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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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Smith, Philip H.

Acadia : a lost chapter in American history / by Philip H. Smith.  Pawling, N.Y. : P.H. Smith, 1884. 381 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F95 SM6 - Akins

Published by the author.

Tales, Canadian (French)
Acadia
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — History — 1763-1867.

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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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MacLellan, Lauchie

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

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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Canadian folklore and folk tales : collected as one of the functions of the Nova Scotia Summer School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, summer of 1971 / compiled by Hector H. Lee, Ruth Kearney Carlson.  Halifax : 1972. 2 v. ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C212

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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Fowke, Edith

Folktales of French Canada Toronto : NC Press, 1979. 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 F666 F784

Nunn, Bruce

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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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

Lacourcière, Luc

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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Gallant, Antoinette

Little Jack an' de tax-man, and other Acadian stories from Prince Edward Island / Antoinette Gallant.  Fernwood, P.E.I. : E. Harrison, 1979. 68 pages : 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #11 - Vertical File

Aucoin, Gérald E.

L'Oiseau de la verite, et autres contes des pecheurs acadiens de l'ile du Cap-Breton Montreal : Quinze, 1980. 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8380 O39

Campbell, Hector

Luirgean eachainn nìll : a collection of folktales told by Hector Campbell / transcribed and translated from the original Gaelic by Margaret MacDonell and John Shaw.  Stornoway Hebrides : Acair, 1981. 90 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C188

Text in English and Gaelic. Cover subtitle: Folktales from Cape Breton.

Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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DeBlois, Albert D.

Micmac texts / Albert D. DeBlois.  Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1990. viii, 94 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 D286

Dorson, Richard Mercer

Negro tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Clavin, Michigan New York : Kraus, 1968. xviii, 292 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR103 N393 D718

Negro tales.

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Nowlan, Alden

Nine Micmac legends / by Alden Nowlan ; illustrated by Shirley Bear.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 56 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.263 #29 - Vertical File

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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Robertson, Ronald MacDonald

Selected Highland folk tales Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1961. 212 pages 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR74 S564 R651

Tales — Scotland.

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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988

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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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

Leach, Maria

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

Simont, Marc.

Tales — United States
Legends — United States.

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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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Thomas, Gerald

The tall tale and Philippe d'Alcripe : an analysis of the tall tale genre with particular reference to Philippe d'Alcripe's La nouvelle fabrique des excellents traits de vérité, together with an annotated translation of the work / by Gerald Thomas.  St. John's : Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland : American Folklore Society, 1977. xv, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PQ1628 L57 N637 1977

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