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Author : George Henderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick written by George Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Cheviot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Proverbs, proverbial expressions and popular rhymes of Scotland written by Andrew Cheviot and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Arthur Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography written by Sir Arthur Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scottish History Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henderson (of Chirnside)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The popular rhymes, sayings, and proverbs of the county of Berwick, with notes by G. Henderson written by George Henderson (of Chirnside) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Buchan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317550048
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Scottish Tradition Pbdirect written by David Buchan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms as wonder tales or Märhcen, classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends, and guisers’ plays. The texts chosen cover the main regional traditions of Lowland Scotland, from Galloway to the Shetlands, and span a number of centuries, through both pre- and post-industrial periods, from a sailor’s worksong of the sixteenth century to modern urban legends just recently recorded. The book is arranged in four sections, on Folk Narrative, Folksong, Folksay, and Folk Drama, each with an introduction and a bibliographical essay setting the material in context and indicating some of its international links. Folk literature itself is brought into firm focus by discussion and generic example, and the anthology as a whole illuminates substantial areas of Scottish social and cultural life.
Author : E. David Gregory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810857030
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Victorian Songhunters written by E. David Gregory and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.
Download or read book The Border Counties' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 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 : 4.8/5 (18 download)
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 : Carl ENGEL (Musician.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of National Music; comprising researches into popular songs, traditions and customs written by Carl ENGEL (Musician.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Richard Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415430844
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors written by Peter Richard Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Author : Dick Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113408529X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors written by Dick Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415204767
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book History of British Folklore written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : P.R. Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474148
Total Pages : 2991 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors written by P.R. Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 2991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It will appeal to those interested in cultural history and the English language.
Author : Carl Engel
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of National Music written by Carl Engel and published by London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. This book was released on 1866 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Waters
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300221401
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Cursed Britain written by Thomas Waters and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present day Cursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed - dark supernatural forces. Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia. This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state's role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.
Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141941626
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland written by Steve Roud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.
