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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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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.

Folklore

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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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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.

Leach, Maria
Fried, Jerome.

Funk & Wagnalls.

Folklore — Dictionaries
Mythology — Dictionaries
Manners and customs — Dictionaries
Rites and ceremonies — Dictionaries.

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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

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

Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989

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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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

Stewart, W Grant

Popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland London : Ward Lock Reprints, 1970. 293 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR145 H6 S85

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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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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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Robertson, Marion

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

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

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

Caplan, Ronald, 1942-

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

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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