Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Folklore
The Stone Canoe : Two Lost Mi'Kmaq Texts / translated by Elizabeth Paul. Kentville : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2007. 183 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 S86 2007
This work showcases two forgotten stories from Silas T. Rand, Baptist missionary who wanted to translate bibles into the Mi'Kmaq language and learned how to do so by recording the oral traditions of the Mi'Kmaq people, published in 'Legends of the Micmacs'. Peter Sanger uncovered two manuscripts in the Rand holdings of Acadia University, including the story of Little Thunder (dictated to Rand by Susan Barss in 1847) and a manuscript of stories told by someone we only know as old man Stevens. Rand's original book and these manuscripts are some of the earliest examples of indigenous Canadian literature recorded in the original language.
essays, notes, and supporting material by Peter Sanger
illustrations by Alan Syliboy
Rand, Silas Tertius, — 1810-1889
Barss, Susan
Micmac — Folklore
Micmac language — Texts
Micmac mythology — Manuscripts
Oral tradition — Nova Scotia
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The Soup Stone : The Magic of Familiar Things / by Maria Leach. New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1954. 160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR73 L4
Collection of stories that highlight the magic in the familiar - stories that are universal and relate to everyday things we encounter like napkins, mirrors, and jars. Author summered in Nova Scotia.
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Group identity in social gatherings traditions and community on the Iona Peninsula, Cape Breton / by Martha Jane MacDonald. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1987. 230 frames : maps ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M1357 - Open Shelf
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Iona
Iona N.S. — Social life and customs
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Coldwell, Joyce Ione Harrington
Treasure stories and beliefs in Atlantic Canada / by Joyce Ione Harrington Coldwell. 1977. vii, 302 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C688 - Open Shelf
Treasure-trove
Buried treasure
Folklore
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I'm a man that works : the biography of Don Mitchell of Merrill, Maine / by Roger E. Mitchell. Orono, Me. : Northeast Folklore Society, 1978 i.e. 1979 1978. 130 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #12 - Vertical File
Folklore — Maine — Merrill
Merrill, Me. — Biography.
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The oyster and the mermaid, and other island stories Fernwood, P.E.I. : E. Harrison, 1975. 86 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.332 #13 - Vertical File
Folklore — Prince Edward Island
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Le conte populaire Francais en Amerique du Nord / Luc Lacourciere. Quebec : Les Archives des Folklore, Université Laval, 1959. 12 pages; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #29 - Vertical File
Communication presente de 21 aout au Congrès international des Investigateurs des Contes populaires.
Tales — Canada
Folklore — Canada.
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Tom Tilton : coaster and fisherman / narrated by Tom Tilton ; edited by Gale Huntington. Orono, Me. (South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono 04469) : Northeast Folklore Society, 1984. 68 pages, 2 folded pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #35 - Vertical File
Fisheries — Massachusetts — Martha's Vineyard
Fishing — Massachusetts — Martha's Vineyard
Fishers — Massachusetts — Biography
Fishermen — Folklore — United States
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Atugwagnn : Micmac stories / by Donna Martin. Fredericton : Micmac-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick, 1985. 46 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #12 - Vertical File
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Canadian folklore . New York, The French Folklore Society, 1946. 16 pages front., illus. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #4 - Vertical File
French-Canadians — Folklore
Folklore — Canada.
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Albert Wesselski and recent folktales theories Bloomington : Indiana University, 1947. 84 pages : 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.322 #28 - Vertical File
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Hoosier folklore Indianapolis, etc., Published for the Hoosier Folklore Society by the Indiana Historical Bureau. 9 v. 23-29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.322 #4 - Vertical File
Hoosier Folklore Society
Indiana Historical Bureau.
Folklore — Indiana — Periodicals
Folklore — Middle West — Periodicals
Indiana — Social life and customs — Periodicals
Middle West — Social life and customs — Periodicals.
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Folklore and Newfoundland: an informal introduction to the materials and methods of folklore Canada : Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1969. 22 pages : 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.317 #13 - Vertical File
Offprint from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada v.8 1969.
Folklore — Newfoundland
Folklore — Methodology.
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American Folklife Center Washington: American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress, 1984. 1 folded sheet 8 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.300 #7 - Vertical File
Library of Congress. American Folklife Center
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Folklore studies at Memorial University : two reports / by Herbert Halpert and Neil V. Rosenberg. St. John's, Nfld. : Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1978. 16 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.266 #3 - Vertical File
Rosenberg, Neil Vandraegen, 1939-
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History and folklore of Shelburne County 1962. 4 pages, 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.166 #10 - Vertical File
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Names, Geographical — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
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The great Amherst mystery repr. ed. Amherst : Cumberland Pub. Ltd., 1979. 89 pages; 21.5 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.37 #13 - Vertical File
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Amherst
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Université de Moncton. Centre d'études acadiennes
État général des collections de folklore du Centre d'études acadiennes / réalisé par Norbert Robichaud et Ginette Léger ; sous la direction de Ronald Labelle. Moncton, N.-B. : Centre d'études acadiennes, Centre universitaire de Moncton, 1996. iv, 167 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z883 U44 1996
Includes indexes.
Labelle, Ronald
Robichaud, Norbert, 1966-
Léger, Ginette.
Acadians — Folklore — Archival resources
Folklore — Maritime Provinces — Archival resources
Maritime Provinces — Folklore — Archival resources.
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The Maine folklife index : resources for study / compiled by C. Richard K. Lunt. Orono : Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, University of Maine at Orono, 1981. xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z695.2 M225 L964
Produced 1981--Verso t.pages With the support of the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Division.
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History.
Folklore — Maine — Archival resources
Maine — Social life and customs — Archival resources.
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The corn goddess : and other tales from Indian Canada / Diamond Jenness ; illustrated by Winnifred K. Bentley. 2nd ed. Ottawa : National Museum of Canada, 1960. 111 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH1 C13 1960
First Nations of North America — Legends
First Nations of North America — Canada — Folklore.
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Myths and folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa / by F.G. Speck. Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau, 1915. iii, 87 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.71
No. 147 Folded map in pocket. Issued with: Family hunting territories and social life of various Algonkian bands of the Ottawa Valley
Algonquian Indians — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Canada — Folklore
Ojibwa Indians — Folklore
Algonquian Indians
Ojibwa Indians.
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Malecite tales / by W. H. Mechling. Ottawa : Govt. Print. Bureau, 1914. vi, 133 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.49
Malecite Indians
First Nations of North America — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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Some myths and tales of the Ojibwa of southeastern Ontario / collected by Paul Radin. Ottawa, ON. : GSC, 1914. vi, 83 p ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.48
First Nations of North America — Canada — Legends
Ojibwa Indians — Legends
Legends — Canada
First Nations of North America — Canada — Folklore
Ojibwa Indians — Folklore.
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The weather book / by Reuben A. Hornstein. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1980. 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QC998 H813
The forecast your own weather book.
Weather — Folklore
Weather forecasting.
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Brìgh an Òrain = A story in every song : the songs and tales of Lauchie MacLellan / translated and edited by John Shaw ; airs transcribed by Lisa Ornstein from field recordings ; foreword by Alistair MacLeod. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xxvii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M165 B85 2000
Songs: pages [95]-299.
Ornstein, Lisa, 1955-
Shaw, John William.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island Folklore.
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