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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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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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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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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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 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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Away : maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta :an oral history of leaving home / Gary Burrill. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR430 B971 A964 1992
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration — Biography.
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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