martin, Kent, pro
Davies, Donna, drt
MacIsaac, Ashley, 1975-
National Film Board of Canada.
Folk songs — Maritime Provinces
Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces — Social life and customs.
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Witchcraft in Old and New England / by George Lyman Kittredge. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1929. [3]-641 pages ; 25 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR530 W819 K62
Witchcraft — England
Witchcraft — New England.
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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
Ghosts — Folklore
Tales
Ghost stories
Folklore
Ghosts — Fiction.
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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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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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The handbook of folklore / edited by George Laurence Gomme. London : David Nutt, 1890. vii, 193 pages; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR48 H236 G634
Gomme, George Laurence, Sir, 1853-1916.
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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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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
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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 — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces — Social life and customs.
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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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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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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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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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