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Billy Biter
British folklore studies
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Cheshire Cheese
Clipped
comparative English folk narratives
Dear Lord
Dene Hole
Duck
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ethnographic folklore analysis
fairy lore
farm round-the-fire sessions
Follow
ghostly trees
Great Sea Snake
Hawthorn
Hold
long fireside tales
Midday
Middlesex Hospital
Mr Fox
Noble Lady
Oh Ah
oral tradition research
Poor Mall
Pretty Lass
Red Burn
rural belief systems
supernatural legends
Tolkien
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Tour
traditional healing practices
village children
Waterfall
Wild Ducks
Wo
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138842953
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, first published in 1970, Ruth L. Tongue has collected a number of county folk tales recorded by her from childhood onwards, from old people, village children and farm round-the-fire sessions. Many of the beliefs embodied in the gipsy and witchcraft tales are still in practice today among the travelling people and locally ‘gifted’ healers. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like Crooker, and the ‘uncanny’ Black Dog makes his appearance in more than one tale. The collection includes several of the long fireside tales which would be told on succeeding evenings on winter nights round the kitchen fire, and rhozzums from various localities.
Ruth Tongue
