Shropshire Folk Lore

Author : Amy Douglas
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752470450
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shropshire Folk Tales written by Amy Douglas and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In places, Shropshire has traditional patchwork fields and hedgerows; in others, small villages and market towns with black and white half-timbered buildings. But it also has places that are still wild - hills where heather and bracken cling to the rocks while peewits call overhead and strange rock formations just to the sky, casting their shadows over the countryside below. The thirty stories in this new collection have grown out of the county's diverse landscapes: tales of the strange and macabre; memories of magic and other worlds; proud recollections of folk history; stories to make you smile, sigh and shiver. Moulded by the land, weather and generations of tongues wagging, these traditional tales are full of Shropshire wit and wisdom, and will be enjoyed time and again.Honoured in the 'Storytelling Collections' at the Storytelling World Awards - See more at: http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/shropshire-folk-tales.html#sthash.un5jLcDV.dpuf

Author : Charlotte Sophia Burne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shropshire Folk-lore written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Douglas
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750989440
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shropshire Folk Tales for Children written by Amy Douglas and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a children's book. But it is for real children. It is a book of buried treasure, people-eating giants, sleeping kings and a monster fish. There's fire, wee, milk and missing body parts. It's a book that's got the bits adults don't like left in. These are stories of Shropshire. They are old and wild, like the land itself. If you like giants having their heads lopped off, girls who won't do what they're told, knights fighting with lances, one-armed ghosts and grumpy witches, then this is the book for you.

Author : Georgina Frederica Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Shropshire Folk-lore written by Georgina Frederica Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. David Gregory
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869896
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Late Victorian Folksong Revival written by E. David Gregory and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.

Author : Charlotte Sophia Burne
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498187329
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shropshire Folklore written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1883 Edition.

Author : Charlotte Sophia Burne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Shropshire folklore written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Sophia Burne
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781437068207
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shropshire Folklore written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Charlotte Sophia Burne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Shropshire Folk-lore, a Sheaf of Gleanings written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191578525
Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of English Folklore written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, it is as much a feature of the modern technological age as of the ancient world. BL Oral and Performance genres-Cheese rolling, Morris dancing, Well-dressingEL BL Superstitions-Charms, Rainbows, WishbonesEL BL Characters-Cinderella, Father Christmas, Robin Hood, Dick WhittingtonEL BL Supernatural Beliefs-Devil's hoofprints, Fairy rings, Frog showersEL BL Calendar Customs-April Fool's Day, Helston Furry Day, Valentine's DayEL