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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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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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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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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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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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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Collecting songs of Nova Scotia blacks. - In Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert 137-144 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR15 G624 F666
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MacGregor, Alexander, 1806-1881
Highland superstitions connected with the Druids Stirling : Eneas MacKay, 1922. 71 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR145 H6 M14
Copy 2 basement box 5, 1976.
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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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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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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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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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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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Archie Neil Wreck Cove, Cape Breton Island : Breton Books, 1992. 222 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C36 D82
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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
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
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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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
Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies.
Folklore — Maritimes Provinces
Maritime Provinces — Social life and customs.
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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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Bluenose magic Toronto : Ryerson Press. 297 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C91 B65
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